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Preforms are transferred by their necks (above) in four lanes towards a heating oven
Conveying & accumulation
Insourcing springs savings for AquaPenn
In an on-site container production partnership first, bottle maker Schmalbach-Lubeca leases a portion of AquaPenn's facility to reheat and blow PET preforms into bottles that AquaPenn fills at the same site.
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Conveying & accumulation
Alberta upgrades case handling and labeling
Maintaining maximum flexibility was a must as this Jim Beam subsidiary in Canada automated its palletizing operation. Cases now get bar codes, too.
August 31, 1997
Case sizes produced at the plant vary widely. The palletizer adjusts to a new case height automatically thanks to a photocell u
Sustainability
'Hidden' payoffs through waste savings
Major southwest Coke franchise discovers that shifting to returnable trays for cans not only reduces landfill waste, it also improves productivity and cuts costs.
August 31, 1997
The entire soft drink industry is observing Southwest Coke1s experience with returnable trays for 12-oz aluminum cans (left). T
Conveying & accumulation
Widmer's bottle inspectors craft success
Widmer Brothers verifies fill level, missing crowns, as well as full cases of its newly introduced 12-oz bottles of beer. Newer bottling line produces draft 'biers' much like kegs.
August 31, 1997
A line operator looks at beer bottles as they pass the second inspector on the line. This unit checks for label placement and ma
Conveying & accumulation
Insourcing springs savings for AquaPenn (sidebar)
HDPE container production 'captiv-ates' AquaPenn
August 31, 1997
A group of mechanical fingers (shown at bottom left in the photo at left) remove six blow-molded 1-gal HDPE jugs and place them
Conveying & accumulation
Sweetening your medicine
A new auger filler/checkweighing system allows Canadian pharmaceutical manufacturer to double its output and incorporate a new formulation onto its line.
August 31, 1997
At the pre-tare station (above), empty bottles are individually weighed, then conveyed to the dosing station (left). A dust shr
Conveying & accumulation
Ball inspects becausePepsi expects quality
On-line machine vision system helps Ball's Chino, CA, plant deliver high volumes of PET bottles to Pepsi-Cola's California bottlers.
August 31, 1997
Inside the blow molding machine, one of Ball?s 2-L bottles is positioned at the vision inspection station. Images flash across t
Conveying & accumulation
Monoblock propels Skyy into new markets
Filler/capper monoblock machine for miniature bottles of spirits enables Frank-Lin Distillers to permit customers like Skyy Spirits to enter the mini market on the West Coast.
August 31, 1997
At the machine1s infeed, bottles are first handed off to the 16-valve fill-to-level filler (above). Platforms elevate each bott
Conveying & accumulation
Print-and-apply units compute for Bay Networks
Computer peripheral maker/distributor Bay Networks doubles throughput at its Sunnyvale, CA, distribution center with an automated print-and-apply labeling system and networked computer software systems.
August 31, 1997
As a case nears the print-and-apply labeling system, it passes between two 3towers2 that form a 100-watt light 3curtain2. As
Cartoning
Blister packer feeds three different tablets for Amway
Amway's Nutrilite Div. blister-packs three dissimilar, tough-to-feed vitamin tablets on one blister card. New equipment provides substantial savings over contract packaging.
August 31, 1997
Three different feeders?a brush box for sticky gel capsules and two channel feeders for compressed round and oval tablets?are u
Conveying & accumulation
Shaft gear motors
New single-phase parallel shaft gear motors offer higher horsepower and torque ratings than previous versions, says manufacturer Baldor Electric (Ft.
July 31, 1997
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Conveying & accumulation
Herbal tea marketer brews packaging improvements
Smooth conveyor connections and a programmable logic controller accessed via touchscreen have boosted efficiency and productivity at this northern California tea marketer.
July 31, 1997
Mounted on the top-and-bottom taper is an ink-jet coder that prints name of product, expiration date, and lot code on one side
Conveying & accumulation
A new Dey for aseptic blow/fill/seal
A trio of latest-generation blow/fill/seal machines for aseptic respiratory care products are the first in the U.S. Dey Laboratories receives one-third higher production, better sterility and labor-saving CIP/SIP.
July 31, 1997
Inside the blow/fill/seal machine, a plastic extrusion is surrounded by the mold (1), conformed to the mold with vacuum, and fil
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