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20 Lantech Issues Recommendations for Shrink Wrapping Many of the environmentally-friendly changes in packaging involve downgauging — and there’s been a corresponding increase in shipping damage that could be minimized with improved shrink wrapping techniques. Lantech has developed a containment force tool (CFT-5) to measure the forces exhibited by any shrink wrapped load and a 10-step process to adopt and use containment force as a crical specificaon. The company also recommends containment forces for various product loads — JES: Very Light Loads (paper towels, empty PET boles, etc.) – 2 - 5 lbs. Stable Mid-Weight Loads (cartons, trays, etc.) – 5 - 7 lbs. Heavy Unstable Loads (tall cartons, heavy beverages, etc.) – 7 - 12 lbs. Very Unstable Loads (PET water boles, etc.) – 12 - 20 lbs. More informaon Derek Jones, senior markeng product manager, Lantech: 502.815.9095, www.lantech.com Pattern-Metallized Film is “See-Thru” for Metal Detectors Metallized film enhances package barrier properes and aesthecs, but creates challenges for metal detectors deployed on the packaging line. The non-connuous metallized surface of paern-metallized MetDetect film from Vast Films, Ltd. , however, ren-ders it transparent to radio frequency (RF) waves, allowing detecon of metal contaminants as small as 0.8 millimeter. RF compa-bility also opens the door to locang tags for electronic arcle surveillance or RF idenficaon inside metallized packs. In-pack posi-‐ oning prevents tag loss or removal and improves an-pilferage and product traceability capabilies. An-counterfeing qualies of the difficult-to-duplicate film can be enhanced with custom paerns and security print as small as 1 point. MetDetect film runs on form-fill-seal machines or can be laminated to paperboard for conversion into metallized folding cartons. – HEF More informaon Wolfgang Decker, general manager, Vast Films, Ltd.:724.827.8827; w.decker@vasilm.com; www.vasilm.com Pressure Sensor Confirms Seal Integrity The T4000-DSC-LP Leak Detector from Teledyne TapTone combines a low profile with a top-down load cell to check seal integrity of membrane-sealed cups/tubs. The system gently squeezes each container, and sensors at the entry and exit measure and compare resistance readings — a pressure change indicates a leak. The T4000-DSC-LP Leak Detector can detect flaws as small as 0.15mm at rates up to 1,800 containers/minute. – HEF More informaon Sco Shepard, eastern regional sales representave, Teledyne: 508.524.1276; sco.shepard@teledyne.com; www.taptone.com Linear Induction Motor Powers Bottle Reject System Fowler Products Co. added a linear inducon motor to a high-speed bole rejecon unit to increase overall line speeds. Conven-‐ onal gates and pneumac units top out at about 250 boles/minute, but with the linear motor, the rejecon unit can handle line speeds of 900/minute in the same space. The unit features a Linmot rejecon system to detect defects and a mul-finger head to push quesonable boles from the line. – EJB Free Flow X-Ray for Mekitech’s Meki line of metal detectors PACK EXPO INT’L 2012 More informaon Tucker Scofield, machinery sales, Fowler Products Co.: 706.549.3300; tscofield@fowlerproducts.com Free-flow X-Ray Unit Needs No Conveyor Mekitec introduced a “Free Flow X-Ray” machine to its Meki line of metal detectors. It is the first machine of its kind that does not need a conveyor. The unit is designed primarily for the inspecon of raw materials and bulk products such as grains or sugar. Uncontaminated product flows through the machine, while contaminated material is discharged through the boom of the unit. This unit can process 20 tons/hour, with results monitored on the inte-grated screen display. The angle can be adjusted to change the flow rate of the product. – RCC More informaon Brian Zeltner, sales manager, Mekitec: 973.235.0363, brian.zeltner@mekitek.com.
P ackaging touches on a range of day-to-day issues for pharmaceucal manufacturers: track-and-trace, serializaon, markeng, product protecon. PACK EXPO’s Pharmaceucal Pavilion and The Rx Lounge targeted pharmaceucal exhibitors and their customers, helping them connect so they could go back to the office with new, innovave ideas. Barrier Paper Lidstock Competes with Foil Blisterpacks Winpak Ltd. designed the coangs that make its new push-through barrier paper blister lidstock as easy to use, and 25 percent less expensive than, foil-based blisterpacks. The paper lidstock provides oxygen and moisture protecon that is superior to an uncoated, monolayer PVC sheet — sll the dominant blister material used in the United States. According to Winpak, its push-through barrier paper-based material will offer sufficient barrier to replace blisters that currently use PVC or PP . (PP blisters are coming into the mainstream in the United States, but are used more extensively in Europe.) For blister packages that require Aclar® or PVDC coangs, however, Winpak’s barrier paper would probably not provide sufficient barrier. The material is expected to debut commercially in the US within the next year. – BAG More informaon Todd Swartz, senior account manager–Healthcare Packaging, Winpak Heat Seal Packaging Inc.: 616.536.2065; toddswartz@winpak.com ; www.winpakhealthcare.com. LA600-SP high-speed sck pack line by MediSeal Pharma Technology Soluons Stick Pack Line Fills Up to 1,000 per Minute MediSeal Pharma Technology Soluons, a Korber Medipak company, recently introduced its new LA600-SP high speed sck pack line, specifically designed for filling dry/powdered pharmaceucal products into sck packs as fast as 1,000 sck packs/minute. The machine can form, fill and seal up to 16 lanes of sck packs in widths from 15mm to 40mm and lengths from 45mm to 160mm. The model on display was connected to MediSeal’s P1600 side-load cartoner, which can put from five to 50 scks into each carton, filling up to 100 cartons/minute. The pair of machines is designed to work in tandem. — BAG More informaon Ulf Leineke, business unit manager, R & D, MediSeal Pharma Technology Soluons:: +49(0) 5207.888.197; ulf.leineke@mediseal.de; www.mediseal.com PharmaWorks Stages Machine Debuts in Pharma Pavilion PharmaWorks debuted its FA1 Pick-and-Place Feeder System and TF1e Blister machine with Integrated TC1 Cartoner at its booth in the Pharmaceucal Pavilion. The FA1 pick-and-place feeder system is a simple feed system designed for low-to-medium tablet count feeding applicaons on any blister machine. Gentle rotary flaps align product in a feed track that aligns the tablet or capsule in the same orientaon it will be in the sealed blister pack. A servo-actuated arm vacuum picks and moves the aligned product, and gently places it in the blister cavity. The feeder is capable of 80 cycles/minute. This simple system has cost-effecve tooling that can be adapted to any tablet arrangement. It offers quick, easily repeatable changeover; is compact enough to fit on most any blister thermoformers; and it requires fewer people than fillers with flood style-feeders. It can be mounted on a mobile cart for quick docking with a PharmaWorks TF1 or TF1e blister machine. The TF1e, a compact blister machine, provides quick changeover between products or batches, and a large blister format that can produce single blisters 90mm x 165 mm in one forming cycle. The machine’s material shredder and vacuum reject system help securely transfer good blisters staon to staon while posively rejecng faulty blisters. The machine is servo-driven at all staons and has no line sha. A unique feature allows minor adjustments, including dynamic seal pressure adjustment to improve blister seals, to each staon from outside the machine enclosure while the machine is running. This includes dynamic seal pressure adjust-ment to improve blister seals. The machine has a modular feed area for easily posioning different feeders at the filling staon. It can handle single blister reject and mulple blister rejects. – EJB More informaon Walter Stewart, Regional Sales, 815.254.9000; walt.s@pharmaworks.com. PHARMACEUTICAL PharmaWorks FA1 pick & place feeder PharmaWorks TF1e compact blister machine & TC1 cartoner 21 PHARMACEUTICAL
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