Controls & Machine Components

Injection-molding controls

The MACO Custom 400 Injection-Molding Machine Control System from Barber-Colman (Loves Park, IL) offers the advantages of total machine control in a compact package with a small footprint.

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Controls & Machine Components

DOS-based catalog

Nolu Plastics (Aston, PA) has introduced a DOS-based interactive catalog that installs directly onto a standard hard drive. Displays component parts with engineering specifications and recommendations so that material handling, packaging, de-sign and maintenance engineers can select the proper components.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bench top coder

Sprinter Marking (Zanesville, OH) has developed a portable code-marking system for printing date, lot or product codes on flat surfaces. The Model 884 Bench Top Coding System can be used with any standard Sprinter code-marking machine for a variety of code message sizes and types.

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Controls & Machine Components

In-line time printer

The patented HDT Series 4000 heavy-duty in-line time printer from Dalemark (Lakewood, NJ) imprints the hour and minute on products as they go through the production line.

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Conveying & accumulation

Conveying systems brochure

An eight-page brochure from Fleetwood Systems (Countryside, IL) provides an overview of conveyor systems for package making and filling based on magnetic, mechanical, air, and vacuum technologies.

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Controls & Machine Components

Stripe metallizing

Stripe metallizing for thin and extensible materials from Union Industries (Providence, RI) increases design options while offering source reduction and cost savings.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Film labeler

The Model 3200ST p-s film labeler from Label-Aire (Fullerton, CA) now has an "air fill" feature that pressurizes the bottle internally to stabilize sidewalls during labeling.

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Controls & Machine Components

Stepper-driven labeling head

The ModuLine p-s labeler from Quadrel (Eastlake, OH) is now available with microprocessor control and full variable-speed, stepper driven labeling heads as a standard feature.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bar code systems

Monarch Marking (Dayton, OH) features its line of bar code systems in a new four-color brochure that also shows how to integrate the systems into a reliable auto ID arrangement.

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Conveying & accumulation

Palletizer

The Faiveley® Pal-Vite 1000 gantry palletizer from Newtec (St. Louis, MO) uses the same pick-and-place head for one or more infeed lines, eliminating the need for accumulation conveyors.

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Controls & Machine Components

Case histories

Design Technology (Billerica, MA) now offers free capsule case histories highlighting solutions to packaging and automation problems, including custom-designed and built packaging, assembly and processing systems for the food, medical, personal care, pharmaceutical, apparel, paper, and other industries.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pickup head

Pacific Products (San Diego, CA) has introduced a pickup head for palletizing heavy shrink wrap loads, bags, bales or cases. Can reach speeds to 30 bundles/min using the PR-Series palletizing robots.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Liquid fillers

Packaging Dynamics' (Ron-konkoma, NY) line of liquid fillers is available in a variety of designs, including gravity/pressure, volumetric, and time/pressure.

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