Controls & Machine Components

Kalish, a member of DT Industries Packaging Group: Leaflet placer

The Rotosert Leaflet Placer from Kalish Packaging Systems (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) can insert, outsert or topsert on the same machine at speeds to 120/min.

April 30, 1999

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Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Programming software

VersaPro(TM) PLC programming software for Windows(TM)-based personal computers is available from GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA). Supports both Instruction List and Relay Ladder Diagram programming editors and provides switching capabilities between the two languages.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Sig Beverages/Simonazzi: Sig Beverages/Simonazzi: Bottle-transfer starwheel

Sasib Food & Beverage Machinery (Parma, Italy) has developed the Simonazzi Universal glass/PET bottle transfer starwheel system for quick changeover.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

REB, Inc: Filling system

The Model IVS-10 in-line piston filling system from REB (Menomonie, WI) fills less than 1 oz or as much as 1 L with accuracy within ±0.5% of the specified fill weight.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Sensormatic: Sensormatic: Sensormatic: Source tagging

Graphic Resources (Cedar Rapids, IA) offers source tagging for products and packages to manufacturers and retailers. The company has experience apply-ing various types of source tags, including Sensormatic and Checkpoint Systems.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: CD-ROM product guide

An interactive multimedia guide from Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL) combines all of the company's product, application and technical literature into a single, user-friendly CD-ROM.

April 30, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

PSI: PSI: Vacuum pumps

Designed for use in high-flow applications that call for moderate vacuum levels, the low-pressure M Series of pneumatically driven pumps from PIAB (Rockland, MA) provide up to 27" Hg vacuum at an inlet pressure of 49 psi.

April 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

OTC drugs sport new labels

Over-the-counter drugs must contain a new standardized format label designed to make it easier for consumers to understand a drug's benefits, risks and proper use, according to a new regulation from the U.S.

April 30, 1999

Flexibles

Clarification

In the March issue of Packaging World, a p. 36 story about a paint pouch marketed by Testor Corp. identified the flexible film structure incorrectly.

April 30, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bottled water labeling

Bottled water may be safe, but the environmental activist group Natural Resources Defense Council petitioned FDA to set strict limits for a wide variety of contaminants in bottled water and to require bottled water labels to disclose contaminants.

April 30, 1999

Containers

New tube attracts Asian market

A sleek new tube carries on the Elizabeth Arden tradition of understated elegance. The 4.2-oz tube of Visible Whitening Foaming Cleanser is made solely for the Asian market--Japan, Korea and the Asia-Pacific regions.

April 30, 1999

Flexibles

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Duralam Inc. (Appleton, WI) has signed an agreement to purchase the flexible packaging converting business of Devro-Teepak (Danville, IL) and will move the mfg.

April 30, 1999

Closures

Hormel's pack makes bacon ready-to-eat

For the first time, fully precooked bacon strips are now available virtually anywhere in the supermarket. A new thermoformed MAP flexible package allows Hormel Foods, Austin, MN, to pack oxygen-sensitive cooked bacon slices without refrigeration for up to four months.

April 30, 1999