Conveying & accumulation

Yoshida sauce line sizzles

Yoshida's gourmet sauce is so popular at club stores in the U.S. and export markets around the globe, its packaging needed increased speed and versatility.

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Conveying & accumulation

Del Monte Italy tries new aseptic concept

Del Monte Foods Sud Europa S.p.A. (San Felice sul Panaro, Italy) has found a way to go from heavy, stock polyethylene terephthalate bottles to lightweight proprietary designs and cut its bottle costs by two-thirds at the same time.

May 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Pouch progress, too

In addition to its core business of sauces packed in glass and plastic bottles, Yoshida has a busy pouch packaging operation, too. Typically the pouches are sold to other food marketers who include them as components in something like a vegetable or chicken stir fry.

May 31, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bottling system

The ValuLine(TM) is a compact bottling system from Cap Snap (San Jose, CA) suited for new or small-run bottling operations. The system automatically washes, rinses, sanitizes, fills and caps 3-, 5-, and 6-gal bottles at speeds to 110/hr.

April 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Slotted dispenser

Weatherchem's (Twinsburg, OH) Flapper® dispenser is now available with a slotted pour option for coarse products such as fertilizers or ice melt.

April 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bar code verifier

The Inspector® 4000 from RJS (Monrovia, CA) enables users to verify that bar codes meet ANSI's bar code print quality standard. Inspector consists of a hand-held bar code verifier and patented Auto-Optic(TM) scan head that allows instant selection of aperture sizes and a choice of light wavelengths.

April 30, 1996

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Bar code scanner

Computer Identics (Canton, MA) has introduced the CiMax(TM) 7500 high-performance bar code scanner for PDF 417 two-dimensional codes. Uses a unique technology that collects data from a tilted or skewed bar code by scanning it in sections and integrating those sections for decoding and validation.

April 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

New printing technology

Hologravure(TM) is a new technology that allows printing directly on clear plastic using conventional four-color process printing, plus a range of PMS colors and halftones, to create a multi-dimensional effect.

April 30, 1996

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Combination weigher

Bilwinco (Skanderborg, Denmark) will display a new combination weigher designed for applications requiring 20 to 40 weighments/ min with high accuracy.

April 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

White-coated kraft

Ban-Ply is a new white-coated kraft paper from Bancroft Bag (West Monroe, LA) developed to reduce basis weight and overall costs of multiwall bags. It is stronger than clay-coated papers, says the company, thereby allowing packagers to reduce basis weight or eliminate a ply of paper, while offering a high-quality print surface for bags that require process printing and high ink coverage.

April 30, 1996

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Non-skid lacquer

CZ Inks' (St.Louis, MO) non-skid UV-coated lacquer offers the high-gloss look associated with UV coatings, plus non-skid properties required for larger multiwall bags.

April 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Twist-tie applicator

Model 580PR Super Tyer from American Design & Packaging (New Richmond, WI) is a pneumatically operated twist-tie applicator for manual operation or integration with automatic baggers.

April 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Medical heat sealer

Alloyd (DeKalb, IL) has introduced two new options for its 2SM1428 Level Three two-station medical shuttle heat seal machine. Users can now measure sealing temperature at the tray flange for every cavity and view sealing pressure in lb/sq" for each tray sealed.

April 30, 1996