Columbia Machine: Bag palletizer

Bag palletizer from Columbia Machine (Vancouver, WA) is constructed to provide at least 25 years of service life, says company. Said to save labor and injury costs by replacing hand stacking of bags.

Columbia Machine, Inc.

Nov 30th, 2000

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A “pop-up” turntable automatically orients bags in specific patterns for product identification and to create more stable loads. Features rugged and dependable hydraulic design.

Columbia Machine, Inc.

Packaging World Interview: HL4200 High Level Palletizer

Packaging World Interview: HL4200 High Level Palletizer

HL4200 High Level Palletizer

HL4200 High Level Palletizer

New HL4200 High Level Palletizer

New HL4200 High Level Palletizer

Dorner Clamping Module Adjustable Width

Clamping Module Option for Conveyors

Dorner is offering a clamping module on its FlexMove conveyor system that gives users the ability to hold back or pace products for accumulating applications.

Multi-packer Helps Historic Brewery Juggle Multiplying SKUs

There’s a lot more than bock beer in Shiner, Texas. A new automated secondary packaging system allowed Spoetzl Brewery to expand its range of formats, automate variety packs, and ultimately, reach all new cohorts of beer drinkers.

ITW Hartness Launches New Website and E-Commerce Platform

ITW Hartness unveiled a newly designed website featuring an e-commerce platform, HartnessPARTS, designed for customers to order spare parts online in a user-friendly and efficient fashion.

At 33 meters in length, 13 sub-machines, up to 33,000 bottles an hour – the new packaging machine at Rotkäppchen-Mumm not only has an impressive set of statistics but also provides outstanding flexibility.

Big Packaging Line in a Small Footprint? No Problem if it Handles a Dozen Formats

With the large but flexible Innopack TLM packaging system, a KHS and Schubert collaboration, this many-SKU winery used just one machine to pack a dozen formats and varieties.

Horizontal Flow Wrapper

Formost Fuji introduces the CX II horizontal flow wrapper. By utilizing induction fin seal heaters, it saves energy with faster temperature response and higher accuracy.

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Liquid Atomizing Spray Nozzle

Exair’s 1/4 NPT FullStream liquid atomizing spray nozzle provides a full cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids. They are designed to solve cooling, cleaning, washing, rinsing, and dust suppression in a variety of applications.

Eagle Pi Trace Server Software

Traceability Software

Eagle Product Inspection developed proprietary TraceServer software designed to record production data and machine status information from one or more x-ray machines and consolidate it into a single, easy to interrogate SQL database.

Lantech Announces Partnership With Rees Machinery Group

Lantech, LLC announced a global, strategic partnership with Rees Machinery Group (RMGroup, Ltd), combining Lantech’s expertise in case and tray handling equipment with RMGroup’s innovative, robotic automation systems.

Somic Oh Snap! 2

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.

Douglas Machine Offers Replacement Parts Program

Douglas Machine designed the PartsPlus proactive parts program to help maintain maximum performance in packaging equipment and avoid costly downtime.

Teledyne TapTone Hits Sales Milestone

Teledyne TapTone announced it built and shipped the 500th T550 inspection system.

Metered Servo Merge By Multi Conveyor High Res

Multi-Conveyor Builds Metered Servo Merging Conveyor

Multi-Conveyor recently built a high-speed metered servo merging conveyor as part of a larger system to transport packaged food. It feeds a series of servo belt conveyors to gap two lanes of product into a single lane flow using DARB technology.

Dorner Ert250 Conveyor

Dorner Conveyor Receives Class 4 Cleanroom Certification

Dorner’s Edge Roller Technology (ERT250) conveyor received certification for use in ISO Standard 14644-1 Class 4 rated cleanrooms. This means Dorner’s ERT250 will conform and not contribute to the contamination of cleanrooms to those standards.

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EDL Packaging Names Director of Sales

EDL Packaging, A Massman Co., named David O’Keefe Director of Sales at its Green Bay, Wis. location.

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Mettler-Toledo Offers Free Product Evaluation and Testing Services

To help manufacturers access expert advice to select the right inspection equipment for their products, Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection is providing free product evaluation and testing services.

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Proseal Launches Tray Positioning System

Proseal launched a first of its kind tray positioning system that calculates the required tray-spacing set-up parameters for individual tray sealing tool-sets, eliminating the trial and error usually associated with this process.

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WIPOTEC-OCS: Single-Cell Catchweigher Combining Weigh Bridge with Strain Gauge Technology

New HC-Warehouse Scale eliminates need for additional strain gauges commonly found in competitive scales. Unit also incorporates predictive maintenance for reduced downtime.

Emidio Zorzella (right) and Massimo Bonardi founded Antares Vision in 2007.

Antares Vision Named Technological Partner of Choice for IMA Group

A five-year agreement takes Antares beyond pharmaceutical packaging, making it the exclusive supplier of all inspection and tracking technologies for IMA Group, including food and bev, cosmetics, and medical devices.

X-ray Inspection Machine

The Eagle Pack 430 X-ray inspection machine with MDX technology is designed to remove difficult-to-find inorganic contaminants such as glass, small pieces of rocks, dense rubber, and plastic.

Heat and Control Celebrates 70th Anniversary

Founded in 1950, Heat and Control, Inc. celebrates its 70th anniversary on June 27, 2020. Heat and Control will celebrate this platinum occasion with a 12-month long celebration.

More in Secondary/end-of-line

Schneider Packaging Hosts Creating Pallet Patterns Webinar

On June 25, Schneider Packaging Equipment will host a webinar on how to create pallet patterns directly on an HMI with its OptiStak palletizing software solution.

Meler Adhesive Dot Applicator

Hot Melt Dot Applicator

Meler’s adhesive applicator‘s microprocessor-controlled timer and driver combine immediate signal response with maximum device precision to rapidly apply 8,500 dots/min.

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.

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Vertical Drop Metal Detectors

Xtreme vertical drop metal detectors from Eriez are designed to detect the presence of ferrous, nonferrous, and stainless metal contaminants in gravity free-fall applications such as food processing, packaging, pharmaceutical, and plastics/rubber.

Signode Oct Octopus C[4]

Stretch Wrapper

Signode offers the Octopus C automatic rotary ring stretch wrapper that can wrap up to 40 loads/hr, depending on load size and wrap pattern.

Dekka Se V3 Tape Head

Stainless Steel Tape Head

Dekka updates its V3 stainless steel tape head machine to include improved cutting and toolless tension adjustment, making it suitable for use with recycled corrugate and underfill applications.

Domino Launches Digital Inkjet Press for Corrugated Box Printing

Domino will introduce the X630i, its first digital inkjet press for corrugated box printing, via a virtual launch event on June 16th.

Flex Xray Aurora Press Release

FlexXray Opens Food and Product Inspection Facility

FlexXray announces the opening of a state-of-the-art, FDA-registered inspection facility in Aurora, Ill.

Dorner Ert 250 Conveyor

Conveyor

The Edge Roller Technology (ERT 250) conveyor from Dorner uses rollers to provides beltless, zone control for pallet and tray handling.

Production manager, Klaus Kailow, in front of the Soco System case sealer. It top and bottom seals simultaneously and can be extended with, e.g., a bottom flap folder.

Soco System's Case Sealer Improves Efficiency, Saves Costs for Printer

Denmark-based Kailow, a printing and digital services company, recently invested in two Soco System case sealers to fulfill a large magazine printing order.

Eaglewood Technologies Supports Minneapolis

Eaglewood Technologies would like to recognize employee, Matt Sweet and his wife Bethany for spending Friday, June 5th, passing out supplies in their south Minneapolis neighborhood.

Film unwind on the new stretch wrapping system at Badoit.

Multipacking Optimized

Top quality natural mineral water and an exclusive bottle design are the trademarks of the Badoit brand, and now their multipacks are also consistently first class.