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

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1558

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation: Power distribution box

Beckhoff offers its Power Distribution Box for its IP67 Fieldbus Box product. Box allows for distribution of power to several Fieldbus box I/O modules. Each Fieldbus box I/O module has 2 separate power connections located on the bottom of the module that ensure the sensitive intelligent electronics power is separated from the sensor power.

October 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

SICK, Inc: Zero-pressure accumulation sensing

Sick’s off-the-shelf bundled ZoneControl™ is a complete solution that provides maximum usability for sensors for zero-pressure accumulation applications.

October 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

MeadWestvaco Packaging Resources Group: MeadWestvaco Packaging Resources Group: Paperboard brochure

MeadWestvaco’s Packaging Resources Group is offering converters, contract packagers, and pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging customers a new educational brochure.

October 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

O. Berk Company: Slim PET cylinders

O. Berk Co. introduces its line of Slim Cylinders in PET in 30-mL and 125-mL sizes, both with a 24-410 finish. Bottles will be available in clear, white, light amber, dark green, and cobalt blue.

October 31, 2003

Protective/transport packaging

Recycled corrugated protective packaging

Corru-Shred introduces a nationwide recycling program to help companies save the costs of packing materials and waste removal through recycling corrugated boxes.

October 31, 2003

Converting equipment

CAL-POLY RECEIVES PRINTING SYSTEM

A Xenith Extreme Workflow Raster Image Processor (RIP) system will allow graphic communication students at Cal-Poly to learn with current printing industry technology.

October 31, 2003

Flexibles

Stand-up pouch is clearly nutty

Health foods maker GeniSoy Products Co., Fairfield, CA, debuted a new line of soy nut-based Trail Mix in October 2002, “in a pouch where consumers actually see the product,” says marketing manager Sabrina Wootton.

October 31, 2003

Labels

One bottle, two energetic looks

Twin Laboratories, Ronkonkoma, NY, deploys a custom blow-molded bottle from Berlin Packaging for both its ultrafueL and Xtreme product lines. Each beverage is dressed with gravure-printed 2-mil polyvinyl chloride shrink-sleeve labels from Seal-It.

October 31, 2003

Closures

El Toro bullish on new coder

Continuing downtime and frustration led fresh salsa maker El Toro Foods, Watsonville, CA, to replace a small-character ink-jet coder earlier this year with a Squid Ink PZ Pilot.

October 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

No uniformity for 'green' labeling

“Green labeling is no longer a voluntary marketing tool. The use of various—and sometimes conflicting—symbols has become mandatory in 21 countries,” says Michele Raymond, publisher of Recycling Laws International.

October 31, 2003

Labels

High-performance packaging

Amcor PET Packaging has helped create a custom-designed bottle for a new sports drink that aligns drink manufacturer Calypso with the Umbro sporting goods brand.

October 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

October 31, 2003