Material Handling and Packaging Equipment Reference Materials
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Forklifts Vs. Cable Conveying--Cut Down on Moving Parts in Your Processing Facility
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Want to know a great way to move materials across your facilities? Hint: It's efficient, safe, reliable, and moves about 100' per minute - and it won't be late to work! It's an enclosed cable conveyor ...
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Bulk Bag Weigh Batch System Cuts Labor, Dust, Disposal Associated with Manual Bag Dumping
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Nutec Ltd., a contract manufacturer and packager of animal feed and medicinal products, converted from manual dumping of 44 lb (20 kg) bags of raw material to automated, dust-free discharging of 1.1 ...
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Bulk bag weigh batch system cuts labor, dust, disposal associated with manual bag dumping
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Nutec Ltd., a contract manufacturer and packager of animal feed and medicinal products, converted from manual dumping of 44 lb (20 kg) bags of raw material to automated, dust-free discharging of 1.1 ...
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Flexible screw conveyors help double output in confined bottling and packaging area of milk powder and powder drink mixes
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: When sales of a product line decrease, expand. That approach paid dividends for Dairy Industries Jamaica with the help of flexible screw conveyors, which allowed the company to expand its product line ...
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CIBAO - Another Success Story
Description: On November 20, 2018 by invitation of Cementos CIBAO, a valued partner and client, HBU attended the inaugural ceremonial ribbon cutting for their new HAVER & BOECKER Packing and Palletizer dispatch ...
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Bulk Bag Filling Solution to Extend Product Shelf Life
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Traditionally when bag filling, the bag is inflated with air before filling commences. Filling it with nitrogen instead eliminates any oxygen within the bag, and after fill the bag can be left ...
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How do you convey a difficult product?
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: If your product has certain characteristics that make it difficult to handle you may be asking yourself - how do you convey a difficult product? The right conveyor for your application is based on a ...
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5 Holiday Gifts You Can Make with a Laser
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: 5 Holiday Gifts You Can Make with a Laser Impress your friends and family this holiday season with these easy-to-make projects. October 31, 2018 by Amy Dallman It seems as though the moment Halloween ...
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Franchising vs. Starting a Business: How a Laser Machine Can Provide Autonomy and Success
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: Franchising vs. Starting a Business: How a Laser Machine Can Provide Autonomy and Success Learn how starting a laser business may be the best option for entrepreneurs. May 24th, 2018 by James Stanaway ...
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New Technologies Impacting the Smart Factory
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: New Technologies Impacting the Smart Factory The electronics influencing changes in manufacturing, from robotics and the IIoT to 3D printing and laser marking and engraving. April 2, 2019 by Amy ...
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A clean and efficient procedure for the creation of durable high-contrast marks
Description: Metal component manufacturers apply direct markings to their products for a variety of reasons: Beyond legal regulations, there is also the need to permanently mark parts with excellent legibility to ...
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Technologically advanced, small in size, greatly effective
Description: Direct marking is required for reusable, reprocessed dental devices (such as instruments); however, many manufacturers of single-use or general-use dental products - ranging from implants to complete ...
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How to Clean the Dust or Dirt on the Collector Ring (Slipring) Surface
Description: There are many way to clean collector ring (slipring). Eg: when you find the dust on the surface of collector ring (slipring) during the car cleaning and checking, after opening the window cover and ...
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How to Create a Basic Marking Program
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: This technical article explains how to create a basic SpeedMark program, including the following tasks: Line marking Ellipse marking Outline text marking Rectangle marking Arc marking ...
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How Do You Convey Seeds Without Breakage?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Sunshine Produce challenged Cablevey to use their test protocol to prove that a Cablevey would be superior to what cheaper competitors offer. Cablevey has several of their own conveyors installed in ...
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Best Types of Magnets for MRO and Warehouse
From: Master Magnetics, Inc.Description: When it comes to MRO and warehouse management, magnets play a surprising role in keeping things running smoothly. Here's a look at the three best types of magnets for MRO and warehouses. ...
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Three Types of P.O.P. Magnets Hiding in Plain Sight
From: Master Magnetics, Inc.Description: Sometimes the best use for a magnet is one you don't see. Because the magnet can be hidden, the emphasis remains on the product or enhances the visual environment; not the functionality of the magnet. ...
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What does the "W" in a UN mark stand for?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Find out what the W code means in a UN rating code string. ...
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Drums for TerraCycle's new eco e-commerce platform Loop
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Learn about how Terracycle is partnering with CurTec and P&G to solve the problem of disposal diapers and feminine care products using container that can be re-used over 100 times. ...
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What is the Substrate of a Carton and how does it Impact Packaging Tape Choice?
Description: In the packaging industry, the substrate of a carton refers to the type of material that the carton you are sealing is made out of. The most common type of substrate is corrugated fiberboard. ...
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UN Packaging Ratings for Dummies
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Who is responsible? What are the important aspects? How do I choose the right packaging? These are common questions which arise when packaging and transporting dangerous goods. Fingers are often ...
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Plastics More Sustainable Than Expected
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Plastics are popular and have a multitude of applications. They make our lives easier, cleaner, safer and more pleasant through products such as complex smartphones, flexible food storage bags, ...
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Selektope® inventors develop revolutionary dissolvable biocide packaging system
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Swedish antifouling bio-tech innovator I-Tech AB has developed a new 'drop-in, dust-free' dissolvable packaging system to enhance the way the active agent Selektope® is added to marine coatings ...
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Cablevey's Cable Technology Eliminates Food Breakage and Enhances Cleanliness
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Material breakage is a persistent challenge for factories that rely on conveyor systems to shuttle ingredients within a production facility. It's a costly problem that negatively impacts the bottom ...
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How Tubular Drag Conveying Reduces Waste
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: As material is moved through a conveyor, it faces multiple opportunities for degradation due to poor inlet design, product shearing, conveyor speed, temperature changes, friction-induced separation, ...
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No Deterioration of Grain for Craft Breweries
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: "Coming from Orange County we have a challenging physical location. Industrial space is very expensive, and we needed a system that could handle some decently tight sweeps, that could actually carry ...
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Tubular Drag Conveyers Keep Rice Intact
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Leaders in the business of processing rice know that this delicate grain can be successfully transported on conveyor belt systems, but only when those systems are designed to handle goods gently. ...
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Brittle Pasta Handled Gently, Automatically with Box Dumpers, Tubular Cable Conveyors
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To move brittle pasta from Gaylord containers to three packaging lines at high rates without product breakage or dust, Quality Pasta Company installed two Open-Chute Box Dumpers and three ...
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Bulk Bag Dischargers Double Productivity of Fruit and Spice Ingredients
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Seven bulk bag dischargers have doubled productivity, from 35 tonnes to 70 tonnes (38.5 to 77 tons) per day, in an expansion project that increased Prosur's factory space from 3,000 m2 (32,000 ft2) to ...
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Bulk Bag Dischargers, Flexible Screw Conveyors Double Output at Peanut Butter Facility
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Two bulk bag dischargers and five flexible screw conveyors have doubled peanut butter production capacity at Once Again Nut Butter's new 37,000 sq ft (3440 sq m) dedicated peanut butter facility. The ...
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Bulk Bag Filler Boosts Pale Ale Malt Packing Output with Reduced Labour
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Thomas Fawcett & Sons Ltd required a more efficient system to pack pale ale malt into 350 kg (772 lb) to 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) bulk bags, sold across the UK and internationally. ...
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Flexible Screw Conveyor Moves Whey Powder for Animal Nutrition Products
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To move powdered products containing whey and other ingredients from a blender to a packaging machine, the plant continues to rely on a Flexicon flexible screw conveyor it purchased more than 22 years ...
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Re-Bagging Of Granular Sugar Improved With Bulk Bag Weigh Batch Discharger
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Welcome Food Ingredients Ltd required a more efficient system to re-bag granular sugar used to manufacture their sauces, pastes, dressings and dips for food industry customers. ...
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Case Study: Roller Supported Cable Carrier System
Description: At the Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) in Colon, Panama, several container cranes are in operation around the clock. This requires a particularly high level of robustness and availability for ...
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Campbell's Sweets Finds a Sweet Way to Fulfill Storage Needs with the Akro-Mils KeepBox!
From: Akro-Mils, Inc.Description: Campbell's Sweets Factory - a Cleveland, Ohio store started in 1975, which manufactures and sells a wide variety of gourmet popcorn, cupcakes and other sweet treats - has made great use of the ...
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Cobot Screwdriving System for Advanced Assembly
Description: Visumatic's VCM-3X.2 collaborative robot fastening system is a complete feed-and-drive package for use by machine builders. This article explains the complete system, including an automatic feeder, ...
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Application Spotlight: Flexible Packaging
Description: Flexible packaging is at the forefront of important packaging trends in product protection, design and performance, consumer convenience, and sustainability, all of which positively impact the ...
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Hazards in the Flexible Packaging Process
Description: The majority of flexible packaging is printed using either the rotogravure or the flexographic printing process...The key hazard in these processes is an explosion from the buildup of solvent vapors ...
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Strategies for Preventing Quality Defects through Daily Efforts
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: In 'Preventing Quality Defects' you will read about our daily efforts to improve the safety and quality of high performance packaging. ...
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Deciphering Markings Molded in Plastic Drums
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Many manufacturers of molded plastice include 'material clocks' or mold indicators in discrete locations on their containers. Find out what these mean and how they are used for quality control. ...
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How Can Packaging Help Keep Pigs Healthy?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: When a high value product arrives damaged, everyone in the supply chain looks bad, not to mention the cost of cleaning up spilled hazardous materials and the threat to human and environmental safety a ...
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Plastic Drums as Rainwater Processing Tanks
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Brewing beer from rainwater? Totally possible and being done! The German engineering company Intewa has developed a revolutionary new micro filtering technique to filter bacteria and other harmful ...
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About to Cut Wood for a Project? Follow This Advice Before You Start.
Description: Even if you can make a perfect cut, you waste that skill without proper measuring and marking. Fail at these two things and the rest of the project is might as well fail, too. Here's how to avoid ...
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Factors in Product Shelf Life
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: How do you maintain the optimum quality of your products for as long as possible? This brief article gives four key considerations ...
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How Long is a UN Packaging Test Report Valid?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Does the UN hazmat marking and the test certificate behind the mark ever expire? Well that depends! Find out what factors go into determining if your package has expired its UN rating certificate and ...
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Improving the Barrier Qualities of HDPE with Fluorination
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Teflon coatings and many other chemicals need additional protections to prevent them from permeating or migrating through HDPE and other types of plastic packaging. This article looks at how Dupont ...
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Reference Guide for Chemical Resistance of Six Plastics
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: What chemicals can a plastic container resist and how well? This convenient technical resource gives an easy to ready guide for six plastic types and over 200 chemical compounds. ...
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Better Results & Lower Costs Lead Fastmile Logistics to Use Rubber Pallet Bands Move Quickly & Safely In The Warehouse With Cost Effective with Pallet Bands
Description: This is Why Moving Quickly & Safely In The Warehouse Proves Cost Effective with Pallet Bands ...
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Cleaning Rousseau Products
From: Rousseau Metal inc.Description: We often receive questions about how to clean Rousseau storage solutions. What product should I use? What brush or cloth can I use? To help with this chore, we are providing our recommendations in ...
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Preventing Static Issues in Plastic Containers
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Avoiding contamination of employees during cleaning and dust extraction operations is an important issue for pharmaceutical companies. Using conductive CurTec drums, Krahnen has developed a special ...
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The Hidden Issues of Pharmaceutical Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: When changing packaging, the first thing a pharmaceutical manufacturer will think of is registration: the process of acquiring approval to market a product. It is a challenge in itself, but you also ...
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) Metal Powders Require Careful Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: 3D printing has revived the demand for an ancient niche product, namely powdered metal. These extraordinary and expensive materials such as nickel, titanium, cobalt but also graphene, require special ...
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Hazmat Shipping Violations - The Four Most Common
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Each year upon initial inspection 54% of hazardous materials are rejected for shipment. "In most cases, these hazmat violations are repetitive and easy to avoid," says Maxence Wittebolle, Director of ...
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Preventing Tablets from Breaking Down in Shipping
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: When making tablets, it is not only important that they contain the correct amount of active ingredients and excipients, they also need to look attractive or 'elegant' if you will. People will ...
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10 Signs It's Time To Rethink Your Intralogistics
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Uncovering one or more of these symptoms might indicate it's time to consider a new methodology for handling inventory, components, goods and/or spare parts inside your operation. ...
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5 Ways To Increase Profit With Simple Picking Automation
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Increase your operation's profitability through improvements in inventory accessibility, floor space, time, improved ergonomics and better accuracy. ...
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6 Ways To Increase Inventory Control With Simple Automation
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Whether you run a distribution and fulfillment operation, or a tooling and spare parts warehouse supporting manufacturing, learn how an automated storage and retrieval system with integrated inventory ...
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A New Approach To Minimizing Downtime In Highly Automated Operations
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Facilities throughout the supply chain are increasingly installing large scale automation process and handling technologies that require readily available routine maintenance supplies and spare parts ...
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ASRS Capacity & Floor Space Savings
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Rare is the manufacturing, warehousing or distribution facility that does not suffer from some amount of space limitations. Sometimes inventory, parts or work-in-process have exceeded current ...
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Benchmarking Your Order Fulfillment Operations
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Five different companies in five very different industries used one of these five criteria to justify integrating automation into its picking processes. Each invested in a low-risk automated storage ...
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Calculating the True Cost of Productivity
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Warehouse labor-whether deployed in a manufacturing or distribution operation-is frequently the dominant cost of a facility, no matter where it is located within the U.S. Discover how implementing ...
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Calculating the True Cost of Storage Space
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Regardless of where in the U.S. your manufacturing or distribution operations are located, square footage is a significant cost. Learn how to maximize your inventory density and reduce storage space ...
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Connecting Islands of Automation
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Connecting existing islands of automation for a more efficient order fulfilment process that meets rising customer service expectations. ...
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Cost Avoidance for Lean Operations
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: The economic realities of the past few years have forced most companies to make cuts, frequently in personnel headcount, to accommodate the downturn in business as they fought hard to survive. Indeed, ...
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Defining The Perfect Order
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: While delivering the 100% perfect order may be the Holy Grail for many distributors and manufacturers, it isn't necessarily the right mission for every organization. ...
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Evaluating Goods-to-Person Technologies
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: A guide for determining the optimal automated goods-to-person storage and retrieval system in order fulfillment operations. ...
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Five Ways To Increase Productivity In Picking Operations
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Organizations often overhaul picking operations, implementing new picking techniques, new processes and new order picking equipment, in an attempt to gain productivity in their operations. These ...
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Hidden AS/RS Data Reveals Opportunities
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Automated storage and retrieval systems offer more than just maximized inventory density and reduced storage footprint. They also contain a trove of specific picking and inventory handling data points ...
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Lean 2.0: Take Lean To The Next Level
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Utilizing horizontal carousels, vertical carousels and vertical lift modules (VLM) to reduce waste and enhance production processes for further lean gains. ...
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May The Labor Force Be With You
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: As the human workforce ages and shrinks, automated storage and retrieval systems can help to maximize warehouse associates' productivity levels while reducing overall labor requirements. ...
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Optimizing E-commerce Returns with Automated Storage Systems
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: Quickly organize returned items by dispensation category to minimize inventory costs, labor requirements and space demands through deployment of flexible automated storage and retrieval systems. ...
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Order Picking With Vertical Carousels
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: First introduced more than 60 years ago, today's vertical carousels feature a variety of design improvements that deliver increased accuracy and throughput for optimized order picking. More affordable ...
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Positioning Your Order Picking Team For Success
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: How automated goods-to-person storage and retrieval systems deliver ergonomic benefits that yield higher productivity, better accuracy and reduced operational costs. ...
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Seize Manufacturing "Reshoring" Opportunities with ASRS Efficiencies
From: Kardex RemstarDescription: The underlying factors for moving manufacturing back to the United States from overseas may finally be trending in favor of U.S. sites. This shift-known as reshoring-is being driven by multiple ...
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How to Avoid Common Mistakes when Selecting Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Selecting the best possible packaging for your product is a real challenge. Quite often companies do not have a complete insight in their packaging requirements which leads to the wrong choices, ...
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How to Solve Dilemmas in Packaging Development
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: 'Over 3.5 billion are lost to the costs of packaging, packaging should add value and not be seen as waste', says Professor Ten Klooster. Better packaging can lead to a better product, he claims, which ...
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Proper Filling of Hazardous Materials to Avoid Static Discharge in Sensitive Powders
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Newson Gale addresses the issues associated with static electricity on plastic packaging and provides solutions to grounding plastic drums and IBCs. Examine best practices to see if your company is ...
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Security and Tamper Evident Protection Systems
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: In maintaining the security of high value pharmaceuticals, APIs and chemicals there are a number of systems that can be adopted. This white paper explores current options. ...
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UN Packaging Ratings Simply Explained
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Maxence Wittebolle from the Belgian Packaging Institute (BVI) gives step-by-step advice on the choices and responsibilities that apply when dangerous solids need to be shipped under UN regulations for ...
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Are Food Enzymes Compatible with Plastic Packaging?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Review a case study on how DSM Food Specialities packages food enzymes. Learn how to help food manufacturers to get more out of their raw materials. ...
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Elevating Brand Value Through Innovative Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Bachem is a bio chemicals company servicing the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Bachem is specialised in the process development and manufacturing of peptides and complex organic molecules as ...
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Even Mud from the Moors Requires Good Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Packaging is of great importance for the quality perception and customer acceptance of a product. Nobody wants to buy or use a product that is damaged or contaminated. Zehentmayer manufactures dietary ...
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Handling Bulk Battery Recycling Requirements
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: A German company was looking for a solution for recycling batteries. They needed a UN rated container that allowed for off-gassing. They were able to find an attractive, clean, safe and certified ...
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How do you Protect UV Sensitive Materials with Packaging?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: UV curable lacquers are high value liquids that require clean, safe and secure packaging. These lacquers are part of the range of coated films and blended liquids that MacDermid Autotype manufactures ...
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Packaging Specialty Chemicals
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Read how one company found suitable packaging for its innovative new chemical system. Is it sometimes worth spending more money? ...
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Protecting Nutritional Supplements for Bulk Shipment
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Recently Isochem needed a solution for shipping a Vitamin E derivative in an intermediate sized jar type container. Why did they select 'packos'? ...
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Providing Safe Collection Containers for Medical Hazmat
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Medentex from Bielefeld (Germany) is a full service provider in the area of dental waste collection. They use CurTec screw top drums and jars as collection containers for waste containing mercury, ...
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Reusable and Sustainable Alternatives to Disposable Plastic Bags in Powder Processing
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Packaging plays an important role in satisfying supply chain needs. In order to guarantee safe storage and internal distribution of pharmaceutical powders, Unither decided to replace one-way ...
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Supply Chain Risks and Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Having a thorough understanding of the manufacturing requirements that lead to the right package to fit the entire supply chain process requires a niche packaging manufacture with the experience and ...
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When to Choose a Custom Solution for Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Synthon was looking for a new high-quality package for its tablets and capsules. They developed custom packaging that is not only easier to use and recognize but also able to reduce supply chain ...
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Dual Monorail Helps Paper Company Work Outside the Box
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: Green Bay Packaging is a pulp and paper manufacturer using 100% recycled materials to produce a wide variety paperboard packaging. Large bulk rolls are slit and sized based on customer demand, and ...
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Gorbel Aluminum Gantry Crane Helps Paradigm Hyperloop Team with Maintenance, Installation, and Loading
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: Paradigm Hyperloop is an international team of college students from Northeastern University and the Memorial University of Newfoundland. The team aims to prove the viability of air based levitation ...
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Label Applicator Cuts Labor Costs for Bottled Water Supplier
From: Loveshaw, an ITW CompanyDescription: Due to the warm and humid environment, employees of Rusco Packaging would utilize fans to cool their areas. Depending on the proximity of the fan to the labeler, some labels which were being tamped ...
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How Should Packaging Tape be Stored?
Description: A roll of tape is susceptible to damage before it even gets to the packaging line. The proper storage of packaging tape can make the difference between a strong carton seal and tape failure that leads ...
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Free Standing Work Station Cranes Aide Process Improvement for Motor Home Manufacturer
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: Tiffin Motorhomes has flourished in Red Bay, Alabama, and the surrounding area for more than four decades. A family-owned business, Tiffin stresses the value of listening to those who craft the ...
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Free-Standing Jib Crane Reduces Need for Other Types of Handling
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: A supplier of a diverse line of undercarriage components for use in the manufacturing of heavy construction equipment lacked a consistent process for preparing finished products for shipment. A ...
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G-Force® Improves Ergonomics and Productivity
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: Workers at this Iowa seed company spent all day unloading boxes from pallets onto a gravity conveyor for staging. Due to ergonomic issues, the company started using G-Force and Workstation Crane. ...
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Paper Manufacturer Benefits from Easy Arm® Solution
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: A manufacturer of paper products was using air balancers to change out roll cores in their plant. Multiple times each day, workers were required to remove the 50 lb. cores from one roll and transfer ...
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Material Specifications for ASE, American Standard and Metric Hardware & Handles
From: RAF Electronic HardwareDescription: MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS ...
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New Standards Coming for N.A. Mobile Elevating Work Platforms
From: Rieker, Inc.Description: New requirements are being drafted in the interest of increasing operational safety and providing standardized products for global use ...