Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Motion controller

The NextMove BX motion controller from Baldor (Fort Smith, AK) can control up to four axes of servo or closed-loop vector, more than 500 points of I/O and two serial ports, all in one unit.

December 31, 1998

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Flexible packaging

Ryt-way opens to reclosable pouches for pet foods

New horizontal form/fill/seal machinery helps contract packager Ryt-way build its budding pet food business. Ryt-way's first customer is Hill's Pet Nutrition, for 1- and 2-lb stand-up pouches for dog treats.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

DuPont Packaging: DuPont Packaging: Shrink film

DuPont (Wilmington, DE) Clysar® ABL shrink film is a clear, biaxially oriented, heat-shrinkable, linear low/ultra low-density polyolefin film.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Allen FMC: Allen FMC: Carton coder

Allen Coding's (Elmhurst, IL) free-standing Vacuum Transfer Machine prints on flat cartons at speeds to 180 cpm. Using either hot-foil or thermal-transfer coding, the unit accommodates cartons from 10 mm x 50 mm to 300 mm x 400 mm.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Kaufman Container Company: Sprayer bottles

Kaufman Container (Cleveland, OH) announces a new line of OPET sprayer-grip oblongs. Available in both 24- and 32-oz sizes, these bottles were designed to function with trigger sprayers.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Colts Plastics Co., Inc: Compartmentalized jars

Colt's Plastics (Dayville, CT) has expanded its line of compartmentalized jars to include the slim-line and the standard-line styles. The two-piece construction has a PP inner bowl and an outer base of urea, PS or SAN.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Multivac Inc: Vacuum packing

Multivac's (Kansas City, MO) C 700 large-chamber vacuum packaging machine is designed for large-scale vacuum packaging of bulk products or products of varying sizes in film pouches.

December 31, 1998

Labels

Labelers deliver quick changeover

Neways' p-s labeling equipment accommodates a wide variety of containers, speeds product changeover by 30% and reduces rejects ten-fold.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Robotic Industries Assn.: Vision inspector

Adding to its Visionscape(TM) family, RVSI Acuity CiMatrix (Canton, MA) introduced Visionscape I-Pak to provide optical character verification for pharmaceutical and packaging applications.

December 31, 1998

Cartoning

Tf/f/s machine big on performance, not price

Contract packager finds Argentine-built thermoform/fill/seal blister packaging equipment provides fast and flexible changeover capabilities at an economical price.

December 31, 1998

Flexible packaging

Ryt-way opens to reclosable pouches for pet foods (sidebar)

Downstream of its pouch-filling equipment, Ryt-way has also added new robotic case packing and case erecting equipment to automate what was once a labor-intensive process.

December 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

MagneTek: Variable-frequency drives

A white paper entitled 'The Simple Truth About Motor-Drive Compatibility' is now available from MagneTek (St. Louis, MO). It identifies some reasons for premature failure of windings and bearings of Variable-Frequency Drives (VFDs).

November 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

FoxJet, An ITW Company: Print engine

FXTechnology(TM) from FoxJet (Arlington, TX) is a patent-pending print engine that produces high-resolution alphanumeric characters, graphics and bar codes in dark dotless print.

November 30, 1998