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Secondary Packaging
Multipacker
The automatic S1100 adjustable pick-and-place multipacker from R.A. Pearson (Spokane, WA) uses grippers or vacuum cups to load jugs or bottles into trays or cases at speeds to 15 trays/min.
January 31, 2000
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Flow wrapping
Klockner Hansel Tevopharm USA: Flow wrapper
The servo-driven Pack 200 horizontal flow wrapper from Klockner Hänsel Tevopharm (Sarasota, FL) uses cold- or heat-sealable film to wrap bakery and confectionery products at speeds to 350 packs/min.
January 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Baldor Electric Company: Baldor Electric Company: Servo control
Baldor (Fort Smith, AR) introduces the Flex+ digital servo control, which includes 15 preset, repeatable moves—set up as incremental, absolute or a mix of the two, as well as a return-to-home position.
January 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Evergreen Packaging: Fillers for milk or juice
Two new fillers from Evergreen (Cedar Rapids, IA) package fresh refrigerated milk or juice at speeds to 3ꯠ gabletop cartons/hr. The GTL-1000 (shown) fills 250- to 1걶-mL (8.45- to 38.9-oz) cartons, while the GTN-1000 fills 125- to 500-mL (4.23- to 16.9-oz) cartons.
January 31, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Orion Packaging Systems: AC-drives on stretch wrappers
Long-lasting AC motors are being integrated into Orion’s (Memphis, TN) line of automatic stretch wrappers. The AC variable frequency drives are more energy efficient and more versatile than DC motors, which have brushes that tend to wear out quickly.
January 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
CTC Parker Automation: Industry's first PCLC
MachineLogic™ PC Logic Controller (PCLC), from CTC Parker Automation (Milford, OH), combines PC-based open design with the reliability and cost-effectiveness of PLCs.
January 31, 2000
Contract Packaging
Additions to private label expo
New this year at Private Label Expo, April 4-6 in Las Vegas, is Contract Packaging Expo. It’s said to be America’s first pure trade show of packaging service providers for hard and soft consumer goods.
January 31, 2000
Contract Packaging
Graphics boost beverage launch
Now being launched in select markets around the country are ?-L (16.9-oz) bottles of Hydrators, a lightly flavored natural spring water from Aqua Vie Beverage Corp., Sun Valley, ID.
January 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Self-manufacture of bottles brings savings
In-house blow molding of 500-mL PET bottles is expanding in a big way at Aberfoyle Springs. Two blow-molding machines are in, and a third is on the way.
January 31, 2000
Secondary Packaging
Retorted food pouches ready for market push
Knauss and Esskay introduce foods in retorted pouches without foil for retail. StarKist Seafood sells a foil-based pouch of tuna to foodservice accounts. Will others follow suit?
January 31, 2000
Conveying & accumulation
Contract packager blends vf/f/s systems
Unusual integrated blending scale systems enable a California contract packager to fill as many as nine different individually quick-frozen vegetables into a single bag.
January 31, 2000
Controls & Machine Components
Newcourt Financial’s Industrial Finance Group: Equipment financing
Newcourt Financial’s Industrial Finance Group (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) provides specialized packaging equipment financing ranging from $25ꯠ to $1 million for commercial and industrial equipment.
December 31, 1999
Controls & Machine Components
Augros: Makeup compact
Augros (Clark, NJ) has introduced its low-profile makeup compact. The SAN/ABS compact stands less than ?” tall and is actually a jar with a lid. Augros says shallow threads and a gasket that is sealed sonically to the compact without glue allow for an air-tight seal that will keep makeup fresh.
December 31, 1999
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