Conveying & accumulation

Campbell Wrapper Corporation: Horizontal flow wrapper

Campbell Wrapper Corporation’s full servo driven On-Edge Revolution Horizontal Flow Wrapper features a sanitary modular design with a cantilevered tube forming section that allows debris to fall away from internal drive components while providing an attractive wrap for a variety of products including cookies, crackers, frozen hash browns and frozen meat patties at speeds ranging from 50 - 150 packages/min.

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Flexible packaging

Parsons-Eagle Packaging Systems: Linear scale

The Parsons-Eagle Duplex E Series Linear Scale is a reliable, heavy-duty scale system that weighs free-flowing and semi-free flowing products including pet food/treats/litter, sugar, salt, ground meal, plastic pellets, granulated chemicals, etc., and is especially suitable for large pre-made bag, case and drum filling applications.

September 8, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Door safety hardware added for MCCBs

AutomationDirect’s Type C361 door interlocking safety handle and roller kits are available for their 3P Series molded case circuit breakers.

September 8, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Balluff: RFID readers for IO-link

Balluff’s IO-link based RFID system simplifies network topology and PLC setup by using the IO-link block to treat the RFID data like standard I/O points, and reduces costs by running multiple RFID readers off 1 I/O block using standard, 3-conductor sensor cables.

September 8, 2010

Flexibles

Featured discussions

Defining ‘reuse’ for sustainable scorekeeping

September 8, 2010

Protective/transport packaging

Video shows foam-in-place hand-held dispensing gun

Video of next-generation IntelliPack SmartAim foam-in-place system from Pregis shows how this hand-held dispensing gun can be used to create cushioning, blocking and bracing or pre-molded pads.

September 8, 2010

Protective/transport packaging

Video on foam-in-bag protective packaging system

Video of next-generation IntelliPack Smart Bagger foam-in-place system from Pregis shows first-ever telemetry to monitor performance, bar coding which enables correct consumables usage and automatic supply reordering.

September 8, 2010

Protective/transport packaging

Protective packaging strategies: Five ways to improve your foam-in-place operation

New white paper from Pregis explores the advantages offered by the latest generation of foam-in-place equipment, which can be put to use without up-front capital investment.

September 8, 2010

Sustainability

Ice cream giving other indulgence products a licking?

Category sales have been solid during a chilly economy, and green packaging appears to be one tactic that might be helping to drive sales.

September 8, 2010

Labels

High shelf impact for probiotic drinks

GoodBelly Splash, a new line of single-serve fruit-based, probiotic beverages from Next Foods, Boulder, CO, is being packaged in 10-oz HDPE bottles rendered highly shelf-attractive by eight-color flexo-printed, 360-deg shrink-sleeve labels from Printpack.

September 8, 2010

Sustainability

New PET condiment packaging

Best Maid Products Inc., based in Fort Worth, TX, is a leading Southwest regional supplier of pickle/relish products and dressings for retail and foodservice markets.

September 8, 2010

Containers

Tube delivers differentiation, moisture barrier for RB's Strepsils

Reckitt Benckiser recently launched a portable “Handy Tube” version of its Strepsils line of sore throat lozenges to give customers a more convenient way to carry them. The product has been traditionally available in blister packaging, after being marketed in a tin box.

September 8, 2010

Containers

The Power of "Swimming"

Readers of consumer magazines have lately been seeing some very clever and timely print ads from the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA).

September 8, 2010