Controls & Machine Components

Chemical container labeling

LMX3100 laser printer, dedicated software and weather-resistant labels make up a new chemical container labeling system from Avery Dennison, Soabar Products Div.

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MAP system

Jescorp's (Elk Grove Village, IL) Model JGS-1040 Controlled Atmosphere Packaging System provides capabilities for a variety of gas flushing environments, including nitrogen, CO2 and various inert gas blends, with high purity CAP/MAP performance.

February 29, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Bar code reference book

Imaging Technologies, Inc. (Cookeville, TN) has published a bar code reference book entitled Industrial Bar Code Printing Using Ink Jet Technology.

February 29, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Cold-seal OPP

APCO, from Borden Packaging and Industrial Products (North Andover, MA), is a new OPP that uses Borden's cold seal release chemistry. It's designed for single-web, reverse-printed cold seal overwrap of multi-packaged products such as candy bars, single-sliced cheese, snack products and baked goods.

February 29, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Unwind stand

Compensating Tension Controls' (West Caldwell, NJ) Type SHD-800-EG modular unwind stand is available for any flexo printing press or narrow-web converting process, according to the company.

February 29, 1996

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Powder filling system

A new powder filling system from Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery (Sturtevant, WI) is designed to yield accurate fills as small as 2 g, using Digitronic Augers in conjunction with checkweighing technology.

February 29, 1996

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Controls & drives brochure

Indramat (Hoffman Estates, IL) has introduced a new 6-page color brochure that describes the complete range of digital control/drive schemes used to control individual motion axes as well as entire machine and production lines.

February 29, 1996

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Capabilities brochure

Caliber Packaging Inc. (Cerritos, CA) has released a new capabilities brochure describing the full range of services and products provided to customers.

February 29, 1996

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Quick changeover

Beyond improved package seals, the other critical feature of the Integra is the ease of change- over, in part because of the simplicity of the machine.

February 29, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Versatility drives Shrader line design

A short while ago, contract packager Shrader Canada rarely filled more than 8ꯠ bottles of liquid automotive products per shift. A new and versatile line now lets the firm reach 26ꯠ per shift .

February 29, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Rotary actuators

The new Series RL rotary actuators from PHD (Fort Wayne, IN) are suited for high-speed applications with rotations of 180° in as little as .030 seconds.

January 31, 1996

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High-speed weigher

The Spectra(TM) weigher from Woodman (Decatur, GA) uses a Windows®-based interface and digital strain gauge load cells to reach speeds to 150 weighments/min with high accuracy.

January 31, 1996

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Mid-range kraft paper

Velumina(TM) mid-range kraft paper from Georgia-Pacific (Atlanta, GA) is a cost-effective alternative to clay-coated stock. An extremely smooth printing surface means less dot gain, better ink holdout and the ability to use higher screens for four-color printing, making Velumina suitable for multi-wall bags and E- and F-flute applications where high-resolution graphics are important.

January 31, 1996