Flexible packaging

Capsule and liquid filling lines ease growing pains

Sports nutrition and supplement products manufacturer and co-packer All American Pharmaceutical eases growing pains with new state-of-the art capsule and liquid filling lines.

January 31, 2009

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Conveying & accumulation

Balluff: Rotary encoder

Balluff’s BML S2E rotary encoder provides positional information for conveyors, speed control, rotational applications and angle measurement.

January 31, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Stainless-steel, modular conveyor system

U-Top Conveyor from Tsubaki is a stainless-steel system that lets the user handle nearly any light-weight container. Effective in both wet or dry applications. Based on user-friendly and modular design concepts to ensure sanitation, safety, quick assembly, space savings, and low power consumption. Available in 15-, 30-, 45-, 60-, and 90-degree radius. Custom radius is also available, as are straight-length sections that can be cut to length.

January 27, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Multilane spiral conveyor moves the goods en-masse

The new AmbaFlex SpiralVeyor SVM offers single- or multilane movement of up to 100,000 bottles or cans/hr. The compact accumulator provides elevation of product, with customized inclination angles.

January 24, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Live roller merge

Nercon Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc.’s machinery economically merges packages/products onto a conveyor, without controls, clamps, or stops. Stalls product until it is in the proper sequence. Plow rails or powered side rails merge multiple lanes into single file.

January 24, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Container upender saves case space, corrugated

Capable of handling cartons at 300/min, a new one- to two-lane divider and container upender allows irregularly shaped cartons to be packed efficiently in cases, saving space and costs.

January 24, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Maximum speed, control achieved for top-load carton closing with variable-pitch technology

Kliklok-Woodman’s new Vari-Straight top-load carton closer is fed by a conveyor that accommodates a range of carton dimensions with automatic, instantaneous variable-pitch technology. Variable pitch also ensures controlled carton turning, eliminating slip and timing issues.

January 24, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Light-weight plastic container handling at 525/min

Nalbach Engineering Co., Inc. demonstrates high-speed container handling with a line anchored by the NECOSORT-III High-Speed Plastic Bottle Unscrambler that uses only two moving parts and is capable of handling lightweighted bottles.

January 24, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Bottle unscrambler and air conveyor

For lightweight bottles, Lanfranchi’s Model L3-SR-21-21 machine accepts bottles from a hopper or elevator. Operates at speeds to 600 bottles/min, and permits changeovers with no parts removal.

January 14, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Versatile bag sealer still going strong after 20 years

All Packaging Machinery president Dan Wood describes the features of the company’s vertical, conveyorized band-sealing system (VCBSDM). In the market for two decades, the system can handle a wide range of bag sizes, styles, and materials, and provides sealing, cutting, and optional code dating.

January 14, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Small is the new big

A tortilla chip maker invests in new bagging equipment to keep up with the trend in downsized bags.

January 8, 2009

Cartoning

Perfecting pasta packaging

A line at Barilla's greenfield plant in Avon, NY, features a cartoner and two case packers.

January 7, 2009

Conveying & accumulation

Costco snack pack operations

Costco’s in-house production for tubed snacks relies on three f/f/s units and four pick-and-place robots to produce a 24-count variety pack.

January 7, 2009