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Flexible Handling of Cardboard Boxes and Sacks
are mounted on a 250-mm beam. Both suction pads can be swivelled by 90° and rotated without limits, which allows picking up from the side and flexible positioning in large containers or on palettes. Double suction pad for handling cardboard boxes and sack gripper for handling plastic sacks. At Lilly's
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Case Study: GE Plastics
In two facilities in Mt. Vernon Indiana, the SGV systems carries plastic pellets in boxes or bags on pallets from production lines to the shipping dock. Conveyor stand sensors monitored by plant PLC networks communicate with SGV Manager to initiate load movement requests. Full pallets of finished
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Image makeover for product packaging
, and plastic containers also use about 38% less material than similarly sized steel cans, he continues. And flexible packaging made from plastic or plastic-and-foil composites can use up to 80% less material than bag-in-box packages. To check out package sustainability issues, Delkor, a maker of end
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MICRO: Tool/Fab Automation
because boxes are enclosed, plastic, and porous environments that can concentrate contaminants, particularly organic compounds. To address that problem, manufacturers have been attracted to the use of inert and pure gas to purge storage and transport boxes in sensitive manufacturing applications
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Pack Expo 2000 -- Automation, automation, automation
packer/uncaser from A-B-C Packaging Machine Corp. gently handles glass or plastic containers, and aluminum cans or cartons without damaging them or scuffing their labels. The Model SVB 3601R vertical form/fill/seal machine from Bosch Packaging uses servomotors to control system functions such as material
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MICRO:The 300-mm Imperative, by Gary Gallagher, p.81 (July '99)
chamber, the semiconductor industry has evolved because of how it designs wafer environments to keep pace with new contamination control roadmaps. Methods of wafer transport and storage have also evolved significantly. Early carriers consisted of plastic and foam jewel boxes that carried a single
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Upgrading to New InkJet System Improves Coding of Medical Test Kits for GBF, Inc.
. These are placed manually into the cavities configured in the tray, then a plastic lid is placed on top and snapped closed. As the boxes move forward on a conveyor to the next station, the trays are placed in the boxes, along with a transport bag and vinyl gloves. At this point a photo eye triggers
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Glass Bubbles Reduce Weight of TPO Parts (.pdf)
and thermoformed tool boxes, rocker. panels, plastic wood planks," said Wang, "while higher strength bubbles. are required for injected molded interior and exterior automotive. components, and other industrial components.". Noble Polymers development work shows that the degree of mold. shrinkage in a TPO part