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Contract Packaging

CMPA SELECTS NEW MANAGEMENT COMPANY

The Contract Manufacturing & Packaging Assn. (CMPA) selected Landon, Farrey & Associates (LF&A) as its new management company. LF&A will work with CMPA to: 1.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Danaher Motion: High-performance servo drives

Danaher Motion introduces Kollmorgen S300 Series servo drives with built-in power supply. Compact in size, these drives are suitable for restricted-space applications that require high-performance servo control.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Oriental Motor USA: Compact AC motor controller

Oriental Motor USA introduces the new ES01 (110/115 volts) and ES02 (200/230 volts) series of compact AC motor speed controllers. Offer smooth start and smooth, instantaneous stop operations over a range of speeds.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Wago Corporation: Software for PFCs, PCs

Wago has debuted its 759-333 WAGO-IO-PRO CAA software for Wago Programmable Fieldbus Controllers and 758 Series Industrial PCs. It offers visual elements, complete offline simulation, and editors for programming in 6 languages including ladder diagram and structured text.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: Brushless servo motor line

Baldor Electric has expanded its BSM brushless servo motor line to include encoders. Baldor BSM servo motors typically use resolvers as the prime feedback device.

July 31, 2004

Cartoning

Italian OEMs come on strong

Aggressive PACK EXPO 2004 presence shows why imports of packaging machinery from Italy to the U.S. were up 11.6% in 2003.

July 31, 2004

Flexible packaging

Cognex: powerful inspection tools for flexible packaging

Cognex machine vision systems locate distorted patterns that are difficult to recognize.

July 31, 2004

Contract Packaging

Packaging Services Expo 2005 issues call for papers

Packaging Services Expo 2005 — co-sponsored by IoPP and Packaging World magazine, and scheduled for May 10-12, 2005, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont (Chicago), Illinois — will be a focused marketplace, with a targeted attendance of decision-makers.

July 31, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Phoenix Contact Inc: Plug connector housing

Bayonet locking is now available with Phoenix Contact’s Heavycon-Advance rectangular plug connector housing. Heavycon-Advance is suitable for applications where the connector requires plugging and unplugging.

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Safety relay

Schneider Electric’s new Telemecanique® Preventa™ XPS-MC is a multi-functional, configurable safety relay that complies with global machine safety standards.

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

PSI: PSI: Compressed vacuum pump

Now available from Piab is the P3010 multi-stage ejector vacuum pump, featuring the company’s patented COAX compressed-air technology. Ideal for a variety of packaging applications, the P3010 features a compressed air-driven vacuum pump with push-in function modules for added flexibility.

June 30, 2004

Controls & Machine Components

WBF and OMAC are bringing standards to a line near you

A drug maker’s ability to qualify new equipment could be significantly reduced if committee work now being carried out by the World Batch Forum and the OMAC Packaging Workgroup comes to fruition.

June 30, 2004