Controls & Machine Components

Recirculating accumulator

Simtrack Systems (Elk Grove Village, IL) has developed a recirculating can and bottle accumulator designed to absorb surges on production lines during temporary upstream interruptions.

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Soft shoulder rounds

Richards Packaging (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) has introduced the Soft Shoulder Round, a modification of the Boston Round and the Bullet-shaped Round.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Container pressure tester

AGR Intl. (Butler, PA) has introduced the Plastic Pressure Tester (PPT), a microprocessor-based pressure-driven tester for a variety of plastic containers, including bottles up to 3 L.

July 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Laser marking system

Lumonics' (Oxnard, CA) latest generation of the Xymark(TM) Series of low-cost laser marking systems can code up to four lines of text on moving products.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bottle promotions

Do-It Corp. (South Haven, MI) has released a new brochure titled "Secrets to Successful Bottle Promotions." The 12-page, color brochure highlights various aspects of merchandising, promotions, and sales.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Desktop color software

Pantone, Inc. (Carlstadt, NJ) announces a new version of PANTONE ColorDrive, the first application-independent desktop color palette management software.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Heat-activated color labels

Thermacolor(TM) is a heat-activated, color-coded thermal label from Standard Register (Dayton, OH). This patented label system generates up to five latent colors on one label, activated by a conventional thermal printer.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Glass packaging periodical

The Glass Packaging Institute (Washington, DC) has released Packaging & Marketing 2000 (P&M 2000), a 4-color periodical that offers food and beverage marketers and packagers facts and information while highlighting glass packaging innovations.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Pneumatic clamp and eject system

For use in ultrasonic plastic welding, a new pneumatic clamp and eject system from Branson Ultrasonics (Danbury, CT) is custom-designed to fit specific parts.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Inverter-fed motors

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AK) introduces a new 14-page technical handbook on the fundamentals of inverter-fed motors. Topics include how inverters affect motors, typical types of motor problems caused by inverters, suggested solutions to these and other problems, application engineering, motor selection and how to properly adjust inverter operating limits.

June 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Lugless closer

Adco's (Sanger, CA) C90 lugless closer seals double- or single-sided heat seal-coated cartons at speeds to 250 cartons/min. It can handle cartons in sizes from 4" x 31/8" x 7/8" to 12" x 8" x 31/4".

June 30, 1996

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Cap lining service

Danbury Plastics (Danbury, CT) will die-cut and apply cap liners into caps made by Danbury or other manufacturers. Liners can be made of a variety of materials, in diameters ranging from 8 to 75 mm.

June 30, 1996

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Pad printing ink

Marabu Tampastar TPR from Autoroll Machine (Middleton, MA) is a high-gloss, quick-drying one-part pad printing ink that is particularly resistant to chemicals and solvents.

June 30, 1996