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

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines (sidebar)

Sophisticated HMI

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines

Labatt Breweries upgrades bottling line conveyors with compact drives that smooth production, enhance network communications and simplify troubleshooting.

August 31, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

All-Fill Inc: Volumetric filler

Model 305 single-head piston filler from All-Fill (Exton, PA) handles liquids, creams, pastes and other viscous products in fills from 50 mL to 2 ½ L.

June 30, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Oden Corporation: High-performance fillers

New Servo/Fill™ volumetric liquid filler from Oden (Buffalo, NY) combines performance with low cost. Features easy changeover with 50 stored set-ups.

June 30, 2000

Cartoning

Planters picks a packing line

Consumers are clearly fond of single-serve “tubes” of Planters nuts. An automated packaging line helps keep the nationwide pipeline full.

June 30, 2000

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Ilapak, Inc: Vf/f/s system

Ilapak’s (Newtown, PA) Vegatronic® 1000 vf/f/s system operates at speeds to 99 bags/min, making it suitable for use in medium-sized and small plants.

May 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Software brews line efficiency at Miller

Brewer sees quick payback on a multimillion-dollar investment in software that’s increasing output at six breweries nationwide. The software will be used for 57 lines, for cans, glass and plastic bottles.

May 31, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Filler relies on networked PCs

At Catania-Spagna, a 12-head rotary liquid filler controlled by PCs linked via Arcnet and Ethernet communications protocols allows real-time data acquisition and analysis.

May 31, 2000

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Sleeved bottles have character

As seen at the Food Marketing Institute show held May 7-9, Scooby-Doo!™ Belly Washers™ from In Zone Brands have closures and a look with a lot of kid-appealing character. The 12-oz bottle is topped by a 2 1/2’’-tall push/pull closure injection molded of high-density polyethylene in Scooby-Doo's likeness. PVC shrink sleeve is gravure-printed in eight colors. Pinched middle fits kids' hands.

April 30, 2000

Flexible packaging

Pouch fillers

Seiko Corp. (Mishima, Japan) has introduced the FPW Series of pouch fillers for liquids. In these monobloc systems, pouches are conveyed through the filling and heat-sealing stations in patent-pending holders that cycle back to receive a new pouch after the present one is filled and discharged.

April 30, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Temporary plugs aid aseptic filling

Aseptic filling of PET containers in Japan includes the unusual step of temporarily plugging bottles so that H2O2 sprayed inside will more effectively sterilize bottle interiors.

April 30, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Versatile line for aseptics or CSD

Swiss bottler installs a PET line capable of filling either microbiologically sensitive beverages under aseptic conditions or carbonated soft drinks that don’t require asepsis. In its aseptic mode, the line fully immerses bottles and caps in the sterilant.

April 30, 2000