Controls & Machine Components

Hot-stamp foil

Foilmark (Newburyport, MA) announces a new holographic and diffractive hot-stamp foil. It has a broad temperature-release range. That allows for application flexibility and is said to be less demanding on converting equipment.

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Controls & Machine Components

Liqui-Box Corp.: Bag-in-box filler

The Model 1500 Pacesetter II bag-in-box filler from Liqui-Box (Worthington, OH) offers 45- to 70-day shelf life for extended-shelf-life products. Handles particulates up to 3/4" and fills bag sizes from 1 to 8 gal at rates of 14/min.

April 30, 1998

Coding, Printing & Labeling

IN-LINE Labeling Equipment: Pressure-sensitive labeler

The WebMaster(TM) 700 pressure-sensitive labeler from In-Line Labeling Equipment (North Charleston, SC) uses a patent-pending, vacuum-beak process to control label feed without the use of mechanical parts.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Corru-Shred, Inc: Corrugated shredder

The Model C16D Corru-Shredder from Corru-Shred (Pompano Beach, FL) is a system that takes knocked-down corrugated and shreds it into material suitable for use as loose fill.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Pillar Technologies - An ITW Company: Induction cap sealer

Pillar Technologies (Hartland, WI) has introduced a hand-held induction capsealer designed for laboratory and R&D facilities, or packagers using moderate production speeds.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

International Paper: Bleached board

Everest® solid-bleached-sulphate board from International Paper (Purchase, NY) is designed for upscale cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Roll-wrap machine

GEI Autowrappers' (Exton, PA) S2000 Series of roll-wrap machines can wrap round, compressed tablets and lozenges for the pharmaceutical market at speeds to 150 packs/min.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Strapping tool

The Pneumon pneumatic tensioner from Greiner (Esslingen, Germany) permits steel-strap tensioning without applying force, even if high strap tensions are required.

April 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyors bridge the gap for Hiram Walker

Conveyors carry cases of glass-bottled spirits over a bridge for palletization and stretch wrapping. That saves this Canadian distiller more than $500ꯠ per year.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Electro Cam Corporation: Electronics brochure

An eight-page brochure from Electro Cam (Roscoe, IL) presents the company's line of programmable limit switches, resolvers, and the NEMA 12 and 4X Absolute Gray Encoders.

April 30, 1998

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Federal 'medicine' for drug errors may be hard to swallow

Agencies are now considering requirements for unit-dose packaging and bar coding of containers to reduce the potential for medication errors.

April 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Supplier news: Achievements

Westvaco's (New York, NY) Dr. Richard E. Nordgren won the George Olmsted Award from the American Forest and Paper Assn. for developing an improved register controller for high-speed converting equipment.

April 30, 1998

Conveying & accumulation

Keebler becomes a canister convert

When consumers showed how much they liked resealable composite canisters for Animal Crackers, Keebler responded by launching other products in that package format.

April 30, 1998