Controls & Machine Components

PVC bottles

Plastic Bottle (Libertyville, IL) has added a 2-oz and 8-oz bottle to its Ashley Ovals line of cosmetics and personal care containers. The 2-oz Ashley Oval is produced with a 20/415 neck finish and the 8-oz version with a 24/415 neck finish.

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Controls & Machine Components

Technical training

Pneumatic Scale (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) is offering technical training on Series 2000 Closetech Can Seamers at either its site or in the packaging plant.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Hologram induction seals

Integrasafe is a hologrammed induction heat-sealable membrane for PE containers from Sonoco Capseals (Slough, Berks, England). Because exact reproduction of the holograms would be difficult, these membranes offer a high degree of tamper-evidence without changing existing packaging designs.

May 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Oil-shear brakes

Posistop® oil-shear brakes from Force Control (Fairfield, OH) are designed to eliminate the high maintenance associated with ordinary dry-friction brakes in stop-and-hold applications.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Labeling machines

Literature on two new automatic sleeve labeling machines is now available from SleeveTech (Raleigh, NC). The Model SL-1800 can label plastic bottles from 8 oz to 21/2 gal at speeds to 30 bottles/min.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Vibration trending

Hardy Instruments (San Diego, CA) has introduced a new, two-wire, loop-powered vibration transmitter for measuring vibration on plant machinery including pumps, fans, blowers, motors and mixers.

May 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Conveyor system

A new chain-in-channel conveyor system from John Burton Machine (Rodeo, CA) is available with aluminum drive-end and idle-end component assemblies. Single conveyor chains slide on lubricated nylon edges on inclines and curves, quietly moving products at speeds to 275'/min, without the noise of roller-to-roller transfers.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Vacuum cups

A new line of vacuum cups molded from natural gum rubber is now available from Anver (Hudson, MA). Available in standard or custom compounds, cups resist paper dust and ink and are offered in standard push-, stretch-, clip- and screw-on mounting styles.

May 31, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Print/apply labeler for adjacent case sides

Engineered to provide adjacent-side labeling on cases, Weber Marking Systems (Arlington Heights, IL) now offers the Label-Aire® wraparound print/apply labeling system with both cornerwrap and side-panel labeling capabilities.

May 31, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Pucks combat pack proliferation at Chesebrough-Pond's (sidebar)

A unique twist to handling shingling

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Static-phase coupling

Candy Controls (Niles, IL) has introduced the Candy Phasing Hub, a static-phase adjusting coupling for angular displacements. When in motion, it operates as a rigid 1:1 shaft coupling.

May 31, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Small cartoner

DT Kalish (Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada) says its new Kalish/Kalix Kpm bench-top mounted cartoner is the smallest in the world. It measures 19.7" W x 19.7" L x 22.5" H (500 mm W x 500 mm L x 570 mm H), making it suitable for the cartoning of small containers.

May 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Hot stamping foil

Designed to be versatile and environmentally safe, Foilmark (Newburyport, MA) introduced its Optimum Gold (OG) Series of hot stamping foils. The foils can be hot stamped at temperatures ranging from 210°F to 300°F and can be applied to all water- and solvent-based inks, coated and uncoated paper, vinyls, lacquers, and lithograpy varnishes.

May 31, 1997