Conveying & accumulation

TMC debuts new tissue roll wrapper at Aantec customer event

A live demonstration of Tissue Machinery Company’s fast and flexible new Zero™ wrapper will highlight Appleton, WI-based Aantec’s March 2004 customer open house.

January 31, 2004

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1548

Controls & Machine Components

New drive family

The ACS 800 Family of drives from ABB are said to be 50% smaller than the company’s previous drives of equal HP. The units range from 6.5” wide for low-HP designs to freestanding 600-HP units that measure 13.78” wide to fit into deep, narrow spaces or wide, shallow spaces.

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Poore: Snack line conveying to f/f/s

At Poore Brothers, three FastBack conveyors from Heat and Control carry snacks from three fryers to downstream vertical form/fill/seal machines.

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Poore: Weigh scales for salty snacks

Cross-feeder conveyors deliver snacks to Ishida 14-head weigh scales from Heat and Control. Individual load cells measure the weight of product in the scales. Integrated controls are used to select the right combination of buckets to release an accurate amount of product into a bottom-sealed tube of film.

December 31, 2003

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

Poore: Vertical form/fill/seal for snacks

This continuous-motion bagger from Heat and Control uses patented twin heat-sealing jaws that simultaneously seal the top of the leading pack and the bottom of the subsequent pack. These vf/f/s machines produce 1- to 3-oz bags for vending machine and multi-pack sales, at speeds to 150/min. That rate is three times faster than previous vf/f/s equipment.

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Platinum Packaging Inc.: Friction feeding for gift box blanks

Contract packager Platinum Packaging employs nearly 50 Longford friction feeders that deliver gift box blanks from a magazine onto a lugged conveyor for downstream shrink wrapping. Feeders can also be set up to deliver calendars to a plow so that another downstream feeder can insert a paperboard card into the calendar. Dong so helps provide rigidity to the calendar after it's shrink-wrapped.

December 31, 2003

Flexibles

Platinum Packaging Inc.: Wrapping and sealing of gift box blanks

A stack of knocked-down gift box bottoms and tops are pushed into a center-folded tube of film that provides clarity, as well as puncture and tear-resistance. The tube is side-sealed with two impulse wires. Next, a cross-sealing station employs hot-knife jaws that create a seal between the leading and trailing pack of boxes before cutting in the seal area between the packs. Packs then are conveyed through a heat tunnel. Euipment is supplied by Shanklin.

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Survey: Conveyor systems

Answer a quick one-page survey on conveyor systems. You could receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate . . .

December 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Survey: Cartoning systems

Answer a quick one-page survey on cartoning systems. You could receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate . . .

December 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Survey: Conveyor systems, part II

Answer a quick one-page survey on conveyor systems. You could receive a $150 Amazon.com gift certificate . . .

December 31, 2003

Containers

Tube Council chooses new management company

The Tube Council selected Landon, Farrey Associates as its new association management company.

December 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Productivity monitoring

B&H Labeling Systems introduces Productivity Monitoring, an advanced software system available on a range of B&H labelers.

December 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Case erector

O/K Intl.

December 31, 2003