Machinery: Page 1160

Labeling

Labeling meat substitutes

FDA and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) want to encourage more nutritious variations of traditional foods, but are wrestling with how such foods should be labeled.

January 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Pressure/gravity filler

The Poly Pressure/Gravity filler from ELF Machines (LaPorte, IN) incorporates a pressure filler and a gravity filler into one unit. Made of HDPE, it's suited for acids and corrosive liquids.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Catalog on disk

Central Products' (Menasha, WI) DiskCat(TM) is a catalog containing over 200 pages of product and sales information on the company's tape- and carton-sealing equipment.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Solid decks

Litco (Vienna, OH) has released a brochure on The Inca Solid Deck, a dry wood fiber deck designed for use as the top deck component in the manufacture of stringer or block pallets.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Luminescence detectors

Balluff (Florence, KY) luminescence detectors read ultraviolet markings invisible to the naked eye. This eliminates the need for visible marks on products.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Label printing software

Bar Code Systems' (Atlanta, GA) Label Printing Solutions (LPS) is a label printing software program that allows a bar code to be created and printed within minutes.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bander/sleever

CMS Gilbreth Packaging Systems (Trevose, PA) has introduced the BASE 1000 Series II bander/sleever with the ability to sleeve multipack products. For use with PVC or Eastar® PETG from Eastman, it sleeves packages made of glass, plastic, metal or paper at speeds to 160/min.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Filling systems brochure

Autoprod Inc. (Clearwater, FL) has released a four-page, full-color brochure, "The new generation of Autoprod filling systems." It provides an overview and technical details on Autoprod's Gold(TM) and Gold Plus(TM) CIP/SIP technologies, filling systems and margarine fill/seal/cap systems.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bagging system

The Pack-Star bagger from I.D. Images (Strongsville, OH) fills a range of products into flexible bags at speeds to 50/min. Minimum bag size is 2" x 2"; maximum size is 9" x 12".

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Paperboard CD case

The disCover(TM) case is a paperboard CD case from Disc Graphics (Hauppauge, NY). It opens like a book, with discs contained on the right side. Literature can be housed in a pocket on the left side.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Case depalletizer/feeder

The Model Q2060 case depalletizer/hopper feeder from R.A. Pearson (Spokane, WA) is a ruggedly designed fully-automatic machine that eliminates the need for operators to monitor and manually load cases into a hopper from pallet stacks.

December 31, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyors and automation

FlexLink Systems Co. (Bethlehem, PA) has introduced an updated full-color brochure that provides an overview of the full line of FlexLink conveyor and automation component products.

December 31, 1996