Cartoning

Bag-in-box cartoner

Triangle Package Machinery (Chicago) will be introducing its bag-in-box cartoner, ProLine FC, at Pack Expo, booth 1121. ProLine FC employs a new method for inserting bags into cartons in single, twin, and triple pack patterns.

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High-power vision system

PPT Vision (Eden Prairie, MN) has announced Impact™, a new high-speed machine vision micro-system that is said to be competitively priced with vision sensors but has the power and flexibility of large expensive vision systems.

September 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Plug-and-Pack3; machinery meeting at Pack Expo

Learn about advances made in Plug-and-Pack™ machinery. Such equipment uses standard operator interface screens, machine states, programming languages, and networks. The benefit: fast, flexible changeover and the ability to be plugged into a packaging line anywhere in the world.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Open and global control architecture for packaging technology of the future

Increasing packaging machine flexibility and performance through the use of servo technology, PC-based control and open and global control architectures. A white paper from Bosch Packaging.

September 30, 2002

Conveying & accumulation

Baldor Electric Company: Digital DC controllers

Baldor Electric’s (Fort Smith, AR) new Series 29 one-way digital DC SCR motor controls are from 5 hp through 300 hp, 198-550 VAC, 3-phase 50/60 hz.

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Controls & Machine Components

Italian symposium envisions the future of packaging machinery

“The world is changing; therefore, packaging and machinery need to change with it.”

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Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions: E-mail capability

PacDrive™ integrated machine controller from Elau (Chicago, IL) now includes an e-mail function with software version V12. Subject, message, direct recipient, Cc, and Bcc can be used.

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Controls & Machine Components

Markem-Imaje: Markem-Imaje: Markem-Imaje: Markem-Imaje: PackML demonstration

Elau (Chicago, IL) will demonstrate its support for the OMAC Packaging Workgroup’s model by interfacing a Markem (Keene, NH) coder to an Elau control system via PackML.

September 30, 2002

Controls & Machine Components

Pillar Technologies - An ITW Company: Waterless induction capsealing

Pillar Technologies (Hartland, WI) will unveil its high-speed waterless induction capsealing system. This new addition to the Unifoiler line will exceed line speeds of previously manufactured Pillar waterless sealers, according to the manufacturer.

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People

TricorBraun (St. Louis, MO) hired Mark Polivka as the vp of supply chain management.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Mass flow = efficiency squared (sidebar)

Controls clean up on savings

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Flexible packaging

Conference at Pack Expo features 50-plus speakers

Produced by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, the Conference at Pack Expo runs from Monday, November 4 through Wednesday, November 6. Here’s the line-up. For session abstracts, go to http://pei2002.packexpo.com.

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Flexible packaging

Technology to take us forward

What are today’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the packaging field saying about packaging technology of the future?

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