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Feldschloesschen Brewery: Stretch wrapping of beer in PET
As a full pallet receives its top layer and exits, a fresh pallet is automatically moved into place. At the stretch wrapper, a top sheet of film is automatically dispensed. Stretch wrapping equipment is supplied by Krones.
January 31, 2004
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American Italian Pasta Co.: Weighing of pasta on a weigh scale
Pasta moves through a Triangle combination scale on its way to the bagging machines.
January 31, 2004
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American Italian Pasta Co.: Vf/f/s on a pasta packaging line
Film is fed to the vf/f/s machine from Triangle from a floor-level unwind stand. Bags as small as 8 oz or as large as 10 lb are filled on the machine.
January 31, 2004
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American Italian Pasta Co.: Case erecting on a pasta packaging line
Flat case blanks are erected automatically and then sent to the case packing machine from Fallas Automation.
January 31, 2004
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American Italian Pasta Co.: Case packing on a pasta packaging line
Finished bags are conveyed through a metal detector from Fortress Technologies and a checkweigher from Heat and Control just before case packing from Fallas Automation. Filled cases are taped shut and date coded on their sides.
January 31, 2004
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American Italian Pasta Co.: Robotic palletizing of cases of pasta
Each robotic palletizer, from Alvey Systems, loads two pallets, one to the left and one to the right. A rail-mounted guided vehicle then carries filled pallets toward the stretch wrapper.
January 31, 2004
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American Italian Pasta Co.: Stretch wrapping on a pasta packaging line
Filled pallets are delivered to the Lantech stretch wrapper via two right-angle turns.
January 31, 2004
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Poore: Snack line conveying to f/f/s
At Poore Brothers, three FastBack conveyors from Heat and Control carry snacks from three fryers to downstream vertical form/fill/seal machines.
December 31, 2003
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Poore: Weigh scales for salty snacks
Cross-feeder conveyors deliver snacks to Ishida 14-head weigh scales from Heat and Control. Individual load cells measure the weight of product in the scales. Integrated controls are used to select the right combination of buckets to release an accurate amount of product into a bottom-sealed tube of film.
December 31, 2003
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Poore: Vertical form/fill/seal for snacks
This continuous-motion bagger from Heat and Control uses patented twin heat-sealing jaws that simultaneously seal the top of the leading pack and the bottom of the subsequent pack. These vf/f/s machines produce 1- to 3-oz bags for vending machine and multi-pack sales, at speeds to 150/min. That rate is three times faster than previous vf/f/s equipment.
December 31, 2003
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Platinum Packaging Inc.: Friction feeding for gift box blanks
Contract packager Platinum Packaging employs nearly 50 Longford friction feeders that deliver gift box blanks from a magazine onto a lugged conveyor for downstream shrink wrapping. Feeders can also be set up to deliver calendars to a plow so that another downstream feeder can insert a paperboard card into the calendar. Dong so helps provide rigidity to the calendar after it's shrink-wrapped.
December 31, 2003
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Platinum Packaging Inc.: Wrapping and sealing of gift box blanks
A stack of knocked-down gift box bottoms and tops are pushed into a center-folded tube of film that provides clarity, as well as puncture and tear-resistance. The tube is side-sealed with two impulse wires. Next, a cross-sealing station employs hot-knife jaws that create a seal between the leading and trailing pack of boxes before cutting in the seal area between the packs. Packs then are conveyed through a heat tunnel. Euipment is supplied by Shanklin.
December 31, 2003
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Platinum Packaging Inc.: Shrink sealing of gift box blanks
On one of its six new shrink-wrapping lines, Platinum Packaging uses a Shanklin shrink tunnel with side windows that allow personnel to view film shrinking around thin packs of products. It also allows customers visiting the plant to see the process.
December 31, 2003
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Edna Valley Vineyard: Accumulation table for wine bottling line
Edna Valley Vineyard’s first-of-its-kind accumulation table from Garvey packs a lot of benefits in a small space. Positioned between a capsule applicator and capsule spinner, the 5’x6’ oval table boosts bottling efficiency by 20%. It provides five minutes’ accumulation at rates of 120 bottles/min.
November 30, 2003
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Tropicana Europe: Air conveying/filling/accumulating/labeling/tray packing on aseptic filling lin
At Tropicana Europe’s new plant in Zeebrugge, Belgium, PET bottles are air-conveyed from depalletization to a new aseptic line from Procomac Industries.
October 31, 2003
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WeserGold: Sterilizing/filling/transporting/discharging for aseptic PET juice bottling line
PET bottle exteriors are sterilized with vaporized hydrogen peroxide during a summer test run on a new aseptic bottling line at WeserGold’s plant in Rinteln, Germany.
October 31, 2003
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Peak Foods: Tamper-evident banding for bowls of nondairy whipped topping
Bowls are conveyed into full-surround flights that provide a 360 degree deck that perfectly centers each tamper-evident band. Bowls are secured in the flights all the way from the infeed of the trio of tamper-evident band applicators through the heat tunnel. Tamper band applicators were supplied by Axon Corp.
September 30, 2003
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Peak Foods: Bowl accumulation for nondairy whipped topping
Bowl flow on the Garvey accumulation table downstream of TE banding and ahead of case packing is seen in overhead and floor-level views. Bowls will continue to recirculate on the accumulation table, which operates without active devices such as photoeyes, until downstream operations are cleared.
September 30, 2003
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