Secondary Packaging

Nine tips for selecting multipacking and shrink bundling equipment

When should you down-gauge your film? How do you know how fast to run your lines? Are you storing your film correctly? Read these tips to profit at the end our your packaging line

August 27, 2012

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Tamper-evident machinery

Automated shrink sleeve systems in action

Watch this video to see how Tripacks' automated shrink labeling systems handle 600 ppm, how they handle various tamper evident configurations and do single and multi-packs with ease.

June 13, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Video shows how to solve the problem of bundling tapered food and dairy containers

See how tapered frozen and refrigerated dairy containers can be tightly nested by flipping or inverting every other container to make a compact bull's-eye shrink bundle that requires no pad or tray. ARPAC equipment in the video is running a Mayfield ice cream application.

April 26, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Corrosion-proof strapping machine hooks fish industry

Strapping machine successfully emerges from long-term testing under the harsh conditions of a Norwegian fishery.

April 10, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Retail-ready multi-pack formats for a variety of container types

Video from Delkor Systems shows a variety of retail-ready multi-packs for round, tapered containers, large club-store bottles with carrier handles, even multipacks with printed film. Video shows how packs work in visi-coolers. Ample machinery footage showcasing how equipment operates.

March 12, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Video highlights material cost savings when using Spot-Pak® system rather than corrugated shippers

Short two-minute video from Delkor Systems highlights significant savings that can be realized by replacing costly corrugated cases with the innovative Flat Pad Spot-Pak System.

March 12, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Banded bundles replace shrink film wraps

Banding equipment slashes energy and packaging material costs, while also reducing both floor-space and environmental footprints.

March 1, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Multipacking equipment at Process Expo

A multipacking machine capable of 200 packs/min is demonstrated at the Harpak-Ulma (www.harpak-ulma.com) booth during Process Expo 2011 in Chicago by Paolo Gelpi of Italy-based Rama Packaging & Automation.

December 16, 2011

Secondary Packaging

New 250 cpm rotary shrink wrapper

A new high speed rotary shrink wrapper from Extreme Packaging Machinery has a throughput of 250 packs per minute with smooth cross-seal operation. An integrated servo-driven control system from B&R Industrial Automation simplifies control software and hardware, allows bag size changes while staying in synch with the product, and assures strong seals at high speeds.

October 27, 2011

Secondary Packaging

Overwrappers offer sustainable packaging advantages

Package Machinery Company makes overwrapping machinery that is customized, flexible, cost effective and fast -- up to 150 cpm. Low energy and film consumption make these overwrappers a sustainable alternative to other wrapping methods. Their third generation of controls, from B&R Industrial Automation, uses servos to reduce moving parts by 65%, maximize uptime and provide the flexibility to run multiple SKUs with minimal changeover.

October 27, 2011

Sustainability

A Jim Beam perspective

Robert Land, corporate packaging engineer at Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc., talks about trends in packaging.

September 28, 2011

Secondary Packaging

Low-cost L-sealer

Texwrap showed the Spartan 2215 L sealer that competes with low-cost imports. Handles up to 30 packages/min.

September 26, 2011

Secondary Packaging

Pro Mach Inc: New heat-shrink steam tunnel available at convective tunnel prices

Flexibility defines this innovative product, and to accomplish this Axon unbundled typical steam tunnel features so that customers can choose to purchase only those features they most value.

September 9, 2011