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Secondary Packaging
New case packing technology offers extreme flexibility
A+F Automation’s Case Packers, featuring their new TwinLine robotic pick & place technology, offer high speed case packing of multiple products and pack patterns through design innovations that include materials and PacDrive automation from ELAU.
July 31, 2004
Machinery: Page 810
Conveying & accumulation
Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor
A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x81¼2’ container is quenching the thirst of troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Started up in fall 2003, the 25 bpm self-contained line provides 1.5-L bottled water on-demand for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) troops and support personnel, according to AAFES Food and Theatre program manager Tom Wilson.
July 31, 2004
Conveying & accumulation
Sites
New or enhanced Web sites
July 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Companies
Rockwell Automation opened a new radio-frequency identification (RFID) test lab at its global headquarters in Milwaukee. The lab is designed to help manufacturers facing production and inventory mandates from retailers understand how they can make RFID part of their distribution operations.
July 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
House subcommittee passes allergen labeling
The House Subcommittee on Health mirrored action in the Senate by passing legislation requiring food labels to state in clear, plain language if the product contains one or more of the eight major food allergens.
July 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Voluntary COOL legislation
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Ranking Minority Member Charles Stenholm (D-TX) introduced legislation to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a voluntary country-of-origin labeling program.
July 31, 2004
Secondary Packaging
Case erector
The newly designed OK Superformer Case Erector from O/K Intl. meets tough flexibility requirements in the U.S. Erects as many as 16 cases/min and features automatic box squaring, low taper or box alarm, simple adjustment, and stainless-steel construction.
July 31, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
Danaher Motion: High-performance servo drives
Danaher Motion introduces Kollmorgen S300 Series servo drives with built-in power supply. Compact in size, these drives are suitable for restricted-space applications that require high-performance servo control.
July 31, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
Oriental Motor USA: Compact AC motor controller
Oriental Motor USA introduces the new ES01 (110/115 volts) and ES02 (200/230 volts) series of compact AC motor speed controllers. Offer smooth start and smooth, instantaneous stop operations over a range of speeds.
July 31, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
Wago Corporation: Software for PFCs, PCs
Wago has debuted its 759-333 WAGO-IO-PRO CAA software for Wago Programmable Fieldbus Controllers and 758 Series Industrial PCs. It offers visual elements, complete offline simulation, and editors for programming in 6 languages including ladder diagram and structured text.
July 31, 2004
Controls & Machine Components
Baldor Electric Company: Brushless servo motor line
Baldor Electric has expanded its BSM brushless servo motor line to include encoders. Baldor BSM servo motors typically use resolvers as the prime feedback device.
July 31, 2004
Cartoning
Italian OEMs come on strong
Aggressive PACK EXPO 2004 presence shows why imports of packaging machinery from Italy to the U.S. were up 11.6% in 2003.
July 31, 2004
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Drug companies test RFID on pharma bottles
A group of pharmaceutical manufacturers has revealed that it began shipping bottles of prescription medications with radio-frequency identification tags July 12.
July 31, 2004
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