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.

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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

Controls & Machine Components

Invisible bar code technology

Invisible bar code technology from Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, TN) employs inks with compositions based on near-infrared fluorophores (NIRFs). NIRFs fluoresce in the near-infrared region and are thus invisible to the naked eye.

December 31, 1996

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

Stepper motor labeler

The AD-2550 stepper motor applicator from Columbia Labeling Machinery (Danielson, CT) replaces the clutch/brake system of the AD-2500. The 2550's compact 15" design integrates with most vertical form/fill/seal machines, horizontal overwrappers and baggers.

December 31, 1996

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister-pack thermoform/fill/seal system

The Ministar-VAL from Hoong-A America (LaPalma, CA) is a pneu-matically driven thermoform/fill/seal system designed for pharmaceutical applications. It can produce PVC/aluminum or ampule blister packs at speeds to 40 cycles/min.

December 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Metal detection verifier

Loma's (Elk Grove Village, IL) Performance Validation System ensures that the pre-set sensitivities of metal detectors are maintained at a constant level.

December 31, 1996