Secondary Packaging

Semi-automatic stretchwrapping

Wulftec offers its new Smart Series of low- and high-profile stretchwrap turntables. Company says that customers benefit from all the advantages of a custom-built semi-automatic stretchwrapper, but without the high costs and long waiting times.

December 31, 2004

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Stretch wrapping/load stabilization

PACK EXPO Video: 2100 A Arm stretchwrapper

PACK EXPO : Cousins introduced its 2100 Series A Arm stretchwrapper at Pack Expo International 2004. See video clip of this machine

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Stretch wrapping

Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.

September 30, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Completion

Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.

September 30, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Pallet protector saves labor shipping costs

Wind Mill Woodworking, Sheboygan Falls, WI, cut its shipping costs for pallet loads of slatwall products 15% through labor savings. All it took was a different pallet protector.

September 30, 2004

Secondary Packaging

High-speed palletizer

TopTier’s new high-speed model TT-H50i palletizes cases, bundles, bags, and trays at speeds to 50/min within a footprint of 80”x80”. Layers are constructed on an internal prebuild table, then delivered to the pallet on a layer head nested below the prebuild table while layer construction continues on the prebuild.

August 31, 2004

Sustainability

Pack Expo visits lead to purchases

Representatives from both a Heinz division and a well known California winery both found the servo-based equipment they needed at Pack Expo International 2002.

August 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

ARPAC GROUP Introduces New Packaging Equipment for Billboarding Brand

ARPAC GROUP, leading manufacturers of shrink wrapping and pallet stretch wrapping equipment, are pleased to introduce 2 new designs that billboard brand and increase market exposure for manufacturers.

May 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

Espoma Company: Premade bag opening/filling/top sealing/stretch bundling for plant food

The Espoma Company is reportedly the first in North America to use the U-Pack package from Bischof + Klein for its 4-, 5-, and 10-lb bags of plant food.

March 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Espoma Company: Robotic palletizing for pre-made bags for plant food

Espoma’s new robotic palletizer from Automated Production Systems is equipped with customized end-of-arm tooling that uses multiple vacuum zones to pick up either bundles of small U-Pack bags, larger flat bags, slip sheets, or pallets, as necessary. The system simultaneously picks items and places them onto three different pallets. Once a pallet is filled, it is conveyed out of the robotic cell in three lanes that merge into one to feed a downstream stretch wrapper.

March 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Stretch-hood technology

Lachenmeier has developed a new generation of stretch-hood machines that offer significant cost reduction, improved optical properties, and good load stability for pallet wrapping applications.

March 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Martens Brewery: Stretch wrapper for barrier-coated PET beer bottles

The final part of the packaging process is the stretch wrapping of pallets.

January 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Feldschloesschen Brewery: Stretch wrapping of beer in PET

As a full pallet receives its top layer and exits, a fresh pallet is automatically moved into place. At the stretch wrapper, a top sheet of film is automatically dispensed. Stretch wrapping equipment is supplied by Krones.

January 31, 2004