Controls & Machine Components

PET oblongs

Silgan Plastics (Chesterfield, MO) has introduced a new line of PET containers designed for cosmetics and personal care applications. Shielded Oblongs have a full panel for decorating and are available in 8- and 16-oz sizes with 24/415 and 28/415 finishes, respectively.

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Controls & Machine Components

Print-and-apply labeler

Quadrel (Mentor, OH) will display the Q20, an economical next-out label printer/applicator that uses a tabletop TEC thermal-transfer printer and an integrated air-tamp applicator.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bulk bag discharger

Spiroflow's (Monroe, NC) new bulk bag discharger with an electric hoist can be used with bulk bags weighing 500 to 3ꯠ lb. Major components are made from welded tubular steel for minimal field assembly and added safety.

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Controls & Machine Components

Circular product loader

American Dixie Group's (Albany, NY) circular product loader loads a wide range of circular products, such as metal pans, paint cans and frozen pizzas.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hand-held bar-code verifiers

The Inspector® Series of hand-held bar-code verifiers from RJS (Monrovia, CA) was developed to help manufacturers meet national and international bar code standards.

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Conveying & accumulation

Label applicator

The System I roll-on labeler from Lord Label (Arlington, TX) is now available with a side drive to provide consistent orientation on lightweight products as they're conveyed through the applicator.

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Controls & Machine Components

Combination weigher

The Golden Eagle CV-14 combination weigher from Eagle Packaging (Oakland, CA) is designed for IQF poultry and meat packagers. It accommodates a broad range of sizes and shapes, with various compositions and coatings.

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Controls & Machine Components

Vertical bagger/wrapper

The Maxima® vertical packaging system from Ampak (Anderson, SC) uses center-folded film to package items in PE bags or shrink films at speeds to 40 packages/ min.

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Filling/capping, dry

Margarine filling system

Autoprod (Clearwater, FL) will demonstrate its new Fast-Pak 1x2 DK margarine filling system at the Jagenberg booth. It fills 1- to 10-oz preformed cups at speeds to 80/min.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister system

Hoong-A America (LaPalma, CA) has introduced the Ministar-G7 automatic blister packaging system. It handles a variety of carded blister packs running in medium- to high-speed applications.

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Controls & Machine Components

Outsert applicator

The Strip-Stik®, a patented outsert and coupon application system from New Jersey Machine (Lebanon, NH), is now available as a stand-alone unit called the Promo-Sert Model 305P.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bar code guide

Bar Code Systems, Inc. (Atlanta, GA) has released a third edition of "A Guide to Bar Coding." The guide, which offers more illustrations and updated industry specifications, includes information on the new UCC/EAN-128 Coupon Extended Code specifications, in-store coupon specifications, and an updated list of coupon values.

March 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Case erector/bottom sealer

Marq Packaging (Yakima, WA) has redesigned the drive system of its Model 2000 case erector bottom sealer to use top and bottom flight lugs for transferring cases through the machine instead of a case pusher.

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