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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Filling, Capping & Closing
Containers & Closures
Controls & Machine Components
Trash bag packer
The BHL automatic case packaging machine from Amplas (Green Bay, WI) is designed for packing bulk rolls of trash bags into corrugated cartons. After manufacturing, rolls are conveyed to the machine and a pneumatic arm grips a preselected amount of rolls and lowers them into an erected box at speeds to 40 cycles/min.
September 30, 1996
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Cartoning
Monobloc boosts Akorn's capabilities
Sterile filling of opthalmic solutions becomes automated with PLC-controlled filler/plugger/capper that quadruples speed. Special part-feeding systems enhance clean-room packaging.
September 30, 1996
Flexible packaging
Pack Expo turns packaging concepts into production realities
Packaging containers tend to be the milestones by which packaging advances are measured. But thousands of packagers coming to Pack Expo 96 (November 17-21, McCormick Place, Chicago) will assure you that there would be no visible packaging advances without the unseen contributions of packaging equipment.
September 30, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Robotic case packing sweetens Brach & Brock's bottom line
A top-load robotic pick-and-place machine replaces manual case packing of bagged candy at Brach & Brock Confections, saving the confectioner $150ꯠ in annual labor costs.
September 30, 1996
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Volumetric pump
The T-94 5-gal double acting pump from Thiele Eng. (Minneapolis, MN) is one of the first specifically designed to fill 5-gal and 3-gal pails of paint or similar product in a single cycle.
August 31, 1996
Additives, coatings & inks
Recycled HDPE pellets
Recycle (S. Plainfield, NJ) has developed a system which can turn HDPE chips accumulated from destroyed drums into clean, high-quality recycled resin pellets.
August 31, 1996
Containers
Bulk back unloading frame
Material Transfer and Storage (Allegan, MI) has introduced a bulk bag unloading frame for the chemical, pharmaceuticals and plastics industries. Full bags are placed inside this freestanding frame and then lifted by hoist or fork truck to the top of the frame.
August 31, 1996
Converting equipment
Reusable IBC
The Ecobulk MX from Schutz Container Systems (Perryburg, OH) is a UN-approved composite intermediate bulk container designed for the transport of liquids.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Ocean Spray's vision improves inspection
Juice maker automates vision system for detecting fill heights and cap application on PET bottles containing hot-filled juices. Productivity rises, labor costs decline, resulting in payback in less than one year.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
High-assurance capping, sealing & bottle counting
In addition to flexible changeover, Glaxo Wellcome's clinical trial packaging line makes a high priority of quality-assured packaging. Its capper, sealer and bottle packer/counter are designed to maximize accuracy while minimizing errors.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
A reusable case for automation
New equipment at Herr Foods is among the first that erects, packs and seals tough-to-handle corrugated cases that are reused up to five times.
August 31, 1996
Secondary Packaging
Two-in-one bottle an interesting solution
For years, Glaxo Wellcome had used generic 30-cc high-density polyethylene pharmaceutical bottles to hold 60 tablets of its prescription-only Zantac® medication.
August 31, 1996
Filling/capping, dry
Glaxo Wellcome counts its savings
An electronic tablet counter/filler for clinical trial drugs provides 15-min changeover, regardless of tablet size or shape.
August 31, 1996
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