Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Sweet-looking honey container

The patented, trademarked BuzzyBee(tm) container, created by Jeffrey Hand, owner of The Honey Bee Container, Inc. has created a buzz.

April 30, 2006

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Merging controls and IT

A recent conversation with an engineer at a major beverage company suggests that there may be considerable potential in merging controls engineers with IT professionals.

April 30, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Parts feeder

The compact DS1100 from Distech Systems uses an over/under conveyor design to feed parts in trays to conveyor-fed casing lines and automated workstations.

April 30, 2006

Flexible packaging

Prescription for 400% Growth: Stay Ahead of the Curve

Anderson Packaging specializes as a pharma product-launch specialist. It monitors market trends, securing the right partnerships and purchasing the right equipment.

March 31, 2006

Cartoning

New 200-degree F hot-melt with maintenance-free application equipment

National Adhesives, a National Starch & Chemical business recently unveiled Easy-Pac™, its complete packaging sealing solution that combines the first 200-degree F hot-melt adhesive with an integrated storage, filling, and application system.

March 31, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

They've seen fire and they've seen rain

Contingency planning helped Colonial Carton when fire destroyed its plant, while GA Food Services had to contend with a Katrina-driven 400% increase in business.

March 31, 2006

Cartoning

Cereal bar packing

Bradman Lake has developed an automated system for collating and packing flow-wrapped cereal and other confectionery bars for companies committed to end-load carton formats.

March 31, 2006

Cartoning

PMMI technical workshop highlights robotics

Tech Talk series kicks off with robot safety and ELAU’s trend-setting approach to embedding robotic modules in packaging machines.

January 31, 2006

Robotics

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: Robotic software library

Elau has released its IEC-conforming robotic software object library for its PacDrive automation system. This approach allows the controller running the rest of the packaging process to control multiple robot arms as modules in the control software program.

January 31, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Wireless RFID printer-applicators

Avery Dennison Printer Systems now offers wireless Ethernet capability for its full line of RFID and bar code printers and print-and-apply systems, including the Model 6405 Wireless RFID printer (shown).

December 31, 2005

Cartoning

Software, servos, and controller breed a new kind of cartoner

Carton forming, filling, and sealing are all integrated in a single unit that occupies minimal space on the factory floor.

December 31, 2005

Protective/transport packaging

People

Andrew MacLeod was appointed divisional vice president of sales and marketing for SCA Packaging North America.

December 31, 2005

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

PMMI elects three new board members

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute has added three new members to its Board of Directors.

November 30, 2005