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Cartoning

Romaco acquires Sweden’s Medipac AB

Medipac AB is a leader in tube filling machines for the effervescent tablets sector.

December 1, 2015

Robotics

Lightweight, Space-Saving Collaborative Robots

Universal Robots has designed collaborative systems to replace human operators in dirty, dangerous and dull jobs, yet it is safe to work side-by-side with people. The use of patented technology enables operators with no programming experience to easily set up the robot using 3D visualization.

November 5, 2015

Controls & Machine Components

Beckhoff Automation ties robots to the cloud

Daymon Thompson demonstrates how Beckhoff controls are running kinematic calculations on hardware while sending robot data to the cloud as another enabler of Industry 4.0.

November 5, 2015

Robotics

ABB demonstrates the IRB 360 FlexPicker

The delta robot is a high speed pick and place system for the food industry. It can handle raw food as well as hot items right out of the oven. It comes with the company's PickMaster software for configuring applications and guiding processes.

November 5, 2015

Secondary Packaging

The robotic TriVex SL/SLi vertical pack loader puts Douglas Machine on the leading-edge of retail-ready packaging

Douglas Machine's robotic TriVex SL/SLi vertical pack loader packs bags, pouches and cartons in a standup configuration into retail-ready cases with one or two product facings. With speeds up to 150 products per minute, the robots combine the functionality of a product infeed, pack pattern collation and case loading functions into one mechanism.

October 30, 2015

Secondary Packaging

The future of vertical cartoning-maximize productivity & profit

Veronica VHL from Ultra Packaging offers rapid changeover, multiple size capability and servo technology.

October 27, 2015

Cartoning

Rovema hires Paul Wilson as V.P. of Sales

Rovema North America takes on Paul Wilson, formerly of R.A. Jones & Co., as V.P. of Sales and Marketing.

October 23, 2015

Secondary Packaging

TCO drives innovation at this machine builder

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership is a top priority at Cavanna, which showcased at PACK EXPO, among other things, a flow wrapper that lets bar-shaped food products be wrapped on four wrapping legs occupying the footprint of just two.

October 21, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Sacmi: Integrated flexi pack solutions

Sacmi Packaging offers a complete plant engineering solution to handle these ever-more popular package types that are in growing market demand.

October 20, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Faster, better compact palletizer

See how a compact palletizer from from ROI Machinery & Automation saves both space and dollars in a 6 ft. x 8 ft. unit that can handle up to 60 boxes/min. and offers a family of integrated options for your packaging line.

October 17, 2015

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Modular shrink bundler

From Tekkra comes the Triad shrink bundler, an entry-level machine whose three modular infeeds make it unique among its peers.The modules roll up to the machine and bolt on quickly, and the machine's PLC recognizes which module is on and which activation points need to be turned on.

October 13, 2015

Secondary Packaging

Robotic carrier handle applicator

The new robotic applicator for '€˜dog bone' carrier handles shown at the Roberts PolyPro booth operates at speeds to 30 cases/min. The Fanuc robot is guided by a vision system that senses when a case is skewed so that the robot end effector adjusts its position accordingly.

October 13, 2015