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Rotary Filler Helps Keep Pace With Booming Collagen Market
To keep up with skyrocketing demand for its collagen powders, Vital Proteins turned to Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery and its rotary filler. It boosted production from 20 to 100 plastic canisters a minute, also improving safety and ease of operation.
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Duravant Appoints Chief Commercial Officer
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Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada Names New President and CEO
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ProMach Names Chief Operating Officer
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Preventative Maintenance Agreements Extend Equipment Life
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Stretch Blow Molding Machines
FlexBlow launches the Beauty series two-stage stretch blow molding machines. Machines offer quick changeovers from oval narrow neck cosmetic bottles to shallow wide-mouth jars in 30 min.
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Multivac Breaks Ground on State-of-the-Art Logistics Center
Multivac, Inc. recently held a ground-breaking ceremony on its new 33,000 sq-ft Logistics Center in Kansas City, MO.
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Industry award to honor packaging and processing professionals
Beginning March 3, PMMI will accept nominations for the Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame. Since 1971, this prestigious award has recognized some of the most distinguished contributors to industry. Learn more »
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Cooling Conveyor for Raw Bakery Dough
Multi-Conveyor recently built a stainless steel, three-tiered wire mesh belt cooling conveyor to transport raw bakery dough over 94 ft.
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Metall+Plastic Appoints Managing Director
Dr. Christian Heuer was appointed Managing Director of Metall+Plastic.
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Tablet/Capsule Counter
The Pharmafill TC3 tablet/capsule counter from Deitz Co. features a variable speed, vibratory feeder chute to allow precise control over the flow rate of tablets, capsules, pills, and other solid dosage forms.
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Down Bottle Reject System
Fogg Filler offers the down bottle reject system that forces downed bottles to be rejected through a mechanical motion with no electrical or programming required. System can handle bottles ranging from 5-10 oz and can be applicable up to 32 oz.
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New Blender Upgrade Boosts Entire Soda Filling Operation
By adopting Bevcorp’s new MicrO2 system, Admiral Beverage simplified deaeration, optimized blending, and sped up both filling and changeovers.
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Adaptable Gripping Solution
New coDrive technology from Soft Robotics is a modular system that brings the patented and proven mGrip soft gripper technology to collaborative robots without the requirement for tethered pressurized air
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Case Packing System
Brown Machine Group introduces the ComPack Series case packing system designed to erect cartons and pack product sequentially within the same machine.
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Engage Technologies Corp. Names North Central Packaging Specialist
Engage Technologies Corp., the parent company of Squid Ink Mfg., Eastey, American Film & Machinery (AFM), and Cogent Technologies, promoted David Mylrea Jr. to Packaging Specialist—North Central Region for the Eastey and AFM divisions.
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Co-Packer Rebuilds After Devastating Fire
After a fire destroyed 95% of its business, organic baby foods provider Initiative Foods shows determination and integrity as it rebuilds, launching a new facility and an innovative new package.
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Thermoformed Skin Packs Catch Attention, Hook Consumers
To accommodate retailers’ and consumers’ growing demand for case-ready skin packs of fresh fish, this seafood processor and packager turned to flexible, high-speed thermoforming equipment that makes sanitation easy.
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World’s Fastest Aseptic PET Lines with Dry Preform Decontamination
China’s Jin Mai Lang recently installed two complete aseptic PET lines, both leveraging Sidel’s dry preform decontamination system known as Aseptic Combi Predis™.
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Honeywell: Camera-based detection system
Honeywell, in collaboration with Papertech, launches TotalVision, a connected, camera-based detection system for the flat sheet industries that enables users to identify and resolve defects on the production line.
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Technica International: Pallet inspection system
Technica’s pallet inspection system is designed to inspect wooden or plastic pallets used in factories for major and common defects.
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HMC Products: Smart conveyor system
HMC Products offers a smart conveyor system that controls off-loaded product in several different modes. It features an HMI, PLC, VFD, and two sensors.
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NiMCO Corp.: Vf/f/s machine for gable-top cartons
NiMCO’s Model 3140 Dry Fill is a single lane vf/f/s machine for gable-top cartons.
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Loveshaw: Automatic hot melt case former
Loveshaw introduces an alternative solution to adhesive tape sealing with its CF-50G hot melt case former. It utilizes the Nordson Pro Liberty glue system, is designed to seal RSC and HSC corrugated cases, and can erect and bottom seal up to 15 cases/min.
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Thermo Scientific: Multi-scan metal detector
Thermo Scientific launches the Sentinel 3000 multi-scan metal detector designed for checkweigher combination systems in food production facilities. Unit’s multi-scan technology allows users to select up to five frequencies from 50 to 1000 kHz and scan through each frequency at a rapid rate.
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MMC Packaging Equipment: High-speed Closure Slitting, Band Folding Machine
The machine is engineered with Industry 4.0 attributes and features a six-camera vision inspection to meet quality objectives.
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PamerPack: Filling/capping machine
PamerPack offers the FILCAP-X designed for packing liquids and capping small-size, unstable, non-standard packaging not suitable for conditioning in a linear system.
