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Controls & Machine Components

Microwave container

James River, Packaging Business Div. (Milford, OH), has introduced Qwik Balance(TM) to its Qwik Wave(TM) family of microwave packaging. Qwik Balance allows uniform heating of food without rotating or stirring the product, while reducing cooking time.

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Controls & Machine Components

Video motion analysis

Redlake Camera (Morgan Hill, CA) has introduced MotionScope®, a high-speed, digital video motion analysis system for use on assembly lines and production plant floors.

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Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Medical heat sealers

Alloyd (DeKalb, IL) has introduced a two-station medical packaging machine and all board blister machine. The two-station machine runs up to eight cycles/min for single- or multi-sided operation.

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Liquid filling systems

Oden's (Buffalo, NY) new line of PRO/FILL GEN3 liquid filling systems handle a variety of liquids ranging in consistency from water to syrups, in volumes from .5 mL to 1 gal.

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Controls & Machine Components

Dispensing jars

The Lageen Dispensing Jar from W. Braun (Chicago, IL) uses an internal dispensing device to meter the amount of viscous product released. After removing the cap, the jar is twisted and an internal PP ring device with a disc on top extrudes a controlled amount of product.

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Conveying & accumulation

Automatic L sealer

Clamco's (Cleveland, OH) Model 6600 automatic L sealer wraps a wide variety of products up to 6" high at speeds to 40 packages/min. Conveyor, sealing head, sealing jaw and film advance speeds are adjustable.

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Controls & Machine Components

Recycled PET sheets

Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), an independent environmental claims auditing firm, has verified that Wellman Extrusion's (Ripon, WI) recycled PET sheet is made from post-consumer PET material.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ice cream containers

Fabri-Kal (Kalamazoo, MI) has introduced a series of rectangular ice cream containers made of HDPE. Available in a new 3-pt size as well as 1-qt and 1/2-gal sizes.

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Controls & Machine Components

Fast-change case packer

The Model 486 fully automatic case packer from Focke (Whitsett, NC) uses hand spindles instead of tools for changeovers. Each spindle is equipped with digital indicators for repeatable positive changover.

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Controls & Machine Components

Container spacing device

The Container Spacing Device (CSD) from AGR Intl. (Butler, PA) provides consistent and accurate spacing of round or nonround containers on a conveyor.

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Secondary Packaging

Case palletizer

Machines in the 880 series of case palletizers from Alvey (St. Louis, MO) employ shaft-mounted drives to reduce the number of sprockets, chains, belts and takeups for such primary devices as the row pusher, apron and hoist.

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Controls & Machine Components

UN/DOT testing lab

Yellow Logistics Services (Overland Park, KS) has introduced a UN/DOT certified package testing laboratory for shippers of hazardous materials. The facilities have conditioning chambers that conform to standard temperature and humidity requirements for accuracy in drop, hydrostatic, stacking, vibration and Cobb tests.

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