Secondary Packaging

Robotic pick-and-place case loader

The R-400 robotic pick-and-place case packer from Fallas can accommodate a variety of lay-flat and vertical pack configurations.

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Controls & Machine Components

Fieldbus connectors for harsh environments

Variosub fieldbus plug connectors for applications in harsh environments are now available from Phoenix Contact. The Variosub family includes connectors for Interbus, Profibus, and CANopen systems.

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Cartoning

Packaging in the U.K. and beyond (Part 6)

Plug-and-Pack™ update (Part 6 of a 6-part series)

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Packaging in the U.K. and beyond (Part 5)

Coors' new £35 million brewery (Part 5 of a 6-part series)

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Cartoning

Packaging in the U.K. and beyond (Part 3)

New developments from U.K. machine builders (Part 3 of a 6-part series)

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Contract packaging

Packaging in the U.K. and beyond (Part 2)

21st-century packaging machinery trends (Part 2 of a 6-part series)

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Secondary Packaging

Lion Precision: Dual sensor

Lion Precision has released a new dual sensor for overwrap applications. The LRD7100 simultaneously detects presence/absence of tear tape and splices in overwrap film.

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Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Washdown product brochure

Baldor Electric Co. offers a new 40-page brochure on its line of washdown duty products. Brochure offers an exploded view of a 3-phase washdown duty motor with call-out text describing each feature.

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Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Beckhoff Automation: Integrated valve manifold

The Festo CPV IP65 valve manifold is now available as an extension module on Beckhoff USA’s popular IP67 fieldbus box I/O system. Connection with a noise-immune fiber-optic cable allows the CPV Manifold to be mixed with the wide range of the company’s network couplers and I/O.

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Controls & Machine Components

Danaher Motion: Danaher Motion: Microstepping drives

The Pacific Scientific Div. of Danaher Motion introduces the 6200 series of high-performance microstepping drives. Available in two versions, the 6210 step-and-direction interface is ideally suited for most common board level or PLC-based controllers. The 6215 start and stop inputs are a low-maintenance alternative to conventional clutch/brake solutions.

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Controls & machine components

Machine vision system donated to MSU

Michigan State University’s School of Packaging has received an In-Sight® 1000 vision sensor donated by Cognex for use in the school’s packaging curriculum.

September 30, 2003

Converting equipment

Seeks FDA clearance for UV/EB substances

The ability to use ultraviolet- and electron-beam-cured packaging surfaces in direct contact with food products is now being sought by RadTech, the organization of companies that produce those materials.

September 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Warnings dropped for olestra

The Food and Drug Administration announced that, effective immediately, packages of products containing olestra, a fat substitute developed by Procter & Gamble, need no longer bear a required label statement indicating that olestra may cause some gastrointestinal difficulties, that it inhibits the body’s absorption of vitamins A, D, E, K, and other nutrients, and that these vitamins have been added to compensate for olestra’s effects on these nutrients.

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