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Controls & Machine Components

Berlin Pkg.: PET containers

Tapered Domed Ovals from Berlin Packaging (Arlington Heights, IL) are PET containers suitable for the health and beauty markets for such products as shampoos and lotions.

July 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

U.S. Bottlers Machinery Company: Windows capability for fillers

New weigh fillers from U.S. Bottlers (Charlotte, NC) now use an operator interface that operates with Windows(TM) 95 or Windows NT. Display and audio are available in five languages.

July 31, 1998

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Belcor Industries Inc: Bag inserter

The BEL 451 semi-automatic bag inserter/case bottom taper from Belcor Industries (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada) uses a vacuum process that draws a bag liner into position when placed in a case by an operator.

July 31, 1998

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Tube filler/closer

Modular King Packaging Systems (Pine Brook, NJ) has introduced the Kugler K30-7 tube filler and closer. Designed with accuracy and repeatability in mind, it bottom-up fills laminate or metal tubes at speeds to 60/min.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Motion Analysis Systems Div.,Eastman Kodak Co.: Motion control analyzers

The Motion Analysis Systems Div. of Eastman Kodak (San Diego, CA) introduced a new family of Kodak Motion Corder analyzers with an upgrade path from one model to the next.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Shell Chemicals: Peel-seal compound

Shell Chemicals (Houston, TX) introduces WBS1100, a new developmental polybutylene compound designed for easy-open packaging formulations. Classified as a universal peel-seal system because of its ability to adhere to both olefinic and non-olefinic substrates, it can also be sealed to polymer substrates such as PET, PE and PP.

July 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Cloud Packaging Equipment: Pouching system

FlexWorks(TM) is a high-speed, continuous-motion pouching system from Cloud Corp. (Des Plaines, IL). It handles most heat-sealable laminates and coextru-sions, including biaxially oriented nylons, polyesters and structured PPs, foils, cellophanes and paper.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

REB, Inc: Filling system

Model ILS-A from REB Inc. (Menomonie, WI) is an automatic in-line fill-to-level filler ideal for cosmetics applications. It fills low- to medium-viscosity liquids into rigid containers using gravity or pressure.

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Banner Engineering Corp.: Safety catalog

Engineers and specifiers dealing with manufacturing safety issues may wish to peruse the 1997-98 catalog of Machine Safety Products from Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN).

July 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motor brochure

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) has released a color brochure describing its Baldor SmartMotor® family, which includes industrial AC motors with adjustable speed control electronics.

July 31, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Tray packer shrinks changeover time

Tray packing/shrink wrapping line for canned vegetables provides 55-tray/min speeds along with fast, no-tool changeover for Furman Foods.

July 31, 1998

Secondary Packaging

Elsner Eng. Works: Rewinding/overwrapping line

Elsner Eng. Works (Hanover, PA) has redesigned its HS-800/OWH-800 rewinding and overwrapping production line. Designed for gift wrap, tissue, kraft paper and selected films, the rewinder can be used for core, coreless or sheet-stiffened rewinding.

July 31, 1998