Controls & Machine Components

Aseptic vial filler

The MAFS(TM) (mini aseptic filling system) from TL Systems (Minneapolis, MN) handles vials from 2 ml to 500 ml at speeds to 750/min with a 24-pump system.

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Pharmaceutical cartoners

Thiele Eng.'s (Minneapolis, MN) PSC Plus Pharmaceutical Small Center Cartoner runs at speeds to 400 cartons/min. Provides improved ergonomics, operating efficiency and reduced maintenance over larger cartoners.

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Controls & Machine Components

Garbage reference book

"Garbage Trash Refuse Waste Discards Rubbish & Junk: The Book-3" is a reference book from Nichols Dezenhall Communications (Wash-ington, DC) detailing the state of garbage in America.

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Controls & Machine Components

Digital tension controller

Horton Manufacturing's (Min-neapolis, MN) TC820 tension controller is for web printing or converting involving unwind, centerwind, centerwind drive or mid-process control.

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Controls & Machine Components

Off-line analyzers

Mocon's (Minneapolis, MN) new Pac Check(TM) Models 600 and 650 combination off-line analyzers measure oxygen and carbon dioxide headspace in rigid and flexible packages.

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Controls & Machine Components

Metallocene LLDPE resin

Exxon Chemical Co. (Houston, TX), has commercialized Exceed(TM), a metallocene-catalyzed linear low-density polyethylene resin. Uses the company's patented Exxpol® technology to produce the resin used for blown and cast film manufacture.

October 31, 1995

Controls & Machine Components

Dispensing closure

Seaquist Closures (Mukwonago, WI) has developed a child-resistant closure that is also a dispenser. For OTC pharmaceutical products, this closure is said to exceed re-cent requirements for child safety and senior accessibility set by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Conveying & accumulation

Skatewheel conveyor

The Model FX heavy-duty flexible gravity skatewheel conveyor from Hytrol Conveyor (Jonesboro, AR) is designed for applications where the conveyor must be moved to fit a variety of situations, such as loading or unloading trailers.

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Controls & Machine Components

Hand-held bar code verifiers

The Laser Inspector Series of hand-held bar code verifiers from RJS (Monrovia, CA) combines the benefits of a noncontact laser coder with a bar code verifier.

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Controls & Machine Components

Vacuum packaging system

Cryovac (Duncan, SC) has introduced the Model VC-14A, a fully automatic vacuum packaging system designed to meet the needs of medium-sized food processing operations.

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Controls & Machine Components

Public policy book

A 60-page booklet describing 1995's public policy positions is now available from The American Iron and Steel Institute (Washington, DC). Issues range from energy and health care reform to OSHA regulations.

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Controls & Machine Components

Contract manufacturing

A new four-color brochure from CCL Custom Manufacturing (Rosemont, IL) discusses the company's wide range of contract manufacturing ca-pabilities including compounding, mixing, filling and packaging.

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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Some like it hot

Upstart cap molder Acadiana Plastics Manufacturing outfitted its injection molders with hot runner manifolds and a quick-change mold system for faster cycles, quick changeover and better quality PP caps.

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