Secondary Packaging

No uniformity in changeover demands

Almost any way you measure packaging line changeover, the answers from Packaging World readers vary widely. The major agreement is that more changes are being demanded-and less time is available for doing them. However, the strategies for hastening change

February 28, 1997

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Infeed control system

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group's (St. Louis, MO) Mark II Synchro- screw infeed control system was developed to control the flow of containers at the infeed of fillers, labelers and other machinery.

February 28, 1997

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

Value-added packaging goes to sea

Seattle fish processor vacuum packs salmon right on board its two ships for sale to Japanese markets. Now there's no need to thaw and refreeze, so quality is improved.

February 28, 1997

Tamper-evident machinery

Sara Lee puts its brand on take-home foods

Look out Boston Market!

February 28, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ciba slashes costs with flexible pack

Ciba Crop Protection, Greensboro, NC, reduced its packaging costs by more than half after switching to a custom 25-lb premade bag for its granular ant bait product used by farmers.

February 28, 1997

Converting equipment

Supplier news: International agreements

Paper Converting Machine Co. Ltd. (Plymouth, UK) and Printpack Europe Ltd. (Bury, UK) discontinued the joint demonstration facilities at Printpack's Saffron Walden, UK, site, which was used to show PCMC's narrow web Vision flexographic printing press.

February 28, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Reusable packs could diminish corrugated demand

Although the environment is no longer a hot packaging issue in the U.S., global companies must contend with European regulations that target shipping containers and other transport packaging.

February 28, 1997

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Bristol-Myers recalls birth control packages

In mid-January, New York-based Bristol-Myers Squibb voluntarily recalled about 150ꯠ packages of its Ovcon® 35 birth control tablets due to a packaging snafu that might increase the risk of an unwanted pregnancy.

February 28, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Planetary gearheads

The DuraTrue(TM) Series of true planetary gearheads from Thomson Industries (Port Washington, NY) provides peak torque ratings of up to 7굙 in-lb, and backlash ratings as low as eight arc-minutes.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Central processing unit

PLCDirect (Cumming, GA) has added a new central processing unit (CPU) to its DL405 family designed for applications where both high-speed machine control and PID (proportional integral derivative) functionality are needed.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Brushless servomotors

Pacific Scientific's (Rockford, IL) new 2" and 3" frame Sentry brushless servomotors use high torque per frame size with a medium inertia design for improved load inertia matching.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Booklet labels counter shoplifting

Promo Edge (Neenah, WI) now offers its traditional Booklet/Plus(TM) product line with Sensormatic Electronics' (Boca Raton, FL) Ultra-Max® acousto-magnetic technology, designed to thwart shoplifting.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Motor brake

The FMBES motor brake from Horton Industrial Products (Minneapolis, MN) uses spring-actuation and greater heat-sink capacity to eliminate the heat-related brake inefficiencies associated with electric motor brakes.

January 31, 1997