Controls & Machine Components

O. Berk Company: PET jars

O. Berk (Union, NJ) has introduced a line of low-profile and straight-base injection-molded PET jars. The low-profile jars are available in 2-, 4- and 8-oz sizes.

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Berlin Pkg.: Product catalog

Berlin Packaging’s (Arlington Heights, IL) 1999-2000 product catalog is available. The 64-page color catalog displays plastic, glass and metal containers offered by the company.

February 29, 2000

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Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation: Industrial motors catalog

Rockwell Automation (Greenville, SC) has published the new Reliance Electric Industrial Motors Catalog for 2000. The 262-page catalog has been expanded to include standard products and the modification options available to them.

February 29, 2000

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DHL Airways, Inc: Shipping service

DHL Airways (Redwood City, CA) has launched ThermoExpress™, the air express industry’s first temperature-controlled shipping service. Offers an alternative to dry ice for shipment of perishables.

February 29, 2000

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AutomationDirect: Schematic software

Automationdirect.com (Cumming, GA) has introduced VIADirect UltraLITE, an entry-level software suite that aids engineers in the design and layout of control systems.

February 29, 2000

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Advantage Puck: Carrier pucks

A color catalog sheet from Advantage Puck Group (Mishawaka, IN) highlights ways that product carrier pucks help pack-aging lines run at higher line speeds and reduce changeover time.

February 29, 2000

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Nigrelli Systems Inc: Systems brochure

A 4-page color brochure from Nigrelli Systems (Kiel, WI) features the company’s packaging equipment systems. Ten machines are displayed in large photos, with accompanying descriptions.

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Who attended

More than 70 people representing at least 40 companies attended the recent OMAC Packaging Motion for Packaging Working Group meeting in March in Chicago.

February 29, 2000

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

OMAC group tackles packaging motion standards

OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Motion for Packaging Working Group hammers out a specific mission and four key areas to simplify motion controls for packaging machinery. Areas include: defining business benefits of open controls; standardize on programming languages; standardize on network protocols; foster education in motion control technologies in tech schools and colleges.

February 29, 2000

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Relocations, expansions

Mitsubishi Polyester Film (Greer, SC) will increase its capacity by more than 20ꯠ tons at the Greer facility by 2003.—Pester USA (Allendale, NJ) has doubled the size of its facility and staff by relocating to 7 Pearl Ct., Allendale, NJ 07401; phone: 201/327-7009, fax: 201/327-7824.—Spear Inc.

February 29, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Controls push speed limit

U.S. Sugar fills two 5-lb bags/sec with better than ±0.1% accuracy thanks to a state-of-the-art sugar-filling line powered by the latest in servo drive, PLC and networking technology.

February 29, 2000

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Networks on the rise, packagers say

Nearly half of survey respondents have few or no networked packaging lines. Yet more than half anticipate specifying them in the next two years, say packagers in an exclusive PW survey.

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Packaging controls standards group formed

The movement toward standardizing motion controls for packaging machinery took a small but critical step forward in early February. An official working group for standardizing on motion controls in packaging machinery was created at the recent Open Modular Architecture Controls (OMAC) end user meeting held in Orlando, FL.

February 29, 2000