Metal detection vs. X-ray inspection: What's best for food safety?

Market-driven as well as regulatory mandates keep raising the bar for food processors seeking proper detection of foreign contaminants in food products. This white paper from Thermo Fisher Scientific explains the differences between technologies as well as how and where each is best.

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Mar 19th, 2012

ProMach Acquires Fogg Filler

The acquisition expands ProMach’s filling solutions.

Updated Cap Sorter

Fogg Filler updated the VSE cap sorter to better accommodate the sorting of larger caps and increase speeds by up to 60%.

Se Wc150 Capper

Compact Inline Capper

Silgan Equipment introduces the WC150 compact inline capper is designed to apply 27-110 mm regular and deep twist-off and press-on caps on glass food jars at rates of 100 to150 per/min, depending on cap type and jar style.

The shrink-sleeve labeler features servo drive technology and applies either a full-body or a neck label (shown left).

A Line Designed for Container Variety

When your growing contract packaging business has you using one line for filling glass and plastic in eight sizes and applying both lug and CT caps, that line had better be versatile.

Tekni-Plex Pentafill L+Fill with vial strip.

Tekni-Plex: Pentafill L + Fill Bench-Top Vial Filling/Sealing Machine

The vial filling and sealing machine is designed to allow labs and small-scale pharmaceutical production to benefit from automated filling.

Baumer Hhs Dot Board With Screen

Reduce Hot Melt Consumption

The dot board—part of Baumer’s tesla hot melt product line—is integrated in the control cabinets of machine controllers, establishing a connection between the application heads and the PLCs in such a way that adhesive consumption is dramatically reduced.

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Rotary Tablet Press

The XT 600 HD from Korsch is designed for high-volume, large format, single, and bi-layer tablet production.

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Recyclable Coffee Capsule System

Optima developed GreenLution a recyclable coffee capsule system featuring a single-material capsule with recyclable lid film and a compatible packaging system.

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Somic Equipment Installed at Food Processing Plant

Two new high-speed Somic wraparound case packers are in the final stages of installation at OH SNAP! Pickling Co.’s Wisconsin facility.

Innoket Neo Flex 1

Modular Labeling Machine

The Innoket Neo Flex from KHS is designed to label plastic and glass containers and cans in all standard sizes. The output totals up to 74,000 containers/hr.

Arnaud Dumas de Rauly, co-Founder and CEO of The Blinc Group, addressed the virtual crowd at MJBizConNEXT Direct.

6 Considerations for Automating Cannabis Filling

From maintenance and certification to new data technologies, there’s a lot to think about when purchasing filling and capping equipment.

ProMach Acquires Modern Packaging

ProMach’s acquisition of Modern Packaging, a manufacturer of filling and sealing solutions for the food and dairy industries will expands ProMach’s filling machinery product range with additional capabilities for viscous food and dairy products.

New refrigerated offerings from nutpods.

Refrigerated Oat Creamer from nutpods

Coffee creamer company nutpods, based in Bellevue, WA, has recently introduced a new refrigerated product line: zero sugar oat creamer.

Bossar Bcf 2 Spouted Pouch Fill Cap Press Photo

High Speed Spouted Pouch Filling, Capping System

The Bossar BCF-2 linear system can handle a variety of products and spouted pouch formats as a dual lane linear system filling and capping at 120 to 140 PPM.

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Upgraded Cap Elevators

Fogg Filler offers an upgraded cap elevator that can lift nearly any cap that Fogg can apply, including ROPP caps.

Brown Machine Group Acquires aXatronics Robotics Capabilities Business

Brown Machine Group (BMG) announced the acquisition of the robotics capabilities from automation equipment supplier aXatronics.

Premier Tech Hosts Food Powders Webinar

On June 25, Premier Tech will host PT Live Talks—Food Powders webinar featuring in-depth sessions with industry experts in food powders for North America.

Flex Bot Render High Res

Flexible Packaging System

The Flex-Bot System from Engineered Vision is an automated, flexible packaging system designed for filling trays, counting parts, and packing cases through vision guidance and a vibratory feeder in high-mix low-volume applications.

The GKF 2600, which was developed for the high-performance range, achieves an output of more than 110,000 capsules per hour with capsule size 00.

Pharma Contract Manufacturer Expands Large Batch Production to 110,000 Capsules Per Hour

Wiewelhove expands capsule filling line, enabling the company to fill pellets into capsules with the GKF 2600 from Syntegon Technology. Collaboration on special requests led to a smooth implementation.

Remote FAT Keeps Capsule Filler on Schedule

German herbal medicine maker Dr. Gustav Klein was able to order and receive a new capsule filler from Italian equipment maker MG2 despite COVID-19 restrictions through three days of remote testing and validation.

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Bickford's Group

New Line Features Two Blow/fill Systems

To maximize the ability to change over from one neck diameter to another and to fill either aseptic, CSD, or still products, Bickford’s doubled down on blow/fill technology.

One of the four turnkey KHS lines at Reginald Lee is an Innopack Kisters shrink packer. (Source: KHS Group)

New PET Line for Coca-Cola Bottler Produces 26,000+ bottles/hr

Argentinian Coca-Cola bottler Reginald Lee works with same supplier for four bottling lines, the most recent of which handles hot-fill and carbonated drinks with efficiency and a high degree of automation.

Enercon Presents Webinar on Achieving a Perfect Seal

Enercon and Selig Group collaborated on a webinar that describes the best practices on achieving a perfect seal.

HERMA US: Self-Adjusting System for High-precision Top Labeling

Now available on 452E Top Labeler, system automatically adjusts label position to ensure tight tolerances, even with challenging applications.

Pyraser Landbrauerei has recently invested in a KHS Innofill Glass DRS glass bottle filler.

New Filler for Beer

Pyraser Landbrauerei, founded in 1868 in the Franconia region of Germany, recently invested in a KHS Innofill Glass DRS filler.

Mark Navin, Vice President of Sales, Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery

Spee-Dee Promotes Mark Navin to Vice President of Sales

Navin to lead company’s entire sales effort after 25 years of strategic account success.

Engage Technologies Awarded ISO Certification

Engage Technologies Corp. was awarded the ISO 9001:2015 Certification for Quality Management Systems.

X Days Marchesini

Marchesini Group Presents “X DAYS 2020” Online Events

Topics will cover industrial strategies, sectorial trends and new technologies.

Scholle Ipn Surefill100 40 Flexible Packaging Filling Equipment

AlliedFlex Technologies and Scholle IPN Announce North American Sales and Marketing Alliance

AlliedFlex and Scholle IPN entered into a Sales and Marketing Alliance whereby AlliedFlex will offer Sholle’s IPN Aseptic Spouted Pouch Packaging Machinery and IPN Bag in Box Machinery program as part of its Flexible Packaging Machinery portfolio.

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Harpak-ULMA Announces Packaging Design & Prototyping Services

Harpak-ULMA announced a new suite of packaging design and prototyping services to help producers more rapidly and cost-effectively develop and operationalize innovative packaging concepts.

Liquid Filling Machine

Spartan Parts, a subsidiary of Fogg Filler Co., launches the SP-63 gravity liquid filling machine. Machine can fill liquids up to 40 bottles/min for a 250 mL bottle.

Machine Efficiency and the Impacts of Sustainable Packaging

Many primary packaging lines are no longer dedicated to a single product as SKUs increase, impacting line efficiency. Sustainable material changes may also create challenges.