IMA Nova® launched Uniline®, a new small footprint system designed to incorporate multiple machines into one compact system, including tablet counting and capping, as well as options for desiccant/cotton insertion and container coding.

OYSTAR IWK’s new TFS E tub filler features innovative solutions that greatly reduce product changeover times. It also served as a pilot project for international collaboration between IWK and Schneider Electric, in which Schneider Electric served as both an international technology partner and a supplier of automation and electrical equipment.

Polypack introduced its new Tube 180 machine that combines two critical machine functions – shrink wrapping and case packing – into one compact design. A single carriage design eliminates the need for multiple transfers.

Flexible and optimized control systems for all applications... from the most simple to the most complex.

Exhibitors reported that visitors to PACK EXPO 2009 were ready to do business. At over 22,000, attendance was within a few hundred of 2007’s record high.

Introduced by Pro Mach at PACK EXPO, Brenton Engineering’s new BantamPro ELS™ top load case packer occupies about the same floor space as hand pack operations, with the added benefit of fully automatic performance.

IMA North America launched UNILINE, a new system that integrates the functions required for a complete counting line: container loading, desiccant insertion, counting and filling, cotton insertion, capping, rejection and coding.

Polypack, Inc.’s ILB All-In-One machine is a robotic pick-and-place shrink bundler with a built-in case loader.

Social media has made its mark on PACK EXPO. A first for the show, the Tuesday First Timers reception included over 139 guests invited purely through social media—Facebook and Twitter.

At PACK EXPO, Schneider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions demonstrated the next generation of its delta 3 robot arms for embedded applications in packaging machinery.

Assist Systems are modules that can be applied to new Paal ELEMATIC machines or retrofitted to existing machines.

Nuspark’s NTL 50 robotic case packer has proved quite popular, so what’s next? At PACK EXPO, the company announced its new NCP-15/25 single cell casepacker, combining the proven robotic flexibility with case erecting, loading and sealing in a single machine frame measuring just 160” long by 60” wide.

PneumaticScaleAngelus has developed a mass flow meter feedback capability for its fillers to control rate of rise of the filling head diving nozzles. It applies to the company’s new dual phase or swirl filling systems introduced last year as well as its conventional single product fillers.

Pro Pack Systems’ ProPrint™/EBS-HS-2 now comes with standard, recipe-driven, automated servo size changeover to save time and assure consistency between runs and shifts.

All Scandia 700 Series models have been designed around the principle of continuous, progressive, rotary motion.

Packaging machine buyers and builders alike want to lean their operations, streamline supply chains, conserve energy, fulfill sustainability initiatives and collaborate with specialists who understand their businesses.

Pro Mach’s research determined that many companies have outgrown hand packing, creating strong demand for a cost effective, entry level automated case packer.

IMA North America (PELV booth C-1819) will introduce UNILINE, a new and unique addition to the market.

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