Conveying & accumulation

Displaying a concern for retailers' needs

Fremont custom-designs a new type of display-ready, film-wrapped shipper around the needs of supermarket customers. A new case-packing/shrink-wrapping line makes the design a production reality, paid for by materials savings.

August 31, 1998

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Sustainability

Integrated manufacturing is the island way

Management at this start-up water marketer decides that the only way to assure bottle availability and top quality is to blow its own PET bottles in-line with its brand new filling line.

August 31, 1998

Cartoning

Carton feeders illuminate GE Lighting lines

Four cartoning machines on two "Pro 80" light bulb packaging lines at General Electric Lighting's Winchester, VA, plant once required manual refilling of carton blanks every six minutes.

August 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Belcor Industries Inc: Bag inserter

The BEL 451 semi-automatic bag inserter/case bottom taper from Belcor Industries (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada) uses a vacuum process that draws a bag liner into position when placed in a case by an operator.

July 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Tray packer shrinks changeover time

Tray packing/shrink wrapping line for canned vegetables provides 55-tray/min speeds along with fast, no-tool changeover for Furman Foods.

July 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Lakeport likes can filling flexibility

This Ontario brewer designed a can filling line that accepts sizes from 8 to 32 oz. Secondary packaging can be corrugated trays, paperboard or plastic ring carriers.

July 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Windmoeller & Hoelscher: Multiwall liner inserter

A new PE liner bag inserting system from Windmoeller & Hoelscher (Lincoln, RI) is intended for use where paper sacks require plastic liners with good seal-strength characteristics.

July 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Hoppmann Corp. (Chantilly, VA) and Universal Technology (Pittsburgh, PA) have agreed to a joint venture to create Hoppmann Robotics, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA), a robotics integrator specializing in flexible feeding and packaging applications.

July 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

AET Films unveils10-meter-wide line

In March, AET Films' Terre Haute, IN, plant started production on Tenter III, a 10-meter-wide cast film extrusion line that's capable of producing 50 million lb/yr of 10-m-wide, biaxially oriented polypropylene film.

July 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Small changes deliver big-time for Pharmacia & Upjohn

Parts organization speeds changeovers

June 30, 1998

Cartoning

Small changes deliver big-time for Pharmacia & Upjohn

Pharmaceutical firm saves $650ꯠ/yr at its Kalamazoo, MI, packaging facility by implementing simple, yet cost-effective quick-changeover procedures on 30 packaging lines.

June 30, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Greif Bros. Corp. (Delaware, OH) and RDJ Holdings (Massilon, OH) have agreed to form a joint venture to operate the sheet feeder plants of Michigan Packaging Corp.

June 30, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Tray packer

The high-speed TP-50 tray packer from Kayat Eng. (Edgewater, FL) collates and packs bottles, jars, cans and tapered tubs at speeds to 65 trays/min.

May 31, 1998