Coding, Printing & Labeling

Programmable printing

$vF$?LMarking Systems’ (Downers Grove, IL) thermal-transfer printers are suitable for printing variable information on demand. The J27i2’s compact print unit and separate controller allow mounting on labeling and packaging machinery where space is limited.

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Conveying & accumulation

ITW Dynatec: Precision adhesive placement

Designed by ITW Dynatec™ (Hendersonville, TN), the Dynamelt® Adhesive Supply Unit’s precision gear pump can be coupled with a variable-speed AC motor to allow the adhesive gear pump to track conveyor line speed.

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Siko Products, Inc: Linear feedback mechanism

The Siko Products (Dexter, MI) Magline Absolute is an absolute magnetic strip length measurement system that provides linear feedback in a wet or dirty environment.

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Conveying & accumulation

Textron: Textron: High-speed reject

With a new high-speed servo pneumatic actuator system, cans and bottles may be automatically rejected from beverage packaging lines running at speeds to 1겨/min.

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Electro Cam Corporation: Controller option

Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL) has added functionality to its resolver-based PS-5000 Series programmable limit switch controllers with the addition of the “-D” Option.

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CTC Parker Automation: Ethernet driver

CTC Parker Automation’s (Milford, OH) Allen-Bradley Ethernet Driver allows use of its Interact HMI software for Ethernet communications to Allen-Bradley SLC-5 and PLC-5 controllers on the factory floor.

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Servo Repair Intl.: Servo repair service

Servo Repair Intl. (Glenshaw, PA) says it repairs AC and DC servo motors to original specs usually in less time and cost than a new one can be shipped from the OEM.

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Pilz International: Safety fieldbus

Pilz’s (Farmington Hills, MI) new PSS SB DI16 is a remote digital input module that provides 16 inputs for the Pilz SafteyBUS p® safe fieldbus system to control decentralized safety-device applications such as light curtains, safety gates or E-Stops.

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Rock-Tenn Company: Grease/oil barrier packaging

Rock-Tenn (Norcross, GA) has announced that its Stainless News™ fluorochemical-treated paperboard will no longer contain perfluorooctanyl (PFOS). The company has developed alternative solutions for paperboard products that require barrier or masking protection from grease or oil.

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Domino: Food-grade ink

Domino Amjet’s (Gurnee, IL) 432BL is for applications where direct or incidental contact between ink and edible product is made. It can also be applied to gelatin capsules or tablets in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications.

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Information powers the 21st century

There are so many concepts we try to embrace as we begin our journey into the 21st century. But I don’t think any one is as important as our quest for more information.

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Cartoning

Food marketers focus on schools

New packaging equipment is helping two California food processors grow their school foodservice businesses.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Labatt drives toward networked bottling lines (sidebar)

Sophisticated HMI

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