Material Handling and Packaging Equipment Reference Materials
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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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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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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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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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Omnitrack Ball Transfer Units Touch Down in American Football Stadium Construction
From: Omnitrack Corp.Description: When a leading US construction contractor wanted to create a seamless soffit panel roof to go around the 3100ft (944.88m) perimeter of the new Dolphins' stadium, they knew it wasn't going to be an ...
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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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Collaborative Robotic Fastening 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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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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Avoiding Product Damage - Packaging biosecurity disinfectants and other specialty chemicals
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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Brewing Beer from Rainwater
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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Don't Be Clueless, Deciphering Plastic Markings
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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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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Benefits of Fluorination Treatment of HDPE Packaging
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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Factors Impacting 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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Guide to 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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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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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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Conductive Drums Dissipate Static to Prevent Clinging Dust
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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How to Prevent Pharmaceutical Packaging Change Control Issues
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 Special Drums
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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Avoiding Tablet Degradation in Bulk Shipments
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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Solving Fiber Drum Contamination and Corrosion Issues in Bulk Drums
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Does your company use fiber drums to pack valuable products? This type of packaging material often suits its purpose, but in certain situations it can also create various risks such as contamination ...
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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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Packaging Development Dilemmas
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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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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How to Manage Packaging for Recyling Batteries
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: UN certified packaging as a collection vessel for spent batteries was one of Stibat's (Stichting Batterijen = Dutch Battery Foundation) main requirements. Examine how they found a solution to ...
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Novel Battery Drum Collection Container Sets Standard
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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Packaging Chlorine Replacement 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 and Presenting Specialty Chemical Powders in Bulk Containers
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Chemtura was looking for a solution to transport and package premium powders and granulates. Amongst their requirements were safety and ease of use. Review this Case Study on how they acheived their ...
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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 ...
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What Will Revised Standards for Aerial Work Platforms Mean to You?
From: Rieker, Inc.Description: One of the biggest changes in the draft standard is the requirement for load-sensing alarms and cutouts to be built into new work platforms. The comment period for revised ANSI standards ends on May ...
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Handling of Spent Nuclear Fuel
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: Most operating nuclear reactors do not possess sufficient in-pool storage capacity. For such plants, dry storage and, for the moment an on-site dry storage facility, is the only viable option. ...
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How to Adjust an A95 Anti-backlash Device
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: Steps to adjust the A95 Anti-backlash Device ...
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Handling Hazardous, High-Value Chemicals Doesn't Have To Be High Risk
From: OPW Engineered SystemsDescription: Minimizing the amount of chemicals lost during the connection and disconnection of coupling systems is a significant benefit to the health of the environment and operators, but it can also provide ...
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FIPA in Practice: Workers Effortlessly Move Planks Weighing 160 kg (353 lb)
From: FIPA, Inc.Description: More than 50 years of experience in building, restoring and renovating stairways - Krieger Treppen GmbH from the town of Traben-Trarbach enjoys a good reputation. Customers of this local business ...
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FIPA Innovation: Who Can Lift a Ton of Steel Without Batting an Eyelash?
From: FIPA, Inc.Description: South Korea's DAHO TECH COMPANY is highly skilled in steel and mechanical engineering. As part of an automation measure, a new lifting solution was developed to meet their individual needs precisely ...
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Case Study: Perfecting Picking at Ziegler Cat
From: Cubic Designs, Inc.Description: Ziegler was founded in 1914 by Wm. H. Ziegler with one guiding principal "sell the best equipment, provide the best service." Over 103 years later, that philosophy still holds true. Today, Ziegler ...
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Four (4) Choices for Mezzanine Access Lifts
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: This white paper explores the pros and cons of the 4 four types of lifts commonly used to move goods between grade and mezzanines. No matter your mezzanine access needs ...
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How a Color-Coded Bin Storage System Can Improve Your Bottom Line
From: Akro-Mils, Inc.Description: An effective color-coding system will instantly help to reduce wasted efforts searching for tools or supplies needed for the job. ...
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Rider Lift for Mezzanines In Automobile Dealerships
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: An automotive holding company in Minnesota with more than nine (9) dealerships has installed mezzanines serviced with Advance rider mezzanine lifts in six (6) of their dealerships with plans for more ...
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Rider Lift to 2nd Floor For Spring Manufacturer
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: A spring manufacturer in the Chicago area purchased an existing building to expand their manufacturing area. Prior to occupying the building, they installed an Advance rider mezzanine lift and an ...
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VRC For Roof Access
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: A large manufacturing company in North Carolina installed a VRC to take equipment and maintenance items up to their roof. ...
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Case Study: Hospital System Using Akro-Mils Products to Go Mobile
From: Akro-Mils, Inc.Description: Relocation of active departments in a medical facility is a daunting process. Materials managers at a Midwestern medical system - with multiple locations serving more than 1 million patients annually ...
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What's the Capacity of Your Mobile Workstation?
From: Rousseau Metal inc.Description: A few weeks ago, we published an article on the load capacity of fixed workstations. In the same vein, this article focuses on the capacity of your mobile workstation! ...
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NFPA 650 Standard for Pneumatic Conveying Systems for Handling Combustible Particulate Solids
From: ACS ValvesDescription: Complete NFPA 650: 1998 edition. ...
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Advantages in Using Tubular Drag Cable Conveyors for Coffee & Tea
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: The first application of Cablevey Conveyors technology saw the US-based company provide Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company (SWDCC) in Burnaby, British Colombia with conveying technology for ...
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Choosing the Right Conveyor for Coffee
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: The coffee "industry" is large and in constant flux. One "State of the Industry" article regarding coffee processing each year cannot possibly capture all the current best practices within a roasting ...
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Corrugated Printing Troubleshooting eGuide
Description: This 16-page problem/solution guide will help you identify the source of everyday issues you may encounter as a corrugated printer. This downloadable brochure uses information provided by industry ...
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Free Flexographic Troubleshooting eGuide
Description: This 20-page problem/solution guide features input gathered from flexographic print industry suppliers and manufacturers. Use this guide to identify problems and implement solutions in your printing ...