Secondary Packaging

Kliklok CELOX HP Endload Cartoner packages frozen pizzas

A Kliklok High-Speed Endload Cartoning Line featuring a CELOX HP cartoner, stacking collator and product infeed timing conveyor.

December 14, 2010

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1052

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

Low-profile Woodman Apache bags caramels at 120 bpm

An introduction to Woodman's versatile Apache bagmaker, featuring a direct-mounted weigher.

December 14, 2010

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

New Third-Generation Woodman G3 Twin-Tube Bagmaker

Woodman's G3 twin tube vertical bagmaker is the third generation of a venerable snack food packaging workhorse, the Gemini.

December 14, 2010

Operational Excellence

Consumer packaged goods and cross-docking

Supply chains are increasingly utilizing cross-docking, and packaging has an important role to play.

December 14, 2010

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

Productivity doubled with VF/F/S systems

Apfells Fine Coffees, a leading U.S. private-label coffee manufacturer, has boosted productivity, improved setup times, and reduced its environmental impact with the installation of new robag vertical form/fill/seal systems.

December 12, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Automation and Safety: AC drives support more networks

The options on Omron Industrial Automation’s compact 3G3MX2 AC Drives have been expanded to simplify integration into a wide range of internationally accepted machine platforms.

December 12, 2010

Flexibles

Stan Zelesnik retires from Contract Packaging Association

Stan Zelesnik, Executive Director of the Contract Packaging Association (CPA), is retiring from that position effective imediately.

December 12, 2010

Labels

OFF THE SHELF: Packaging in the baking aisle

Jim Butschli reports on novel approaches to packaging that he's been noticing in the supermarket baking aisle.

December 10, 2010

Controls & Machine Components

Invensys: Programmable automation controller

The Foxboro Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) from Invensys Operations Management is a high-performance automation controller solution integrated within the Wonderware System Platform and using ArchestrA technology.

December 8, 2010

Contract Packaging

Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Kraft to speak at Packaging Automation Forum

As manufacturers continue to search for ways to improve profitability by increasing efficiency, this year’s Packaging Automation Forum will offer practical information and insight from market-leading companies that are leveraging innovative new software and controls with great success.

December 8, 2010

Labels

Printing gives distinction to new Sam's Club tequila

Eye-catching graphics that convey traditional Mexico, printed with a special UV technique, give the Calle Azul brand visibility in the spirits aisle.

December 8, 2010

Filling/capping, dry

IMA SAFE combines bottle filler, cottoner, capper and more

Synchronized, integrated, flexible design uses 1/3 the floor space of conventional lines.

December 7, 2010

Secondary Packaging

Aetna Group demonstrates end of line technologies

Single source solutions range from shrink wrapping to case packing to palletizing.

December 7, 2010