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Controlling It All... Motion And Machine
, including vertical loading, continuous motion, and rotary packers, is designed to package virtually any rigid container -- regardless of shape, size, or material -- into nearly any case or tray, plastic or corrugated. "We've been using PLCs in our equipment for many years," explains Dwight Crotty
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Sustainable Engineering: Sustainable-Packaging Practices Can cut Costs
used for products that require high top-to-bottom stacking strength. Companies already using trays are moving to pads with overwrap, often with the goal of getting to just shrink wrap. About half of all packaging professionals say corrugated usage will drop (with specially designed cartons filling
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Medical Device Link .
contact and are considered primary packaging components. Other such primary components include desiccants that absorb moisture and specialty products that absorb oxygen and odors. Secondary packaging components that do not involve product contact include labels, kit cartons, corrugated shipping
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Upgrading to New InkJet System Improves Coding of Medical Test Kits for GBF, Inc.
. "The tray is packed in a corrugated fold-and-tuck test kit box (10 in. x 5 in. x 2.25 in.) which is supplied to us preprinted and die-cut," says Frank Eaton, Director of Operations at GBF. "The box also functions as a mailer, which is returned with the samples to our customers' lab for clinical
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Pack up! Pack Expo returns to Chicago
. A line of branded digital case printers includes four models that print full graphics, in-spec bar codes, and human-readable text on corrugated shipping cases and multiwall paper bags. The Optimizer automates printing of flat RSC cases before they go to packing lines. It provides maximum output
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Packaging Goes Back to Nature
and electrically neutral and largely insensitive to changes in temperature and humidity. The material is said to outperform vacuum-formed plastics, corrugated cardboard, and expanded polystyrene (EPS), especially when vibration comes into play. These qualities have led to its use in packaging
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Accessorize Your Cable Carrier
of high-performance plastic and steel, and a KMA version, which attaches flush to the machine. PMA corrugated tubing. PMA protective hoses are for applications requiring flexible protection for electrical wires and cables. igus® offers a line of PMA, which can be used in a variety of applications from mechanical
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Pfizer Learns by Doing with RFID
to evaluate performance. Tags on plastics, corrugated, glass and cartons see only small or marginal effects to resonating frequency usually too little to make a real difference. The tag manufacturer can compensate for this if its evaluated in advance. Tags on metal or in close proximity to metal