Secondary Packaging

North Side: Case erecting and labeling frozen beef patties

Case erecting of single-wall cases is done on a case erector from Wexxar.

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Secondary Packaging

North Side: Case sealing frozen beef patties

Case taping is done by a Belcor machine with a rated speed of 20 cases/min. North Side runs in the range of 12 cases/min.

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Secondary Packaging

Carton multipacker

Kisters Kayat (Edgewater, FL) released its CartonMultiPacker, based on a modular all-in-one machine concept. Customers, including soft drink, mineral water, and beer companies, can preglue the necessary carton blanks and feed them directly in the packaging line just in time for the blanks to be loaded with product.

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Cartoning

EcoNatural automates cartoning

Organic candies maker goes from five people packing 37 cases daily to two people packing 43 cases daily.

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Secondary Packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Clever layout enhances bottling efficiency (sidebar)

HDPE bottles, too

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Conveying & accumulation

Robotic palletizer at North Side

Editor’s Note: This article is a sidebar to the feature story North Side super-sizes packaging value that ran in the July issue of Packaging World, p.

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Conveying & accumulation

Clever layout enhances bottling efficiency

At the San Manuel Bottled Water Group’s new plant, one automated line requires just five operators for 350 bpm output. See in-plant video

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Secondary Packaging

Superior Dairy: Stretch bundling of diary products

On Line Two, counter-rotating roll carriers on this stretch bundler stretch the film 150% as bundling is completed

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Secondary Packaging

Superior Dairy: Robotic palletizing

The end effector on the robotic palletizer lifts and places slip sheets as well as layers of bottles.

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Secondary Packaging

PBI-Dansensor Americ: Networked analyzer

PBI-Dansensor’s (Ringsted, Denmark) in-line oxygen and O2-carbon dioxide gas analyzer has built-in wireless networking capability. Designed for gas or vacuum modified atmosphere thermoforming and tray sealing machines, the unit allows troubleshooting and data transfer via “Blue Tooth”—a wireless networking standard—or standard LAN connections.

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Secondary Packaging

Web Plus: Sites

New or enhanced Web sites

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Conveying & accumulation

Online calculator conveys throughput gains

Web site uses mathematical algorithms to determine the most efficient place to install buffering conveyors.

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