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

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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

Conveying & accumulation

New level of packaging technology reaches Jim Beam

Managers at Jim Beam's Clermont, KY, plant began with a filler/capper monoblock to build its modernized 1.75-L glass line for spirits. New techniques for inspection and conveying will enable line to handle future needs.

April 30, 1997

Contract Packaging

Rhapsody in blue

Rochester, NY-based Global Beverage's striking cobalt blue-tinted polyethylene terephthalate container is credited with firing up sales of its Bl Botol brand spring water since it debuted about 10 months ago.

April 30, 1997

Conveying & accumulation

Cans are really shaping up at Coke

Hot on the heels of its curvy Coke can (see Packaging World, March '97, p. 8), Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is shaking up the can industry again.

April 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Laser marking sytems

The latest generation of the Xymark(TM) Sprint Series of low-cost laser marking systems has been introduced by Lumonics (Oxnard, CA). It reaches operating speeds of up to 2ꯠ characters/second and marks up to four lines of text or graphics.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

English/metric converter

Venmark (Wellesley, MA) introduced a pocket English/metric converter that converts numbers by sliding the scale, aligning the known quantity in either English or metric units, and reading the corresponding value.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Lid dropper

The Adjustable High-Speed Lid Dropper from Simplex (Hayward, CA) applies metal lids to cans at speeds to 160 lids/min. Its patent-pending series of adjustable arms allows changeover of lid sizes to be accomplished in minutes using a wrench to adjust guide rails.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Collapsible container

Ropak Materials Handling Group (Georgetown, KY) has introduced a reusable, collapsible container suitable for staging, transporting and distributing heavy, dense parts.

March 31, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Bottle diverter

Bottling Development (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has introduced a selectable lane diverter that can be custom designed to fit most existing equipment.

March 31, 1997