Cartoning

Filler meets tough standards at Stonyfield

Stonyfield Farm is so confident about the potential sales of its Yo Squeeze organic yogurt for kids that it’s purchased a second vf/f/s machine. Each machine produces 200 tubes/min, with an unusual ‘butt seal.’

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Converting equipment

Aseptic advancements make it tea time in Asia

Kirin of Japan and Uni-President of Taiwan are taking advantage of pioneering new developments in aseptic packaging technology to sell their teas.

October 31, 2000

Closures

Dueling technologies spell success (sidebar)

ASIS, CC lines illustrated

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Conveying & accumulation

Dueling technologies spell success

At Japan’s Daiwa Can, one aseptic PET line uses in-line mold/blow/fill. Right beside it, another line blows bottles and sterilizes them in a second operation just before filling.

October 31, 2000

Cartoning

Suiza dairy touts 'squishy' bottle

A soft LDPE bottle and ‘sipper protrusion’ make it easy for kids to hold and drink single-serve milks. Suiza’s Country Fresh dairy introduces two distinct brands of milk in the containers.

October 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Coors rolls out the barrel can

Pub barrel cans of Coors Killian’s Red are wrapped in heat-shrink OPP at a rate of 250 cans/min by a cut-and-glue labeling system located downstream from the can shaper.

October 31, 2000

Tamper-evident machinery

Quintuplets! (sidebar)

Simple but elegant materials

October 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Quintuplets!

New automated labeling system delivers five labels onto each glass bottle of Labrot & Graham’s premium bourbon whiskey, boosting output, reducing labor costs and improving placement accuracy.

October 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Radius applies labeler to Fisher-Price application

Unusual new labeler at Radius Corp. closes a plastic case around a Fisher-Price toothbrush, then applies a TE label that wraps around three sides of the case.

October 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Energy-saving software

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) offers a free-of-charge, updated version of its “Save” software, a method of calculating energy savings relating to electric motor usage.

September 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Data mining

GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA) has joined with Microsoft Corp. to combine its Cimplicity® family of software products with the Microsoft® SQL Server™, creating Cimplicity SQL.

September 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Magnetic Technologies Ltd.: Magnetic brake

Magnetic Technologies’ (Oxford, MA) Model 513-001 magnetic brake is constructed of stainless steel for fine tensioning applications. Available in 1” dia and torque ranges of 0.15 in-oz to 2 in-oz.

September 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Bimba Mfg. Co.: Pneumatic control system

Bimba Mfg.’s (Monee, IL) Pneumatic Control System (PCS) is designed to control any of its pneumatic position feedback actuators. Closed-loop system, featuring pneumatic valves, is said to position the actuator rod or shaft accurately and hold it in position with various degrees of accuracy and force.

September 30, 2000