Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Utility outlet

Wago (Germantown, WI) DIN rail-mount utility outlet is a power source in control cabinets for connecting such items as test equipment, lighting, solder irons, and laptops.

December 31, 2002

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1603

Controls & Machine Components

MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group: MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group: MeadWestvaco Consumer Solutions Group: Folding carton brochure

Printers, converters, and packaging end users can get information regarding the expanded packaging options and enhanced benefits offered by Kraftpak® folding carton board in a new brochure available from MeadWestvaco’s Packaging Resources Group (Stanford, CT).

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Georgia-Pacific Corp.: Bleached paperboard

Georgia-Pacific (Atlanta, GA) is launching a new marketing strategy called Signature Solutions™ in its bleached-board business unit. The new strategy seeks to capitalize on the unit’s bleached board production capacity by establishing a branding platform for all bleached paperboard products produced by Georgia-Pacific.

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Kliklok-Woodman (Product): Vari-Right right-angle top-load carton closer

New Vari-Right right-angle top-load carton closer is the first system of its kind to offer a continuously variable pitch conveying design, according to supplier. Combines the carton size flexibility of lugless systems with the positive control of conventional flighted machines. I

December 31, 2002

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

Omstead: Smooth vf/f/s for IQF chicken

On this vertical form/fill/seal machine at Omstead, a servo motor-driven cross-seal assembly is synchronized with side belts. Seal jaws make a smooth “D”-shaped cycle to close on the film tube, simultaneously sealing the top of the filled bag and forming a bottom seal for the next bag.

December 31, 2002

Flexibles

J.L.Clark upgrades to computer-to-plate

J.L.Clark (Rockford, IL), a manufacturer in the fields of metal decoration and fabrication as well as plastic injection molding, now offers in-house computer-to-plate (CTP) technology.

December 31, 2002

Flexibles

Flexible splicing tape

Adhesives Research (Glen Rock, PA) introduces ARclad 9059, a thin, single-coated, pressure-sensitive, red acrylic splicing tape designed specifically for caliper-restricted applications.

December 31, 2002

Secondary Packaging

Quick-change overwrapper

Digital Media Automation (Poway, CA) introduces its Super Overwrapper with electronic microprocessor timing and control, versus mechanically driven cams, levers, and linkages.

December 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Seeking comment on Plug-and-Pack proposals

The users group behind the Plug-and-Pack™ guidelines to packaging machinery automation is seeking public comment on three new proposals:

December 31, 2002

Flexibles

High-impact shrink films

Klöckner Pentaplast of America’s (Gordonsville, VA) line of standard and high-shrink transverse-direction-oriented films for full body sleeve labels and tamper-evident bands has been extended to include two new Pentaprint‚ vinyl films: Super high-impact Pentaprint M282/41 and high-shrink Pentaprint M148/01.

December 31, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Automatic leak detection system

The Pack’Réalisations automatic leak detection system from Pack’R North America (Batavia, IL) is located on the outfeed conveyor of the capper.

December 31, 2002

Filling/capping, dry

Dual auger filler

Building on its line of servo-driven auger fillers for dispensing powders, granulars, and flakes, Nalbach Engineering Co.

December 31, 2002

Flow wrapping

PackML implementations at Pack Expo

Following is a brief round-up of PackML implementations Packaging World editors learned about at Pack Expo:

December 31, 2002