Controls & Machine Components

Tray lidder

Oliver Products (Grand Rapids, MI) has introduced a self-actuating tray lidder designed for use with heat-seal coated, printed or unprinted, plastic or paperboard tray materials.

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Controls & Machine Components

Filling system

The Modulebloc(TM) filling system from Automated Production Systems (New Freedom, PA) fills cylindrical or oval-shaped containers at speeds to 125/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Weighing system

The AEF-25 with Multi-Trix from WeighPack Systems (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) can weigh 5 to 50 lb in gram accuracies. Can reach speeds to 30/min with a twin head.

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Controls & Machine Components

Video carton printing

Laminart(TM) is a patented new process from Oracle Packaging (Toledo, OH) that bonds high-quality paperboard printed graphics directly on a videocassette shell to eliminate the need for secondary packaging.

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Controls & Machine Components

Heart-shaped bottle

Clinton Packaging (St. Louis, MO) has introduced a heart-shaped bottle for the gourmet food and specialty product market. The glass bottles are available in 250- and 750-mL sizes.

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Controls & Machine Components

Inspection controller

The Plato-0100 is an inspection controller for laser bar-code readers from Entry Technology (Cream Ridge, NJ). It can monitor packages at speeds beyond 500/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Monoblock filler

Korab Engineering (Los Angeles, CA) offers a full-color brochure on the Monoblock filler for precision liquid filling, inserting, and capping. Described is the construction, electronics, controls, filling, guards, and capping functions of the machine.

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Controls & Machine Components

Valve/liner system

Inliners Unlimited (Monroe, LA) has introduced a valve to be used with barrier liners as a low-cost way to control gases in drums, pails, boxes or IBCs.

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Secondary Packaging

Medical tray sealers

Synergy II medical tray sealers from EMD Products (Libertyville, IL) offer GMP-compliant construction, maximum operator safety and superior process control with particulate-free operation required for clean room environments.

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Filling/capping, dry

High-speed capper

PMC Industries' (Hackensack, NJ) new high-speed capper applies pump caps at speeds to 300/min. A programmable controller governs machine operations, including the flow of caps from the sorter and automatic shutdown in case of overloads at transfer points.

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Controls & Machine Components

Print/apply labeler

Labeling Systems' (Mahwah, NJ) Model 2800 corner wrap print/apply labeler attaches easily to any bottom belt case sealer. It can be integrated with any tabletop direct thermal or thermal transfer printer to print bar codes or data on labels up to 8" x 14", at speeds to 12"/sec.

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Controls & Machine Components

RTA outsert leaflets

Newly patented RTA (Right-Turn Angle) outsert leaflets from Vijuk Equipment (Elmhurst, IL) open to a full page of text to increase copy space on pharmaceutical and cosmetic packages by more than 100%.

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Controls & Machine Components

Two-part label

Sonoco Engraph Label Group (Cold Spring, OH) has developed a perforated, two-part p-s label for pharmaceutical use. The pharmaTrack label contains most patient in-formation on both parts of the label.

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