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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Cartoning
Multipacking
Case/Tray Packing
Robotics
Conveying & accumulation
Ocean Spray's vision improves inspection
Juice maker automates vision system for detecting fill heights and cap application on PET bottles containing hot-filled juices. Productivity rises, labor costs decline, resulting in payback in less than one year.
August 31, 1996
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Conveying & accumulation
High-assurance capping, sealing & bottle counting
In addition to flexible changeover, Glaxo Wellcome's clinical trial packaging line makes a high priority of quality-assured packaging. Its capper, sealer and bottle packer/counter are designed to maximize accuracy while minimizing errors.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
A reusable case for automation
New equipment at Herr Foods is among the first that erects, packs and seals tough-to-handle corrugated cases that are reused up to five times.
August 31, 1996
Secondary Packaging
Two-in-one bottle an interesting solution
For years, Glaxo Wellcome had used generic 30-cc high-density polyethylene pharmaceutical bottles to hold 60 tablets of its prescription-only Zantac® medication.
August 31, 1996
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Bass wraps up market flexibility
A highly flexible multipacker wraps 4-, 6- and 10-count bottles in paperboard to help Bass meet demands of disparate retail markets at home and abroad. Automatic servo-driven dimensional changeover takes 15 seconds.
August 31, 1996
Secondary Packaging
Pairing pack styles with markets
With Bass's vast reach to more than 70 different export markets, what determines which pack style is used for a given market?
August 31, 1996
Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging
Now beverage cans will open wide-- really, really wide
Suddenly, it seems, U.S. brewers are looking to change one of the most popular and endearing features of their cans--the easy-opening features. Last month (See PW, August '96, page 8), we reported on the conversion by Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, from its standard, easy-opening stay-on tab (SOT) end to a large opening end (LOE) developed for Miller by Reynolds Metals Co.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Robotics automate portion packing
Robotic packing cell case-packs delicate portion cups at speeds of 500 cups/min. Integrated system incorporates a stand-alone case erector and automatic tier sheet placer.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Bar-code labels drive automated warehouse
In 1992, Herr's built a 40ꯠ sq' automated warehouse that makes use of bar-coded labels on cases of finished goods to automatically sort and stack cases.
August 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Sugar producer sweetens bundling methods
When Savannah Foods switched from a paper bundler to a shrink film bundler for 4- and 5-lb retail bags, downtime was reduced sharply. Costs are down, too.
August 31, 1996
Palletizing/depalletizing
Load 'roping' helps Callery Judge quality
Florida fruit grower produces top quality pallet loads that reflect its computerized state-of-the-art packinghouse technology.
August 31, 1996
Secondary Packaging
Intermittent cartoner
Roberts Systems (Charlotte, NC) has introduced an on-demand, multi-axis servo-controlled intermittent cartoner called Servostar(TM). This multipack cartoner erects, loads, closes and seals cartons at speeds to 65/min, with 12" between cartons.
July 31, 1996
Flexible packaging
New equipment revitalizes Amway packaging line
Filling speeds more than doubled and still continue to improve as Amway moves into full production with its new liquid filling line for men's and women's cosmetics.
July 31, 1996
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