Controls & Machine Components

Linear motor cuts TCO on packaging machines

From Linmot comes a linear servo motor that is especially suitable for packaging machinery manufacturers working to combine linear and rotary motion.

December 4, 2012

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 904

Controls & Machine Components

Nestlé demonstrates power of OMAC

Nestlé showed how standards like PackML increase the productivity and innovation of packaging lines.

December 4, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Laser printing of tubes

New technology from Domino makes it possible to laser print two sides of a tube at one time.

December 4, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.: Hypoid gearmotor

Bison Gear’s PowerSTAR, a new hypoid, maximum efficiency, right-angle gearmotor, uses the company's Robusticity design to improve energy efficiency for a smaller carbon footprint and maximum power density.

December 4, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Robotic case packer for 14,000 bottles/hr

The Robomax 200 from Italproject, which is capable of case packing 14,000 bottles/hr, uses a specially designed feedscrew principle and an ABB robot.

December 4, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

Green marketing pitfalls to avoid

Read these tips to learn those things you need to avoid when making green marketing claims, in order to comply with the FTC’s new ‘Green Guides.’

December 3, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

U.S. demand for PCR plastic to reach 3.5 billion lb in 2016

While demand for PCR plastic is set to grow 6.5% in the U.S. in the next four years, the overall rate of recycling will remain low—less than 7% of the total plastic demand.

December 3, 2012

Cartoning

Mediseal demonstrates pharma stick pack machine

Koerber Medipak’s Mediseal group produces customized, flexible sachet and stick pack machines, sideload cartoners and blister machines. All use B&R control systems to deliver flexible servo-driven modules customized to user requirements.

December 3, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Seidenader innovates with serialization

Thought you needed two or three computers to perform serialization functions on a packaging line? Seidenader, a subsidiary of Koerber Medipak, has teamed with B&R Industrial Automation to implement its serialization software on a single industrial hardened PC and touch panel with integrated soft PLC, I/O, vision interface capabilities and global support.

December 3, 2012

Conveying & accumulation

Kinsley debuts swing divider with stacked screws

Need to divide into 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 lanes? It’s no problem with Kinsley’s new swing divider. Dual-drive servos and controls from B&R make it easy to set up, compact, flexible and maintainable. It can fill on demand to equipment running at different speeds, it can turn containers, and can be used with single or stacked timing screws for unstable containers.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

TopTier’s Downstacker uses advanced drive technology

New Downstacker series palletizers from TopTier support from 11 to 30 high performance drives to maximize performance. The control technology, from B&R Industrial Automation, has reduced wiring, simplified startup and maintenance.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Dividella pharma cartoner runs 80 to 240 cartons per minute

Using a hundred servo axes, the reconfigurable, GMP design, modular Dividella cartoner from Koerber Medipak provides rapid changeover, recipe management, data access, detailed diagnostics, and simplified parameterization instead of programming, all from a graphical HMI. The control system from B&R features a unified software and hardware platform and is housed underneath the machine frame, minimizing footprint. Interfaces for vision and coding systems simplify integration.

December 3, 2012

Secondary Packaging

High speed shrink bundler from Cermex

VersaFilm shrink bundler reduces the need for corrugated material and achieves 1,000 bottle per minute throughputs with over 98% efficiency, using a new B&R automation platform. User friendly screen helps operators and technicians access information to maximize uptime.

December 3, 2012