Secondary Packaging

Furman Foods: Depalletizing

At this canner of tomatoes, tomato sauces, canned beans and related products, filled, unlabeled steel cans arrive stacked in layers on pallets.

August 31, 2001

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1649

Conveying & accumulation

Furman Foods: Tray packing, stacking and wrapping

At this canner of tomatoes, tomato sauces, canned beans and related products, labeled cans are mechanically grouped in continuous motion in four or six lanes to yield 3x4- (shown) or 4x6-count trays, respectively.

August 31, 2001

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

New blisterpack safety protoco

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: A NEW protocol testing standard for blister packs is to be published in November. The move has been announced by the British Standards Institute following prompting from the Department of Health. Click logo for full article.

August 31, 2001

Flexibles

Pasta found in pouches

Recently spotted by Packaging World editors at Chicago-area Dominick’s and Jewel grocery stores is a new Barilla pasta line packaged in what appears to be paper/foil-laminated stand-up pouch holding 8.9 oz of uncooked, dry pasta.

August 31, 2001

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

Lettuce in twin MAP packs

"Fresh now and fresh later," is how spokeswoman Robin Sprague of Fresh Express, Salinas, CA, describes the company's new Twin Pack of attached side-by-side bags of lettuce. "Consumers can use half of the pack immediately, and keep the other bag under modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) conditions to maintain freshness," she informs Packworld.com. "It's a unique concept that offers more convenience to consumers."

August 31, 2001

Labels

Contoured bottle fits Hansen's entrance into single-serve water

Hansen Beverage Co. entered the single-serve flavored water market in July with its Energy Water line sold in a 24-oz hot-filled polyethylene terephthalate bottle from Schmalbach-Lubeca (Manchester, MI).

August 31, 2001

Containers

OK International: Case liner

The OK 220 servo case liner from O/K Intl. (Marlborough, MA) can run at speeds to 24 cases/min. Machine makes bags from a roll of polyethylene tubing and places them into a case, drum, or tray.

August 31, 2001

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Baldor Electric Company: Energy guide label

Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AR) will begin labeling its Super-E® premium efficient motors with a new EnergyGuide label that will inform customers of the energy savings and dollar savings they can achieve.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

AMK Drives: Integrated servo motor and drive

The all-inclusive compact servo motor and integrated servo drive from AMK (Warrington, PA) provides from 5 to 20 hp at speeds to 45ꯠ rpm. It interfaces with analog, digital, SERCOS, CANBUS, and Profibus networks.

August 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Efector, Inc: Efector, Inc: Mini photoelectric sensors

The OJ family of sensors from ifm efector (Exton, PA) provides automated setup/calibration and signal strength monitoring in housings that measure 15/16”x1¾”x7/16”.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Omron Electronics LLC: Wireless DeviceNet

Omron (Shaumburg, IL) has developed a wireless DeviceNet product that allows users to connect to any DeviceNet-compatible product. Product is ideal for difficult-to-access areas that require a lot of cable.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Bosch Rexroth Corp., Electric Drives and Controls: Sub-1kW servo drive

Rexroth Bosch (Hoffman Estates, IL) introduces the Indramat EcoDrive 16 amp, a SERCOS, DeviceNet®. Profibus-S and Can-Open compatible, sub-1 kw servo drive.

August 31, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Distributed servo drive

Intended for use with packaging machinery, the Simodrive Posmo A distributed drive system from Siemens Energy & Automation (Alpharetta, GA) is an intelligent positioning motor that resides as a node on a Profibus-DP network, receiving both power and signaling on one cable.

August 31, 2001