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Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Stretch wrapping
Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.
September 30, 2004
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Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Completion
Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.
September 30, 2004
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Kellogg Company: Bulk packaging of cereal: Placement of slip sheet
Consisting of a corrugated bottom sheet, a pre-made flexible-film bag, and stretch film, the K-one system, marketed by Lantech, replaces a corrugated bulk box and flexible film liner.
September 30, 2004
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Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corp.: Wrapping, stacking and pouching of carded vials
Vials in card form are stacked and then pouched via a Sinlon S.L. Package Machine flow wrapper, represented in the U.S. by Marpak. After precise weighing on a Hi-Speed Checkweigher machine to confirm pouch counts, the pouches travel on a conveyor section to where they are manually inspected before cartoning.
August 31, 2004
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University of Florida: UF's RFID test portal
The University of Florida's new Research Center for Food Distribution and Retailing now includes five radio-frequency identification portals.
June 30, 2004
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Schering-Plough: Blister pack forming/filling for Claritin
From a feed bowl, tablets are fed into formed blisters via a Cam Pak thermoform/fill/seal system. Once lidding is applied, blister packs move through an inspection station from SEA Vision (represented in the U.S. by Calia Technical Inc.) and then on to a punch station.
May 31, 2004
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Schering-Plough: Cartoning and checkweighing of blister packs
Individual blister packs are mechanically fed into a flighted conveyor that brings them a short distance downstream to where they are inserted into folding cartons via a Marchesini cartoner. Thermal ink-jet coding, powered by Hewlett-Packard and supplied by Nutec, code inspection, also part of the Nutec system, and checkweighing (from Optima) all follow.
May 31, 2004
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Schering-Plough: Banding of finished blister packs
A lengthy conveyor section brings individual cartons to upstacking and banding, from Pester.
May 31, 2004
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Schering-Plough: Case packing, case labeling, and robotic palletizing of blister packs
Case packing, case labeling, and robotic palletizing, all on Pester equipment, brings the blister packaging line to an end.
May 31, 2004
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Pacific Wine Partners: Filling and upstream accumulation
The new 54-valve Italian-made Bertolaso gravity-flow vacuum filler from ColloPack Solutions yields faster speeds--typically 180 bottles/min--and less waste. After they are corked, the tapered bottles travel on the first of Pacific Wine's ÒsmartÓ accumulation tables from Garvey.
April 30, 2004
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Phanner: Carton blank handling/sealing/conveying for resealable gable-top cartons
Pfanner is an Austrian family business that specializes in packing fruit-juice concentrates and ready-to-drink fruit juices. About 70% of its volume is marketed under its own brand.
April 30, 2004
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Espoma Company: Premade bag opening/filling/top sealing/stretch bundling for plant food
The Espoma Company is reportedly the first in North America to use the U-Pack package from Bischof + Klein for its 4-, 5-, and 10-lb bags of plant food.
March 31, 2004
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Espoma Company: Robotic palletizing for pre-made bags for plant food
Espoma’s new robotic palletizer from Automated Production Systems is equipped with customized end-of-arm tooling that uses multiple vacuum zones to pick up either bundles of small U-Pack bags, larger flat bags, slip sheets, or pallets, as necessary. The system simultaneously picks items and places them onto three different pallets. Once a pallet is filled, it is conveyed out of the robotic cell in three lanes that merge into one to feed a downstream stretch wrapper.
March 31, 2004
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Martens Brewery: Full-bottle palletizer for barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Bottles fan out into lanes and then are swept layer by layer onto pallets on equipment from KHS.
January 31, 2004
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Martens Brewery: Stretch wrapper for barrier-coated PET beer bottles
The final part of the packaging process is the stretch wrapping of pallets.
January 31, 2004
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Martens Brewery: Blow molding of barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Preforms move down a track and into the enclosed blow molding area. Finished amber bottles then undergo internal coating (not shown here) and are stored on pallets until needed. Blow molding equipment is supplied by Sidel.
January 31, 2004
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Martens Brewery: Palletizing empty barrier-coated PET beer bottles
Empty bottles are automatically palletized on KHS equipment and then banded.
January 31, 2004
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Martens Brewery: Depalletizing empty barrier-coated PET beer bottles
From storage, bottles are forklifted into a high-level depalletizer from KHS.
January 31, 2004
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