Secondary Packaging

Case palletizers

From Top Tier (North Adams, MA) come two new case palletizers: End-of-Line (EOL) for floor-level operation and the Tower for higher infeed configurations.

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Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1674

Secondary Packaging

: Palletizers for bags, bales

AP-400 Series palletizers from Premier Tech (Riviere, Quebec, Canada) are designed and built to stack bags and bales square on a pallet automatically.

November 30, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Interroll Corp.: Control mechanism

Capable of communicating with as many as 4 conveyor zones simultaneously, the DriveControl™ ZPA+4 control mechanism from Interroll (Wilmington, NC) is said to provide accurate zero-pressure accumulation.

November 30, 2000

Converting equipment

Giddings & Lewis Controls Measurement and Sensing: Motion controller

The MMC (Machine and Motion Control) for PC, developed by Giddings & Lewis (Fond du Lac, WI), is a PC-resident motion controller for applications requiring up to 32 axes of servo control.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Electric Enterprise, Inc: Electric Enterprise, Inc: Servo repair service

Sales and repair services for servo motors are provided by Electric Enterprise (Stratford, CT). Large inventory of parts is available, according to supplier.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

DeviceNet3; adopted as International Standard

DeviceNet™ has been adopted as the International Standard by the International Electrochemical Commission (IEC). Responsible for preparing and publishing international electrical, electronic and related standards, IEC member countries recently voted to accept the networking standard, IEC 62026, that includes the DeviceNet specification.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Steeplechase Software Inc: Online information

An ongoing series of timely informational resources from Steeplechase Software (Ann Arbor, MI) is available at the Steeplechase.com Web site www.steeplechase.com/.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Bosch Automation Technology: Automation training

Training products for fluid power professionals from Bosch Automation Technology (Racine, WI) comprise hardware and textbooks along with an interactive multimedia system of 7 CD-ROMs.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Data collection

Entek Enwatch™ from Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) is an Ethernet-based online data collection system for companies seeking to enhance packaging productivity.

November 30, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Automation Intelligence: AC servo systems

Available from Automation Intelligence (Duluth, GA), PE Series AC servo drives with SERCOS are now available for use with Sanyo Denki AC servo motors and AML® multi-axis motion controllers.

November 30, 2000

Secondary Packaging

Markem-Imaje: Networking software

Markem (Keene, NH) has introduced CimControl and Composer V5.2, enhanced versions of its Composer label design and CimControl machine networking software packages.

November 30, 2000

Flexible packaging

Sargento to debut in-line slider

In January, Sargento Foods, Plymouth, WI, will become the first user of the Hefty® Slide-Rite® reclosure system on a package produced on a form/fill/seal machine.

November 30, 2000

Closures

Reclosable fitment cashes in for Arm & Hammer

To eliminate the possibility of having opened packages on store shelves, Church & Dwight Co., maker of Arm & Hammer® products, decided to change the packaging for its Carpet and Room Deodorizer.

November 30, 2000