Controls & Machine Components

Sonic Air Systems, Inc: Stainless-steel airknife

Sonic Air Systems (Fullerton, CA) has developed a stainless-steel version of its Sonic XE airknife. The Sonic XE-4S is said to be impervious to caustics and suitable for container drying applications throughout the beverage and food industries.

June 30, 1998

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Labels

Jalapenos 'wheel' to market in new jar

New barrier plastic jug offers convenience, safety and disposal improvements.

June 30, 1998

Cartoning

Video cassette packaging hits fast forward

Semi-automatic labeling, cartoning and shrink wrapping of video cassettes just couldn't keep pace with Provac's rapid growth. New equipment was the answer.

June 30, 1998

Controls & machine components

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

SRC Vision (Medford, OR) has signed a representation agreement with FMC Corp., Food Systems and Handling Div. (Homer City, PA). The business relationship provides for FMC to represent SRC's line of machine vision systems to the food industry.

June 30, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

HK Systems, Inc: Supply chain software

Supply chain software maker HK Systems (New Berlin, WI) introduces Stockmaster®/SCM, a software "suite" of applications that includes management systems products for warehouse, yard/dock, loading and transportation.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Smooth-operating chain

The Rex 1500 Series MatTop Chain from Rexnord Corp. (Grafton, WI) helps make in-line noseover transfers and 90° transfers stable and smooth by eliminating container tipping and jam-ups.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Topline Products Co. Inc: Lipstick samplers

Topline Products (Wayne, NJ) is in the developmental stage with an injection-molded PP lipstick sampler that includes a base and cap in the approximate size and shape of a traditional lipstick container.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Siemens Industry Inc: Soft logic control system

Siemens Energy & Automation (Alpharetta, GA) introduced SIMATIC WinAC, a PC-based control solution allowing users to perform open-loop control on a single, open-hardware platform.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Brecoflex Co., L.L.C.: PU timing belts

Brecoflex's (Eatontown, NJ) PU timing belts have steel-cord tension members that maintain permanent pitch and positional accuracy in positioning, dividing, combining, transporting, stepping and sychronous conveying.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Baldor Electric Company: CD-ROM catalog

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) now offers Version 4.0 of its Electronic Catalog on CD-ROM. An interactive search function allows users to instantly access a wide variety of technical information on more than 4ꯠ different Baldor motors and drives.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Filler Specialties Inc: Pressure-release valves

External-mount pressure-release valves are now available for Filler Specialties' (Zeeland, MI) Rotary Gravity Filling Systems. The new Model hEMV Fastfill valves eliminate the need to enter the filling bowl on a regular basis.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Moen Industries: Bliss former

Moen Industries (Santa Fe Springs, CA) offers the Model PF106-TPB bliss former for bag-in-box shipping containers. It positively glues a bliss liner to a bliss body wrap, resulting in a shipping case with a double-laminated bottom and a structure with good top-to-bottom strength and rigidity.

May 31, 1998

Controls & Machine Components

Octagon Systems: Octagon Systems: Octagon Systems: PC control starter kit

A $1귏 PC-based control starter kit includes Octagon Systems' (Westminster, CO) MicroPC embedded PC hardware, Intellution's (Norwood, MA) FIX Paradym-31 SoftLogic control software, and Opto 22's (Temecula, CA) Snap I/O digital and analog modules.

May 31, 1998