Case/Tray Packing: Page 83

Secondary Packaging

Boxing out the competition

A switch to a new gearbox increases reliability and lowers cost for Goodman’s new case packer.

July 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Wepackit expands facility

Wepackit Inc. has expanded its production capabilities by 10ꯠ sq’.

June 30, 2003

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Web Plus: Sites

Airspray N.V.

June 30, 2003

Tamper-evident machinery

Companies

Sidel (above) has opened a new plant in Parma, Italy, dedicated to assembling filling machines.

June 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

F. Gaviña & Sons: Tray packing of coffee product

Installed about a year ago as a replacement was a Model 127SL case/tray packer from S.V. Dice. Its rated speed is 35 cases or trays/min, though currently Gavi–a typically runs in the range of 25/min. After tray blanks are picked and erected and collated cans are pushed onto them, filled trays are discharged toward the shrink wrap system.

May 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Study: Machinery purchases should increase

Modest increase expected in 2003 machinery purchases, says PMMI study. Demand expected to rise despite geopolitical and economic uncertainties.

May 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Baldwin Filters: Batch-printing system for folding cartons cuts inventory dramatically

On the Carton Pro batch printing system from Paragon Machinery Corp., flat carton blanks are pulled from a magazine, sent through three ink-jet print heads, and then shingled for case packing.

April 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Wepackit forms partnership with Bevco

Wepackit has formed an exclusive partnership with Bevco Sales Intl.

April 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

SouthPack roundup

Here's a brief glimpse of new things seen at the 2003 Southpack show that ran April 30 and May 1 in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center.

April 30, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Case packers

Compact (60"Lx52"W), fast (up to 200 ppm), and flexible, the 400 Series of case packers from Fallas (Waco, TX) provides gravity-fed or robotic case packaging, lay-flat, or stand-up product configuration, and inline or right angle infeed.

April 30, 2003

Conveying & accumulation

ARI: Shrink wrapper for contract packager

At Advertising Resources, workers load cartoned product onto a flighted infeed conveyor, two cartons per flight in this instance. Cartons are conveyed downstream into polyvinyl chloride film.

March 31, 2003

Secondary Packaging

Automatic case openers and sealers

SWF Companies (Reedley, CA) offers the OS Series fully automatic HSC/RSC case openers and sealers that are easily integrated with a wide variety of case loading systems to form fully automatic case packers.

March 31, 2003