Secondary Packaging

Milestones

Lantech, Louisville, KY, a company founded on the introduction of the first commercially successful pallet stretch-wrapping machine, has reached 35 years in business.

March 31, 2008

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Secondary Packaging

Limit or eliminate jams and line stopages

Transverse movement of products via Intralox technology allows for faster descrambling while eliminating case jams and other line stoppages.

March 20, 2008

Flexible packaging

Nuspark makes custom packaging standard

Compact vertical and horizontal cartoning, case erecting & packing, robotic pick & place – Nuspark does it all and more. And they build customized solutions from pre-engineered packaging modules, a perfect fit for ELAU Intelligent Servo Module technology.

March 3, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Robotic palletizing and packaging solutions

FANUC Robotics is the leading supplier of robots and robotic systems for palletizing and packaging. See the demo video.

January 30, 2008

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Robotic trends in packaging

Part 2 of a 2-part series on trends in packaging robotics. (Our previous report explored reasons for the proliferation of purpose-built robotic capabilities in packaging machine designs. This concluding article looks at applications and design considerations for OEMs.)

January 30, 2008

Cartoning

Embedding robotic functionality in packaging machinery

Part 1 of a 2-part series explores the trend toward packaging machinery integrating purpose-built robotic capabilities.

January 21, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Bar code reader

The BCL500i Bar Code Reader from Leuze was developed for high-speed palletizing, with adjustable scan rates from 600 to 1,200 scans/sec, a reading range of 300 to 1,600 mm, an optical deflection or oscillating mirror, and +/- 30° sweep.

January 11, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

The wrap-up: She, robot

A surprisingly humanoid robot works at Pack Expo Las Vegas.

October 30, 2007

Secondary Packaging

See Pack Expo machinery in motion

Check out PW's library of videos of packaging machinery shot from the floor of Pack Expo Las Vegas.

October 30, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Mechatronics, electronics main feature at event

Festo AG gathered an international contingent of editors to company headquarters in Esslingen-Berkheim near Stuttgart, Germany, on Oct. 22-13 for a briefing on the company's latest news.

October 25, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Palletizing robot

PalletWorld® is a modular solution from Motoman designed to provide high-throughput robotic palletizing for a majority of palletizing applications.

October 17, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Video: AstraZeneca relies on robotics

Robotic case packing and palletizing of Nexium blister- and wallet-packs at AstraZeneca's Sodertalje, Sweden, facility improve productivity and reduce manufacturing costs.

October 16, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Dual arm robotic palletizer/depalletizer

FKI Logistex offers its new high-speed robotic palletizing solution, which uses jointed-arm robots capable of palletizing at rates of more than 100 cases per minute.

October 15, 2007