Secondary Packaging

Gantry palletizer

Kaufman Engineered Systems' (Toledo, OH) new gantry-style stacker/palletizer uses either an air suction head or a clamping head to pick up items and place them on a pallet.

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Secondary Packaging

Low-level palletizer

The Faiveley® low-level case palletizer from Newtec (St. Louis, MO) uses modular components to offer end users a wide variety of layout possibilities.

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Horizontal flow wrapper

Klockner Ho/oonsel Tevopharm's (Sarasota, FL) new high-speed horizontal flow wrapper was designed specifically for hard-boiled candy, medicinal loz-enges, chewing gum and other solid, regularly shaped products.

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Controls & Machine Components

Data acquisition and display

Rockwell Software (Milwaukee, WI) has introduced WINtelligent TREND(TM) version 3.0, a Windows NT(TM)-compatible data acquisition and graphical display package.

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Conveying & accumulation

Bulk bag hoppers

Hapman Conveyors (Kalamazoo, MI) has introduced a new series of bulk bag unloading/conveying hoppers. They are equipped with an adjustable iris valve to control material flow, an access door for opening or closing of bags and a low-level sensor to automatically stop the conveyor.

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Shipping program

Federal Express's (Memphis, TN) FedEx Ship(TM) is a Windows program developed for maintaining shipping information. Using a modem, the software links a user's computer directly to Federal Express.

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Controls & Machine Components

Labeling software

Map 80 (Wokingham, Berkshire, England) has introduced a new version of its PRISYM for Windows labeling software. This new version has a function called OLE2, that when used with a command file interpreter allows the software to accept commands from other computer systems and software to create a fully interactive program.

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Controls & Machine Components

Bar coding system

Imaging Technologies (Booth 865) will display its Marksman 4000 bar coding system. It includes a print head, which prints up to 250'/min, a controller and Windows®-based software.

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Horizontal cartoner

Tecnomeccanica's The Boxer Model HCM is a horizontal cartoner available from Inland Trade (Miami, FL). Fully-adjustable machine is designed for cartoning flow-wrapped products.

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Print and apply

Codewriter Industries (Booth 1520) will introduce its 5106PA print and apply system for high-speed in-line automated box and package labeling. Labels can be applied to sides or corners of packages with air-jet application.

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Automated distribution

Boss 2 is a new generation of automated distribution software from Buschman (Cincinnati, OH) that allows retail distribution centers to reach maximum productivity.

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Coffee can with valve device

Sonoco (Hartsville, SC) has developed a new composite canister that allows coffee beans hot off the grinder to be packaged. This innovative opening feature incorporates a one-way pressure-release valve that allows CO2 to escape, eliminating the need for standard vacuum packaging.

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UPC coding

Symbology (Minneapolis, MN) has introduced SKU Manager(TM), a desktop application designed for the assignment, administration and management of UPC numbers for medium to large product manufacturers.

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