Filling/capping, dry

Horizontal bagger

WeighPack offers its SB-36 horizontal bagger, a new intermittent-motion bag-filling and closing machine suitable for both liquids and powders.

October 10, 2006

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Cartoning

High-speed horizontal wrapper

Campbell Wrapper Corp. will display its high-speed Revolution Electronic Horizontal Wrapper.

October 10, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Load containment system

3M will display its Stretchable Tape Load Containment System, a two-part system that helps prevent loads from tipping, vibrating, and shifting.

October 10, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Analyzing OEM trends

European builders of packaging machinery are often more successful than their counterparts in North America when it comes to pushing through with the controls architecture they prefer instead of allowing their end-user customers to specify which controls components will go on a piece of packaging equipment.

October 10, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Wal-Mart launches plan to reduce packaging

Retailer will use a scorecard for suppliers to make purchasing decisions for packaging. New initiative aims to reduce packaging by 5% and save $3.4 billion.

October 10, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Fallas Automation's Adabot™ lets packagers 'add a robot'

Built for speed and agility, new R700 Adabot™ robotic case packer tracks and picks products on the fly. But that's not all. Plug and play robot cells can be readily added for increased productivity.

October 10, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pack Expo International turns 50

The year's largest resource for all things packaging comes to Chicago with two new technology pavilions for attendees to visit. Also debuting: Pack Expo Selects.

October 8, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Smart tag and label

Schober USA introduces its STP (Smart Tag and Ticket Processor), incorporating the company's 2nd Generation RFID technology with the ability to read HF, UHF, and EPC GEN 2 tags.

October 7, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Capsule filler

MG America offers over-encapsulation capabilities—putting a tablet and a powdered drug inside a capsule—with its Planeta continuous-motion capsule filler.

October 7, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Bulk auger filler

The new 4500 Series Digitronic® Net Weigh Auger Filler from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery features a high-torque servo motor drive that increases the speed and efficiency of filling operations for processors who fill bulk product into containers as large as 50 lb.

October 7, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Aseptic bag filling

Alphacos has introduced the Type 529 Semi-Automatic IV Bag Filling and Closing Machine for aseptic packaging of infusions, parenteral drugs, and other pharmaceutical and biotech fluids.

October 7, 2006

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

Ultrasonic bag sealer

Taylor Products has released the TRU Seal ultrasonic valve bag sealer, designed to work with Taylor valve bagging equipment.

October 7, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bag labeler

Suitable for coffee, pasta, and more, the Top of Bag Labeler from EPI is designed to apply labels to hold down the top of bags and/or to be used as a reclosable feature.

October 7, 2006