Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Valve bag system

Taylor Products (Parsons, KS) offers a brochure detailing information on its safe, clean valve bag placing, packing, and weighing equipment.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Maintenance software

Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) introduces WinPRM AddOn software for System 200 PLC controllers. Software simplifies preventive maintenance management and ensures machine uptime by monitoring the operation of machine components when maintenance events become due, company says. WinPRM monitors component operation in two ways.

November 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Machine Builder Survey

Are you aware of equipment condition monitoring systems (ECM) that can help monitor the state of your equipment to detect potential problems before they occur?

November 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Danaher Motion: I/O modules

Danaher Motion’s new SQIO SynqNet I/O Modules facilitate seamless integration of custom I/O

November 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Compumotor: Servo drive/controllers

Specifically engineered for packaging applications, Compax3 are third-generation servo drives/controllers from Parker Hannifin’s Compumotor Division (Rohnert Park, CA).

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Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: AC drive/embedded controller

Rockwell Automation’s (Milwaukee, WI) Allen-Bradley PowerFlex™ 700S AC drive is said to provide an industry-first embedded standard controller option.

November 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Extended-text labels brochure

New information package from Ampersand Label (Garden Grove, CA) describes the firm’s expertise in extended-text labeling. EasyTab™, FlexView™, Multi-Fold, and Twin-View™ labels are all covered, including colorful photos that illustrate each.

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Controls & Machine Components

Nexpak: DVD packaging

Nexpak (North Canton, OH) launched its Colors Program for its DVD, CD, and video media packaging solutions. Program offers the option of adding specialty colors using any PMS color or matched sample to strengthen branding and promotion of releases and other media content for specified quantities.

November 30, 2002

Flexibles

Barrier coatings for bottles

Two new barrier coating technologies for PET bottles will be featured at Nova-Pack Americas Feb. 3 - 4 in Orlando, FL.

November 30, 2002

Converting equipment

CORONA TREATER BENEFITS COLLEGE

To ensure that Fox Valley Technical College students have the newest surface treating technology, Enercon Industries (Menomonee Falls, WI) supplied them with a Universal corona treater and Compak™ 2000 power supply for a new Avanti printing press from PCMC (Green Bay, WI) that is being installed at the Appleton, WI, college.

November 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Rohm and Haas (Philadelphia, PA) is relocating its pilot coating and lamination equipment to a new facility at its Ringwood, IL mfg. facility.

November 30, 2002

Coding, Printing & Labeling

People

Max Garcia has been hired as a field service technician based in Mexico City, Mexico, for Multivac (Kansas City, MO). Bob Koch has been named director of sales, food div.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Officially organic

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rules for labeling of organic products went into effect October 21, 2002. The rules apply to both domestically grown and imported food.

November 30, 2002