Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: AC motors

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has released a brochure on the Reliance Electric washdown duty AC motors for severe wet and corrosive environments.

June 30, 2000

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Controls & Machine Components

Balluff: Packaging sensors

Balluff (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) has released a brochure highlighting various sensors in the company’s PackPRO packaging sensors program. The program was designed for full automation and includes optoelectrics for presence, color mark and luminescence detection; Micropulse® noncontact magnetostrictive linear position transducers; noncontact Power remote systems; limit switches and many more.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Yield/cost calculations

Witt Plastics (Greenville, OH) has taken the yield/cost calculator function from its Web site and placed it on a CD-ROM titled “The Witt Yield Advantage.” The tool allows users of plastic sheet and rollstock to calculate cost, yield, size and weight of the product.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Sonics & Materials: Hand-held welding sealer

Compact and rugged, Model H-520 from Sonics & Materials (Newtown, CT) is a 500W, 20kHz hand-held welder designed for spot welding and reaching difficult areas.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Better Packages: Reinforced tape dispenser

Model 555e is patented in form and function, says maker Better Packages (Shelton, CT), for dispensing reinforced gummed tape. Microprocessor-based control system monitors tape use, productivity and maintenance.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Hot-melt tank

New Valet hot-melt tank from Valco Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) is a full-featured tank for light-duty applications. Has 8-lb capacity and 8-lb/hr melt rate with motor-driven gear pump and Teflon®-coated reservoir.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

George Gordon Assoc., Inc: Pen dispenser

George Gordon’s (Merrimack, NH) HSPE-338 dispenser groups pens and other cylindrical products—with or without clips or uniform cap orientation—and advances them downstream.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Motors using new grease

Now all industrial electric motors from Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) will use Exxon Polyrex® EM polyurea grease. According to Baldor, the new grease is an improvement over other polyurea greases because it displays more durability against mechanical shearing forces; better resists washout, rust and corrosion; and extends bearings’ lubrication life by more than 4 times.

June 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Filler Specialties Inc: Filling valves

Extended Shelf-Life (ESL) valves from Filler Specialties (Zeeland, MI) are for bottlers looking for accurate fills and easier cleaning. These valves have tri-clamp connections in place of slip joints, which means cleaning can be done in place.

June 30, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Palletizer demo/test room opened

In a new 5ꯠ-sq' room, packagers can see first-hand how their boxed product will stack up on a palletizer before buying it. Or view it on videotape.

June 30, 2000

Cartoning

Zambelli Packaging Machinery opens U.S. operations

Zambelli Packaging Machinery, headquartered in Bologna, Italy, has established operations in the U. S., in Petersburg, FL.

June 30, 2000

Cartoning

Suiza dairy 'milks' squishy bottle

Country Fresh, a Suiza Foods dairy, debuts single-serve Milk-It! in injection blow-molded bottles designed for children. The bottles will also be used for other milks, and possibly for juice and water.

June 30, 2000

Secondary Packaging

E-commerce seminar analysis

Packagers, material suppliers and other firms addressed ‘Packaging for e-commerce direct-to-consumers’ at a June conference. Here’s an analysis from one of the conference's panel moderators.

June 30, 2000