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Rexroth Indramat’s (Hoffman Estates, IL) new PPC (Combined Motion & Logic Controller) eliminates the need for a separate PLC on horizontal form/fill/seal machines from AmeriPak (Warrington, PA).

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The design also saves the cost of a high-performance industrial PC while retaining open architecture communications including a SERCOS digital drive network.

Onboard the wrapper, a touchscreen HMI replaces a traditional control panel, while the 3-axis flow wrapper uses servos on the main lug conveyor, end crimper/knife assembly, and fin-seal assembly drives. Advanced built-in functionality provides no-gap, no-seal and no-product, no-wrap features. A machine is shipping to AmeriPak’s lead customer as this issue goes to press.

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This x-ray inspection system now helps ensure that no foreign bodies make their way into the final packaged product.

QC Boost Through X-ray Inspection

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EDL Packaging shipped a Double Tight Wrap shrink bundler for molded pulp fiber beverage carriers and food trays to a supplier of food packaging materials.

Among the machines featuring the new heat seal bar technology is the FM 060 horizontal form/fill/seal machine.

New Tech Comes to Heat Seal Bars

This packaging machinery OEM is pioneering the use of a brand new method of making heat seal bars that is adapted from printed circuit board manufacturing.

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Mettler’s application test center enables companies considering adding new inspection systems to their operations to test-run their own products on Mettler-Toledo systems to ensure they are choosing the correct systems to get the results they need.

Both standard wraparound cases and a retail-ready format are handled by the case packer.

Hartz Mountain liquid filling line upgrade features unscrambling through case packing

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Bell's Brewery of Kalamazoo, Mich., has made great use of its one-up seamer.

One-up Can Seamer Boosts Sales of Crowlers

The installation of a one-up can seamer has been a big help at Bell’s Brewery in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions that put a dent in the taproom business that the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based brewery has enjoyed for some years now.

The 14-station rotary filler runs at a steady 35 bottles/min when 750-mL bottles are in production.

Utah Distillery Opts for Bottling Upgrade

From hand filling and labeling to a fully enclosed rinse/fill/cork solution with a ‘de-dusting’ component, High West Distillery is making its mark in the whisky category.

The Innofill Glass DRS-ZMS filler handles 0.33- and 0.5-L returnable glass bottles.

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Scholle IPN Acquires Bossar

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Versynta FFP can be easily converted to different container types such as vials, syringes and cartridges, as well as different filling systems including single-use solutions.

Syntegon: Modular Small Batch Systems for Liquid Pharmaceuticals

Versynta FFP, Flexible Filling Platform, offers a unique transport system and safety for vials, syringes, and cartridges.

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R.A Jones Debuts Automatic Magazine Loader for Cartoning Machines

R.A Jones’ proprietary carton correction technology is designed to offer diverse CPG manufacturers safe, efficient, and flexible production.

E-Pak Machinery Announces Expansion Plans

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M.R .Machine Knives, a UK-based manufacturer of machine knives, secured a £4m investment from private equity firm Foresight Group to support its global expansion.

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