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

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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

Filling/capping, dry

Global Beverage Systems: Capping for bottled water line

The capper on this bottled water line was supplied by Fowler Products, and came with three sets of chucks so that bottles with 28-, 33-, or 43-mm neck finishes can be run on the line.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Global Beverage Systems: Tray packing for bottled water line

On this bottled water line, following automatic lane dividers, bottles are collated and tray packed on equipment from Vantage Pak. Pressure-sensitive print-and-apply labelers from Loveshaw apply product ID and date code to each side of the tray before it enters an Arpac shrink wrapper. Then an incline conveyor takes finished trays to a remote palletizer.

December 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Stanford Personal Care: Filling from start to finish

On a new shampoo line at this contract packaging facility, bottles are metered into and out of the filler from Pacific Packaging Machinery via starwheels. Shampoo is filled volumetrically in continuous motion into bottles that rest individually on cam-operated platforms.

December 31, 2001

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Morningstar Foods: Captive blow molding on ESL dairy line

On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, this is one of two side-by-side coextrusion blow molders from Stork Food & Dairy Systems that produce bottles. Freshly blown bottles are then sent to silos via pneumatic tubes.

December 31, 2001

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Morningstar Foods: Unscrambling on an ESL dairy line

On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, an unscrambler uprights bottles that are drawn from three huge storage silos. Later, a system of paddles and chutes turns two lanes into 12 lanes that lead directly into the ESL filling/lidding system from Stork Food & Dairy Systems.

December 31, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Morningstar Foods: Filling/lidding on ESL dairy line

On this extended shelf life bottling line for dairy products, three sequential stations flood interior and exterior of empty bottles with hydrogen peroxide.

December 31, 2001