Material handling

Live from Cool Chain Europe: Pharma freight requires specialized cargo center

A new Pharma & Healthcare Hub at Luxembourg’s Findel airport is on track to handle 30,000 tons of ambient and cold-chain temperature-controlled pharmaceutical products in 2014.

January 27, 2014

Machinery: Page 412

Controls & Machine Components

Bodine: Gearmotors with AC models

Bodine Electric’s expanded FX line of parallel shaft gearmotors includes the all-new 42R6-FX, which combines a new, 3-wire reversible 42R frame AC induction motor with a completely redesigned and updated FX gearhead to provide up to 40% more torque than previous E/F models.

January 24, 2014

Operational Excellence

Regulatory burdens weigh on combination product manufacturers

Regulatory matters, processing and manufacturing, as well as fill/finish and packaging rank as the most challenging areas for makers of combination products.

January 23, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

PHD: Economical cylinder product line

PHD's Optimax Series OCV Pneumatic ISO Cylinder line (first in the company’s Optimax actuator product line) is available in 32, 40, and 50 mm bore sizes and stroke lengths.

January 22, 2014

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Regulatory issues factor heavily into the IVD market

In this question-and-answer dialogue, Gail Radcliffe of Radcliffe Consulting discusses in vitro diagnostics, focusing on regulatory and labeling issues.

January 17, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: High-power drive rack

The Npaq 6U from Aerotech is a high-power drive rack that uses plug-in amplifiers supporting both linear and PWM topologies to control brushless DC, brush, or stepper motors at up to 320 VDC operating voltage and 30 A peak current capability.

January 17, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: DC drives

AutomationDirect’s IronHorse line of motors and drives now includes the GSD1, GSD3, GSD4, and GSD5, GSD6, and GSD7 series of DC drives.

January 17, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Skin-tight seafood packaging

New tray system technology produces high-efficiency, high-barrier, high-visibility packaging for griller products.

January 16, 2014

Robotics

Cancer diagnostics firm automates bottle filling, capping, labeling

Dako’s compact robotic bottling system frees up vital production floor space, increases speed, and reduces labor costs, filling different bottle shapes and sizes with no mechanical setup between production runs.

January 16, 2014

Flow wrapping

Easy integration of new flow wrappers for cookies

Guatamalan plant adds two new flow wrappers required to integrate easily with existing cookie creamers and provide product configuration and packaging material flexibility.

January 16, 2014

Operational Excellence

'Oven Box' design delights Thelma's Treats

Company bakes homemade cookies fresh to order, delivering them in a keepsake folding carton that resembles and opens like an old-fashioned oven.

January 16, 2014

Secondary Packaging

Eighteen robotic palletizers ensure quality at tobacco company

Lorillard Tobacco Co. installs 18 robotic palletizers to speed the in-house identification of nonconforming product and enable product tracking for 40 billion cigarettes/yr.

January 16, 2014

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Hirzel doubles down on aseptics

This fourth-generation Ohio marketer of tomato products believes there is a certain segment of U.S. consumers who want a package format other than a can.

January 16, 2014