Oystar USA – whose parent company, OYSTAR Group, develops, manufactures and sells both complete packaging lines and individual machines for the dairy, food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals industries – offers the new Oystar IWK FP 10 Filling Platform for the filling of metal, plastic and laminated tubes at speeds of up to 70 cycles per minute.
Spee-Dee® Packaging Machinery’s testing lab can simulate production runs, giving customers assurance that their product will meet desired fill rates and accuracies. The goal of the test lab is to duplicate a customer’s specific application by demonstrating that Spee-Dee equipment will fill and perform as expected.
At Automate 2013, Matrox Imaging announced its new high-performance computing platform. Designed for computationally-demanding industrial imaging applications, Matrox Supersight Solo lets users integrate a powerful system host board with multiple GPUs, FPGAs and frame grabbers in a single robust chassis.
The new “Space Saver” Parts Cart from Change Parts offers an economical way to save valuable floor space by storing more components in less space, equaling less cost.
Wildeck premieres new four-post VRC design that includes, as standard, the company’s full-featured AutoSenz® D-Series Overload Detection System. According to Hue Schlegel, director of marketing at Wildeck, “The 4XLift sets a new standard for heavy material lifting and has more available safety features than any other 4-post VRC on the market today.”
Cognex Corporation, supplier of machine vision and industrial ID systems, announced a new series of compact barcode readers designed for 1-D oriented barcode reading.
Tapeswitch Corporation released the new PCU programmable safety controller that further extends robust safety product system capabilities to include systems integration, programmable logic control functions and management software (included).
Omega Design Corporation – a global provider of innovative packaging machinery and serialization solutions, and the worldwide leader in bottle unscrambling technology – offers the Servo-controlled Rotary Pocket (SRP) Bottle Unscrambler. The machine features patented rotary pockets and delivers a level of performance unmatched by any other unscrambler on the market.
AFA has developed a new cartoner called the HD-LSP – Heavy Duty Linear Servopack Autoload Cartoner. The HD-LSP is extremely versatile as it can handle bars, flow wrap packages, and sachets with ease.
Fowler supplies six high-speed, high-quality cleaning, filling, and capping systems helping to break production records at two Diageo plants.
January 16, 2013
Fowler Products, powered by Pro Mach, and its French partner, Perrier Bottling Machines have been recognized by Diageo, the world’s largest producer of distilled spirits, with the Distinguished Honors – Special Projects award. Over the last two years, Fowler supplied six Perrier cleaning and filling systems and Fowler/Zalkin capping machines to two Diageo facilities.
