Controls & Machine Components

Redlake MASD, Inc: Motion analysis

The new MotionScope PCI color series motion analyzer from Redlake Imaging (Morgan Hill, CA) captures mechanical events that are too fast for the eye to perceive.

March 31, 1999

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 1780

Controls & Machine Components

High-gloss label stock

Westvaco Corp. (New York, NY) has introduced a C1S facing paper for p-s labels that offers a high-gloss "wet look." AquaGloss(TM) is a 60-lb paper for flexo and gravure printing.

March 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

United Parcel Service: New shipping rates

United Parcel Service's (Atlanta, GA) 1999 rates show the smallest rate increase in 11 years, while U.S. origin international services will have no increase for the second consecutive year.

March 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Rovema Packaging Machines L.P.: Electronic drive/control

Packaging machines from Rovema (Lawrenceville, GA) now incorporate electronic drive and control technology. Programmable systems are separately driven functional units that help increase performance, reduce wear and increase flexibility.

March 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

McBrady Eng., Inc: Bottle rinser

McBrady's (Joliet, IL) HS-600 gripper belt-type bottle rinser is available in 10'-, 20'- or 30'-L models that offer speeds up to 700 bpm.

March 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Upper Limits Engineering Co.: Bagger/sealer for free-flowing products

Upper Limits' (Livermore, CA) WicketWonder M2000 bags free-flowing product at speeds to 30/min. After filling bags, which can be as large as 24"Wx32"L, the automatic machine uses a rotary band to seal them.

March 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

IPL Material Handling: Metric-size returnable produce containers

IPL Inc. (Northboro, MA) is developing a line of metric-sized returnable produce containers (RPCs). They are designed to transport fruits and vegetables from the field to point of purchase.

March 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Associated Bag Co.: Products catalog

Associated Bag's (Milwaukee, WI) 1999 General Catalog, Volume 1, provides 132 color pages describing the company's products. Included are 400 new items, which are highlighted in the front of the catalog.

March 31, 1999

Flexibles

Candy package meets a tough deadline

Beverly Hills-based Taste of Nature was all set last spring to launch its new Cookie Dough Bites at Chicago's All Candy Expo in June. There was just one small problem: The company hadn't settled on a package.

March 31, 1999

Sustainability

Neck band dresses up olive oil bottle

A tamper-evident neck band extruded from cellulose is providing an attractive topping for glass bottles of Pizza Express's olive oil. Based in London, Pizza Express runs a chain of more than 200 pizza restaurants in England, with additional outlets in Russia, the Middle East, and soon, the U.S.

March 31, 1999

Protective/transport packaging

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

FP Intl. (Redwood City, CA) plans to break ground in May on a new 160ꯠ sq' mfg. facility in Hopkinsville, KY, which will manufacture Cushion-Lite® PE foam and a variety of other products.

March 31, 1999

Closures

Proposed irradiation labeling draws fire

Too little, too late was the reaction of the National Food Processors Assn. (NFPA) to FDA's advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) for irradiation labeling.

March 31, 1999

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Sodium nitrite labeling

The Grocery Manufacturers of America is urging California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) not to list sodium nitrite as a "developmental toxicant" under the state's Proposition 65 chemical warning label law.

March 31, 1999