Secondary Packaging

Continuous motion, small footprint cartoner

Packaging Systems Automation offers its CM500 continuous motion, small footprint cartoner that uses a low profile design with an unobstructed view for the operator.

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Secondary Packaging

Case sealer

The new 3M-Matic™ Adjustable Case Sealer 110a from 3M offers assistance for companies outgrowing manual case sealing or when backup is needed for small runs, overruns, or seasonal surges.

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Secondary Packaging

Touchscreen facilitates custom wrapping

Stretch wrapper’s touchscreen controls store five pre-programmed wrap patterns that can be switched on the fly, accommodating custom wrap patterns.

April 30, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Small package palletizer

Columbia Machine has introduced a high throughput/ small package palletizer for companies packing products in cases measuring as small as 5”W. To accommodate these small packages that often tip over when fed through conventional palletizers, a redesigned infeed includes improvements to the metering, turning, row forming, and layer forming sections.

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Cartoning

Machinery's growing role in package innovation

At PMMI Partners in Packaging event, packaging machinery automation supplier ELAU presents examples of innovative packages and the machines that made them commercially viable.

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Secondary Packaging

Exel uses RFID-enabled stretch wrapper

A first-of-its-kind Lantech stretch wrapper with integrated RFID reader and wireless communication operates at Exel's facility in Harrisburg, PA.

March 31, 2006

Secondary Packaging

New facility to expedite entertainment software time-to-market

Sonopress, a packager and assembler, and manufacturer of cassettes, CDs, DVDs, and video games, has joined with Coral Graphic Services, a producer of disk covers, dust jackets, and decorated paper inserts, to establish an automated, 260ꯠ-sq-ft packaging facility in Louisville, KY.

March 31, 2006

Flexible packaging

Prescription for 400% Growth: Stay Ahead of the Curve

Anderson Packaging specializes as a pharma product-launch specialist. It monitors market trends, securing the right partnerships and purchasing the right equipment.

March 31, 2006

Flexible packaging

PMMI: Machinery shipments soared in 2004

U.S. packaging machinery shipments reached $5.344 billion in 2004, a 9.3% increase from $4.889 billion in equipment shipped in 2003, according to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI).

March 31, 2006

Cartoning

New 200-degree F hot-melt with maintenance-free application equipment

National Adhesives, a National Starch & Chemical business recently unveiled Easy-Pac™, its complete packaging sealing solution that combines the first 200-degree F hot-melt adhesive with an integrated storage, filling, and application system.

March 31, 2006

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

They've seen fire and they've seen rain

Contingency planning helped Colonial Carton when fire destroyed its plant, while GA Food Services had to contend with a Katrina-driven 400% increase in business.

March 31, 2006

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Companies

Pro Mach has acquired the product line and certain assets of Mahaffy & Harder Engineering Co.

March 31, 2006

Cartoning

Cereal bar packing

Bradman Lake has developed an automated system for collating and packing flow-wrapped cereal and other confectionery bars for companies committed to end-load carton formats.

March 31, 2006