Closures

Latvian sauces get new tops

Spilva, Riga, Latvia, has increased sales of its popular sauces and salad dressings since it switched to distinctive bright red 38-mm medium-twist-button steel closures from Closures Europe, a Paris subsidiary of Crown Holdings, parent of Crown Cork & Seal (Philadelphia, PA).

March 31, 2003

Filling, Capping & Closing: Page 50

Conveying & accumulation

Indexing conveyor

Nalbach Engineering (Countryside, IL) released the Model ICS-8 indexing conveyor with product settling system. Combined with Nalbach’s line of servo driven auger and cup fillers, it’s a complete, integrated, filling station, ideal for the consistent and accurate dispensing of a broad range of powders, granulars, flakes, and other free-flowing products.

March 31, 2003

Closures

Micro Flo: Filling and capping of agrichemical products

From an infeed table, F-style containers enter this 10-station indexing filler-capper from PACK'R North America (Batavia, IL).. Containers are filled at several stations before a closure is applied and torqued on in a two-step process.

February 28, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Micro Flo: Indexing bottles of agrichemicals

At Micro Flo, a worker places empty F-style containers onto this infeed conveyor table. At the end of the table, suction cups grab six containers and transfer them onto a perpendicular conveyor that carries them single file towards an indexing filler-capper.

February 28, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Leominster plant hosts open house

While the economy continues to struggle, there are indications that it hasn’t reached a complete standstill. That’s the impression Packaging World had after attending a March 19 open house at the expanded North American headquarters facility of DT Packaging Systems (www.dtindustries.com) in Leominster, MA.

February 28, 2003

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Servo auger filler/bagger

The Phaser Bagger from EaglePack (Oakland, CA) will be shown at the 2003 SCAA coffee exposition in Boston, held April 25-28.

February 28, 2003

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Filling and closing machine

The Contiline linear, continuous-motion liquid filling and closing monobloc style machine from the Kugler Div. of Optima Packaging (Green Bay, WI) has 6 rotary piston pumps and a centrifugal sorting device that conveys the containers to the capping area.

February 28, 2003

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

ARC issues pharma report

Just in time for the Interphex show, ARC Advisory Group has released a new Insight report analyzing the business drivers for Gen3 packaging automation in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

February 28, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

Automatic leak detection system

The Pack’Réalisations automatic leak detection system from Pack’R North America (Batavia, IL) is located on the outfeed conveyor of the capper.

December 31, 2002

Filling/capping, dry

Dual auger filler

Building on its line of servo-driven auger fillers for dispensing powders, granulars, and flakes, Nalbach Engineering Co.

December 31, 2002

Filling/capping, dry

Hot fill bottles: Opting for diversity

For PET bottles, the HR process accommodates variations in product, bottle size, weight, fill temperature, blowing rate, and more. Sidel has been developing an array of solutions to respond to these many different packaging criteria.

November 30, 2002

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Monoblock filler/capper change parts

Morrison Timing Screw Company (Glenwood, IL) introduces quick-change parts for monoblock filler/capper machines. The change parts feature a unique starwheel design that combine precise container and bottle control with fast, simple, and tool-less changeovers.

November 30, 2002

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Valve bag system

Taylor Products (Parsons, KS) offers a brochure detailing information on its safe, clean valve bag placing, packing, and weighing equipment.

November 30, 2002