Controls & Machine Components

Tape applicator

SoftPack (Commack, NY) has developed a patented L-Clip applicator, which applies L-shaped pieces of pre-printed PP p-s tape to the front and bottom of chipboard or paperboard cartons.

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Controls & Machine Components

PVC neck bands

Made in the USA, Seal-It's (Hicksville, NY) heat-shrink TE neck bands are a low-cost way to provide tamper-evidence. Made of PVC, these neck bands can be made of any size and can be printed with custom designs or logos.

October 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Pivot guide

Exhibiting with Tidland (Camas, WA), Fife (Oklahoma City, OK) will show the new microSymat Offset Pivot Guide (OPG) for high-performance web guiding on narrow-web process machinery.

October 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

P-s stock for Indigo

MACtac (Stow, OH) has developed a special top coating for p-s stocks used with Indigo's Omnius® Digital Offset Color(TM) presses. IMAGin(TM) gloss roll label stock is a bright gloss white paper stock engineered for optimum printing and designed for high-end consumer products.

October 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Liquid nitrogen injector

MG Industries (Malvern, PA) has developed a Liquid Nitrogen Injector® for the noncarbonated beverage industry. It offers low-cost pressurization to cans and bottles without tainting beverage taste or character, says the company.

October 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Plastics report

Rapra Technology (Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England) has developed a comprehensive report covering key properties of polymers used in packaging materials.

October 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Digital servo drives

The Ecodrive family of digital servo drives from Indramat (Hoffman Estates, IL) is designed to offer high-performance at comparable costs for narrow-web printing applications.

October 31, 1996

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Indenting machine

The new TB 986 tabletop indenting machine from Algene Marking (Garfield, NJ) uses pressure and steel type to indent up to two lines of text into folding cartons or blister cards.

October 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Case packer

The Pouch Packer from SWF/Dyna-Pak (Sanger, CA) automatically packs stand-up pouches, four-side-sealed and other flexible packages into corrugated cases at speeds to 100 packs/min.

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Flexible packaging

Display case packer for pouches

The Key Display Packer from Key Automation (W. St. Paul, MN) can run up to three lanes of pouches received from a high-speed horizontal form/fill/seal machine.

October 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Case/tray packer

sterbergs (Gteborg, Sweden) has launched a new case/tray packer called the WA/BR 6000. Servo-driven machine allows quick changes between packing patterns, as well as customized patterns to meet production requirements and product design.

October 31, 1996

Cartoning

Bar code inspection system

The Plato-0100 is a bar code inspection system from Entry Technology (Cream Ridge, NJ) that verifies readability and presence of a correct bar code on most types of packaging.

October 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Protective packaging

Xpander Pak(TM) from Xpander Pak (Glen Allen, VA) is an innovative packaging system designed to protect products under 10 lb from shock and vibration.

October 31, 1996