Conveying & accumulation

ARC upgrades in oil and powder

This supplier to a number of U.S. government feeding programs keeps current where packaging machinery and controls technology are concerned.See video

July 31, 2005

Stretch wrapping/load stabilization: Page 16

Secondary Packaging

RFID 'a la cart'

Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc., Thomasville, NC, has partnered with Odin technologies to lead its RFID compliance program for its Creative Interiors division where products are shipped to retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart.

June 30, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Thomasville rolls out RFID 'a la cart'

Thomasville Furniture’s RFID solution for boxed product moves around on wheeled carts at its Appomattox, VA, DC.

May 31, 2005

Secondary Packaging

Old Orchard Brands: Stretch wrapping for high-output, hot-fill PET line for fruit juice

Pallet wrapping is done out in the warehouse on an Orion stretch wrapper.

April 30, 2005

Secondary Packaging

More on RFID from K-C and Wal-Mart

Mike O'Shea discloses more details about RFID at Kimberly-Clark and Simon Langford updates Wal-Mart's experiences.

April 30, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Sidebar

• A Kaps-All AU-3 unscrambler that places high-density polyethylene bottles onto a conveyor. Glass bottles are loaded on a feed table that are fed into a [b]McBrady[n] Model #200 Orbit bottle cleaner that uses air to do the job before placing bottles back onto the conveyor.

April 30, 2005

Sustainability

interpack insights

The buzz at the über-sized interpack packaging show in Germany included integration, function-block technology, Rx ‘pens,’ simplicity, esthetics, and concern for machinery ‘made in China.’

April 30, 2005

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

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