Controls & Machine Components

Large-character, ink-jet printer

Diagraph offers the IJ 3000 Impulse Jet large character ink jet printer. The product will be shown at EastPack 2003, from June 2-4 in New York, at the company’s booth #731.

April 30, 2003

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Flexibles

Foil laminate bags and drum liners

Rexam introduces new low-density polyethylene and foil laminate bags and drum liners manufactured in a cGMP-compliant environment for use in packaging bulk drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients.

April 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Wepackit forms partnership with Bevco

Wepackit has formed an exclusive partnership with Bevco Sales Intl.

April 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Corner tamp applicator

Auto Labe’s Model 140 PLC adjacent corner tamp applicator is designed to make 2 panel box labeling quick and easy, company says.

April 30, 2003

Containers

Ampersand receives award

Ampersand Label is the winner of the 2002 Most Innovative Component of the Year award from the Tube Council.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

ISA conference now FREE!

Sold-out OMAC pavilion allows ISA to offer free admission to June technical conference for all.

April 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Heavy-duty palletizer

The fully automatic LSP-7 palletizer from Currie Machinery is designed to run heavy-duty loads 24/7 and can be cost-effectively upgraded.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

PLCs and motion not enough?

Survey: packagers want new class of control.

April 30, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Full-color label printer

The QuickLabel Systems Div. of Astro-Med introduces its full-color, digital label, tag, sign, and pouch printer for in-house use.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Integrating processing and packaging

The integration between process and packaging automation in food, beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturing is on the rise.

April 30, 2003

Sustainable Packaging

Partnership fuels PowerID smart labels

Power Paper, a provider of thin and flexible micropower source technology and devices, and Graphic Solutions, Inc., a custom print house, have widened their strategic relationship to leverage the growing demand for thin and flexible, environmentally-friendly batteries in smart active labels.

April 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

SouthPack roundup

Here's a brief glimpse of new things seen at the 2003 Southpack show that ran April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center.

April 30, 2003

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

Vertical form/fill/seal

The economical Flash 250 series of vf/f/s systems from PMB-UVA (Richmond, VA) provides single-axis servo drive, and speeds to 120 packs/min. Made of stainless steel, the equipment can produce pillow and flat-bottom, side-gusseted bags for food and non-food applications.

April 30, 2003