Machinery: Page 841

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

The $100,000 question

How would you spend $100ꯠ in your plant? We asked that question in a survey and received a diverse range of responses.

September 30, 2003

Contract Packaging

EAS and partners show container dexterity (sidebar)

How EAS cuts time

September 30, 2003

Labels

Tempers hot over COOL

The United States’ House and Senate are at odds over whether to cancel country-of-origin labeling for red meat. Meanwhile, big packaging changes are in store for produce marketers.

September 30, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

PEF elects 'Class of 2003' Packaging Hall of Famers

Members of the Packaging Education Forum (PEF) elected Arnie Orloski Jr. (shown), William E. Archibald, William R. Armstrong, and Richard G. Lee into the Packaging Hall of Fame, Class of 2003.

September 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

lpha gear drives, Inc: Servo couplings

A full line of torque-limiting, bellows, and economyclass servo couplings are offered by alpha gear drives. The backlash-free couplings provide accuracy, torsional rigidity, and a low moment of inertia.

August 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Pneumatics brochure

A new 16-page color brochure from the pneumatics business unit of Bosch Rexroth Corp. covers a broad range of pneumatic products and includes contact information.

August 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

New 6-axis articulated robots

New articulated AR6 and AR8 robots provide additional degrees of freedom in robotic positioning. AR6 with a 650-millimeter working radius and AR8 with an 850-millimeter range can transport up to 5 kilograms of payload at high speeds with a repetitive precision of ± 0.02 millimeters.

August 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Spiral elevator conveyor

AmbaFlex International, a manufacturer of spiral elevator conveyors, offers the Spiralveyor that provides continuous vertical conveyance for high throughput.

August 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

360 packaging from Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation

Looking for big results? At Smurfit-Stone, we’ve learned you have to see the entire packaging picture.

August 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Elau donates technology

Elau, Inc. has donated more than $16ꯠ of its automation systems to the Center for Automation and Motion Control.

August 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Servo-driven shrink wrapper

Arpac Group offers the servo-driven Model 75GI high-speed shrink wrapper that operates at speeds to 75 bundles/min. Machine is designed specifically for the printing and publishing industry, shrink wrapping random-size bundles, extremely short stacks, and lightweight products.

August 31, 2003

Flexibles

PW joins Flexible Packaging Conference 2004

The Institute of Packaging Professionals and the Society of Plastics Engineers have chosen Packaging World and Converting magazines to participate as Media Partners for the Flexible Packaging Conference 2004 to be held March 24-26, 2004, in Atlanta, GA, at the Marriott Marquis.

August 31, 2003