Controls & Machine Components

Printer/applicator

Quadrel's (Mentor, OH) printer/ applicator applies labels to tops, bottoms, sides and corners of products at speeds to 100 products/min. The integrated thermal/ thermal-transfer print engine prints product-specific bar codes and other information on demand.

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Controls & Machine Components

Vertical f/f/s system

The Vertek vf/f/s system from WeighPack Systems (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is compact, requiring only 2' x 4' of floorspace. This mid-range machine is designed to produce 40 to 70 fin-seal packages/min, in sizes from 2" x 2" to 7.65" x 12".

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Shock testing instruments

Testing Machines (Amityville, NY) has released a four-page, full-color brochure detailing the Lansmont line of Shock Testing Instruments. Discussed are various features that are said to ensure accurate, repeatable, and reliable test control; and various operational safety features.

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Plastic belt conveyor

The Model CCEZ is a horizontal plastic belt conveyor from Hytrol Conveyor (Jonesboro, AR) designed to accumulate packs of canned beverages in high-speed, high-volume environments.

April 30, 1997

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.

April 30, 1997

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