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Controls & Machine Components

Barco: Packaging system software

Barco (Vandalia, OH) has created a series of software programs that can create a structural design from standards using a familiar Web browser, search databases, download graphics and CAD data from Web servers.

July 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Roberts PolyPro: POP display strips

Six to 12 pieces of merchandise can be hung from POP Strips from Roberts PolyPro (Charlotte, NC). These PE point-of-purchase strips are available in a variety of widths, lengths and colors.

July 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Automated Packaging Systems: Bags dissipate static

Automated Packaging Systems (Streetsboro, OH), has introduced its line of static dissipative, PE Autobags®. They’re designed for environments requiring packaging materials that don’t charge when separated and don’t contribute to charging the objects that come into contact with them.

July 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Elf Machinery: Start/stop pump filler

ELF’s (LaPorte, IN) variable-speed start/stop pump filler uses 4 to 20 filling heads to fill up to 120 containers/ min with low- or high-viscosity liquids.

July 31, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

FleetwoodGoldcoWyard, A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: Zero-pressure combiner

The ZPC combiner from Fleetwood (Romeoville, IL) aligns bottles in a single file and uses 4 photo eyes—1 to monitor infeed, 1 to monitor discharge and 2 to monitor gaps between bottles—to ensure a constant feed rate.

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Controls & Machine Components

E-commerce brochure

Rapistan (Grand Rapids, MI) offers a brochure that describes order fulfillment and distribution system capabilities for e-commerce, catalog and customer-direct operations.

July 31, 2000

Case erect/seal

PEF Hall of Fame inductees

Announced in mid-August, three career professionals will be inducted into the PEF Hall of Fame on November 11: Robert S. Forsyth; William C. Heller, Jr; and John M. Johnston.

July 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Premarket review for biotech foods

FDA proposes that bioengineered foods and animal feeds marketers notify the agency four months before going to market.

July 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Sensor trends in packaging

The hottest market for sensors? Packaging. Biggest challenge in using sensors for packaging? Improper application. So says a specialist with Omron in an exclusive interview with Packworld.com.

July 31, 2000

Converting equipment

Pasteurizable PET bottles

KoSa has developed a PET copolymer packaging resin that may make it possible to bottle and pasteurize beer in plastic.

July 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Warning labels for cigars

Cigars will now join other tobacco products in bearing a label warning of their health risks on packaging and in advertising.

July 31, 2000

Labels

Heinz' EZ Squirt has more than cool curves

Come October, innovative packaging will help the H.J. Heinz Co. launch Heinz EZ Squirt, the first ketchup designed especially for kids. The Pittsburgh-based ketchup king designed the package with cool curves and pliable sidewalls that are easily squeezed.

July 31, 2000