Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: MES software

PharmaSuite MES Software is a single track-and-trace system for batch and discrete production.

April 22, 2015

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 740

Controls & Machine Components

Why your manufacturing environment may soon run in the cloud

Learn why cloud computing is quickly becoming the dominant architecture from plant to supply chain.

April 22, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Aventics: Electro-pneumatic positioning system

Pneumatic positioning with standard “off the shelf“components.

April 22, 2015

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

Ready meals launched in Japan

Konan Foods Co., Ltd, a food producer in Kochi, Japan, has launched a new line of ready meals whose refrigerated shelf life is extended thanks to in-pack microwave pasteurization.

April 22, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

B&R opens 25th subsidiary in Singapore

B&R’s new Singapore office is strategically located to serve the entire Southeast Asia region

April 22, 2015

Sustainability

High-recycled content can for GA microbrewery

Microbrewery embraces aluminum can with at least 90% recycled content for its craft beers, citing the can’s sustainability benefits for the brewery and for the community.

April 22, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Solid state relay line

AutomationDirect’s offering of industrial relays has been expanded to include additional electromechanical and solid state relays.

April 21, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor: Linear actuator and driver package

Oriental Motor USA introduces the newest generation compact linear actuator and driver package, the DRLII Series.

April 21, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Krones acquires label machinery company Gernep

Krones AG purchases a 100% stake in the Gernep Group, which has annual revenues of 10 million euros.

April 21, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Clippard: Miniature pressure regulators

The MAR-1 miniature pressure regulator has become very popular as a simple, robust, and cost-effective regulator in a small package with exceptionally long life, offered in either relieving or non-relieving versions.

April 21, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Universal, all-servo case/tray packer

The HCP wraparound case packer from PMI Cartoning handles cases with inner or outer fifth flaps as well as trays of product; custom in-feed and product-handling systems allow the HCP to run at speeds up to 30 cases/min.

April 20, 2015

Cartons and boxes

Golf ball package hits a hole in one

Packaging for Titleist golf balls is awarded AIMCAL’s Product of the Year for its transfer-metallized sleeves and cartons, which offer an ‘almost a 3D effect.’

April 20, 2015

Plastics/resins

Projecting growth for the antimicrobial plastic market

Packaging and healthcare applications to help drive demand for these products, with MarketsandMarkets forecasting their worth to reach $3.6 Billion by 2020.

April 19, 2015