Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Snap-on tube

CCL Plastic Packaging (Los Angeles, CA) offers the Orientor Snap-On tube, which is designed so that graphics on the tube front are aligned with the lift-tab on the closure.

April 30, 2003

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Flexibles

What packagers think about the environment

Respondents to a recent survey on Packworld.com were asked to describe the current attitude at their company with regard to packaging and the environment.

April 30, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: AC drive with vector control helpers

The Allen-Bradley® PowerFlex™ 700 AC drive with vector control helpers from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) helps users meet the tight torque and speed regulation requirements of some of industrial automation’s most challenging motor control applications, company says.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Hytrol Conveyor Company, Inc : Controls package

Hytrol (Jonesboro, AR) introduces ProSort Logix controls package that is designed to control all of Hytrol’s 100 and 200 Series ProSort sliding shoe sorters and the new ProSort SC Power Pivot Sorter.

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Automated Production Systems, Corp.: Control systems

Automated Production Systems (New Freedom, PA) has the in-house capability to provide control systems such as fully integrated data highway and line management reporting systems.

March 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

ARI: Shrink wrapper for contract packager

At Advertising Resources, workers load cartoned product onto a flighted infeed conveyor, two cartons per flight in this instance. Cartons are conveyed downstream into polyvinyl chloride film.

March 31, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Universal Labeling Systems: Specialized label sensor permits fast setup on new labeler designed f

Designed for ease of use and quick changeover, the CP1000 labeling system from Universal Labeling Systems (St. Petersburg, FL) is equipped with the Label-Eye photoelectric sensor from Tri-Tronics (Tampa, FL), which contributes to fast setup.

March 31, 2003

Labels

Bar codes on shrink sleeves

Seal-It manufacturers and prints shrink sleeves with bar codes for various manufacturers. Shrink sleeves made of heat-shrink PVC, PETG, and OPS help combine safety and marketing for retailers, company says.

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Gen3 performance moves downstream

Generation3 performance is no longer the sole domain of high end packaging machinery.

March 31, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Arrowhead Systems, Inc. promotes Sena

Chuck Sena has been promoted to sales development specialist for Arrowhead Systems (Oshkosh, WI).

March 31, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

The best thing...since packaged bread

If you look at recent developments in packaging machinery automation, a lot has changed for the better. And it’s primarily been thanks to software advances.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Latvian sauces get new tops

Spilva, Riga, Latvia, has increased sales of its popular sauces and salad dressings since it switched to distinctive bright red 38-mm medium-twist-button steel closures from Closures Europe, a Paris subsidiary of Crown Holdings, parent of Crown Cork & Seal (Philadelphia, PA).

March 31, 2003

Containers

M&M Industries receives award

M&M Industries (Chattanooga, TN) received an Excellent Supplier Award from PPG Industries for 2002. M&M, which supplies child-resistant PE pails to PPG chloralkali and derivatives operations in the United States, is among 7 companies being honored by the manufacturer of coatings, fiber glass, glass, and chemicals.

March 31, 2003