Coding, Printing & Labeling

Universal Labeling Systems, Inc: Flat-product labeling

A new labeling system combining the SL2000 Stepper Drive from Universal Labeling Systems (St. Petersburg, FL) and Sure Feed's (St. Petersburg, FL) product handling system is designed for high-speed, flat-product labeling.

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Conveying & accumulation

Schubert Packaging Systems LLC: Confectionery packer

Designed for packing assortments of candies, the SNC-F44 line from Schubert (Addison, TX) uses 2 robotic arms with grippers or vacuum cups to pick up to 4 different types of product and deposit them into trays at speeds of up to 200 pieces/min.

August 31, 1999

Flexible packaging

Circle Packaging Machinery Inc: F/f/s systems

Allen-Bradley controls have been added to Circle's (Green Bay, WI) vertical and horizontal f/f/s systems for packaging liquids, powders, moist towelettes, medical devices and other small, rigid products in 4-side-sealed pouches.

August 31, 1999

Cartoning

Electro Cam Corporation: Geared resolvers

An expanded line of geared resolvers is available from Electro Cam Corp. (Roscoe, IL) in ratios from 2:1 to 36:1. Geared resolvers can eliminate the need for external gear reducers in many applica-tions where outputs are tracked over multiple revolutions.

August 31, 1999

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

Vf/f/s system

Eliminating forming tubes and sealing jaws, Wright Machinery (Uxbridge, England) employs a carousel to carry formed bags through separate filling and sealing stations on its Pacwright 200 vf/f/s system.

August 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: Encoders

Automationdirect.com (Cumming, GA), formerly PLCDirect, has introduced a line of optical rotary encoders for positioning and motion control applications.

August 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Bosch Automation Technology: Conveyor catalog

Bosch Automation's (Racine, WI) conveyor catalog features 114 pages of drawings and specifications on the TS1 high-speed assembly conveyor components.

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Controls & Machine Components

Cutler-Hammer: Cutler-Hammer: Basic component education

Cutler-Hammer (Westerville, OH) has introduced its 101 Basics Series, which are free Web-based courses on the fundamentals of adjustable frequency drives, sensors, control networks such as DeviceNet, electricity and electrical distribution.

August 31, 1999

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed, Inc: In-line checkweigher

Hi-Speed Checkweigher (Ithaca, NY) introduces the S-Series of in-line checkweighers for bottles, cartons, blister packs, bags and other containers.

August 31, 1999

Conveying & accumulation

Custom Conveyor, Inc: Conveyor

Custom Conveyor (Greensburg, IN) has added the new Center Drive unit design to its High-Capacity Belt-Driven Live Roller accumulation conveyor. The compact Center Drive unit is powered by a direct-coupled geared motor design, eliminating the need for chains and sprockets.

August 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

MRM/Elgin Corp.: Rotary piston filler

MRM/Elgin Corp.'s (Menomonie, WI) RPF-4 rotary piston filler includes no-tool changeover and a no-container/no-fill feature. The filler handles containers with a 5" maximum dia at speeds to 60 containers/min.

August 31, 1999

Controls & Machine Components

Eastman Chemical Company: Invisible marker brochure

Eastman Chemical's (Kingsport, TN) new brochure describes the advantages of Eastman's ClirCode invisible markers. ClirCode markers incorporate small levels of near-infrared fluorescent compounds that are invisible to the human eye.

August 31, 1999

Cartoning

Strong gains projected for machine vision in packaging

The pharmaceutical and food industries are expected to report 10%-plus gains annually in use of machine vision systems, says this report from a prominent trade group.

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