Controls & Machine Components

All-Fill Inc: Piston fillers

The Series 505 heavy-duty single-nozzle piston fillers from All-Fill (Creamery, PA) are designed to fill liquids, creams, pastes, gels and other viscous products containing particulate matter up to 4/5" in dia.

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Controls & Machine Components

Case opener/loader/sealer

The Salwasser (Reedley, CA) Model M-50 automatic RSC case opener, loader and sealer uses servo-driven case opening and transfer drives to ensure positive motion at speeds up to 15 cases/min.

October 31, 1997

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Low-level palletizer

The Samovi Ricart Series 5000 low-level palletizer is now available from General Corrugated Machinery (Palisades Park, NJ). Its simple mechanical design is said to offer reliable operation and low maintenance.

October 31, 1997

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

Film for bakery, confectionery

Mobil Bicor® LTSC film is a two-side coated, one-side sealable OPP film for bakery and confectionery applications available from Mobil's Films Div.

October 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Sonoco Alloyd: Sonoco Alloyd: Data option for sealer

The Level Four Data Acquisition system for Alloyd's (DeKalb, IL) two-station medical shuttle heat seal machines uses a dedicated computer to display and log all sealing parameters in addition to other package and order identification data.

October 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Enviro-impact-software

SimaPro 4 is a software program that lets users compare the environmental impact of products, processes and packaging through life-cycle assessment. SimaPro 4, from PRé Consultants (Amersfoort, the Netherlands), allows the data to be used by non-experts through the scripting language in the program.

October 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Multisorb Technologies, Inc: Sorbent canister

SorbiCap(TM) from Multisorb Technologies (Buffalo, NY) is a sorbent canister for adsorbing moisture and odor in pharmaceutical and diagnostic product packaging.

October 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Zepf, Inc A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: No-tool changeover wine filler

Zepf Technologies (St. Louis, MO) Easi-Flow Wine Filler uses the patented "Easi-Flow" filling valve to reach speeds to 250 bottles/ min. Designed to reduce dissolved oxygen pick-up, a pressure equalization system balances the pressure found in the container with that of the tank head space.

October 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Wide-mouth jars

Robb Container (Naperville, IL) has introduced two sizes to its line of wide-mouth HDPE jars. The 16-oz and 32-oz sizes are available with an 89/400 or 83/400 finish.

October 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Cartoner brochure

Roberts Systems (Charlotte, NC) has released a six-page brochure titled "The Total On-Demand Cartoning System." Described within is the Servostar intermittent- motion cartoner and the different types of packaging applications it handles.

October 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Label-Aire: Label-Aire: Multi-labeler

Designed to meet the growing demand for incorporating electronic article surveillance (EAS) tags at the time of packaging, Label-Aire (Fullerton, CA) has introduced the Multi-Labeler high-speed EAS applicator.

October 31, 1997

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Peristaltic pump filler

ELF Machines (LaPorte, IN) has developed a two-head metered dispensing system suitable for laboratory or pharmaceutical applications. It fills thin and slightly viscous liquids into containers ranging from 0.25 mL to 500 mL.

October 31, 1997

Flexible packaging

Consumers want better packaging

Friends and family who know I have "something to do with" packaging are always asking me to pass on their packaging complaints, observations and requests.

October 31, 1997