Cartoning

Schering-Plough: Cartoning and checkweighing of blister packs

Individual blister packs are mechanically fed into a flighted conveyor that brings them a short distance downstream to where they are inserted into folding cartons via a Marchesini cartoner. Thermal ink-jet coding, powered by Hewlett-Packard and supplied by Nutec, code inspection, also part of the Nutec system, and checkweighing (from Optima) all follow.

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Conveying & accumulation

Schering-Plough: Banding of finished blister packs

A lengthy conveyor section brings individual cartons to upstacking and banding, from Pester.

May 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Schering-Plough: Case packing, case labeling, and robotic palletizing of blister packs

Case packing, case labeling, and robotic palletizing, all on Pester equipment, brings the blister packaging line to an end.

May 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tags becoming easier to read

On the other hand, return on investment for packagers will remain invisible for near term. Now Wal-Mart softens stance on deadlines.

May 31, 2004

Cartoning

Ultrasonic banding system helps save pharmaceutical company cash

When its shrinkwrapper proved too troublesome, pharmaceutical product manufacturer Guardian Drug Company purchased two new custom ATS CornerLine Automatic Banding machines from Wexler Packaging Products.

May 31, 2004

Controls & machine components

Free machine vision seminars

Cognex will host a free machine vision seminar in 100 cities in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico this fall.

May 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

SABMiller puts PackML to work

PackML standards are alive and well in a new line at SABMiller. So said Willie Lotz of SABMiller at the May 19 working session held by the World Batch Forum and the OMAC Packaging Workgroup.

May 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Training in mechatronics--you can make it happen

Drop what you’re doing and write a letter now if you have any interest in seeing training and education in mechatronics strengthened.

May 31, 2004

Cartoning

CVC Technologies, Inc. offers world-wide distribution of labelers and labeling equipment

A new, larger headquarter’s facility with expanded distribution to better serve customers around the world.

May 31, 2004

Flexibles

Blue crab in 'Cadillac' package

A zipper reclosable pouch is now making its debut for pasteurized blue crabmeat in a 16-oz pouch sold under refrigeration.

May 31, 2004

Filling/capping, dry

Filling and sealing machine for preforms

Pack Line introduces its PXG fully automatic inline filling, sealing, and capping machines. PXG can run 25 to 100 containers/min.

May 31, 2004

Tamper-evident machinery

How to sharpen packaging's defense against tampering and counterfeiting

Packagers have honed the protection packages offer against tampering and counterfeiting in three decades since the Tylenol crisis.

May 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Advantech Automation Corp.: PC-based controller

Advantech Corp., Industrial Automation Group, introduces its ADAM-5510/KW PC-based controller for automation engineers who prefer to program in languages other than C/C++.

May 31, 2004