Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Diageo invests $120M in three new bottling lines

Diageo expands its Plainfield, IL, bottling facility with three new high-speed lines, including a 300-bpm glass bottle line and a 260-bpm filling line for PET flasks.

August 4, 2014

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Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

MAP meat line is fast and flexible

When this large meat processor in southwest Germany needed more capacity, management relied heavily on two key OEM partners for a tightly integrated solution.

August 4, 2014

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Automated oxygen absorber insertion

New system nearly doubles packaging line output rates versus previously used manual operations.

August 4, 2014

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Apace sets the pace in pharmaceutical serialization implementation

Contract packager sees investment in serialization on its bottling and blister thermoform/fill/seal lines as an opportunity to gain business and a competitive edge.

August 4, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric: Large AC–GPM induction motor line

Baldor Electric Company announces a new line of energy efficient electric motors.

July 31, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens: New 230V, single- and 3-phase AC power modules

A new line of PM240-2 power modules is now available from Siemens, extending the use of the Sinamics G120 drives family.

July 30, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Bison Gear: New PowerSTAR DC gearmotor

Bison Gear and Engineering is launching a PMDC motor version of the PowerSTAR hypoid right-angle product line.

July 30, 2014

Contract packaging

Contract packager adds warehouse space, bottling line

Reed-Lane expands warehouse capacity by 30% and adds new 48-slat bottling machine.

July 24, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Schunk: Compact short-stroke axis for dynamic assembly applications

Schunk has combined a powerful linear motor drive with an ultra-smooth pre-loaded roller guide for its ELB linear axis and is desig-ned for precise and dynamic strokes.

July 24, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Integrated controls ease programming, troubleshooting

Coating Systems company adds palletizing equipment that integrates PLC and robot controls for ease of operation.

July 23, 2014

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

From zero to 10 robots in 2.5 years

Olive producer adds robot to transfer pouched product to trays for delivery to retort system. Success leads to further investments in robotics.

July 23, 2014

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Robots meet special needs of sliced cheese

Ohio’s Great Lakes Cheese adds pick-and-place robots for its shingled cheese packs and for pouched cheese placed in retail-ready cases.

July 23, 2014

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Gummi 'burgers' assembled, packaged at 540/min

German candy maker Trolli GmbH installs fully automated packaging line equipped with multiple robots for its mini gummi-burger line.

July 23, 2014