Controls & Machine Components

Stars and guides

Kwik Change interchangeable stars and guides from Change Parts (Ludington, MI) fit over quarter-turn locking hubs on rotary style cleaning, filling or capping machines.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ink jet printhead

The 192 Orifice Ink Jet Printhead from Imaging Technologies (Cookesville, TN) offers 43% more character height with a single printhead. Called the Six-Shooter(TM), it produces a 32 x 192 matrix with six orifices per channel.

January 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Temperature controller

The 2500 Series temperature controller from Love Controls (Wheeling, IL) controls temperature in plastic packaging, and food processing applications.

January 31, 1995

Secondary Packaging

Case erector

Marq's (Yakima, WA) New Style High-Performance Case Erector measures just 70" x 70". Lug drive system enables the machine to erect and seal stovepipe case styles where the case height exceeds the case length.

January 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Checkweigher catalog

International Automation (Oakland, NJ) now offers a free catalog describing Boekels' checkweighers. For use with bottles, cartons, bags and other packages from 1 g to 50 kg in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

January 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Signal conditioner

Sensotec's (Columbus, OH) Model SC Signal Conditioner has an improved amplifier board which allows it to self-calibrate using almost any transducer.

January 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Unit dose sample

Ivers-Lee (West Caldwell, NJ) has introduced a two-component, single-use dispensing package for physician samples, clinical trials, hospital use or travel.

January 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Rigid vinyl film

Previously available from Klockner Pentaplast (Gordonville, VA) as a three-layer adhesive lamination of vinyl/PE/ACLAR®, Pentapharm® ACLAR rigid vinyl film is now available with or without a PE layer.

January 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Controller catalog

Athena Controls' (Horsham, PA) new general catalog describes temperature, process and power controllers as well as the company's complete line of microprocessor and analog instruments.

January 31, 1995

Flexibles

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Printpack Inc. (Atlanta, GA) and Orchem, Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) have introduced a full service flexible packaging converting operation called Orflex Packaging, Inc.

January 31, 1995

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Court says states can regulate packaging

California's detailed "green law" was upheld by a federal appeals court, which said states have a right to regulate packaging so consumers are not confused, in the same way deceptive advertising can be banned.

January 31, 1995

Labeling

Neck band quenches thirst for savings

A heat-shrinkable polyvinyl chloride neck band, used by New Orleans, La.-based Sirocco Enterprises to package Pat O'Brien's(TM) cocktail drink mixes, has reduced material costs and increased sales.

January 31, 1995

Conveying & accumulation

Squeezing out productivity

An adjustable guiderail system allows juice producer Hansen's Juices to maximize output, minimize downtime. Sizing up and down lets line focus on "just-in-time" technology.

January 31, 1995