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Cartoning

Flat-bottom bag system

The Acceleron flat-bottom bag system from Triangle Packaging Machinery (Chicago, IL) continually produces gabletop, flat-bottom packages from any supported material, including kraft paper, Mylar®, metallized foils and other product-specific packaging films.

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Secondary Packaging

Semi-automatic shrink bundler

Aline Systems (Santa Fe Springs, CA) has introduced a shrink bundling system that can wrap round, rectangular and oblong shapes, with or without a tray.

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In-house case blank production flies at Boeing

Corrugated processing machine cuts and scores multiple case styles and sizes. It enables Boeing to produce cases on a J-I-T basis and frees up space once allocated to lot quantities of premade case blanks.

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Conveying & accumulation

Channelizer

Cintex's (Kenosha, WI) Microplan Channelizer provides up to four channel separations on urethane conveyors with variable speed drives to 200 ft/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Programmable controller

Aromat's (New Providence, NJ) brochure on the FP1 Series programmable controllers describes user-oriented benefits including network capability, RS232C ports, interrupt function and positioning.

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Controls & Machine Components

Adjustable link v-belt

The Accu-Link® adjustable link v-belt from Jason Industrial (Fairfield, NJ) features a smooth profile for less vibration and lower drive tensions for increased life over conventional v-belts.

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Controls & Machine Components

High-lifting pallet

The Thork-Lift from Interthor (Broadview, IL) is a low-profile, straddle type, high lifting pallet truck designed to lift and move standard 48" x 40" pallets to convenient work heights.

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Case- and traypacker

The Meurer CM/TP wraparound case- and traypacker from Piepenbrock (Englishtown, NJ) forms and fills low or product-high trays, side load cases and wraparound cases at speeds to 24 cases or trays/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Industrial software

VantageWare (San Diego, CA) has released a 3.0 version of its Load Builder industrial software package. Allows existing data to be loaded more quickly and simply than previous versions.

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Controls & Machine Components

Carton erector

The RSB3 semi-automatic carton erector from Jacob White (Dartford, Kent, England) can produce up to 100 packs/min. Hand wheels, digital readout, calibrated scales and quick-release handles eliminate the need for change parts.

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Controls & Machine Components

Carton filler

The Pure-Pak® S90 dual-line carton filler from Elopak (New Hudson, MI) can fill four preset carton sizes at speeds to 150 cartons/min. Preset sizes can be set between 8 and 32 oz, or from 250 mL to 1.0 L.

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Controls & Machine Components

High-pressure blowers

The M Series and H Series high pressure regenerative blowers from Gast Manufacturing (Benton Harbor, MI) work well in pneumatic conveying and material handling applications.

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