Controls & Machine Components

Collapsible bottle

E'Compact is an economical, collapsible, lightweight bottle from Filpac (Chestnut Hill, MA). It consists of a smooth PE bottle with lugs on the side that fit into slots on a paperboard sleeve.

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Controls & Machine Components

Container packer/unpacker

Campac is a new machine from Krones (Franklin, WI) that packs or unpacks bottles or other rigid containers of unique sizes and shapes. A cam-controlled motion ensures smooth handling to eliminate container damage.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Tray unloading system

Literature is now available on Chase-Logeman's (Greensboro, NC) Model ATU-200 auto-matic tray un-loader. The system allows one operator to unload plas-tic, glass or metal containers at speeds to 300/min.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Kraft for multiwall bags

Camden(TM) Premier kraft paper is a new high-performance multiwall grade from International Paper (Purchase, NY). It can be used as insulation backing, wrapping, cohesive coating and p-s tape applications.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Applicators

Haumiller (Booth #1637) will display its new Model 3250 applicator system for efficient placing of spray tips, overcaps, reducer plugs, collars and other fitments.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Injection molding machines

Boy Machines (Exton, PA) introduces two 28-ton injection molding machines for the manufacture of small precision parts, with seven shot capacities ranging from 14 to 64 g.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Large turntable indexing system

Callanan (Booth #816) will introduce its 7-foot 12.5KW four-position RF Turntable Indexing system. It uses low-frequency radio waves to create a transparent TE seal on packages at speeds to 50 products/min.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Stock bottles

McKechnie Plastic Packaging (Philmont, NY) offers a range of stock or custom bottles in 2- to 32-oz sizes. These bottles are extrusion-blown and are available in virgin PE, PCR blends or coextruded tri-layer PE.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Plastics joining brochure

Branson Ultrasonics (Danbury, CT) has published a full-color brochure to provide solutions to plastics assembly problems. "Plastics Joining Technology" describes a range of pro-cesses and equipment including ultrasonic assembly, linear and orbital vibration welding and hot plate welding.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Canmaker/trimmer

Rated at 450 can/min speeds, CarnaudMetalbox Engineering's (Norwalk, CT) 5500 combination can bodymaker/trimmer enables canmakers to operate at high speeds and improve downstream handling with cleaner trims.

July 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Motion control catalog

Ormec (Rochester, NY) has released its Generation III product guide. It details the company's Model 20 and Model 40 motion controllers and accompanying products, in-cuding brushless servomotors and servodrives, terminals and keypads.

July 31, 1995

Secondary Packaging

Case erector/bottom taper

Salwasser's (Booth #1031) stand-alone Model TL-60 automatic mechanical corrugated lid forming, sealing and placing machine positions lids on filled HSC display cases or trays at rates to 15/min.

July 31, 1995

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister/skin/shrink packaging

Sun Industries' (Booth #1432) Model M-816 Stretch Pak(TM) machine employs a unique combination of blister, skin and shrink technologies to create a line of high-quality carded packaging.

July 31, 1995