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Secondary Packaging

Gen3 performance moves downstream

Generation3 performance is no longer the sole domain of high end packaging machinery.

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Conveying & accumulation

Arrowhead Systems, Inc. promotes Sena

Chuck Sena has been promoted to sales development specialist for Arrowhead Systems (Oshkosh, WI).

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Controls & Machine Components

The best thing...since packaged bread

If you look at recent developments in packaging machinery automation, a lot has changed for the better. And it’s primarily been thanks to software advances.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Latvian sauces get new tops

Spilva, Riga, Latvia, has increased sales of its popular sauces and salad dressings since it switched to distinctive bright red 38-mm medium-twist-button steel closures from Closures Europe, a Paris subsidiary of Crown Holdings, parent of Crown Cork & Seal (Philadelphia, PA).

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

SATO partners with CCL Label

SATO America (Charlotte, NC) partnered with CCL Label (Rosemont, IL) whereby CCL with manufacture all RFID tags and labels for SATO America, as well as resell SATO RFID-enabled printers.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

All About Packaging adds thermoformers

All About Packaging (Appleton, WI) added 2 thermoformers and 2 slide blister flanging machines to its other package manufacturing machinery. Company can provide short lead times, and take a project from concept to finished package.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Automated Packaging to help homeland security effort

Automated Packaging was chosen by the CDC to provide packaging technologies vital to the rapid deployment initiatives of the CDC's homeland security effort.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

AMBEC appoints new president

AMBEC’s (Owings Mills, MD) board of directors announced the appointment of Jeff O’Donnell, Jr. as president.

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Controls & Machine Components

Best practices: implementing the PackML™ state model in Sequential Function Chart

While developing guidelines for interoperability, OMAC members recognized the fundamental benefit of a common state model and naming conventions for machine states.

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Secondary Packaging

Automatic case openers and sealers

SWF Companies (Reedley, CA) offers the OS Series fully automatic HSC/RSC case openers and sealers that are easily integrated with a wide variety of case loading systems to form fully automatic case packers.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

KUKA Robotics Corporation: PC-based motion controller

Kuka Robotics Corp. (Sterling Heights, MI) offers the Kuka Motion Controller, a standalone version of its PC-based robot controller that can control the logic of packaging lines, and the coordinated motion of any machine with up to 8 servomotors.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Temperature controller

Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) now offers a new PID temperature controller. The IB IL Tempcon module is suitable for packaging machinery temperature control when thermal cutoff is required in forming applications. The module is designed as either a stand-alone unit or integrated into a device-level network (CanOpen, DeviceNet, Interbus, or Profibus) or Ethernet.

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