Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Premade fill-seal stand-up pouch equipment

The new Robert's IMP 1500 intermittent-motion fill/seal machine produces premade pouches for frozen foods, snacks, rice, and other products, in sizes from a few oz to 20 lab, with 20-min changeovers.

November 26, 2012

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW): Page 908

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Flexibility in blister packaging machinery

Customers said they wanted more flexibility in their blister-packaging machinery, so Algus responded with the Universal-8, which features an Omron Machine Automation Controller.

November 26, 2012

Secondary Packaging

FL3000-R high speed, floor level palletizer

The latest innovation from Columbia Machine is changing the future of floor level palletizers. The FL3000-R is a high speed, floor level hybrid palletizer that marries robotic capability and simple conventional palletizer design into a very powerful package.

November 26, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Code assurance, high uptime with thermal ink jet

PACK EXPO 2012: Videojet Technologies' 8510 thermal ink-jet printer uses the company's CLARiSUITE code assurance software to increase productivity and reduce human error, while simple and quick ink cartridge changes allow for maximum uptime. Printer accommodates both primary and secondary packaging.

November 26, 2012

Flow wrapping

T.H.E.M. offering stick pack R&D center

North America's stick packaging leader, T.H.E.M., is offering comprehensive development services to companies interested in developing new stick pack applications.

November 26, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Large-character printer for nonporous, coated board

PACK EXPO 2012: The large-character Diagraph IJ3000 ink-jet printer uses a Trident-based print engine, printing on nonporous, coated material with solvent-based ink. Technology is said to be easy to use and easy to program.

November 25, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Ethernet ink-jet printer handles all printheads from one location

PACK EXPO 2012: A cost-effective alternative to adhesive labels and preprinted corrugated cartons, Matthews Marking Systems Viacode high-resolution ink-jet printing system uses Ethernet technology for distributed printing of primary, secondary, or tertiary coding applications.

November 25, 2012

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Vertical f/f/s machine runs PE film

Vertical form/fill/seal machine from TNA is especially suitable for use with PE film, which brings TNA more aggressively into the fresh produce arena.

November 25, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Shrink wrapper deploys new Robo-Wand technology

Shrink wrapper from Standard Knapp uses Robo-Wand tray wrapping technology to meter trays through wrapping and shrink tunnel.

November 25, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Best practices for specifying stretch wrapping equipment

Consider your optimum force, your equipment's impact on freight and labor...and more when specifying a stretch wrapper.

November 25, 2012

Controls & Machine Components

Mechatronics optimizes machine performance

Lenze focused its Pack Expo message on how an emphasis on mechatronics results in drives, motors, and gear boxes that let machinery OEMs keep machine performance at a high level while footprint is minimized.

November 24, 2012

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Pack Expo 2012: Stretch sleeve labels require no heat

High-elasticity stretch sleeve labels from MRI are applied by machinery made by PDC International. These PE labels require no heat for shrinking.

November 24, 2012

Robotics

Precision Motion Using Pneumatic Actuators

Enfield Technologies introduces its pneumatic actuators for precise motion control at it booth. The concept allows for pneumatic actuators to work like electric drives while suporting high loads and reducing machine footprint.

November 23, 2012