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Controls & Machine Components

Combination weigher

Bilwinco (Skanderborg, Denmark) will display a new combination weigher designed for applications requiring 20 to 40 weighments/ min with high accuracy.

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Controls & Machine Components

White-coated kraft

Ban-Ply is a new white-coated kraft paper from Bancroft Bag (West Monroe, LA) developed to reduce basis weight and overall costs of multiwall bags. It is stronger than clay-coated papers, says the company, thereby allowing packagers to reduce basis weight or eliminate a ply of paper, while offering a high-quality print surface for bags that require process printing and high ink coverage.

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Controls & Machine Components

Non-skid lacquer

CZ Inks' (St.Louis, MO) non-skid UV-coated lacquer offers the high-gloss look associated with UV coatings, plus non-skid properties required for larger multiwall bags.

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Controls & Machine Components

Twist-tie applicator

Model 580PR Super Tyer from American Design & Packaging (New Richmond, WI) is a pneumatically operated twist-tie applicator for manual operation or integration with automatic baggers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Medical heat sealer

Alloyd (DeKalb, IL) has introduced two new options for its 2SM1428 Level Three two-station medical shuttle heat seal machine. Users can now measure sealing temperature at the tray flange for every cavity and view sealing pressure in lb/sq" for each tray sealed.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pad printer

The Carousel 80 sealed ink cup transfer pad printer from Trans Tech America (Carol Stream, IL) is designed for five-color printing on three-dimensional or irregular surfaces, with quality comparable to offset printing, says the company.

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Controls & Machine Components

TE band and sleeve applicator

Graham Labelling (Brightlingsea, Essex, U.K.) has developed a line of programmable machines for cutting and applying TE cap seals and full body sleeve labels.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Palletizer infeed for orienting cases

With quick identification in mind, Columbia Machine (Vancouver, WA) developed The Turnado palletizer infeed. Its unique design allows cases to be oriented in such a way that labels face outward on all sides of a palletized load.

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Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrapper for pallet loads

The Sidewinder® RT (Rotary Tower) series of stretch wrappers from Infrapak (Farmers Branch, TX) is available in semi-automatic and automatic, heavy-duty and regular versions.

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Controls & Machine Components

Compact cartoner

U-E-T Bernd Siebler (Remchingen, Germany) will present Compact 3, a compact cartoning machine for vertical loading. It can pick up and assemble boxes, insert product, close and code, at speeds to 50 cycles/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

X-ray inspection

The PrimeScan Ultima X-ray inspection system from EG&G Instruments (Oak Ridge, TN) will be shown at interpack. It provides automatic inspection and rejection of packaged foods containing foreign objects such as metal, glass, PVC, teflon, bones, stones or shells in metal or glass containers.

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Secondary Packaging

Case loader

Salwasser's (Reedley, CA) Model W-60 mechanical wraparound case former, loader and sealer reaches speeds of up to 18 cases/min and comes equipped with a 300-case horizontal magazine.

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