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.

March 31, 2003

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Controls & Machine Components

Unlocking plant-floor packaging data at Unilever

Accurate, timely information on which to make business decisions is already on the packaging floor, according to Unilever’s Andrew McDonald (left), global automation and control manager.

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Q&A: Club store trends

Mike Bilder, president of contract packager Peacock Engineering in Itasca, IL, talks about the interplay among major food manufacturers, club stores, and contract packagers.

March 31, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Companies

Sonic Air Systems (Brea, CA) moved its headquarters to 1050 Beacon St., Brea, CA, 92821, phone: 800/827-6642, fax: 714/255-8366.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New antibiotics labeling

The Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule requiring labels of antibiotics and their synthetic counterparts intended for human use to bear statements about using these products in a way that reduces the development of drug-resistant strains.

March 31, 2003

Labels

Sensing success

Specialized label sensor permits fast setup on new labeler designed for contract packagers.See video

March 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

Co-packing suits these packagers

Representatives from Stonyfield Farms, DreamPak, and SipTop describe why their firms pack for other companies, and how they price those services.

March 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

Secondary packaging is primary for ARI

Side-seal horizontal wrappers and PVC film help contract packager ARI thrive by meeting the secondary packaging needs of its customers, which include many of the nation’s largest consumer products companies.See in-plant video

March 31, 2003

Flexible packaging

SouthPack serves up three pavilions

Running April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center, SouthPack will feature three pavilions. In the Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Packaging Pavilion, visitors will be able to source specialty equipment, medical-grade materials and supplies, kits, blister packs, and TE containers.

March 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

PACex goes International

Packaging, food processing, and logistics/materials handling technologies will all converge at Toronto’s International Centre during PACex International May 6-8.

March 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

FDA to update drug GMPs

Requirements may be eased to help stimulate industry packaging innovation and research.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Unlocking plant-floor packaging data at Unilever

Accurate, timely information on which to make business decisions is already on the packaging floor, according to Unilever's Andrew McDonald, global automation and control manager.

March 31, 2003