Controls & Machine Components

Chlorine dioxide generating system

Fresh-Pak(TM) is a patent-pending chlorine dioxide generating system from CH2O Intl. (Olympia, WA) for fruit and vegetable packaging operations. Fresh-Pak's generators maintain precise chlorine dioxide levels in water in flumes and spray bars that sanitize and clean fruits and vegetables.

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Controls & Machine Components

Digital torque gauges

Measuring 3.7" x 2.5" x 1.5", the Series MG Gauge from Mark-10 (Hicksville, NY) is the smallest digital torque gauge on the market, says the company.

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Controls & Machine Components

Door lock switches

Omron Electronics (Schaumburg, IL) has introduced two new safety door lock switches with special operation keys that assure positive break in contacts to increase safety and re-duce liability.

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Dynamic brake

Baldor Electric's (Fort Smith, AR) new multipurpose dynamic brake is said to be the first that is microprocessor-based. This allows each brake to have four operating modes, two separate magnitudes of braking, the ability to jog with or without braking, 50 to 60 Hz operation and an accurate zero speed sensor.

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Controls & Machine Components

Date coder

Markem's (Keene, NH) 9800 Series Touch Dry® date coders are designed to mount on most packaging lines. They can print price, date and lot codes and other variable data at speeds ranging from 140 to 1겨 legends/min on lines running up to 6ꯠ"/min, depending on model.

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Controls & Machine Components

UV surface sterilizer

Aquionics (Erlanger, KY) now offers an affordable and compact ultraviolet surface disinfection system for packaging applications. When used in extended shelf life filling machines the CSS 400 kills bacteria, yeasts and molds commonly carried on packaging materials.

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Controls & Machine Components

Linear ionizer

Ion Air Curtains from NRD (Grand Island, NY) offer flexible, effective static control of large areas when used in combination with Nucleostat(TM) linear ionizers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Motor controller

The SMC Dialog Plus(TM) controller from Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI) has a built-in programmable motor overload to save both money and panel space. It includes over/under current and voltage, jam, stall, phase reversal and phase unbalance detection.

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Heat sealing products

United Silicone (Lancaster, NY) offers a full line of flexible silicone rubber products for use in heat seal packaging applications, including rollers, platens, custom heat seal dies and squeeze bars.

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Controls & Machine Components

Programmable limit switch

The new PLS 800 programmable limit switch from Candy Controls (Niles, IL) offers eight-function output, programmable zero offset, absolute on/off, start/stop or dwell anywhere from 0 to 359° in a machine cycle, and a programmable production rate indicator.

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Secondary Packaging

Stretch-wrapping systems

The Vortex Series of stretch-wrapping systems from Orion (Memphis, TN) combines the logic of fully automatic machines with the portability of semi-automatic stretchwrappers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Rollstock transport device

The Kaddie from Packline (Naperville, IL) is a wheeled device for lifting, transporting and loading rollstock and related equipment weighing up to 350 lb.

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

Servo-driven vf/f/s machine

UVA-Butler (Richmond, VA) has introduced the Butler(TM) 3 vertical form/fill/seal machine that uses servo motors, an Allen-Bradley programmable logic controller 503 and a touch screen for production information and fault display.

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