Secondary Packaging

General Mills: packaging equipment must be 'worth it'

At the second annual Packaging Automation Forum sponsored by ELAU and other automation suppliers, packagers zeroed in on the supply chain impact of flexible, standards-based automation technologies on the packing floor. The keynote speaker in particular nailed the topic.

June 18, 2007

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Pinless metering

The new mid-speed Slipstream™ LS Pinless Metering from Douglas uses electronic motion controls and slipsheet technology to reduce cost and increase efficiency.

June 12, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Langen Packaging Inc: End-load cartoner

New from Langen, the Breeze model intermittent-motion end-load cartoner is suitable for standard cartoning applications in the food and consumer goods sectors.

June 12, 2007

Cartoning

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Weigh Engine is small but mighty

Measuring just 3" x 3" x 4", this little black box—better known as a Weigh Engine—can bring check-weighing functionality to a variety of packaging machines.

June 11, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Cephalon's RFID pilot

Cephalon Inc. is in Phase 3 of an RFID pilot program that will involve live testing at its manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City, UT. Based out of Frazer, PA, Cephalon is a mid-sized biopharmaceutical company with $1.8 billion in sales last year. Its products include Actiq, Provigil, as well as Fentora, which is the product that is the focus of the current RFID pilot. Cephalon started its RFID pilot program in 2004.

June 11, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Industry watch

CompaniesThe Bosch Group plans to acquire Pharmatec gmbh, Dresden, Germany, from Fresenius proserve gmbh. The transaction also includes the acquisition of the Pharmatec subsidiary Schoeller-Bleckmann Medizintechnik gmbh, Ternitz, Austria.

June 11, 2007

Secondary Packaging

HartnessVisy Automation shows robotic palletizing capabilities

HartnessVisy Automation offers complete turnkey automated palletizing solutions from single lines to large multi-robot multi-lines. Their robotics systems use highly efficient multi-zoned vacuum grippers or advanced servo-mechanical grippers and can handle a wide range of products and capacities in different packaging formats.

June 9, 2007

Cartoning

Research shows new hot melt technology boosts line efficiency, lowers operating costs

White paper from Dow Chemical documents metallocene-based hot melt cost savings. Significantly, the data show much lower rates of packaging line shut downs related to problems with hot melt adhesive application for case and carton sealing applications.

June 6, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Spiral conveyor elevates shrink bundled juice packs to palletizer infeed

Video shows spiral conveyor for shrink bundled juice packs elevating finished packs to a palletizer infeed.

June 1, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Shrink solutions for tube multipacks

The odd shapes and sizes of tubes have always been a challenge to package. Watch this patented automatic pick-and-place loading system feed a completely automated tube multipacking process.

May 11, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Tray loading, forming, shrink packaging machines

Tray loading, forming and shrink packaging machines from Polypack collate products into trays at speeds ranging from 15 to 50 trays per minute.

May 11, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Clear or Printer Film Multi-packer

Polypack’s new CLEAR-PRINT wrapper is equipped with quick and easy changeover.

May 3, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Vertical shrink wrapping systems

Rennco vertical shrink wrapping systems utilize centerfolded packaging material to shrink wrap items from as small as 2" in length up to 65" in length

May 3, 2007