Controls & Machine Components

Amacoil, Inc: Design options for linear drive speed control

Uhing “rolling ring” drives from Amacoil, Uhing’s exclusive North American distributor, now feature 2 design options for adjustment of linear speed, neither of which requires electronic controls or programming.

October 31, 2004

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Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: Motion control software

National Instruments’ LabVIEW graphical development software creates customized motion controllers for any platform with the company’s SoftMotion technology.

October 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Transducer indicator/conditioner

Model SC500 transducer indicator/conditioner from Honeywell offers small size (1/8 DIN), 3 transducer input options (strain gauge, high-level, and LVDT), and 5 output options (including RS-232 and RS-485).

October 31, 2004

Flexibles

'Glass'-coated oriented films

Techbarrier is a series of oriented films from Mitsubishi Plastics coated with SiOx to achieve oxygen and water vapor barrier properties approaching those of aluminum foil.

October 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Sargento dips into snack trays

Sargento Cheese Dips! from Sargento Foods Inc., Plymouth, WI, answer intensifying consumer demand for convenient snack food packaging.

October 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

Clemson opens center for flexible packaging

In October, Clemson University’s Department of Packaging Science officially opened CEFPACK, a new center for research, development, evaluation, and application of advanced materials and packages.

October 31, 2004

Flexibles

Cans strike back in the tuna category

Even a casual observer of today’s packaging arena can’t help but notice the trend toward tuna in retortable pouches. But canned fish marketer Saupiquet of Nantes, France, has launched a new line of albacore tuna slices in one-piece steel cans that have Peel Seam™ peelable lids from Crown Food Europe, an affiliate of Crown Holdings, Inc.

October 31, 2004

Flexibles

Homeland security kits reach market

More than 40ꯠ Ready Kit and Ready Kit Plus products made it to market to coincide with Department of Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge’s speech announcing DHS’s first National Preparedness Month, which began September 9.

October 31, 2004

Closures

Kwik Trip's cap conversion

Convenience store chain Kwik Trip, Inc., processes and packages all its Nature’s Touch-brand milks, juices, juice drinks, and bottled waters at its dairy facility in LaCrosse, WI.

October 31, 2004

Closures

Karo corn syrups pour into PET

Karo corn syrup debuted in 1902 in “friction-top tins,” then was filled into glass bottles for decades. This summer, Karo corn syrup made a bold step into monolayer PET bottles, supplied by Amcor PET Packaging.

October 31, 2004

Labels

Kraft adds more nutrition information

Responding to the Food & Drug Administration’s call for clearer nutrition information on smaller packages, Kraft Foods, Northfield, IL, has announced its answer.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The China Syndrome

In going forward with radio-frequency identification, there are three initials that are fundamental because they encompass all aspects of the challenge.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Companies

Sun Chemical Corp.

October 31, 2004