Flexible packaging

Fast cartoners get added boost

Switching from PLC to ELAU’s PacDrive as its standard automation platform gives Z Automation’s high speed machines even greater speed and flexibility

February 26, 2007

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Flexible packaging

Checking up on healthcare packaging

Drug delivery devices, advances in combination products, and biologicals/biopharmaceuticals will present both challenges and opportunities for packagers.

February 9, 2007

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Industry Watch

COMPANIES Thermo Electron Corp. and Fisher Scientific Intl. Inc. have merged to form Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., creating a provider of products and services in the high-growth life, laboratory, and health sciences industry.

January 10, 2007

Labels

Checking up on healthcare packaging

Vital issues include validation, FDA regulations, counterfeiting, and the challenges of shipping pharmaceuticals and biologics through the cold chain.(Part I of II)

December 18, 2006

Labeling

Intelligent Servo Modules make packaging machines simpler, compact, modular, agile

Pushing ‘light years beyond' previous integrated servos, ELAU's new Intelligent Servo Modules change how packaging machines are designed – yet again. ARC analysis reports ELAU ‘is showing the motion control market how to design product.'

December 4, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

At PACK EXPO, modular packaging machinery becomes reality

Modularity has emerged as the ‘next wave' in packaging machine design. PACK EXPO 2006 ushered in the technologies and the resulting functionalities -- with fanfare.

November 6, 2006

Flexible packaging

Nothing nutty about this bagging system

The need to pre-mix spices and sugar in small batches is an inconvenience that has been overcome since this purveyor of nuts implemented a dosing/bagging upgrade.

November 5, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Dow upgrades straw application operations

Midland, MI-based Dow Chemical Company is using an EZ-Seal® 300 SL heat shrink-sleeve applicator from Axon (www.axoncorp.com) to improve tamper-evidence and straw application for its line of Great Stuff insulating foam sealant products.

November 5, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Learn latest packaging automation trends at PACK EXPO

To help you plan your PACK EXPO 2006 show experience, here's an overview of packaging machinery automation-related show events and online resources from ELAU, the only automation supplier that specializes exclusively in packaging.

October 23, 2006

Conveying & accumulation

Pneumatic Scale servo capper delivers quality

America's leading manufacturer of rotary cappers is proving why its latest best seller -- the SC Servo Capper – is ideal for pharma, personal care, cosmetic and other quality-intensive applications.

October 16, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Horizontal bagger

WeighPack offers its SB-36 horizontal bagger, a new intermittent-motion bag-filling and closing machine suitable for both liquids and powders.

October 10, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Capsule filler

MG America offers over-encapsulation capabilities—putting a tablet and a powdered drug inside a capsule—with its Planeta continuous-motion capsule filler.

October 7, 2006

Filling/capping, dry

Bulk auger filler

The new 4500 Series Digitronic® Net Weigh Auger Filler from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery features a high-torque servo motor drive that increases the speed and efficiency of filling operations for processors who fill bulk product into containers as large as 50 lb.

October 7, 2006