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.

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Secondary Packaging

Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Bosch Rexroth Corp.: Ball screw drive

The Ball Screw Drive Unit AGK from Rexroth uses a high-performance ball screw in a rigid aluminum housing to drive motion at speeds to 96 m/min, even in extreme environments.

March 31, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Ethernet's popularity continues to expand

I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard a packaging or controls engineer say lately that Ethernet is their preferred Local Area Network for information exchange.

February 28, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Packing station

Combi Packaging and 3M have collaborated to provide Expresspack, a value-priced, hand-packing station solution for companies requiring more throughput than can be provided manually.

February 28, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Companies

Phoenix Closures, Inc.

February 28, 2006

Secondary Packaging

New Maxium case erector

The new Maximum series Case Erector and Sealer from A. B. Sealer provides extremely cost efficent and cost effective case erector solutions.

January 31, 2006

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

Pro Mach acquires Mahaffy & Harder Engineering

Pro Mach has acquired the product line and certain assets of Mahaffy & Harder Engineering Co., a provider of hf/f/s and tray sealing packaging equipment.

January 31, 2006

Cartoning

PMMI technical workshop highlights robotics

Tech Talk series kicks off with robot safety and ELAU’s trend-setting approach to embedding robotic modules in packaging machines.

January 31, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Print registered film wrapper

Polypack introduces its new Baumer shrink wrapper, said to be the fastest non-stop print registered shrink-wrapper. Versatile multi-pack shrink wrapper runs at 200 bundles/min.

January 31, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Case erector

Goodman offers its automated Model ACT case erector that provides efficient case opening features as well as fast changeover.

January 31, 2006

Secondary Packaging

Stretch wrapper with integrated RFID

Lantech's Q-300 Wrap 'n Read stretch wrapper offers fully integrated RFID tag reading.

January 31, 2006

Cartoning

Coordinate package design with machinery capabilities

At the Package Design 2006 Conference, designers saw how innovative package designs sometimes require all-new machine designs – and why it pays to collaborate with packaging engineering up front.

January 31, 2006

Robotics

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: Robotic software library

Elau has released its IEC-conforming robotic software object library for its PacDrive automation system. This approach allows the controller running the rest of the packaging process to control multiple robot arms as modules in the control software program.

January 31, 2006