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Controls & Machine Components

End users speak out on workforce preparedness

An exclusive survey of packaging machinery end users suggests that there’s plenty of room for improvement where training and education efforts are concerned.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging Innovations for Food & Beverage: When Innovative Packaging Imitates Life

January 19-20, 2005Radisson Hotel Miami, FLwww.marcusevansbb.com/packaginginnovations

November 30, 2004

Flexible packaging

Rising machinery shipments show promise

Packaging machinery shipments in the United States reached $4.889 billion last year, an $82 million (or 1.7%) increase from 2002, according to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute’s 10th Annual Shipments and Outlook Study.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor tips to improve sterile packaging line efficiency

Want to reap the benefits of on-time production and eliminate preventable line problems? Here are tips to get the most out of your conveyors.

November 30, 2004

Flexibles

Trend toward sustainable packaging

Prepare for an ever-increasing amount of biodegradable products and packaging, including water and--very soon--milk in blow-molded bottles made of polylactide, or PLA, a polymer made from corn.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

RFID: The promise and the struggle

Hype about radio-frequency identification clashes with reality at Baltimore EPC Global conference.

November 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Cutler-Hammer: Cutler-Hammer: Molded case circuit breakers

AutomationDirect introduces a line of Cutler-Hammer’s Molded Case Circuit Breakers that offer UL489 listed performance for branch circuit overcurrent protection and disconnecting means.

October 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Pneumatic mini slides

The ZSC pneumatic slides from Bosch Rexroth are specially designed for vertical applications, using a ball rail system between twin piston rods. The company says the design allows for a lower profile and weighs less than conventional double-rod slide units.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Meridian cartoner

PACK EXPO : R.A. Jones offered its Meridian™ cartoner at Pack Expo International 2004. Cartoner is a flexible, cost effective mid-range packaging solution with a range of product handling and transfer capabilities, company says.

October 31, 2004

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

Continuous motion vf/fs machine

PACK EXPO ; Rovema offered the VPL-400, its latest generation of continuous motion vf/f/s machines at Pack Expo 2004. Linear motor drive technology works on the principle of the magnetic train.

October 31, 2004

Converting equipment

Supply chain for clear PP bottles

PACK EXPO : At K’2004 in Germany, Sidel showed its new crystal-clear clarified polypropylene (cPP) bottles made on Sidel’s injection stretch blow molding SBO Series 2+ equipment.

October 31, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Random case sealer

PACK EXPO : 3M showed the high-speed 3M-Matic fully automatic random case sealer 2000rf at Pack Expo International. The fast and efficient 3M-Matic case sealer 2000rf will seal a range of case sizes at speeds to 20 cases/min.

October 31, 2004