Coding, Printing & Labeling

Roll-fed labeler

Sasib Food and Beverage North America (Charleston, SC) has developed a high-speed, roll-fed labeling machine capable of handling a variety of flexible or rigid containers at speeds to 1걄/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Digital video camera

The Encore(TM) high-speed digital video camera from Olympus America (Melville, NY) is designed for motion analysis of high-speed packaging equipment.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Vinyl compound

Occidental Chemical (Dallas, TX) has developed a new chemical-resistant vinyl bottle compound for packaging aggressive chemical products, such as pine- or limonene-based cleaners.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Fin-seal wrapper

The Superflow® PC is a new electronic fin-seal wrapper from Ilapak (Newtown, PA) that uses an industrial PC for faster output, increased memory and greater capabilities over PLCs, says Ilapak.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Paperboard pads, partitions

QSmooth(TM) die-cut pads and partitions from Jefferson Smurfit (St. Louis, MO) are made from 100% recyclable paperboard. Designed for customers requiring dust-free and scuff-resistant protective packing.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Packaging web sites

Remember, type http:// in front of each address. Ambec, Inc. www.ambec.com American Frozen Food Institute www.affi.com FlexLink Systems Co. www.flexlink.se Great Lakes Packaging Corp.

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

New level of packaging technology reaches Jim Beam (sidebar)

Licking a condensation problem

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Material handling brochure

A four-color brochure from AccuLift (Blanchester, OH) offers solutions to palletizing, conveying and other challenges through custom-built systems.

April 30, 1997

Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

The king of cups

Start-up company Dr. McDougall's Right Foods had lofty targets for packaging speed and accuracy. So it invested heavily in sophisticated packaging equipment before it even had a product ready for the marketplace.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Foil laminate

Aluforce is a new line of foil/paper laminates from Groupe Gascogne (Merignac, France) designed for use in food packaging applications. It's available in four varieties: kraft, surface-treated kraft, calendared kraft or surface treated and calendared kraft.

April 30, 1997

Cartoning

Servo drive

Indramat's (Hoffman Estates, IL) new Sercos fiber-optic interface version of the Ecodrive digital servo drive economically integrates motion control functions, amplifier, power supply and axis I/O functions in a single unit.

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Depalletizer

Automated Production Systems' (New Freedom, PA) new depalletizer uses soft start/soft stop motors for increased container stability and improved line efficiency.

April 30, 1997

Filling/capping, dry

The king of cups (sidebar)

Servo-driven accuracy for spices

April 30, 1997