Secondary Packaging

Technology redesign incorporates servos

Package Machinery Company’s new servo-driven FA-ST overwrapping machine is equipped with six servo drives, giving it added flexibility and fewer maintenance issues compared to the machine it replaced.

November 30, 2003

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1556

Controls & machine components

Vial packing extraordinaire (sidebar)

Filler is on the way

November 30, 2003

Labeling

FDA not standing PAT

Food & Drug Administration hopes new cGMP initiative will open door to use of new drug packaging technology.

November 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Geraldi joins Gottscho

Charles Geraldi joined Adolph Gottscho as director of sales and marketing.

November 30, 2003

Protective/transport packaging

Microsoft pack wins EPA design challenge

A new shipping package that looks like an envelope and protects like a box won the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cradle-to-Cradle E-Commerce Package Design Challenge, announced at the recent Pack Expo Las Vegas show in October.

November 30, 2003

Closures

Recloseable can a first in North America

Hirzel Canning Co. and Farms, Toledo, OH, is test-marketing in Cleveland and Chicago recloseable 12-oz tin-plated steel cans of Dei Fratelli-brand Italian Dip and Pizza Sauce.

November 30, 2003

Labels

'Tis the season

Newly revised graphics now decorate Smith Dairy's 30- and 11-oz bottles of premium and low-fat Moovers-brand eggnog. Both products from the Orrville, OH-based dairy are ultra-pasteurized to offer 120-day shelf life. The refrigerated products reached store shelves in mid-October.

November 30, 2003

Labels

Creating a sparkling holiday design

Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice Cocktails will be dressed as Nutcrackers this year for the holiday season, thanks to designers at The Bailey Group.

November 30, 2003

Flexible packaging

X-ray technology

Smiths Heimann offers the Eagle Bantam, designed to provide an inexpensive solution to inspection. Features include the machine's 53" length, environmental design to support both IP64 and IP65 requirements, inspection speeds to 400'/min, statistics and reporting capability, and contaminant detection as well as check weighing, count, mission pouch, and void detection.

November 30, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Bone-in shrink bags

Pechiney Plastic Packaging unveils its next generation ClearShield high-barrier bone-in shrink bag for fresh beef and pork.

November 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Leeson Electric: Leeson Electric: Stainless-steel motors

Leeson Electric introduces its new line of stainless-steel motors designed for long life in demanding washdown applications. The Washguard® SST™ motors are equipped with oversized double-sealed bearings pre-lubricated with moisture- resistant, high-temperature grease, fully gasketed conduit box with flanged cover for tight sealing, internal bearing lock screws, and more.

October 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Data collection

Wago and Advanced Production Systems offer customers a method of linking business systems to the plant floor without programming. Real-time data can be sent directly from plant floor control devices to information systems such as ERP systems, databases, emails, printers, and serial devices.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Tropicana Europe: Air conveying/filling/accumulating/labeling/tray packing on aseptic filling lin

At Tropicana Europe’s new plant in Zeebrugge, Belgium, PET bottles are air-conveyed from depalletization to a new aseptic line from Procomac Industries.

October 31, 2003