Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Low-profile Woodman Apache bags caramels at 120 bpm

An introduction to Woodman's versatile Apache bagmaker, featuring a direct-mounted weigher.

December 14, 2010

Machinery: Page 543

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

New Third-Generation Woodman G3 Twin-Tube Bagmaker

Woodman's G3 twin tube vertical bagmaker is the third generation of a venerable snack food packaging workhorse, the Gemini.

December 14, 2010

Operational Excellence

Consumer packaged goods and cross-docking

Supply chains are increasingly utilizing cross-docking, and packaging has an important role to play.

December 14, 2010

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Productivity doubled with VF/F/S systems

Apfells Fine Coffees, a leading U.S. private-label coffee manufacturer, has boosted productivity, improved setup times, and reduced its environmental impact with the installation of new robag vertical form/fill/seal systems.

December 12, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Automation and Safety: AC drives support more networks

The options on Omron Industrial Automation’s compact 3G3MX2 AC Drives have been expanded to simplify integration into a wide range of internationally accepted machine platforms.

December 12, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Invensys: Programmable automation controller

The Foxboro Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) from Invensys Operations Management is a high-performance automation controller solution integrated within the Wonderware System Platform and using ArchestrA technology.

December 8, 2010

Filling/capping, dry

IMA SAFE combines bottle filler, cottoner, capper and more

Synchronized, integrated, flexible design uses 1/3 the floor space of conventional lines.

December 7, 2010

Secondary Packaging

Aetna Group demonstrates end of line technologies

Single source solutions range from shrink wrapping to case packing to palletizing.

December 7, 2010

Secondary Packaging

Z Automation opens office in Germany

To better serve the growing international packaging market, Z Automation Company (ZAC) has opened a sales office in Germany--the first European office for the company.

December 6, 2010

Labels

Cenveo acquires Gilbreth Packaging Solutions

Cenveo, Inc. announced that through its subsidiaries, the company has acquired Impaxx, Inc., the sole owner of Gilbreth Packaging Solutions, Inc., from affiliates of Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles private equity firm.

December 5, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Schreiner MediPharm wins TLMI award

Schreiner MediPharm’s Pharma-Comb SL label has earned honors from the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute for technical achievement in the Flat Screen Printing category.

December 2, 2010

Secondary Packaging

Small-footprint case erector/bottom sealer

For space-restricted areas, this entry-level machine can produce up to 20 cases/min.

December 2, 2010

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Bottle and jar unscrambler

Watch this video of the Orientainer bottle unscrambler in operation at Pack Expo.

December 2, 2010