Labeling

10 questions to ask your automation supplier

Standards may make it hard to tell controllers apart, but a functional specification makes it easy.

December 31, 2004

Filling, Capping & Closing: Page 44

Conveying & accumulation

Single controller governs vision; motion and logic

A tightly integrated controls package on this pressure-sensitive labeling system brings automation plus a 50% increase in throughput.

October 31, 2004

Cartoning

PACK EXPO bash celebrates ELAU customers

At an exclusive off-Rush Street venue, Europe’s packaging automation leader thanked a hundred ELAU customers for helping them achieve critical mass in North America.

October 31, 2004

Filling/capping, dry

Washer, filler, capper for 3,5,6-G bottles

ZYI offers its washer, filler and capper all-in-one machine.

September 30, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Bottle unscrambler

ZYI releases its bottle unscrambler designed to unscramble PET bottles with various speeds before entering the rinser, filler, capper monoblock.

September 30, 2004

Filling/capping, dry

Rotary indexing auger filler

Nalbach offers its i-Series family of rotary indexing auger fillers. Come and see this machine in action at Pack Expo International, booth #S-1444.

September 30, 2004

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Volumetric water and aseptic filler

The Sacmi Group offers the Next Phase ultra clean volumetric CSD, water, and aseptic filler for sensitive products. The rinser/filler/capper block provides the flexibility to run a variety of neck finishes at speeds to 1걶 bottles/min.

September 30, 2004

Filling/capping, dry

First US servo capper from Pneumatic Scale

At PACK EXPO, Pneumatic Scale launches the first US rotary servo-driven bottle capper.

September 30, 2004

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Capper/plugger

E-Pak offers its new Rotary Chuck Capper/plugger with a variety of head configurations. Machine is constructed of stainless steel and aluminum. It is capable of handling 2-oz to 2.5-gal containers and caps from 10-120 mm in dia.

September 30, 2004

Palletizing/depalletizing

North America 'discovers' ELAU

Progressive OEMs and packagers exploit PacDrive automation technology in machines to debut at PACK EXPO 2004

August 31, 2004

Sustainability

Iron City brew chills in aluminum bottle

In August, Pittsburgh Brewing Co., Pittsburgh, PA, launched 12-oz bottles of Iron City beer in aluminum bottles.

August 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Package security demands linking of strategy, technology

Tactics such as DNA taggants and color-shifting inks have to be married with strategies that include tight supply-chain security.

August 31, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Water bottled in Kuwait has U.S. flavor

A portable bottling line housed in a 20’x8’x81¼2’ container is quenching the thirst of troops and personnel in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Started up in fall 2003, the 25 bpm self-contained line provides 1.5-L bottled water on-demand for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) troops and support personnel, according to AAFES Food and Theatre program manager Tom Wilson.

July 31, 2004