Closures

Flint glass bottles

The Cosmetic Packaging Group, a div. of O. Berk Co. (Union, NJ), offers The Iris Line of flint glass bottles in 30-ml and 100-ml sizes.

March 31, 2003

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1594

Controls & Machine Components

Side flow air conveyance system

Whisper Side Flow[tm] air conveyance system for PET and other plastic containers accommodates various container sizes, heights, and neck finishes.

February 28, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

SICK, Inc: Flexible scanner

The Omni-2110 from Sick is an individually configurable, omni-directional scanning system from Sick (Minneapolis, MN) suitable for the most demanding sortation, item-tracking, and package-handling environments.

February 28, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

lpha gear drives, Inc: AC servo actuator

The TPM AC servo actuator from alpha gear drives (Elk Grove Village, IL) is a servo/gearmotor package consisting of a brushless AC servomotor, a low-backlash, high-precision TP planetary gearhead; and an optional holding brake.

February 28, 2003

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Wash-down valves

Bosch Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) has introduced the CL03 Clean Line™ Series of wash-down valves. They utilize IP67/NEMA 6-rated technology in a hygienically designed package.

February 28, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders

This clip shows operators placing stacks of books and CDs in infeed trays.

February 28, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Christian Book Distributors: Packaging books for e-commerce orders

After orders are placed onto corrugated blanks, a scanner reads the bar code on the shipping manifest, placed on top.

February 28, 2003

Closures

Micro Flo: Filling and capping of agrichemical products

From an infeed table, F-style containers enter this 10-station indexing filler-capper from PACK'R North America (Batavia, IL).. Containers are filled at several stations before a closure is applied and torqued on in a two-step process.

February 28, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Micro Flo: Indexing bottles of agrichemicals

At Micro Flo, a worker places empty F-style containers onto this infeed conveyor table. At the end of the table, suction cups grab six containers and transfer them onto a perpendicular conveyor that carries them single file towards an indexing filler-capper.

February 28, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Micro Flo: Labeling of agrichemicals

Each agrichemical bottle at Micro Flo receives a pressure-sensitive label from one of two side-by-side label applicators from Videojet Technologies. When a roll of labels runs out on one machine, the other applicator is employed so that no production time is lost.

February 28, 2003

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

DreamPak: Forming for unique packages of cheese, neutraceuticals, and snacks

Packaging material is fed from two unwind stands at floor level. Dancer bars help feed the material freely. Before any forming or filling can take place, the two webs must first travel to an overhead level.

February 28, 2003

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Romaco: Rotary tablet counter for capsule filling and counting

The RTC 200 rotary tablet counter from Romaco provides positive container handling for tablet or capsule filling and counting.

February 28, 2003

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sato hires new sales manager

Sato America (Charlotte, NC) has appointed Andrew Wright as the new western regional sales manager.

February 28, 2003