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Sustainable Packaging

Ongoing 'garage sales' for materials

Do you know someone who can use 23ꯠ high-density polyethylene trays? That was the question posed to me recently by John Majercak, 413/586-7350, of the Massachusetts Materials Exchange.

December 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Getting operators to comply with packaging SOPs

What do you do when line operators ignore written standard operating procedures (SOPs), preferring to do it their own way?

December 31, 2003

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Best packaging operations anywhere? Here are three...

What’s the most impressive plant you’ve ever been in? World traveler and Hartness Intl. director of market research Neville Cork has been in about 100 plants.

December 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging 2004

What a difference a decade makes. When we launched Packaging World in January 1994, the prospects for an economic recovery were strong after a difficult couple of years following the Gulf War.

December 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Ergonomic vertical cartoner

SWF Companies’ Tisma Div. offers the Victory 100, a simple, ergonomically-advanced, semi-automatic vertical cartoner capable of reaching speeds to 200 cartons/min.

December 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Food-grade servomotors

Rockwell Automation’s Allen-Bradley MPF servo motors are designed specifically for the harsh environments of food and beverage packaging applications. Available with 14 to 173 in-lb torque, the units have noncorrosive food-grade fasteners and coatings for extended performance.

December 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Modular servo system

The AX2500 Servodrive Series from Beckhoff is said to be flexible, especially in compact areas where space savings is essential. In its maximum configuration, AX2500 comprises 8 axes (a master module) with 7 axis modules.

December 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Ormec: Motion technology with standard IEC

Motion and logic controllerOrmec’s new ServoWire Motion and Logic Controller (SMLC) combines the company’s ServoWire Soft 61131-3 programming for motion and I/O control. SMLC uses off-the-shelf components to reduce hardware costs, a real-time operating system that makes it robust, and industry standard network interfaces for a variety of connectivity options.

December 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Dillin Engineered Systems: FireWire for industrial automation

A group of industrial automation suppliers in Europe has formed an association called 1394automation. The association is defining a solution that allows different controllers to communicate using a single FireWire bus in a factory setting using the FireWire (IEEE 1394) protocol.

December 31, 2003

Labels

Fruit20 takes on a unique shape

Fruit20, the naturally fruit-flavored spring water from Veryfine Products, Littleton, MA, is rolling out into markets in a newly designed, custom PET bottle that’s decorated with a new label.

December 31, 2003

Flexibles

Food container sales increase projected

According to Freedonia’s study Food Containers: Rigid & Flexible, food container demand in the United States is projected to increase nearly 3% annually to $18.7 billion in 2007.

December 31, 2003

Closures

Compact sealer passes 'mustard'

It doesn’t get much more mom-and-pop than Fisher Horseradish & Mustard, run by Gideon Fisher, Sr. He heads the 20-yr-old family business on his property in Newburg, PA, where his wife has run a semi-automatic filler.

December 31, 2003