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Machinery & Machinery Components

Advanced Detection Systems

Booth 5425

Advanced Detection Systems will be introducing its latest metal detector at the 2008 WestPack Show in Anaheim. The digital ProScan 1600 uses state of the art DSP technology and offers enhanced sensitivity in wet, dry and conductive products. A user-friendly touchscreen display allows for easy operation by plant personnel. The detector can be quickly connected to an existing network to monitor performance and log detection events. The ProScan 1600 metal detector comes standard with all stainless steel washdown construction. Models include conveyor mounted for packaged product as well as pipeline for liquids and slurries.

Booth 5021

Alum-A-Lift is a forerunner in the design and construction of custom material handling ergonomic lifting devices. The highly engineered material handling ergonomic lifts, lower, move, position and hold objects too heavy for the unaided human. Alum-A-Lift's custom material handling ergonomic lifts are in use by over one-third of the Fortune 500 companies as well as a number of major multi-national companies based in several countries. These light weight, battery powered material handling ergonomic lifts are capable of handling loads of 2,000 pounds and to heights over 10 feet.

Booth 5301

The EasyPrint MLP+ was designed to provide a versatile Thermal Transfer solution for direct package coding in Harsh Environments. The EasyPrint MLP+ is the ideal machine for in-line printing of all the variable information required for Meat & Dairy packaging, specifically those that utilize multiple rows or columns across each package.

The EasyPrint MLP+ can be easily installed on Multivac, RapidPak, Tiromat, Dixie, Hooper, Mahaffy & Harder and all horizontal form/fill/seal packaging machines.

Proven to increase your production and lower your operating costs with advanced Ribbon Saving Features...
ask a Bell-Mark representative about the EasyPrint MLP+

Booth 5301

The newly updated FlexPrint mini is designed to operate just like the companys Servo FlexPrint line, and is about half the size and weight. The FlexPrint mini has an 11.5” x 11.5” footprint, and weighs approximately 200 lbs.

Like other models in the FlexPrint line, the FlexPrint mini is available with up to 600mm width and can print up to 50 cycles per minute. Other features of the FlexPrint mini, include odorless amonia free inks, a self contained inking system for simplified operation, and a Teflon® coated ink tray for fast, easy ink changover.

Booth 5301

Bell-Mark’s EasyPrint X, the 1st in-line thermal transfer printer to offer an IP65 rating for Harsh Environments, has been updated with additional features including the ability to print on Intermittent moving webs, and a new 5” printhead for maximum print coverage.

The EasyPrint X has been developed in cooperation with Sealed Air/Cryovac specifically for applications that require protection from harsh / wet / cold / dusty / dirty / extreme environments.

Combining the speed and power of their original 32bit EasyPrints, along with the addition of an IP 65 rating, the new EasyPrint X offers a viable thermal transfer solution to markets such as: Meat Processing / Packing, Poultry, Dairy, and Prepared Foods.

Booth 5700

Semi Automatic Carton Taping Machines have widespread applications for many industries. Cleveland's Carton Sealers are commonly used in but not limited to: electrical goods, textile goods, processes food, consumable goods, pharmaceuticals, light industrial goods, and any other similar product that requires sealed cartons. Cleveland's line of Carton Sealing Machines can be used on in line applications or batch operated applications. Both Cleveland Carton Sealers are versatile and can be adjusted for various box sizes, giving your product a tidy and uniformed appearance.

Booth 5700

LYGZ-500 Piston Filler - The LYGZ-500 Piston Filler will draw your product from a free standing container. This allows you to fill more product with out having to fill a hopper. Using our vacuum returning or instant cut-off avoids drawing or leaking usually found in similar products. Our piston fillers can be used as stand alone units or in an assembly line. Assembly line usage is ideal for the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries as well as many other industries.

Booth 5700

Using Cleveland Equipment’s Single Chamber Vacuum Packing Machine can prevent the spread of bacteria as well as prevent oxygenizing, mildewing, rusting, and wetting. It can also reduce the soft-product volume after packing, in order to efficiently transport and store your product. The packing film adopts plastic compound film or plastic aluminum foil compound film. The Cleveland Single Chamber Vacuum Packing Machine is widely used for packing solid, liquid, powder, mushy food, corn, candy, chemical herbs, electronic components, accurate meter, and scarce metal. Our machine meets all FDA requirements for packing and sealing.

Booth 5700

16” Foot Operated Heat Sealer Model CEPFS-F350 16” - Cleveland’s Foot Operated Heat Sealers are used to seal poly vinyl chloride and polyethylene bags. The temperature is electronically controlled and easily adjusted. Cleveland’s Foot Operated Heat Sealers are most commonly used in areas of food packing, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, local specialties, aquatic products, agriculture, chemical products, clothing, retail, etc.

Booth 5700

DBF-900LW Continuous Band Sealer With Printer (Seals Vertical or Horizontal - The DBF-900 Continuous Band Sealer can seal bags both horizontally and vertically. Both are widely used for food packaging, pharmaceutical packing, cosmetics, specialties, aquatic-products, seeds, chemicals, electronic components, clothing, hardware, etc.

Booth 5700

LGGZ-1000 Piston Filler - Filling quantity and speed can be adjusted freely and precisely on both the LGGZ10-250 and the LGGZ100-1000 model piston filler. Using our vacuum returning or instant cut-off avoids drawing or leaking usually found in similar products. Our piston fillers can be used as stand alone units or in an assembly line. Assembly line usage is ideal for the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries as well as many other industries.

Booth 5700

LGGZ-250 Piston Filler - Filling quantity and speed can be adjusted freely and precisely on both the LGGZ10-250 and the LGGZ100-1000 model piston filler. Using our vacuum returning or instant cut-off avoids drawing or leaking usually found in similar products. Our piston fillers can be used as stand alone units or in an assembly line. Assembly line usage is ideal for the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries as well as many other industries.

Booth 5059

The New SP4000 Palletizer with Bi-Parting Stripper Apron; a small footprint, high-level, high-capacity palletizer capable of forming complex patterns with gaps in both directions. The SP4000 includes a bi-parting stripper apron, articulating row pusher bar, centering side layer guides with Smart Squeeze technology. These features combined with Columbia’s state-of-the-art Product Manager Control’s package offers users an easy-to-operate palletizer that will meet current and future pattern needs. The compact footprint and flexible layouts available increases palletizer space efficiency making the SP4000 a high performance solution; ideal for both new and retrofit applications, especially where layout constraints are present.

Booth 4929

Dorner’s new 5200 Series, QWIK Conveyor, designed for the industrial and packaging markets offers versatility and modularity with lead times as short as five days. The truly modular design offers quick system configuration, and the QWIK Slots™ make mounting controls and accessories quick and easy. The QWIK Conveyor gives customers the ability to quickly and easily shorten or extend the conveyor’s length, or change a curve in as little as 15 degree increments to meet line changes. Visit Dorner at booth number 4929 and see the latest technology in aluminum frame conveyors.

Booth 5211

IMA Nova’s Swiftpack SwiftPharm high speed electronic tablet and capsule counter can reach speeds of 100 bottles per minute on a 100 count fill – effectively doubling the throughput previously available for electronic counters while still maintaining a comparable footprint. Using Swiftpack’s infrared counting system to ensure high count accuracy, the SwiftPharm filler can reach speeds previously only attainable with the use of twin counters. Advances in vibratory linear feeding and pre-count gating enable this machine to achieve higher speeds than ever thought possible.

Booth 5367

Model JSLG Dispenser for accurate, reliable, dispensing of pouch type products at speeds up to 115 ppm. For use with products such as desiccants and oxygen absorbers in the pharmaceutical, medical device, IVD nutraceutical/dietary supplement and food industries amongst others. The Model JSLG is the most economical model in a series of Jushay dispensers that are capable of speeds up to 350 ppm and can be provided with interface options for bottling lines, flow wrappers, VFFS machinery, stand up pouching lines, and thermoforming machinery. The Model JSLG is provided with a bottling line interface and is ideally suited for customers that require easy, inexpensive and rapid changovers to accommodate many different bottle and desiccant/oxygen absorber sizes.

Booth 5370

Lock Inspection Systems, a world leader in designing metal detection and checkweighing systems, will have on display its latest 3F/HF metal detector. It employs multi frequency including high frequency to guarantee the best levels of sensitivity while remaining robust and reliable. It also eliminates the need to reconfigure the settings for each product to reduce downtime and increase efficiency and operating speeds. New filtering and frequency technology is providing market leading sensitivities to all metals particularly stainless steel. Find out why many companies are upgrading their existing metal detectors to the new Lock technology.

Booth 5001

New I-Mark™ C84 Continuous Ink Jet printer. Easy to use, low maintenance, C84 features a self-cleaning printhead, large color-icon based touchscreen, and single button controls for jet startup/shutdown. Fast, reliable, small-character coding of up to 4 lines of text, expiration dates, batch codes, logos and bar codes. Maintenance after 2,500 operation hours, in comparison to the 1,500 hours for competing CIJ. C84 prints characters from .05" to .61" at a maximum speed of 1,235 ft/minute. Fast dry, non-MEK and pigmented inks for porous or non-porous substrates.

Booth 5001

The new e-SolarMark FL fiber laser marking system provides on-the-fly or stationary permanent high-quality small character marking/coding of metallized or plastic materials, such as packaging foils. No consumables, and an average life of 100,000 working hours, the new air-cooled laser marking system requires less space and consumes less energy than typical YAG lasers.
Standard feature: the ability to turn text/code 90° and print horizontally or vertically anywhere within the entire marking area.
Applications include food/snack food, beverage pouches, candy, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.

Booth 5001

The I-Mark™ EZ Touch V84 controller is fitted with a full color, quick response, touch screen interface and has the ability to control up to 4 Drop-on-Demand printheads independently. Matthews V84 simplifies coding with icon-based navigation and convenient programming of messages in a WYSIWYG format. Most printer functions are easily completed in a minute or less, saving time and money. Instead of global settings, the V84 provides for individual control of the attributes of each connected printhead, including independent triggers for each head. Presenting an innovative realm of flexibility for coding applications.

Booth 4614

The ValueJet 1608-64” is MUTOH’S new and exciting ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY Hybrid Printer solution. With environment issues becoming more important today than ever, the ValueJet 1608 is the perfect answer. The ValueJet 1608- 64” roll to roll and flatbed machine incorporates Mutoh’s intelligent print technology that virtually eliminates banding and can print on media up to ¼” thick with an automatic head height adjustment function with a maximum resolution of 1440dpi. The ValueJet 1608 uses Mutoh’s NEW MUBIO INK! The MUBIO INK is the only ink-jet ink recognized by the EPA Design for the Environment program. The ink will allow direct printing on a wide range of rigid materials.

Booth 4917

Nuspark Inc is proud to introduce the Delta Robotic casepacker.
Servo driven loader with very easy and low maintenance running uo tp 50 cycles per minute and up to 45gk payload.
Requires only 2 mechanical changeover and able to handle up to 999 products. Very flexible for changeover. The robot and the collating system can be trained for any new products by the operator. No additional programming and investment is required.

Booth 5701

PACK LINE is one of the leading companies in the field of packaging equipment with sister companies in the USA, UK, and Australia, and representative offices in Canada, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia.
The basic lines of PACK LINE machinery include: Pre - formed containers filling & sealing machines, stand-up pouches filling and sealing machines, and bottles filling & sealing machines.

Booth 4913

Package Devices' extensive machinery pavilion introduces numerous machines for the first time on the West Coast, such as Loma's IQ3 variable frequency Metal Detector, CI Vision's 360 degree inspection station, Pkg Synergies economical Stick Pack & Tea Bagger, Aesus servo sleever, AFI combo and more!
We help growing companies who want to produce more & better products succeed with proven automation solutions for filling, packaging and inspection.

Booth 4913

The most inexpensive & compact stick pack and tea bag form fill seal machinery on the US market from Packaging Synergies.com. Complete with auger, liquid or volumetric cup integral fillers.

Booth 5293

The Pak West Packaging Systems booth will feature the latest in labor-saving packaging equipment, including case forming, case taping, food packaging, and stretch equipment like the new Lantech Q300XT. This is the latest version of a wrapper that has been the standard of the industry since 1999. This wrapper allows your forklift drivers to stay on their lifts and remotely activate the wrapper, saving many hours in labor, and helping to prevent injuries as well.
Pak West supports all of the equipment we sell with one of the largest, best qualified service teams in the country.

Booth 5469

Rugged, Feature-Packed Printer Applicator

This printer applicator is uniquely suited for the most demanding variable information requirements and is RFID ready. The high-performance Q33 chassis utilizes a series of applicator modules including air tamp, wipe on, and various pneumatic swing arms for side, top, leading panel, adjacent side or corner wrap labeling applications.

Booth 5469

The SL-100 is an ideal solution for applying shrink sleeve and tamper evident bands due to its low price and high performance. This popular sleeve system features a stepping motor drive and a high-speed pneumatic cutter, as well as a custom engineered mandrel to fit the exact size and cut length of the sleeve necessary for the application. The SL-100 has a small footprint that can fit into an existing production line or we can design an entire line based on your requirements.

Booth 5469

Entry Level In-Line Labeling System for Low to Medium Speeds.

This automatic system can be configured for front/back or wraparound applications at speeds up to 140 ppm. Specifically designed to set a new low price/high quality standard and fill the gap between semiautomatic labelers and more sophisticated in-line systems.

Booth 5043

Republic Blower Systems' extensive product line includes centrifugal and regenerative blowers, custom blower packages and enclosures, air knife systems, and numerous accessories. Over 90 percent of the parts and components for Republic Blower Systems are manufactured on-site at Republic's corporate headquarters in Dallas. This sets Republic apart from the industry as it allows for the highest level of quality control.

Booth 5457

Sinlon Package Machine Company Ltd. is a manufacturer and designer of versatile hi-tech servo wrappers, horizontal automatic form-fill-seal packaging
machines, and automatic feeding systems for a wide range of solid products with "1 touch, pack-ready" special feature. The company supplies hi-tech servo flow wrappers that any operator can easily execute SOP (standard operation procedure) 24/7.

Booth 5225

Sonics’ newly-designed line of compact GX-series microprocessor-controlled ultrasonic generators, features more power and state-of-the-art technological advances in a 30 % smaller, contoured package. Designed for Sonics’ 40 and 20 kHz welding frequencies, these streamlined power supplies are available in 2200, 1700, 1200, 800 and 400 watts for Sonics’ ultrasonic welding presses and actuators (both new and existing models). All GX units have automatic frequency tuning, digital amplitude control and convenient horn frequency display. Option to weld by Digital Time, Energy, and/or Distance modes, as well as continuous duty. Ultrasonic output meter, digital force triggering, multiple job storage and calibration pulse.

Booth 5284

We offer taping and labeling solutions for your manufacturing applications. START International’s electronic industrial tape dispensers and electric label dispensers increase productivity and reduce material waste in processes from manufacturing to packaging and deliver more consistent-looking taped and labeled parts. Come by our booth and see our tape dispenser for water activated tape. No matter what your industry, we have the tape and/or label dispenser for you!

Booth 5133

Our company is one of the biggest packaging material manufactures in Taiwan, specializing in manufacturing high quality laminated flexible packaging materials, such as custom printed multilayer rollstocks, stand up zip-lock pouches, zip-lock pouches, plain vacuum pouches, gusset bags with or without valve and also machinery products that are suitable for different industries ranges from food, pet food, medical products and more.

Booth 5573

The new THARO PA2000t Tamp Label Printer/Applicator is a cost-effective accessory for the THARO H-400/H-600 Series of 4” and 6” wide thermal/thermal transfer bar code label printers. The THARO PA2000t Printer/Applicator is easy to use, with quick setup and changeover for applying labels to the top or side of varying height or width products.
The PA2000t features a remote front panel for easy access, regardless of the orientation of the applicator. It has an all-metal construction and is made to last with time-tested components. The PA2000t can apply up to 58 labels per minute depending on printer used, label size and height of product.

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