Contract Packaging

Moving up the packaging partnering pyramid

Trends in packaging create special challenges that consumer packaged goods companies can’t ignore.

November 7, 2007

Trends: Page 539

Controls & Machine Components

Brushless controls & motors

Baldor has announced a new series of brushless adjustable speed controls and motors, designed to provide for adjustable-speed applications advantages such as reduced maintenance, quieter operation, efficiency, and higher torques in smaller packages.

November 7, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Pacific Bearing: Pacific Bearing: Linear motion

Pacific Bearing® has implemented its Redi-Rail linear motion line as a pick-and-place solution for environments with extreme requirements.

November 7, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Electronic valves for oxygen

Clippard offers new Oxygen Clean Series electronic valves in 2- or 3-way, normally closed or fully ported.

November 7, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

TURCK, Inc: Cylinder position sensors

Turck has introduced the BIM-UNT, a universal magnetic field sensor that detects the position of a piston on standard pneumatic cylinders.

November 7, 2007

Secondary Packaging

RFID on duty at Sentry

For a number of packagers, meeting Wal-Mart’s and other retailers’ mandates for RFID implementation means going the “tag and ship” route to keep costs as low as possible.

November 7, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Views of a contract drug packager

Andrew Billington, operations manager at Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales, addresses recent trends in packaging.

November 7, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

The robots are coming

We may be on the verge of a major growth spurt for robotics on North American packaging lines.

October 30, 2007

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Turning around 'das boot'

What began as a sad look at the skills gap between U.S. and European packaging automation curricula concluded with a pleasant surprise announcement by Purdue University Calumet.

October 26, 2007

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Video: Brecon betters blister packing

Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.

October 23, 2007

Contract Packaging

Video: Paint by the numbers: New line cuts costs, speeds filling

Brought in-house to save the costs of copacking, a new, fully automated packaging line for Ace Paint fills paint-sample containers at 50/min with minimal operator intervention.

October 22, 2007

Conveying & accumulation

Palletizing robot

PalletWorld® is a modular solution from Motoman designed to provide high-throughput robotic palletizing for a majority of palletizing applications.

October 17, 2007

Controls & Machine Components

Parallel robot

Adept is showing its Quattro parallel robot specifically designed for high-speed packaging and material handling at Pack Expo Las Vegas.

October 16, 2007