Controls & Machine Components

Ormec: FireWire digital drives

Ormec (Rochester, NY) ServoWire® digital drives in 25, 35, and 60 amps RMS/phase models provide power from 150 to 15ꯠ watts. Networking capability is IEEE-1394 (FireWire)-based for high speeds and cost-effective industry standard cabling.

August 31, 2001

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1640

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

Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Rollstock, Inc: Web-enabled hf/f/s machine

Hooper Engineering (Sarasota, FL) touts the N2500 horizontal f/f/s system as the world’s first Web-enabled packaging machine. It packages food, pharmaceutical, medical devices, and other products into packs formed from rollstock.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

ProSys Innovative Packaging Equip.: ProSys Innovative Packaging Equip.: Servos speed aerosol filler

roSys Innovative Packaging Equipment (Webb City, MO) has designed a servo-controlled filler for a customer for filling a viscous sealant into a can that’s then pressurized.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Scientific: Real-time engineering answers

Customers receive instant answers from engineers for questions pertaining to Pacific Scientific’s (Rockford, IL) motion control products or applications through the company’s www.pacsci.com Web site.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Kollmorgen: Interactive Web community

Patterned after a typical design cycle, Kollmorgen’s (Radford, VA) Motion Village™ is described as an online Web community designed to provide resources and engineering solutions as a way to increase machine design engineer productivity.

August 31, 2001

Additives, coatings & inks

Hand wrap

StrengthWrap M™ from ITW Mima (Tamarac, FL) is a new kind of pallet wrap made with metallocene resins in a patented process. During this process, most of the stretch is taken out, making it stronger, more able to contain shifting loads, and much easier to apply by hand, company says.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

The Kennedy Group: Nameplate identification

The nameplate identification system from The Kennedy Group (Willoughby, OH) is said to allow users to permanently and inexpensively identify and track reusable containers, racks, pallets, and other products that require tracking and asset management.

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

European flexible packaging

A majority of flexible packaging converters in Western Europe are struggling financially, due to a combination of upward price pressures from suppliers and cost-cutting pressure from end-use customers.

August 31, 2001

Protective/transport packaging

Rising demand for foamed plastics, plastics equipment

According to the Freedonia Group’s “Foamed Plastics” study ($3꺜), the demand for foamed plastics in the United States is predicted to rise nearly 3% per year to 7.8 billion lb in 2005.

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

Shrink label sales to double

Sales of shrink labels for bottles and other containers will double between 1999 and 2004, according to a new study from Keymark Associates. “Opportunities in Shrink Film Labels for Bottles” says milk, ready-to-drink tea, sports drinks, and beer will show growth of more than 30% annually, 20% for juice, and 15% for water, ready-to-drink coffee, and liquor.

August 31, 2001

Closures

New container helps Ocean Spray mix it up

Customized packaging now allows Ocean Spray to launch its preservative-free Original Fruit Mixers, the company’s first crack at the specialty drink-mixer market.

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

Tuna salad kit packs multiple components

In April, Chicken of the Sea Intl., San Diego, CA, launched a Tuna Salad Kit that contains premium no-drain tuna in a vacuum-packed foil pouch.

August 31, 2001

Converting equipment

PEF announces four inductees

Four career packaging professionals will be inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame by the Packaging Education Forum during its annual Leadership Awards ceremonies Monday, September 10, at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. The event will occur during Pack Expo Las Vegas, Sept. 10-12 at the Sands Exposition & Convention Center.

August 31, 2001