Controls & Machine Components

Medical shipper

Cin-Made (Cincinnati, OH) has introduced an insulated shipper employing dry ice for the transport of infectious waste. The United Nations Dry Ice Shipper complies with Intl.

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Controls & Machine Components

Films for teas, coffee

Wolff Walsrode (Walsrode, Germany) provides multilayer films for packaging coffee, tea or instant products. For vacuum packing of ground coffee, Walopeel L products have an easy-peel sealing layer with a constant seal strength through a broad range of temperatures.

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Flexible packaging

Vertical form/fill/seal

The Integra II from Sasib Packaging North America (Skokie, IL) is a form/fill/seal machine that produces a pillow-style pouch designed for dry, free-flowing products.

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Controls & Machine Components

Label printer

Weber's (Arlington Heights, IL) 94 Series thermal/thermal-transfer label printer can print labels and tags up to 7.2" x 25" at up to 203 dpi resolution.

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Controls & Machine Components

Volumetric filler

Universal Filling Machine (Kent, England) has introduced the Posimatic VH, an automatic filler designed for the cosmetics, pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Volumetric pump

The T-94 5-gal double acting pump from Thiele Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) is one of the first specifically designed to fill 5-gal and 3-gal pails of paint or similar product in a single cycle.

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Controls & Machine Components

PET catalogs

W. Braun Co. (Chicago, IL) has released a brochure that includes diagrams and information on the size, material, and finish of its recyclable PET, EPET and Eastman PETG® containers for the cosmetics and personal care industry.

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Controls & Machine Components

Case taper

Padlocker's (Tamarac, FL) PST-505 automatic top and bottom p-s taper can seal random-sized cases at speeds to 10/min. It provides continuous, high-speed operation, closing all top four flaps as a single strip of tape is applied simultaneously to the top and bottom of each case.

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Conveying & accumulation

Case packer

Machine Development's (San Leandro, CA) standard bottom loading case packer now has the ability to accumulate stacks of cartons prior to loading into cases.

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Controls & Machine Components

Stats package for auger filler

Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) has introduced the first "Statistics" package available for an auger filler. Used in conjunction with any system providing a package weight--in-line checkweighing, off-line checkweighing, or net weigh fill--it provides the quality control manager with a real-time, on-screen method of monitoring filling operations.

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Controls & Machine Components

Surface marking technology

For use in detecting diversion and unauthorized distribution, Biocode(TM) is a covert surface marking technology from Biocode (Cambridge, MA). This patent-pending coding can be applied through on-line ink-jet printing systems to produce invisible codes on packaging, labels or bottles.

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Controls & Machine Components

Orienter/verifier

Owens Design's (Fremont, CA) bottle orientation/label verification system provides high-speed label inspection on pharmaceutical bottles. It orients bottles and presents label data to a vision system for verification while checking for cap skew and TE seals at speeds of more than 400 bottles/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Unit-dose delivery system

Merck (Whitehouse Station, NJ) has developed a two-compartment container and delivery system for two-component medications that must be mixed just before administering.

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