Machinery: Page 848

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Liquid packaging breakthrough

First specialized filling, capping and labeling servo motor/drive enables unprecedented design flexibility for liquid packaging.

June 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Bulk bag automation gives Snyder relief

An automated cornmeal unloading system handles 2ꯠ-lb totes at snack maker Snyder of Berlin. That saves on labor costs associated with previous manual dumping of 100-lb bags of cornmeal.

June 30, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Compliance packages of the year

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council announced the 2002 winners of its Compliance Package of the Year Award: Lamictal by GlaxoSmithKline; Fosamax by Merck & Co.; and Nexium by AstraZeneca.

June 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Simco: Product catalog

Simco Industrial Static Control releases its 2003 full-color catalog, featuring a complete line of static control, web, and sheet cleaning and electrostatic charging products.

June 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Compumotor: Motion control guide

An expanded line of PC-based control products from recently acquired Acroloop is featured in Compumotor’s new 32-page product selection guide. Includes 5 versions of the ACR card; each based on a 32-bit floating-point DSP performing in advanced multi-axis trajectory generation.

June 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Danaher Motion: Danaher Motion: Motor feedback encoders

As a replacement for resolvers, Flex-Mount encoders from Danaher Controls are said to provide an easier, more affordable way to improve machine performance and productivity in stepper and servo motor applications.

June 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Delta Tau Data Systems, Inc: Brushless motor drives

Delta Tau Data Systems introduces the Geo Drive family of brushless motor drive amplifiers. The 1- or 2-axis 3-phase servo-drive amplifiers support a wide range of motor types, power ranges, and user interfaces.

June 30, 2003

Converting equipment

Formost Fuji Corporation: Formost Fuji Corporation: Gen3 guide

“Paving the Way for Generation 3 Packaging Machinery” is a free guide to Gen3 packaging and converting machines, which are built from the ground up with the servo technology and other advanced controls technology formost in mind.

June 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Associated Packaging Technologies: Tray brochure

Associated Packaging Technologies offers a brochure describing its custom or stock tray options. Full-color brochure includes information regarding the company’s ready-meal trays, institutional trays, bakery trays, fully prepared meat trays, frozen food trays, and case-ready meat trays.

June 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Web Plus: Sites

Airspray N.V.

June 30, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

Companies

Sidel (above) has opened a new plant in Parma, Italy, dedicated to assembling filling machines.

June 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Less than all

The Center for Science in the Public Interest charged that Smuckers’ line of Simply 100% Fruit is mislabeled because the amount of the fruit is less than 100%.

June 30, 2003