Controls & Machine Components

Defining skill standards for packaging technicians

Packaging machine users and builders need technical people with a mix of both mechanical and software skills. Trouble is, no one to date has defined what that skill set should be.

November 30, 2003

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Filling/capping, dry

Flow control technology facilitates faster filling

Mettler-Toledo offers a new flow control technology that it claims can increase both filling speed and accuracy for filling machinery manufacturers.

November 30, 2003

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Pleasant surprises from new liquid packaging servo

In initial applications of the first purpose-built liquid packaging servo motor/drive, packaging machine builder are discovering surprising new benefits.

November 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Additional articles from Packaging World

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November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Continued from Packaging World, December 2003, p. 76

The data from Alberto Culver’s ProcessPoint PDM Editor leverages an industry-standard means of encryption called SSL (Secure Socket Layer). Data is available to all Alberto Culver manufacturing sites in the United States, in Puerto Rico, Australia, South Africa, Sweden, Argentina, Chile, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, and Poland.

November 30, 2003

Labels

Golden Mummy winners

Kraft Macaroni and CheeseKraft Food and Cello FoilKraft Foods recently changed the packaging format for its 12 and 15-pack bundles by replacing a shrink film, to improve appearance and eliminate loading problems due to skewed bundles, with ExxonMobil Chemical’s Bicor® AB-X film.

November 30, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Morrison enhances name, logo

Morrison Timing Screw is now Morrison Container Handling Solutions, thanks to a name changed effective Nov. 1.

November 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Print-and-apply labeling

Paragon Labeling Systems introduces the PLS-400pac labeling system that has all the benefits of the company's first generation print-and-apply labeling system, plus more logic control and systems integration within an open architecture environment.

November 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Pharmaceutical wrap-labeling system

The High Speed Pharmaceutical Grade Labeling System from Quadrel Labeling Systems is designed specifically for the exacting needs of pharmaceutical companies.

November 30, 2003

Flexible packaging

Pouch maker for customized applications

Polyair offers its Kangaroo automatic pouch maker designed for organizations such as pharmaceutical and electronics companies, small parts distributors, and custom converters that require just-in-time packaging solutions involving small volumes of customized or odd-sized shipping pouches.

November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

High-speed robotic case packer

Delta-style robotic solution is suitable for high-speed packaging of frozen food products or flow-wrapped or shrink-wrapped products.

November 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Machine generations explained

Bosch Rexroth Electric Drives and Controls Div. has come out with a new packaging-specific brochure that includes a graphical depiction of the three generations of servo-driven packaging machinery.

November 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Oriental Motor USA: Economical AC gearmotors

Oriental Motor USA offers its economically priced preassembled BHF Series AC speed-control gearmotors intended for packaging applications such as conveyors.

November 30, 2003