Controls & Machine Components

How to optimize your packaging automation strategy

At the sixth annual Packaging Automation Forum April 25 and 26 in Chicago, the speakers offered high-level views of consumer behavior as well as plant-floor insights into how manufacturing and packaging can be optimized.

April 27, 2011

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1020

Closures

Portola Packaging awarded SQF certification for 3 facilities

Portola Packaging, Inc. achieved Safe Quality Food (SQF) Institute certification recently for its three U.S. closure manufacturing facilities—Batavia, Ill; Kingsport, Tenn. and Tolleson, Ariz.

April 27, 2011

Closures

Square bottles with beveled corners

Beveled Square Collection of HDPE bottles are lightweight and unbreakable, for moisturizers, body lotions, suntan, and other skin-care products.

April 26, 2011

Controls & machine components

SICK, Inc: Viewer monitor for label, logo inspection

Sick’s Inspector Viewer is a compact, real-time, touch-screen monitor that provides advanced monitoring and trending capabilities for Inspector Vision Sensors--right next to the production line.

April 26, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Operator panel with a CANopen interface

Baldor’s KPD202-501 operator panel is a compact IP65-rated operator panel with a CANopen interface that provides a cost-effective HMI for machine builders, as well as a scalable control solution – an optional plug-in digital I/O module facilitates simple system expansion.

April 26, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Interface function block provides engine monitoring

Wago Corporation's J1939 Interface function block increases large engine efficiency by tracking, and reacting to, engine performance parameters via WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM.

April 26, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: Power panel functions as PC

The B&R Power Panel 500 combines control, visualization and drive technology into one compact unit.

April 26, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Festo Corporation: Vacuum sensor for OVEM vacuum generators

With the OVEM vacuum generator from Festo, continuous status monitoring of the entire vacuum system is made possible with an integral sensor.

April 25, 2011

Controls & Machine Components

Security labels

April 24, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

Inflatable, on-demand cushioning system

Video shows Pregis AirSpeed HC Versa cushioning system that inflates and dispenses air cushioning in multiple widths, thicknesses and speeds. System is designed for cushioning, wrapping, voidfill and protecting packaging applications.

April 21, 2011

Protective/transport packaging

Latest generation Kraft paper voidfill dispensing system

For protective packaging, cushioning, or void-fill applications, video shows GeoSpeed Quantum paper system from Pregis, with a floating head designed to minimizes paper jams. Video shows ease of changeover, flexible dispensing height and angle, and variable low-to-high speeds.

April 21, 2011

Containers

PET for honey re-launch

Eye-catching new bottles are behind the high-profile re-launch of Rowse Honey, a leading UK honey brand.

April 21, 2011

Flexibles

Sustainability award winner

Winner of a 2011 Sustainability Award from the Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) was a flower sleeve made of heat-sealable Nativia NZSS biaxially oriented polylactic acid (PLA) film.

April 20, 2011