Controls & Machine Components

Form/fill/seal system

The Boxibag form/fill/seal system from Inland Trade (Miami, FL) produces square or rectangular type packages with four distinct gussets that increase stability.

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Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor catalog

The 3100 Series Conveyor catalog has been updated by Dorner Manufacturing (Hartland, WI) to reflect new conveyor features, including parallel shaft and heavy-duty gear motors, metric fasteners, sidewall cleated belts and additional conveyor accessories.

November 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bag former

The Black Box from UVA-Butler (Richmond, VA) is a flat-bottom bag air expelling and bag shaping unit for flat-bottom bags. It creates brick-type bags by eliminating air in gabletop bags and folding and taping the top fin for a brick-type appearance.

November 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Compression testing

Existing package compression testing systems can be upgraded with the Valuepak custom retrofit package from Gaynes Eng. (Franklin Park, IL). A combination of control and data acquisition options is available.

November 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Ink brochure

The Marsh Co.'s (Belleville, IL) newest 4-color brochure highlights inks for use with ink-jet systems. Information on porous, non-porous and specialty inks is included, as well as a description of the exclusive Marsh Waste-Free Ink system that eliminates container disposal concerns.

November 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

PET bottles

Knap-Pac (Ft. Lee, NJ) and Robb Container (Naperville, IL) have introduced a line of PET bottles suited for the cosmetics and personal care markets.

November 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Watermarked pharmaceutical inserts

In an effort to combat pharmaceutical counterfeiting, Fletcher Paper (Kalamazoo, MI) has developed pharmaceutical inserts made with watermarked paper.

November 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Multi-line palletizing system

Priority One Packaging (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has developed multi-line palletizing systems that allow concurrent palletizing of multiple products on a single Pro-Pal(TM) Series 3500 palletizer.

November 30, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Palletizer/stretch wrapper

The Stackwrap(TM) is a new automatic palletizer/stretch wrap- per from Crown-Simplimatic (Lynchburg, VA). Cases, cartons, bags, pails and trays are lifted, shuttled horizontally and positioned on pallets, slip sheets, or directly on the machine's turntable, where they are wrapped at speeds of four cycles/min.

November 30, 1996

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New bottle packers help Modelo deal with refillables

Southern Mexican brewery installs high-speed rotary bottle packers that are now used throughout Modelo's system. Efficency soars even with returnable cases of marginal quality.

November 30, 1996

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

Duralam presses for short and sweet runs

Flexible packaging converter Duralam is among the first to use a quick changeover flexo press for short-run jobs. One of its most challenging is a reverse-printed OPP structure used for bags of Sun*Maid candy.

November 30, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

McKesson brings PET packing in-house

Fast-growing California water bottler is learning to appreciate the advantages of in-house filling, after long relying on contract bottlers for its half-, 1- and 1.5-L PET bottles.

November 30, 1996

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

Dairy makes markets abroad

German dairy starts up two aseptic thermoform/fill/seal lines that produce yogurt and pudding with a 130-day unrefrigerated shelf life.

November 30, 1996