Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Blister-card folder

MGS Machine has introduced a third-generation high-speed blister-card folder/wallet-packaging system for pharmaceuticals, designed with an emphasis on modular stations and devices for future flexibility and product changeover. Machines are available at speeds to 300 packages/min.

April 2, 2008

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Cartoning

End- load cartoner

Kliklok-Woodman offers the new Celox® mid- to high-speed end-load cartoner.

April 2, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

New BHS Flexline Compact installed at Boelter Industries

Boelter Industries, Inc. (www.boelterindustries.com) increased printing and converting capacity with the installation of a second BHS Flexline Compact flexographic press from Gallus (www.gallus-packaging.org).

April 2, 2008

Sustainability

Helping customers develop 'solutions' to two of today's real challenges

We sell solutions! The phrase has become so overused that nearly everyone states it and nearly everyone ignores it, except when they are the ones saying it.

April 1, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

Bundle wraps answer today's promotional challenges

If stacking strength is essential, consider cartons. But when thick-film packs with carrying strength and message flexibility are key, bundle wraps are an emerging option.

April 1, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Milestones

Lantech, Louisville, KY, a company founded on the introduction of the first commercially successful pallet stretch-wrapping machine, has reached 35 years in business.

March 31, 2008

Controls & Machine Components

Machinery advice: Beware of bells and whistles

"Buyers of manufacturing equipment are becoming too much like consumers buying the latest in consumer electronics, where bells and whistles carry the day to too great an extent."

March 25, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Using high quality variable marking technology to eliminate stock labels

The Coditherm from Matthews is a digital printer developed for automatic, direct thermal transfer marking of objects made of rigid or semi-rigid material, or with uneven, porous surfaces. To date, in most applications, it has not been possible to print directly on such products with electronic thermal transfer print heads.

March 20, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Limit or eliminate jams and line stopages

Transverse movement of products via Intralox technology allows for faster descrambling while eliminating case jams and other line stoppages.

March 20, 2008

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Increase throughput by 1% to 3%

Reduce side-by-side packages and orientation problems and increase throughput by 1-3% with this new technology from Intralox.

March 20, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

How to achieve smaller footprints, greater throughput, consistent merging, and more

Intralox perpetual merge technology provides a smaller plant footprint, better layout flexibility, decreased costs, and greater throughput.

March 20, 2008

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

How to choose a conveyor supplier

Specializing in modular plastic conveyor belts gives Intralox expertise at applying this technology.

March 20, 2008

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pro Mach acquires Labeling Systems, Inc.

New division expands labeling, and coding and marking solutions portfolio for Pro Mach.

March 20, 2008