Conveying & accumulation

Ingredient blending goes in house

Retrofit with blender and flexible screw conveyor adds in-house blending to packaging of cosmetic powder. New-found flexibility satisfies customer requirements.

September 9, 2010

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Sustainable Packaging

Digital printing--a difference maker in launch of Windows 7

Less waste, accelerated speed to market, and anticounterfeiting advantages are some of the benefits gained through on-demand digital printing of folding cartons.

September 9, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Case packer is 'sophisticated' yet rugged

Case packer is ‘sophisticated’ yet rugged Machine uses best-in-class controls technology to achieve throughput of 35 cases/min. IP67 rating ensures reliability despite rugged wash downs.

September 9, 2010

Sustainability

P&G pushes the limits of two-stage ISBM

P&G teams up with an innovative resin supplier and a specialist in high-performance packaging to commercialize a PP preform for stretch blow molding.

September 9, 2010

Flexible packaging

Pharmaceutical packaging demand forecast to rise through 2014

Regulations and standards that address issues such as barrier protection, patient drug compliance, and diversion and counterfeiting will increase demand for containers and accessories.

September 9, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc: Electronic valves

Clippard’s EW Series of electronic valves features wire leads out of the top of the valve, and is available in 2-way or 3-way, Normally-Closed or fully-ported.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: Adapters

Turck’s M12 adapters may be used to connect incompatible round connectors quickly and easily.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: AC drives

Omron announces safety certification for 3G3MX2 AC drives--open loop control drives with built-in safety inputs and external device monitoring output.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Pluggable terminal block connectors

Wago’s 2020 and 2022 Series X-COM S Pluggable Connector Systems combine touchproof, pre-wired assemblies with TOPJOB S terminal blocks.

September 8, 2010

Conveying & accumulation

Campbell Wrapper Corporation: Horizontal flow wrapper

Campbell Wrapper Corporation’s full servo driven On-Edge Revolution Horizontal Flow Wrapper features a sanitary modular design with a cantilevered tube forming section that allows debris to fall away from internal drive components while providing an attractive wrap for a variety of products including cookies, crackers, frozen hash browns and frozen meat patties at speeds ranging from 50 - 150 packages/min.

September 8, 2010

Flexible packaging

Parsons-Eagle Packaging Systems: Linear scale

The Parsons-Eagle Duplex E Series Linear Scale is a reliable, heavy-duty scale system that weighs free-flowing and semi-free flowing products including pet food/treats/litter, sugar, salt, ground meal, plastic pellets, granulated chemicals, etc., and is especially suitable for large pre-made bag, case and drum filling applications.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Door safety hardware added for MCCBs

AutomationDirect’s Type C361 door interlocking safety handle and roller kits are available for their 3P Series molded case circuit breakers.

September 8, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Balluff: RFID readers for IO-link

Balluff’s IO-link based RFID system simplifies network topology and PLC setup by using the IO-link block to treat the RFID data like standard I/O points, and reduces costs by running multiple RFID readers off 1 I/O block using standard, 3-conductor sensor cables.

September 8, 2010