Controls & Machine Components

Eastman Chemical Company: Colored PET

AmberGuard polymer, developed by Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, TN), is a specially formulated PET designed for the beer packaging market. It’s “pre-colored” to keep ultraviolet and damaging visible light from harming the beer.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Accraply, Inc A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: Rotary-base labeler

The Accraply (Plymouth, MN) Model 900R rotary-base p-s labeler applies front and back, multi-panel or wraparound labels at high speeds. Features Accraply’s 90 Series servo motor-driven applicators, cam or servo motor container manipulation and off-the-shelf drive components.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Emplex Systems Inc: Heat sealer

Emplex (Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) has upgraded its 6300/6700 series heat-sealing equipment to include a digital control panel and temperature controller, automatic shut-off when the control panel is opened, etched Teflon bands that don’t flake, and gas-spring height adjustability for the sealing head.

August 31, 2000

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

Hooper Engineering: Hf/f/s system with Internet link

Hooper’s (Sarasota, FL) N2500 hf/f/s machine has a server embedded in its PLC, which enables monitoring of production data and service statistics from anywhere in the world via the Internet.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: New software for controls

Baldor’s (Fort Smith, AR) 18H Vector Control and 23H Servo Control now feature H Series software that allows presetting of up to 8 incremental position moves and 6 absolute moves with a return to home.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Upper Limits Engineering Co.: Bag filler/sealer

Operating on flat bags or stand-up, zipper pouches, the M6000 bagger from Upper Limits (Livermore, CA) uses vacuum cups and grippers to open premade bags and guide them through filling and sealing.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Aline Heat Seal Corporation: Heat sealer

Aline’s (Santa Fe Springs, CA) HD-12 is available as a single- or dual-element heat sealer. The machine is foot-pedal operated and able to seal 6 to 12 packages/min when used continuously.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Automation Intelligence: Motion control software

AML®, the first software-only motion controller, is available for use with Sanyo Denki’s miniature, factory-hardened SMS-10 Stand-alone Controller with an embedded VxWorks operating system.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Diagraph, An ITW Company: Label applicator

Diagraph (St. Louis, MO) will introduce its LA/1000 STS Tamp Label Applicator System designed to apply labels at speeds to 225 products/min on a wide range of substrates.

August 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Cap unscrambler

Operating at speeds to 1ꯠ caps/min, Eckel & Sohn’s (Gau-Oderheim, Germany) Model C-2000 cap unscrambler is suitable for both regular 28-mm beverage caps and sports caps.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Programmable printing

$vF$?LMarking Systems’ (Downers Grove, IL) thermal-transfer printers are suitable for printing variable information on demand. The J27i2’s compact print unit and separate controller allow mounting on labeling and packaging machinery where space is limited.

August 31, 2000

Filling/capping, dry

Collet system on overcapper

Quick Disconnect Collet System on overcapper from Haumiller (Elgin, IL) is designed to reduce parts changeover time by 90%. No tools needed. Said to be user-friendly, system allows customers to change different size and shape cap tooling easily and quickly.

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

ITW Dynatec: Precision adhesive placement

Designed by ITW Dynatec™ (Hendersonville, TN), the Dynamelt® Adhesive Supply Unit’s precision gear pump can be coupled with a variable-speed AC motor to allow the adhesive gear pump to track conveyor line speed.

August 31, 2000