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Controls & Machine Components

Keyence Corp. of America: Small, fast PLC

Keyence's (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) Visual-KV(TM) PLC allows program parameters to be changed in real time. Featuring a 2-color data window, the unit is 2/3 the size of conventional PLCs but executes instructions in 0.7 microsec.

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Controls & Machine Components

AZCO Corp.: AZCO Corp.: Pouch dispenser

Azco's (Elmwood Park, NJ) SP-110 Sur-Pak pouch dispenser is a high-speed, low-maintenance, heavy-duty dispenser that inserts medium-sized pouched products up to 60 g (2.1 oz) into another packaging operation at 300 pouches/min.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motor controls

Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) introduces a new line of controls for brushless linear motors. All 3 models--the LinDrive, the Lin+Drive and the MintDrive--plug directly into the wall and have autotune routines to self-adjust after initial set-up.

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Controls & Machine Components

Warner Electric, Altra Industrial Motion: Warner Electric, Altra Industrial Motion: Motion control brochure

A new brochure from Warner Electric Motors and Controls (Ann Arbor, MI) details the company's integrated solutions capabilities. Brochure highlights Warner Electric's value-added services, system products and turnkey approach to integrated system solutions.

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Tamper-evident machinery

Nestle tests novel can technology in Brazil

An easy-to-open vacuum lid means no tools are needed to open this three-piece steel can. Once the can is opened, no rough edges threaten the fingers.

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Cartoning

Flexible bag becomes all wet

Bag serves as a self-contained, disposable dehumidifier. Calcium chloride in a top portion absorbs moisture, that drains into the bag's lower portion. Filling machinery saves labor costs for DampRid.

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Sustainability

California battle looms over plastics recycling

Plastics recycling and recycled content of containers initiate new legislative conflicts in California. Industry and environmentalists appear polarized, as legislators look for common ground.

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Flexibles

Aseptic filling sans sterilants

When a Colombian beverage marketer became the first to produce a packaged version of the popular Avena drink, the company used aseptic technology that was simple and secure.

October 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

Favorable market conditions foster growth in flexibles

Flexible packaging material sales are expected to reach nearly $18.1 billion this year, a 3.7% increase from 1998. Converters expect the surgical/medical markets to show the strongest growth during the next five years.

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Conveying & accumulation

Accraply, Inc A Division of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc: Wraparound labeler

The Model 35PW product handling and labeling system from Accraply (Plymouth, MN) applies paper, film or thin p-s labels to rectangular and cylindrical containers at speeds to 800/min.

October 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

SIG Positec Automation: Controllers

The Twin Line range of motion-control products from SIG Positec Automation (Plymouth, MI) permits one system to operate both stepping motors and AC servo motors at the same time.

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Controls & Machine Components

Rexam Closures & Containers: Rexam Closures & Containers: CR closure and tube

TubeLoK from Rexam Closures (Evansville, IN) and Cebal Tubes North America is a CR closure and tube concept. The package meets the new Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations for products that may contain lidocaine or dibucaine and come in a tube.

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