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Controls & Machine Components

Exair Corporation: Blowoff kit

Designed for blowoff, cooling and drying functions, the Model 1909 Blowoff Kit from Exair (Cincinnati, OH) gives the customer the choice of air pattern and force.

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Controls & Machine Components

O. Berk Company: PET jars

O. Berk (Union, NJ) has introduced a line of low-profile and straight-base injection-molded PET jars. The low-profile jars are available in 2-, 4- and 8-oz sizes.

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Controls & Machine Components

Berlin Pkg.: Product catalog

Berlin Packaging’s (Arlington Heights, IL) 1999-2000 product catalog is available. The 64-page color catalog displays plastic, glass and metal containers offered by the company.

February 29, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: Industrial motors catalog

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has published the new Reliance Electric Industrial Motors Catalog for 2000. The 262-page catalog has been expanded to include standard products and the modification options available to them.

February 29, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

DHL Airways, Inc: Shipping service

DHL Airways (Redwood City, CA) has launched ThermoExpress™, the air express industry’s first temperature-controlled shipping service. Offers an alternative to dry ice for shipment of perishables.

February 29, 2000

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AutomationDirect: Schematic software

Automationdirect.com (Cumming, GA) has introduced VIADirect UltraLITE, an entry-level software suite that aids engineers in the design and layout of control systems.

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Controls & Machine Components

Advantage Puck: Carrier pucks

A color catalog sheet from Advantage Puck Group (Mishawaka, IN) highlights ways that product carrier pucks help pack-aging lines run at higher line speeds and reduce changeover time.

February 29, 2000

Controls & Machine Components

Nigrelli Systems Inc: Systems brochure

A 4-page color brochure from Nigrelli Systems (Kiel, WI) features the company’s packaging equipment systems. Ten machines are displayed in large photos, with accompanying descriptions.

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Controls & Machine Components

Who attended

More than 70 people representing at least 40 companies attended the recent OMAC Packaging Motion for Packaging Working Group meeting in March in Chicago.

February 29, 2000

Flexibles

Ferreting out a pouch

When Marshall Pet Products of Wolcott, NY, introduced its Premium Ferret Diet food in a 4-lb size last October, it opted for a resealable stand-up pouch from Cryovac (Duncan, SC). “Our product doesn’t stay on the shelf long,” company vice president Peter Reid is happy to report. “But compared to more typical paper/plastic structures with a 12-month shelf life, this pouch has about twice the shelf life. It provides excellent oxygen barrier for the premium meat-based product.”

February 29, 2000

Sustainability

Euro brewer debuts 'glass' inner-coated PET bottle

New technologies for beer in plastic are moving forward. Among the newsiest launches is in Sweden, where Spendrups Brewery of Stockholm in March introduced its Norrlands Guld beer in 500-mL (16.9 oz) high-barrier Glaskin bottles. Developed by Tetra Pak (Geneva, Switzerland), the proprietary Glaskin technology relies on a vacuum deposition process to coat the inside of blown PET bottles with a clear layer of silicon oxide.Spendrups is the first to use the technology on a commercial basis.

February 29, 2000

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

OMAC group tackles packaging motion standards

OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Motion for Packaging Working Group hammers out a specific mission and four key areas to simplify motion controls for packaging machinery. Areas include: defining business benefits of open controls; standardize on programming languages; standardize on network protocols; foster education in motion control technologies in tech schools and colleges.

February 29, 2000