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Conveying & accumulation

The quest for the most productive packaging operation

Howard R. Leary, PE, CPP, Vice President Engineering, Luciano Packaging Technologies

September 5, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

U.S. packaging student winners tour Italy

In June, eight U.S. packaging students visited Pharmintech 2007 (www.pharmintech.com) and

September 5, 2007

Contract packaging

Dietary supplements swallow new packaging standards

Food and Drug Administration’s drive for healthy manufacturing and packaging in industry through GMPs.

September 5, 2007

Flexible packaging

Sachet/pouch filling at Fine Foods

This video was taken of one of the Marchesini sachet lines during a June Packaging World visit to Fine Foods’ pharmaceutical facility in Bergamo, Italy.

September 3, 2007

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

Placer offers ease of operation and maximum flexibility

Coupons, compact discs, and literature can be precisely placed on the inside of flat carton blanks, disc jewel cases, or promotional packages. Designed to interface with most side seam gluers, this Advancing Cam Rotary Placer from Graphic Packaging handles a broad spectrum of coupons, literature and promotional pieces and can be integrated with other glue systems when needed.

August 30, 2007

Cartoning

Serpa Casepacker gets new servo modules

Serpa’s all-servo P200 Balcony Casepaker now uses PacDrive Intelligent Servo Modules to maximum advantage for pharmaceutical applications.

August 24, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Random case sealer ideal for demanding production environments

Pearson's CS30-RT Random Case Sealer is a high-speed automatic machine for tape sealing random-sized cases at speeds up to 30 cases per minute. This compact and rugged continuous-motion sealer was built for speed and flexibility in the most demanding production environments.

August 22, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Banding together: the best way to bundle

This white paper from Wexler Packaging Products outlines the ways in which banding offers energy conservation, material savings and waste reduction. In addition, find out which new enhancements are occurring all the time, making banding a state-of-the-art method for enhancing a packaging operation.

August 20, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Decrease case sealing labor costs and improve productivity

Many companies face case-sealing challenges. A whole host of consumer, business, and light industrial products - everything from clothing to building supplies - simply do not conform to the typical 20- to 25-inch application range of a standard case sealing machine. Learn how to decrease associated labor costs as well as increase productivity, despite these roadblocks.

August 16, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Optimize people, material and information flow with Rexroth lean

This video illustrates the wrong and right ways to organize work, and discusses how to optimize the three main types of flow in a lean operation.

August 16, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Dual-label printer/applicator

The new Model 5100 Dual-Label pallet printer-applicator from Weber combines a high-performance label print engine with a specially engineered articulating applicator to perform the printing and adjacent-side labeling of pallets in-line.

August 9, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Improved outserter

Improvements have been made to the MGS TopSerter™, which automatically feeds pharmaceutical outserts, applies hot melt adhesive, and places them onto the tops of bottles.

August 9, 2007