Controls & Machine Components

Maple Systems: Touchscreens

Now available from Maple Systems is the HMI550H-005 Classic operator interface touchscreen, priced at $1499. The 10.4”, 256-color TFT touchscreen is full-featured, including pop-up windows that display keypads, alarm status, bar graphs, and more.

August 31, 2005

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Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Enhanced PLC

GE Fanuc Automation has enhanced its Series 90™-30 PLC family with a new Ethernet Network Inter-face Unit (ENIU). This high-performance communications module en-ables users to connect Series 90-30 I/O over the Ethernet to a master controller through a single point of connection, helping to save configuration time and reduce overall components.

August 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Danfoss Drives: Variable frequency drives

Danfoss has introduced a new, high-power platform for VLT® 5000 Series variable-frequency drives, extending the product range and providing increased flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and reliability.

August 31, 2005

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Safety scanner

Rockwell Automation offers its new Allen-Bradley DeviceNet Safety scanner and I/O that gives manufacturers the opportunity to place safety and standard devices on a single network, simplifying control system design in complex applications such as those found in the automotive, semiconductor, packaging, food, and beverage industries.

August 31, 2005

Additives, coatings & inks

Tube product line

Greiner Bio-One offers a new versatile tube product line in a variety of resins and sizes. The polystyrene and polycarbonate offer ideal clarity for optical measurements, while polyethylene and polypropylene display superior thermal and chemical resistance with minimal binding characteristics.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Laminated tube for cosmetics

IntraPac offers a new size of plastic laminated tubes for health, beauty, and personal care applications. Tube is 2” in diameter and can be decorated in a variety of techniques: 4-color process printing, spot color printing, and hot-stamp foil.

August 31, 2005

Closures

Bore seal cap

United Caps (formerly PROCAP) introduces its 28mm bore seal cap for standard BPF and PCO neck finishes. Closure is designed for use with carbonated soft drinks, still and sparkling water, and isotonic sports drinks.

August 31, 2005

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable Packaging Forum set

The Sustainable Packaging Forum 2005 will take place October 17-19 at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia, PA.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Beer bottles get glow-in-dark label glam

Global brewer SABMiller plc is using glow-in-the-dark, pressure-sensitive clear film labels from Spear for a special promotion of Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) beers.

August 31, 2005

Closures

Commemorative design revs up motor oil packaging

When motor sports vehicle manufacturer Polaris Industries, Inc., Medina, MN, and its motor oil manufacturer and packager Lubrication Technologies, Inc.

August 31, 2005

Containers

WD-40 develops the last straw

WD-40 Co., San Diego, CA, delivers a revamped 12-oz can with a permanently attached, built-in straw tube.

August 31, 2005

Containers

Bulk filler improves cookie packaging

David’s Cookies, Fairfield, NJ, is a major supplier of frozen, preformed, unbaked cookies to a range of foodservice customers. Until late 2004, the company had been manually packing its frozen-dough cookies into 20-lb bags in boxes for shipment.

August 31, 2005

Flexibles

Conical push-pull closure crowns new shampoo

When Laboratorios RTB in Spain was planning the launch of its new Giorgi Fix Out Shampoo, the company wanted a distinctive, innovative packaging look to enhance marketing of the new product.

August 31, 2005