Machinery: Page 711

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The looming impact of integration, WiFi, RFID

Technological advances have already driven dramatic improvements in manufacturing. But according to Sudipta Bhattacharya, a senior vice president at SAP Labs LLC, based in Irving, Texas, the best is still to come. What’s more, it’s just over the next horizon.

September 19, 2006

Labeling

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: New PacDrive™ Aseptic SCL servo module in stainless steel

New variant of the popular beverage capping and labeling servo module for use in sterile environments, provides resistance to cleaning agents and IP 67 rating.

September 15, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

The future of packaging automation

On a recent visit to Chicago, Packaging Automation interviewed Dr. Thomas Cord, CEO of packaging machinery automation provider ELAU and previously the company's R&D manager. In a word, the future of packaging is: software.

September 11, 2006

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Contract packager fills PEN bottles with personal care products for Wal-Mart

At contract packager Lake Consumer Products, polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) bottles from Graham Packaging are conveyed single-file in pucks from left to right through a two-station volumetric filling process for feminine personal care products on Lake's line that relies almost exclusively on Terco equipment.

September 11, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Apotex: Tablet and capsule filling for pharmaceutical bottles

Side-by-side Cremer CF-1220 tablet/capsule fillers gently vibrate solid-dose pills or tablets along multiple channels of horizontally positioned vibratory trays.

September 11, 2006

Tamper-evident machinery

Apotex: Induction sealing pharmaceutical bottles

An Auto-Mate Technologies LLC induction sealer seals the closure's inner liner to the mouth of the bottle.

September 11, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Apotex: In-line bottle capping for pharmaceutical bottles

After filling, bottles are conveyed around a bend in the Apotex line to a four-station NJM/CLI Unicap-150 in-line capper.

September 11, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Apotex: Accumulation for pharma bottles table buys time

Once solid-dose pharmaceutical bottles are induction-sealed, they go through a wall opening at the Apotex facility to an accumulation table from Garvey.

September 11, 2006

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Apotex: Pressure-sensitive labeling of pharmaceutical bottles

Bottles are conveyed single-file to this pressure-sensitive labeler from NJM/CLI.

September 11, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Apotex: Shrink bundling pharmaceutical bottles into packs

This Pester Pac Automation SHW05 shrink bundler indexes labeled bottles into pack patterns that vary by product.

September 11, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Apotex: Semi-automatic case packing of pharmaceutical bottles

Film-bundled packs of pharmaceutical bottles are discharged from a shrink tunnel onto a roller conveyor where an Apotex operator picks them up and places them into a corrugated shipping case.

September 11, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Opet Oval

New Olympian Oval bottles from Plastic Bottle are produced in sturdy OPET. Currently available in 6- and 8-oz capacities with 24-410 or 24-415 finishes.

August 31, 2006