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

Food service packaging/bag machine

Food service items such as sauces, stews, refried beans, and other similar products can be packaged on General Packaging Equipment's Model 642WLC vf/f/s machine in 7.5 L to 2 gallon packs.

January 31, 2006

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Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Integrated motion/logic

New from Bosch Rexroth is Rexroth IndraMotion for Packaging, the new motion/logic control system for food processing and packaging applications. It offers real-time motion control combined with an IEC 61131-3 compliant PLC, plus application-specific technology functions and PLCopen motion function blocks, scaled across three hardware platforms to provide the right cost and performance for nearly any application.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: HMIs for LabVIEW

Engineers and scientists can now use National Instruments’ new flat-panel touch-screen, touch-panel computer and panel PC HMI with the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment to develop user interfaces.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Machine-mount I/O accessories

Beckhoff introduces new ZK1020 IP-Link Bridge connectors and ZS5300 I/O mounting rails. These accessories are designed to simplify the installation of Beckhoff Fieldbus Box I/O.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Festo Corporation: Plug-in valve terminal

Festo introduces its VTSA plug-in style valve series. VTSA is a highly modular valve system using plug-in sub-base style valves. The Type 44 valve terminal is easy to assemble or to modify.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: Real-time communication via Ethernet

With ACOPOS, B&R Industrial Automation offers bus-capable servo drives for machine manufacturing in the power range from 400 W to 64 kW. With the Ethernet Powerlink network connection, it is possible to operate up to 240 axes on one line using the same network.

January 31, 2006

Robotics

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: Robotic software library

Elau has released its IEC-conforming robotic software object library for its PacDrive automation system. This approach allows the controller running the rest of the packaging process to control multiple robot arms as modules in the control software program.

January 31, 2006

Controls & Machine Components

Hershey reveals new direction on controls

“We invested heavily in controls technology, but in the last few years we’ve changed directions because in too many cases the technologies we implemented were complicating, not simplifying, our packaging operations.”

January 31, 2006

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Toshiba debuts environmental hybrid pack for Sam's Club

Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., Irvine, CA, uses Winterborne’s patent-pending EnviroShell™ packaging for a trio of memory storage devices introduced at Sam’s Club late last year.

January 31, 2006

Flexibles

The future of rigid plastics packaging

Global consumption of rigid packaging is forecasted to reach $115 billion in value by 2009, up from $84 billion in 2004, according to a new study from Pira Intl.

January 31, 2006

Closures

Water bottler opts for glass packaging

Naya Sparkling Water launched by Danone Canada, Laval, Quebec, and co-packed by Delta Beverages, entered Canadian markets late last year.

January 31, 2006

Closures

Dissolvable supplement strips in portable packs

Dyna-Tabs, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, brings the melt-on-the-tongue convenience of dissolvable strips in portable packaging to a line of eight vitamin and dietary supplements introduced globally in April 2005.

January 31, 2006

Flexibles

MAP pepperoni taps retail markets

Swiss American Sausage Co., a division of Provena Foods, Inc., Lathrop, CA, is a major supplier of pepperoni products to foodservice outlets.

January 31, 2006