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Servo control offers labeling latitude
To comply with FDA's labeling rules, Amway's Nutrilite Div. relies on a labeler with 12 independent servo-driven stations that permit fast changeover, high speed and improved copy-to-panel registration for square bottles of vitamins.
December 31, 1997
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Controls & Machine Components
Kaufman Container Company: PVC container
Kaufman Container (Cleveland, OH) has released a line of sloped PVC oval containers. The Sloped Ovals come in 125-, 200-, 250- and 400-mL sizes that have a large label panel area to increase the shelf appearance of cosmetics, personal care, household chemical, pharmaceutical and pet care products.
December 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Automated Production Systems, Corp.: Depalletizer/can handler
Automated Production Systems (New Freedom, PA) offers a depalletizer and can handling conveyor system. Soft start/stop of critical motors results in increased container stability and improved line efficiency.
December 31, 1997
Feeding/inserting/unscrambling
Friction feeder
Multifeeder Technology's (Little Canada, MN) new high-speed friction feeder is said to use a revolutionary feeding mechanism that uses friction to separate and feed products with virtually no damage to the products.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Shrink tubing
Templock (Oxnard, CA) Performance Formulas is a new line of shrink tubing for high-speed neck-banding systems operating at 300 bpm and higher. The PVC shrink tubing provides clear tamper-evident banding and is said to offer more uniform shrinkage.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Dual-corner case labeler
Labeling Systems' (Oakland, NJ) new Model 9900 dual-corner wrap case labeler uses two separate labeling stations to allow air cylinder applicators to apply labels to the front/side and side/trailing panels.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Automatic wrap labeler
Ohio Electronic Machinery's (Salem, OH) automatic wrap labeler is designed for small-diameter, cylindrical products. It wraps p-s labels around products ranging from 1/4" to 21/2" dia, at rates to 100 products/min.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Case-coding printhead extends over conveyor
Marsh's (Belleville, IL) new BC-256 high-resolution printhead uses a special print engine design to enable the unit to extend over a conveyor to print a UCC/EAN SCC-14 bar code, without modifying the conveyor.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Oval deodorant container
An airtight oval deodorant container that allows fragrance-based formulas to have an increased shelf life is available from LIR-USA (Yaphank, NY). Airtightness is achieved with a valve seal, and a propel-repel mechanism and two-piece threaded cap further secure an airtight package.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Rotary fill/plug/cap system
Cozzoli's (Plainfield, NJ) new REFPC rotary liquid filler fills, plugs and caps at speeds to 200 containers/min. Touchscreen automation allows a no-tool changeover within seconds, says the company.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
Proofreading system
The Text Verification System (TVS) from Global Vision (St. Genevieve, Quebec, Canada) is an electronic stand-alone software and hardware system for quality control of labels, cartons and inserts.
December 31, 1997
Conveying & accumulation
Putting the pressure on faster filling
A unique feeding system on Sweet Ripe Drinks' new pressure filler permits 750-bpm speeds with less glass breakage, higher accuracy and 15-minute changeover.
December 31, 1997
Controls & Machine Components
OTC pain pill warnings
FDA has proposed requiring labels of all over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers to carry a warning that consumption of three or more alcoholic drinks per day while using the medication could cause liver damage or stomach bleeding.
December 31, 1997
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