Conveying & accumulation

Robotic palletization protects Sandvik

Automated lifting and stacking of heavy boxes onto pallets helps this maker of mining products avoid worker injuries and $120ꯠ of additional labor costs.

January 31, 1998

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Conveying & accumulation

Redhook Ale sinks East Coast roots

Pegged by some as one craft brewer best positioned to thrive and grow, Redhook boldly stakes its claim to eastern markets with its New Hampshire facility.

October 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Filler enables DriWater to eject rejects

Auger filler more accurately fills 1-qt paperboard cartons containing DriWater, a time-release liquid gel for areas where water is scarce. Greater fill accuracy reduces product and packaging material waste, and labor costs.

September 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

WestPack draws from far and wide

Featuring four specialty pavilions, including a brand new Materials Handling Pavilion, WestPack '97 unfolds at the Anaheim Convention Center September 23 to 25.

July 31, 1997

Flexible packaging

Zippered packs sparkle for Diamond Walnut

Stockton, CA, growing cooperative adds zippers to walnut bags. New hf/f/s machine and modular case erector/packer/closer efficiently pack four bag sizes.

July 31, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrapper

The EZ-Duz-It® plus is a low-profile stretch wrapper from Infra Pak (Farmers Branch, TX). This light-duty stretch wrapper has a 3ꯠ-lb capacity, says the manufacturer.

February 28, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrap

Advantage(TM) stretch wrap from BrownCor (Milwaukee, WI) has ready-to-use extended core ends that act as handles for fast and easy pallet wrapping. It's also available with a 3" core for use with dispensers.

February 28, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

A well 'thawed-out' solution

J&J Snacks needed to automate pallet wrapping in its freezer warehouse. But only a specially insulated wrapper could function at temperatures as low as

February 28, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Palletizer/stretch wrapper

The Stackwrap(TM) is a new automatic palletizer/stretch wrap- per from Crown-Simplimatic (Lynchburg, VA). Cases, cartons, bags, pails and trays are lifted, shuttled horizontally and positioned on pallets, slip sheets, or directly on the machine's turntable, where they are wrapped at speeds of four cycles/min.

November 30, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrapper

Stretch-O-Seal (Oak Park, IL) has introduced a stretch wrap machine that applies stretch film to multiple containers, thereby eliminating the need for corrugated cartons in some instances.

October 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrapping brochure

Gerrard & Co. (Des Plaines, IL) has released a brochure describing its line of operator-controlled, turntable stretch wrapping systems. Four new models highlighted include: the stack-n-wrap, manual spiral wrapper, GLPS-30, and the GLPS-30A.

October 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Bander stretch wrappers

Ciratec's (Phillipsburg, NJ) B900 Bander Series of stretch wrappers provide an economic alternative to orbital wrappers, and are effective in low-speed applications where an operator may be required.

October 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Slip sheet dispenser

Model RM-960 sheet dispenser from Newcastle (New Castle, PA) dispenses tie or slip sheets for unitizing or load transfer applications. Vacuum cups lift a single sheet from a storage magazine and transfer it horizontally.

October 31, 1996