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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1557

Conveying & accumulation

WeserGold: Sterilizing/filling/transporting/discharging for aseptic PET juice bottling line

PET bottle exteriors are sterilized with vaporized hydrogen peroxide during a summer test run on a new aseptic bottling line at WeserGold’s plant in Rinteln, Germany.

October 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

New generation printer/applicator

Label-Aire offers the 3138-N printer applicator with advanced features such as automatic setup with multiple programmable label pages for easy changeovers, rate compensation for improved placement accuracy, and advanced user-configurable I/O connectivity.

October 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling regulation updates

The European Union rules on biotech and food allergen labeling. In the United States, a trans fat label footnote and an FDA labeling law revision are addressed.

October 31, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Prent themoform pack wins award

Prent Corp. won a distinguished award at the Society of Plastics Engineers Thermoforming Conference held in Cincinnati in September 2003.

October 31, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

Smart Packaging 2004 announced

Smart Packaging 2004 is being launched alongside Labelexpo Americas 2004, taking place next year on the 14-15 of September at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Small package checkweighers

Thompson Scale introduces two types of small-package checkweighers; drag chain for rigid containers, and belt conveyor for flexible and unstable products.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Intermediate checkweigher

Thompson Scale offers its 4693i Intermediate Checkweigher designed for institutional and packaged food manufacturing, specialty chemical, and corrosive or caustic product industries.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Heavy-duty checkweigher

Thompson Scale offers its Model 4693 Heavy-Duty Checkweigher with weight ranges from 10-300lb. Machine is designed for harsh, abusive, dirty environments such as those found in the cement, concrete, soil, bark, and carbon black products industries.

October 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Ergonomic vertical cartoner

SWF Companies’ Tisma Div.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Cooler infeed

The ICwedge cooler infeed system is a continuous-motion, low backpressure, single-file to mass-flow transfer system that utilizes the rotating motion of multiple wedges to form and transfer rows of containers into a mass-flow cooler.

October 31, 2003

Closures

Shrink sealer

PDC Intl. introduces the new PDC 65 Series Shrinksealer, for all drug, eye care and vitamin supplement tamper-evident packaging applications. Equipment is designed for mid-level speed TE shrink banding with a capacity to 200 containers/min and full-body shrink sleeving to 160 containers/min.

October 31, 2003

Closures

Rittal Corp.: Brochure on HMI solutions

Rittal offers a brochure on its HMI solutions including industrial enclosure systems, 19” electronic components, thermal management, power distribution, IT solutions, and communication systems.

October 31, 2003