Contract Packaging

DePaul Industries ramps up production for Harry & David

Oregon's growing and diverse food processing and packaged goods industries have helped to create a 600% growth in revenue since 2004 at DePaul Industries' Food and Consumer Goods Packaging Service.

December 19, 2006

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Contract Packaging

Sonoco inks services contract with Lego Group

Sonoco (www.sonoco.com) has signed a five-year agreement with the Lego Group, Billund, Denmark, to supply packaging services for educational products to the family-owned manufacturer of children's play materials.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Supplements switching to PLA bottles

Highland Laboratories (www.highlandvitamins.com) , a Mt. Angel, OR, private-label and contract manufacturer of nutrition supplements, has begun to replace its more than 200 opaque and amber PET bottles used for dietary supplements with similar containers made of polylactic acid (PLA) from NatureWorks LLC (www.natureworksllc.com). PLA is a bioplastic derived from corn.

December 19, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Antimicrobial mounted bearings

Nolu-Clean mounted bearings from Solus are made from a new antimicrobial material for improved hygiene.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Orion Packaging Systems: HMI on stretch wrapper

Orion Packaging unveiled a new digital display and control panel for its semi-automatic, turntable stretch-wrapping system.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

SICK, Inc: Vision Sensors

Sick offers its line of CVS color vision sensors, which include the industry's first true optical character recognition sensor (OCR) CVS family includes four color vision sensor solutions: the CVS1 Easy, CVS2, CVS3, and the CVS4.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

RKC Instrument: High-density modular control

RKC Instrument offers the new SRZ DIN-rail-mounted high-density modular system with a sample cycle time of 250 ms, providing an accuracy of +/-0.2%.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Xycom Automation: Operator interface

Xycom Automation has introduced the Pro-face AGP3000 Series, a line of 30 models of dedicated, multi-media and control operator interface touchscreens.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: AS-Interface power supply

Wago offers the 787-692, a power supply designed specifically for the AS-Interface fieldbus protocol and said to meet AS-Interface specification version 2.1.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Micro-graphic operator panels

New from AutomationDirect is the C-more line of Micro-Graphic operator panels, said to be touch panels at text panel prices.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Linear slides

Intelligent Motor Systems now offers its MDrivePlus™ products factory-assembled with long-life linear slides to provide solutions for numerous applications including packaging.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Integrated control/operation

The new Power Panel PP45 from B+R Industrial Automation features compact dimensions and integrated control, visualization, and I/O interface, making it a cost-efficient, complete solution for machine mfg.

December 18, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Ormec: Single-axis controller

The new SMLC-SA single-axis motion and logic controller from Ormec combines the company's high-performance drive technology with IEC 61131-3 programming capabilities in a single, compact, cost-effective package.

December 18, 2006