Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Bus communications

Highlighted in a color brochure are Baldor's (Fort Smith, AR) new bus communication capabilities, including connectivity to various industrial communications networks and solutions for DeviceNet, Profibus DP and Modbus Plus.

July 31, 1999

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1750

Additives, coatings & inks

Survey results

PCI (PET Packaging, Resin & Recycling) Ltd.'s (Derby, England) annual survey of post-consumer PET bottle collection volumes is included in the company's March 1999 PET Recycling Consulting Service bi-monthly business report.

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Machine Systems Inc: Label dispensers

Three stainless-steel tabletop label dispensers are now available from MSI (Grand Rapids, MI). The stainless construction fosters simple and fast clean-up.

July 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Package distributor

Sorting packages at speeds to 80/min, the VertiSort from Span Tech (Glasgow, KY) is recommended for use in mail-order fulfillment houses that ship packs up to 20 lb.

July 31, 1999

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

U.S. Bottlers Machinery Company: Pusher/filler

U.S Bottlers' (Charlotte, NC) pickle pusher/syruper is a monobloc pusher/filler that first presses fruits/vegetables fully into their containers, then indexes the containers to a vacuum filler that supplies the juice or syrup.

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging Strategies: Aseptic packaging study

Packaging Strategies (West Chester, PA) has published "Aseptic Packaging in the United States," a comprehensive market study and equipment census for the aseptic packaging market.

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Inserter

The PromoSerter(TM) from EPI (New Freedom, PA) inserts individually wrapped 2- and 3-dimensional promotional pieces into packages. Handles inserts 2"Lx1"W up to 43/4"Lx3"Wx1"D.

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Summit Training Source, Inc: Training programs catalog

A new 64-page catalog of industrial safety and hygiene training programs is available from Summit Training Source (Grand Rap-ids, MI). Contains descriptions of 250 training products in video, interactive CD-ROM, Digital Safety Video(TM) and on-line formats.

July 31, 1999

Controls & machine components

Heat-sealing machine

A new tabletop heat-sealing machine from Packaging Technologies & Inspection (Tuckahoe, NY) has a pneumatic sliding table and is designed for trays and cups as tall as 150 mm (5.9").

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Evergreen Packaging: Gabletop carton filler

Evergreen's (Cedar Rapids, IA) Model N-8 fills gabletop cartons with 4 to 10 oz of dairy or juice beverages at speeds to 340 cpm. The improved speed (from the company's initial 320/min rating) translates into the ability to fill an additional 10ꯠ containers in each 8-hr shift.

July 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Container and Pallet Services: Tracking software

Container and Pallet Services (San Francisco, CA) has introduced CAPS-TRAC(TM), a Web-based software system designed to track and manage shipping containers via the Internet.

July 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

Steady growth seen for food packaging machinery sales

A market intelligence report reveals a positive outlook for U.S. food packaging equipment through 2003.

July 31, 1999

Contract packaging

Filling on a budget

Economical pressure filler is easy to operate and handles viscous product for start-up contract packager GLH Industries.

July 31, 1999