Sustainability

A Method to its madness

With a wind turbine and solar panels helping to produce energy for its in-house bottle molding and packaging lines, Method is demonstrating its commitment to sustainability at its new LEED Platinum-certified facility in Chicago’s historic Pullman district.

August 11, 2015

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Lenze sponsors students in Coil Winding Challenge

German and U.S. students and companies collaborate to create two operable Lenze prototypes.

June 30, 2015

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Intelligrated promotes Bruce Sudler to sales manager for Midwest

Material handling industry veteran to lead regional business development efforts.

June 8, 2015

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Multi-Conveyor receives ACUITY safety award

Multi-Conveyor receives second ACUITY Safety Achievement Award.

May 27, 2015

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Easy-clean conveyor network

Monterey Mushrooms installs multiple conveyors to ramp up six-lane packing line speeds and simplify sanitation operations.

May 4, 2015

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Morrison appoints Jacob Kowalewski Regional Sales Manager

Morrison Container Handling Solutions appoints Jacob Kowalewski Western Regional Sales Manager

March 27, 2015

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PFlow delivers its 17,000 vertical reciprocating conveyor worldwide

PFlow’s custom-engineered hydraulic, mechanical, and fully automated vertical reciprocating conveyors are now offered internationally.

March 10, 2015

Flexible packaging

Watch PMMI’s 2014 Packaging Line of the Year in action

Learn how Big Heart Pet Brands implemented new packaging technologies and fetched PMMI’s prestigious award.

December 18, 2014

Conveying & accumulation

Electric actuators add speed, precision to pallet-layer former

A prototype development project for a maker of conveying and pallet-forming equipment has led to a whole new line of electric actuators for applications in food and beverage industries.

December 4, 2014

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Sophisticated control over fluid pumping

Ingersoll-Rand's ARO fluid products provided this dynamic demo showing electronic controls and air-operated, double-diaphragm pumping simplify the accurate delivery of fluid to drums or other containers, adding capabilities to incorporate inputs for temperature and other factors.

November 17, 2014

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Ultrasonics prevent fine powder from blinding

Watch this demonstration closely; if you blink, you might miss it! The video shows how Russell Finex' Vibrasonic deblinding system sends ultrasonic waves across a fine wire mesh screen, preventing flour from blinding, or plugging and, in turn, slowing the free flow of the fine powder.

November 13, 2014

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Robot with 16-kg payload

The KR 16 robot at the KUKA booth has 16 kg of payload capacity and about 1600 mm of reach. This system is especially suitable for a wide variety of case packing operations.

November 12, 2014

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Directionally sort at any angle

Intralox displays a handful of innovations, including the OMNI-DIRECTIONAL Sorter (ODS) which allows products to directionally sort at virtually any angle.

November 11, 2014