Controls & Machine Components

Cortec Corp.: Packing paper

Designed for packing ferrous or nonferrous metal parts with oil coating, drawing fluids or cutting lubricants, VCI-148 paper from Cortec (St. Paul, MN) emits vapor corrosion inhibitors to protect metal as well as prevent oil from seeping.

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Cartoning

Hoffman: Digital AC servo drives

Indramat (Hoffman Estates, IL) introduces the next-generation Ecodrive-03 family of digital AC servo drives. These drive packages provide an attractive performance/cost ratio for a variety of packaging applications, including random infeeders, vf/f/s machines, horizontal wrappers, cartoners, case packers and palletizers.

October 31, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeler

Newman's (Belle Mead, NJ) NV-II HS automatic p-s labeler requires minimal change parts to accommodate cylindrical, flat, square or oval plastic or glass containers with dia from 10 to 150 mm.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Powell Systems Inc: Net weight scale

Designed with bulk produce packagers in mind, Powell Systems' (Youngstown, OH) AWC-HD linear automatic net- weight scale can make weighments as large as 60 lb, operating at a rate of 17 weighments/min or faster for loads of 20 lb or less.

October 31, 1998

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Employee retention through TLC (sidebar)

Capitalizing on multiple locations

October 31, 1998

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Teamwork pays off for everyone

Wise and its film suppliers work together to develop a new metallized oriented polypropylene film that can handle the demands of potato chip packaging.

October 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Honey shows off in clear PET (sidebar)

Europe knows about honey in PET

October 31, 1998

Converting equipment

Welch's 'concentrates' on plastic can

Under development for nearly eight years, an all-plastic, easy-open, microwavable canister is now appearing in East Coast freezer cases holding several varieties of frozen juice concentrates for Welch's, Concord, MA.

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

West Penn Plastic, Inc: PET project

A literature sheet from West Penn Plastic (West New Castle, PA) details the work the company did for Hershey Chocolate U.S.A. in developing a PET container for Hershey's Non-Dairy Flavored Coffee Creamer.

October 31, 1998

Sustainability

Tape machines secure Steelcase shipments

Office furniture manufacturer Steelcase takes a hands-on approach to prevent product damage during distribution.

October 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Jar line is a royal flush

Universal Foods' Red Star Yeast Div. boosts production five-fold with a new jar line. Nitrogen flushing consistently reduces headspace oxygen below 1%.

October 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Controls for a complex system

The entire operation of the MS700 bowl filling/lidding system running at Sanfilippo is tightly controlled by a SLC 504 programmable logic controller from Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI).

October 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Liquid Container L.P.: Liquid Container L.P.: PET cylinder

A new 19-oz PET cylinder from Plaxicon (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) is ribbed to offer additional strength and a firm feel. Available with a 70-mm, injection-molded neck finish.

October 31, 1998