Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Net-weigh filling machines

Fill-Weigh (Plainfield, IL) has introduced a portable two-head net-weigh filling machine for jugs and pails of liquid products of varying viscosities.

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Controls & Machine Components

Wrap labelers

Quadrel's (Mentor, OH) TL5 semi-automatic tabletop wrap labeler is designed specifically to apply p-s labels to glass, plastic or metal cylindrical containers ranging from 2" to 6" dia.

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Controls & Machine Components

Label Systems: Label Systems: Wine labels

P-S labels from MPI Label Systems (Sebring, OH) can be applied to wet surfaces. Especially suited for short runs of specialty wine bottles of varying shapes.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bar-code printer

Cognitive Solutions (Paso Robles, CA) offers the Solus® desktop bar-code label printer in direct-thermal or thermal-transfer models. Solus printers can print bar codes, labels and tags at 3"/sec, at a 203-dpi resolution.

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Controls & Machine Components

Pactiv: Protective foam

Pactiv Inc.-AVI's (Glens Falls, NY) Astro-Foam® is a heavy-density PE foam that's strong and resilient. Lightweight, the foam is resistant to moisture and most chemicals.

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Converting equipment

Folding carton board

Kraftpak® folding carton board from the Kraft Division of Westvaco (New York, NY) provides a uniform print surface for applications including retail and foodservice food and beverage cartons.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hot-stamp foil

Foilmark (Newburyport, MA) announces a new holographic and diffractive hot-stamp foil. It has a broad temperature-release range. That allows for application flexibility and is said to be less demanding on converting equipment.

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

Reclosable bag system

Snap-Sac(TM) reclosable bag system from Arthur D. Little Enterprises (Cambridge, MA) is said to provide a viable alternative to zipper locks at similar costs, or as an added feature to bags without a reclosable feature.

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Controls & Machine Components

Liqui-Box Corp.: Bag-in-box filler

The Model 1500 Pacesetter II bag-in-box filler from Liqui-Box (Worthington, OH) offers 45- to 70-day shelf life for extended-shelf-life products. Handles particulates up to 3/4" and fills bag sizes from 1 to 8 gal at rates of 14/min.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

IN-LINE Labeling Equipment: Pressure-sensitive labeler

The WebMaster(TM) 700 pressure-sensitive labeler from In-Line Labeling Equipment (North Charleston, SC) uses a patent-pending, vacuum-beak process to control label feed without the use of mechanical parts.

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Controls & Machine Components

Corru-Shred, Inc: Corrugated shredder

The Model C16D Corru-Shredder from Corru-Shred (Pompano Beach, FL) is a system that takes knocked-down corrugated and shreds it into material suitable for use as loose fill.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

PVC containers

Plastic Bottle Corp. (Libertyville, IL) has added Faceted Oval PVC containers to its line of cosmetics/personal care containers. Available in two sizes, the 2-oz bottle has a 20/415 neck finish or a 20-mm finish built to accommodate a linerless, threaded valve seal closure by Packaging Design Group.

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Secondary Packaging

Automatic case packer

The Model 491 top-load, automatic case packer from Focke (Greensboro, NC) is designed to pick and place cartons, bags and bottles at speeds to 15 cases/min.

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