Converting equipment

The CP moves my cheese

A couple of months ago, I prepared a packaging trends report for the conference program that accompanied the Converting Machinery/Materials Intl. show.

July 31, 2001

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Controls & Machine Components

PSI: PSI: Vacuum pumps

Designed for high-flow applications that need only moderate vacuum, pneumatic vacuum pumps in the Low Pressure M Series from Piab (Rockland, MA) deliver up to 27” Hg of vacuum at 50-psi inlet pressure.

June 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: Ball bearings literature

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has published a new brochure highlighting its Dodge E-Z- Kleen ball bearings line for the food processing industry.

June 30, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Axxis Intl.: Filling & capping

At this contract packager of personal care products, empty bottles in pucks from Advantage Puck move into the 12-head liquid filler from Masterfil. After filling, a three-head capper torques down caps, and then the containers exit the filler and move toward depucking.

June 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Axxis Intl.: Depucking & labeling

At this contract packager of personal care products, once bottles are gripped from opposite sides by a transfer conveyor, pucks, supplied by Advantage Puck, ride down an incline conveyor while bottles are transported toward the labeler.

June 30, 2001

Secondary Packaging

Axxis Intl.: Tray packing and shrink wrapping

At this contract packager of personal care products, bottles are collated in the appropriate pattern so that a pick-and-place head on the Cermex pick-and-place packer can close on them and lift them into a waiting tray. A short distance later, shrink wrapping (from EDL Packaging Engineers) secures the bottles in their trays.

June 30, 2001

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Other NACD winners cont.

General industrial and automotive: gold to North Pak Palmer Container (Twinsburg, OH) and Ashland Chemical for an F-style can and spout for insulation adhesives; silver to Richards Packaging and Bardahl for a bottle and closure for a custom designed bottle for automotive chemicals; bronze to TricorBraun and Senoret Chemical for a bottle and dispensing closure for a pesticide.

June 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Breakthrough aseptic line at CNP (sidebar)

Robotic wizardry

June 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Breakthrough aseptic line at CNP

Two new aseptic lines are capable of filling either 500-mL or 1-L brick pack cartons. FIFO accumulation system and remote robotic palletizing also shine.

June 30, 2001

Secondary Packaging

Bottom taper coddles fruit

This automated case taper has special gear that helps protect delicate fruit during distribution. It runs at a steady 54 boxes/min and can be forklifted from place to place.

June 30, 2001

Protective/transport packaging

IKON polishes image with air cradles

Inflated cushions now cradle toner cartridges in shipping packs from two remanufacturing plants, reducing damage while enhancing satisfaction.

June 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

McKernan Packaging Clearing House: Product catalog

McKernan Packaging® (Reno, NV) has published a catalog describing packaging products and components available. For example, the detergent/soap packaging selection now features 43-mm, 20-oz HDPE containers.

June 30, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Carton labeler

Used for in-pack or on-pack promotional labels, Smyth Companies’ (Minneapolis, MN) Red Rock® high-speed carton labeler applies p-s labels at speeds to 100ꯠ labels/hr.

June 30, 2001