Controls & Machine Components

Progressive Plastics Inc: Modified cylinder

From Progressive Plastics (Cleveland, OH) comes an 8-oz modified cylinder with a 22-mm neck finish. Available in water-clear PVC and natural HDPE, as well as colored PVC and HDPE.

April 30, 2001

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Controls & Machine Components

Willett America Inc: Willett America Inc: Label creation software

Willett (Grapevine, TX) has launched a new version of LabelMate that now includes Windows 2000. Contains new speed improvements that decrease download time, therefore increasing customer productivity, company says.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Hoffman: Automation brochure

Rexroth (Hoffman Estates, IL) has published a brochure describing its products and customer service. Brochure addresses the following issues: tool-less changeover, increased throughput, reduced maintenance/increased reliability, material/product scrap, and footprint.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Great Northern Corp: Roll cradles brochure

Great Northern (Appleton, WI) has issued new literature describing its recycled fiber, double-sided roll cradles. This design is said to eliminate the need to use back-to-back cradles for roll stacking to reduce packaging material usage by an average of 37%.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Company booklet

Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) has published a booklet describing its products and listing company subsidiaries and worldwide offices. Also describes a product line called Trabtech, which includes surge suppressors that can prevent transient voltage damage.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

CTC Parker Automation: Product brochure

CTC Parker’s (Milford, OH) brochure describes its full line of PowerStation and Industrial PC hardware solutions. The PowerStation family includes a 6” panel replacer as well as a 15” high-performance PC and can be bundled with CTC’s MachineShop suite of controls software.

April 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

SouthPack 2001 wrap

SouthPack ’01 brought packaging manufacturers together from April 24 to 26 at the World Congress Center in Atlanta. The three-day show managed to spark some new technology interests, although many exhibitors were quick to notice the slow pace of attendees throughout the exhibition hall.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Techmark, Inc: Techmark, Inc: Packaging report

Packaging Strategies has published Market Prospects and Technologies for Medical Device Packaging. Allied Development Corp. (Lakeville, MN) and The Techmark Group (Butler, PA) joined with Packaging Strategies to produce this analysis of the medical device packaging market and its leading device producers, packaging suppliers, and equipment manufacturers.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

The Institute of Validation Technology: Validation courses

The Institute of Validation Technology (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) has announced its 2001 regulatory and validation course schedule. Venues include Washington, DC, Princeton, NJ, San Diego, CA, and London, England.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Online inventory checks seem "berry" good

Gourmet food manufacturer Rothschild Berry Farms, Urbana, OH, started ordering glass containers and gold colored metal closures for its line of salsa, mustards, and dips in mid-January via TricorBraun’s preferred customer site at www.tricorbraun.com.

April 30, 2001

Conveying & accumulation

Downtime shrinks with new wrappers

When Georgia-Pacific needed to speed up wrapping rates for its 9” Dixie paper plates, management picked servo-driven, side-seal shrink wrappers that maintain high speed and tight registration.

April 30, 2001

Flexible packaging

Climbing the ladder of f/f/s technology

Beginning a decade ago, Calhoun Bend Mill started with simple packaging equipment, went through a rebuild upgrade and now has two new vf/f/s machines for bags of its food mixes.

April 30, 2001

Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: Motor line

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has published a brochure describing the Reliance Electric Sabre motor line. The 4-page, 4-color brochure shows photographs and diagrams of notable motor features.

March 31, 2001