Containers

'Scaling up' on vaccine filling

Now the world’s fourth largest supplier of poultry vaccines, Lohmann Animal Health maintains its ranking through capital investment. See in-plant video

January 31, 2002

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1615

Contract Packaging

Suppliers focus more on contract packagers (sidebar)

Which companies participated

January 31, 2002

Flexible packaging

Suppliers focus more on contract packagers

Many packaging suppliers have realized a shift in sales toward contract packagers. Some say CP business has helped ‘sustain’ their companies.

January 31, 2002

Contract Packaging

Are packaging jobs secure? (sidebar)

Equipment purchase plans remain steady

January 31, 2002

Containers

Are packaging jobs secure?

How will packaging jobs hold up to recession, consolidation from mergers and acquisitions, and the war against terrorism? Packagers respond via an exclusive Packworld.com survey.

January 31, 2002

Containers

interpack 2002 is bigger than ever (sidebar)

All about metal packaging

January 31, 2002

Containers

New friction-top belt conveys success

A new friction-top belt conveyor replaces a belt-on-roller incline conveyor at Miller Brewing’s Irwindale, CA, facility. Less maintenance, no case slippage are the results.

January 31, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Telatemp Corp.: Equipment: Temperature data recorder

Able to store up to 2감 time/date stamped readings, the TDL200-T temperature data logger from Telatemp (Fullerton, CA) records the temperatures to which sensitive products are exposed during storage or transit.

December 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Advantech Automation Corp.: Equipment: Web-enabling legacy PLCs

Advantech Automation (Cincinnati, OH) offers products that provide Internet/intranet connections to existing PLCs. The connection allows users to predict repairs, use remote service technicians to save time, supply real-time production data, and improve customer service.

December 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Equipment: Motor and driver

A new, miniature-sized AlphaStep motor and driver are available in two stack lengths from Oriental Motor U.S.A. (Torrance, CA). The AS34AK model is 1.77” (45 mm) L.

December 31, 2001

Secondary Packaging

Columbia Machine: Load Transfer System

Many plants want to retain their plastic, Chep or expensive pallets for use in their palletizing and production process, requiring them to transfer their product to an alternate load base for shipping or storage.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Global Beverage Systems: Empty bottle handling on bottled water line

On this new bottled water filling line, bulk bottles are depalletized by a Sig Simonazzi high-level depalletizer and then single-filed for delivery to the air conveying system from Descon Conveyor Systems and Consultants.

December 31, 2001

Containers

Global Beverage Systems: 128-valve counter-pressure filling for bottled water

On this new bottled water filling line, the 128-valve counter-pressure filler from Sig Simonazzi is among the largest of its kind.

December 31, 2001