Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
OMAC: Standardize packaging machine 'states'
Should packagers define an industry standard for the various states of a packaging machine? That and other weighty questions were debated at the most recent OMAC meeting in late February in Orlando, FL.
February 28, 2001

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Two chambers prove better than one
For Schering-Plough HealthCare Products’ new Coppertone® Endless Summer® Sunless Tanning Lotion, new tanning technology required new packaging technology as well.
February 28, 2001
Pw 17819 Endless Summer
Conveying & accumulation
Coders save company its sweet time
Just Born’s ink-jet coders print date codes on cartons and trays of candy with minimal changeover time.
February 28, 2001
Pw 17832 S Pw 0201 080
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
'Enlightened' registration slashes tube scrap
A move to an upgraded vision sensor for tube registration helps filling at Access Business Group stay out of the dark. Literally.
February 28, 2001
On board the 14-station rotary filler/sealer (above), the upgraded sensor reads the registration mark (left) to orient the tube
Flexible packaging
Fresh pasta maker romances long shelf life
Romance Foods pasteurizes its cooked, packaged pastas using a combination microwave/convection oven to achieve 75-day refrigerated shelf life.
January 31, 2001
Romance Foods produces filled and unfilled cooked pasta and sauces (above). Packaged pasta goes through a microwave/convection p
Cartoning
Building sales through versatility
Tokyo-based cosmetics giant Kosé installs two modular, quick-change bottling lines versatile enough to handle nearly 100 different bottle shapes and sizes.
January 31, 2001
Shown above are just a few of the shapes and sizes filled routinely on Kos?'s versatile bottling line.
Conveying & accumulation
Robson's assembles a honey of a line
Filling, capping and labeling jars of honey by hand was too slow at this Arizona honey maker, especially with new markets on the horizon. Automated machinery was the answer
January 31, 2001
The rotary filler (top) is driven by a motor capable of handling Robson's viscous spun honey. A slight indentation in each bottl
Conveying & accumulation
Paired vf/f/s equipment 'brews' foodservice packs
By adding two vf/f/s machines, Mother Parker’s Tea & Coffee meets growing sales demand for small bags of ground coffee sold primarily to restaurants and hotels.
November 30, 2000
For its foodservice business, Mother Parker's sells bags of ground coffee under its own name as well as for brands it contract p
Conveying & accumulation
Dueling technologies spell success
At Japan’s Daiwa Can, one aseptic PET line uses in-line mold/blow/fill. Right beside it, another line blows bottles and sterilizes them in a second operation just before filling.
October 31, 2000
In the above drawing of Daiwa Can's ASIS line, two single-stage injection/stretch blow molding machines feed bottles through an
Conveying & accumulation
Quintuplets!
New automated labeling system delivers five labels onto each glass bottle of Labrot & Graham’s premium bourbon whiskey, boosting output, reducing labor costs and improving placement accuracy.
October 31, 2000
At the first labeling station, a strip stamp label is applied over the top of the bottle (top). Small labels are used to show of
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Ocean Spray rides a new bus
On a new Craisins line at Ocean Spray, point-to-point wiring between machine devices and their master PLC has been replaced on some machines by an open fieldbus called AS-i. Installation time is slashed, while in-plant flexibility is maximized.
September 30, 2000
In this automated bag-inserting machine, nearly 60 devices communicate with their master PLC via a fieldbus instead of through t
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Filamatic, a division of National Instrument LLC: Aseptic packaging
A total of 8 servo-driven filling heads fill as many as 200 containers/min on National Instrument’s (Baltimore, MD) Filamatic® RFS-800 monobloc system.
August 31, 2000
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles
Michigan Brewing sees great potential for beer in plastic when the target market is tightly focused. Custom-labeled bottles for a casino, for instance, have found a receptive audience.
August 31, 2000
Michigan Brewing unveiled its Cherry Creek brand in plastic at the Traverse City Cherry Festival.
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