Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Vertical f/f/s machine for food and nonfood applications

The Butler(TM) 3 is a new vertical form/fill/seal machine from UVA-Butler (Richmond, VA) suited for frozen foods, cereal, pasta, pet food, powders and granulates.

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Controls & Machine Components

Container rinser

The Model AC-12 Clean-N-Vac® container cleaner from Kaps-All Packaging Systems (Riverhead, NY) uses the Air Rinse(TM) system for automatically removing dust, dirt and carton lint from containers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Color selection guide

Bar Code Systems, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) introduces the third edition of the Guide to Color Selection. The book is a general guide to the selection of colors for bars and backgrounds of bar code symbols.

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Controls & Machine Components

Guide rod cylinders

Compact non-rotating guide rod cylinders from PHD, Inc. (Fort Wayne, IN) are used for point-to-point motion applications where space is limited. The CTS Series has a twin-guide rod construction to prevent rotation of the tooling connected to the cylinder.

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Controls & Machine Components

Piston filler

APS (New Freedom, PA) will custom-design its hot-fill systems based on customer specifications. Programmable hot fillers and conveying/cooling systems are available for use with molten products such as wax, lipsticks and balms, stick deodorant and shoe polish.

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Controls & Machine Components

Remote labeling software

Episys Limited (Herts, U.K.) has a new print management software product called Hiway that provides simple, cost-effective label production at remote sites.

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Flow wrapping

Flowrapper

Ilapak's (Newtown, PA) Carrera® 3000 horizontal flowrapper uses three individually controlled servo motors for infeed, rollers and jaws. Reaches speeds to 150 products/min using a single-head; multiple-head systems are also available.

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Controls & Machine Components

Chain guides

Poly Hi Solidur's (Ft. Wayne, IN) chain guides work beneath the conveyor belt to help keep conveyor chains on their paths. They are available in a range of stock shapes including bow curves, solid tracks, profiles and radius chain guides.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ink disposal program

Marsh (Belleville, IL) has introduced an environmentally friendly ink-supplying system for its customers. With the Waste-Free Ink Program, Marsh supplies stainless-steel 5-gal containers of ink to end-users, who attach them to their printing system with quick-change fittings.

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Controls & Machine Components

Label/leaflet

Developed for pharmaceutical products and promotional on-pack labels, Pharm-a-Ply is a new single-construction label/leaflet from Moss Printing (Chicago, IL).

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Conveying & accumulation

Roll-fed labeler

An updated version of the 900 Series Polyclad roll-fed labeler from Associated Packaging Equipment (Markham, Ontario, Canada) features stainless-steel construction for use by the dairy, food and beverage industries.

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Controls & Machine Components

Spiral conveyor video

Maryland Wire Belts (Church Creek, MD) is offering a seven-minute video on its new ELEVAYOR(TM) spiral conveyor unit, which uses patented CurveMesh(TM) belting.

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Secondary Packaging

Robotic palletizer

Model A730 robotic palletizer from Columbia/Okura (Vancouver, WA) can accommodate multiple products and production lines. This vertical, multi-articulated palletizer has a 300° radius of movement.

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