Secondary Packaging

Entry-level stretch wrapper

The new Series 100 entry-level stretch wrapper from Advance Lifts is the company’s most economical and basic model suitable for low-volume stretch-wrapping operations.

March 4, 2008

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Cartoning

Robotic vision picking

From R.A. Jones comes the new Flexi Pro robotic vision picking cell, a highly flexible product handling and collating unit featuring the world’s fastest Adept robot.

March 4, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Vertical cartoners

ESS Technologies, U.S. distributor of Bergami packaging machinery, offers Bergami’s ASV automatic vertical cartoners as part of a complete packaging line.

March 4, 2008

Flexible packaging

Nuspark makes custom packaging standard

Compact vertical and horizontal cartoning, case erecting & packing, robotic pick & place – Nuspark does it all and more. And they build customized solutions from pre-engineered packaging modules, a perfect fit for ELAU Intelligent Servo Module technology.

March 3, 2008

Conveying & accumulation

New case erector is multifunctional, flexible

Pro Pack Systems is rewriting the book on case erecting/bottom sealing with its modular, recipe-driven, servo-adjusted, print-on-demand Pro Print™ EBS 15 machine offering advanced Markem, ELAU and Nordson subsystems.

March 3, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Latest Adabot™ adds capabilities

Fallas Automation’s latest robotic case packer for flexible packages offers wider payload range, stainless washdown construction, lets operators build pick recipes.

March 3, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Ode to OMAC

Pearson Packaging Systems, a leading maker of secondary packaging systems including case erecting and case packing machines, appears to be among the packaging machinery builders that have recognized the benefits of OMAC-based standards and is looking for every opportunity to implement them.

February 27, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Top packaging professionals join Hartness

Hartness International announces the hiring of Rich Brown and John Loughlin.

January 30, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Robotic palletizing and packaging solutions

FANUC Robotics is the leading supplier of robots and robotic systems for palletizing and packaging. See the demo video.

January 30, 2008

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Robotic trends in packaging

Part 2 of a 2-part series on trends in packaging robotics. (Our previous report explored reasons for the proliferation of purpose-built robotic capabilities in packaging machine designs. This concluding article looks at applications and design considerations for OEMs.)

January 30, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Case/tray packers

Douglas’ Axiom® IM Series Case/Tray Packers maximize adjustability with next generation electronic motion control technology.

January 29, 2008

Cartoning

Embedding robotic functionality in packaging machinery

Part 1 of a 2-part series explores the trend toward packaging machinery integrating purpose-built robotic capabilities.

January 21, 2008

Secondary Packaging

Bar code reader

The BCL500i Bar Code Reader from Leuze was developed for high-speed palletizing, with adjustable scan rates from 600 to 1,200 scans/sec, a reading range of 300 to 1,600 mm, an optical deflection or oscillating mirror, and +/- 30° sweep.

January 11, 2008