Pack Expo Las Vegas 2003 Show Stoppers - Special: Show Stoppers; packaging

Food & Drug Packaging, Sept, 2003

Gambling made Las Vegas what it is, but there's a sure bet coming to town. The Pack Expo Las Vegas show, Oct. 13-15, will provide visitors from around the world with a look at the latest in technologies, ideas and products for all kinds of packaging. On the following pages, you'll find a preview of what some of the leading packaging suppliers will exhibit during the show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. This information is packaged to be eye-catching and easy to peruse. Its purpose is to entice you to stop at these booths as you walk the show. Welcome to our "Show Stoppers"!

Booth: C-1024

Company: Aline Heat Seal Corp.

Phone: 562-229-9727

Website: www.alinesys.com

Aline Medical Packaging Machinery will introduce its new Big Red heavy duty platen sealer for contoured shapes, including seal and or seal-and-cut. This machine is ideal for all medical, pharmaceutical or industrial applications where large contour seals are required. Controls are all-digital and PLC/touchscreen operated. Each unit is cleanroom compatible and fully validatable. All machines carry a two-year warranty, spare parts kit and detailed operating manual.

Booth: C-233

Company: All-Fill Inc.

Phone: 866-255-3455

Website: www.all-fill.com

B-SV-600 auger filler can be used for free-flow and non-free-flow dry products, heavy pastes and thin liquids. It uses a brushless DC servomotor for high reliability and less maintenance, thanks to the elimination of clutch/brake, belts, pulleys, and other moving parts. Torque rating is tailored by application, including filling that exceeds 100 cycles per minute. The B-SV-600 is ideal for fill-by-weight requirements, especially those that call for multiple auger speeds, pauses, and feedback signals from scales or checkweighers.

Booth: S-4784

Company: AmbaFlex

Phone: 877-800-1634

Website: www.ambaflex.com

The Spiralveyor is a helical slatbelt elevator conveyor for lifting, lowering, indexing or buffering products. Spiralveyor features a small footprint with only one drive motor. Frames are welded and available in painted mild steel or stainless steel. Belts are available in widths from 8 to 32 inches, The slat belt design allows continuous product movement up to 200 fen per minute. The Spiralveyor is delivered assembled allowing for quick Installation.

Booth: S-5714

Company: Ameri-Seal Inc.

Phone: 818-700-9036

Website: www.ameri-seal.com

Ameri-Seal, an international PVC/PETG/OPS shrink film manufacturer/converter, offers contract sleeving. Customers ship product to Ameri-Seal, which shrinks bands directly onto the customer's product with steam/heat tunnels and ships it back. Mock-ups are available at no charge. Sleeves con be shrunk onto glass, plastic, cans, and tins. Multi-pack sleeve capabilities are available as well. PVC/PETG/OPS heat sensitive labels can be retogrevure-printed in up to eight colors.

Booth: C-1104

Company: AZCO Corp.

Phone: 973-439-1428

Website: www.azcocorp.com

Acu-Sert coupon inserter feeds flat coupons, labels, or leaflets from a preprinted roll of stock, detects the registration mark, and dispenses the coupon. Operation can be continuous or on-demand. Overwrapped coupons may also be fed from a fan-folded web. Folding plow option available.

Booth: C-847

Company: DT Packaging Systems

Phone: 978-537-8534

Website: www.dtindustries.com

DT's patent-pending TruCount FST is the first sensing technology developed for high-speed (up to 40,000 tablets per minute), 100% accurate counting of tablets and capsules on slat counters. Available on the new 300 bottles per minute DT Merrill 72-39HY filler, TruCount FST is configured to work with standard Lakso/Merrill slat spacing so that customers can use existing slats. This compact, flexible system can be programmed to verify counts of 100 different products and for a variety of bottling configurations with different counts for each configuration.

Booth: S-5654

Company: DVT Corp.

Phone: 770-814-7920

Website: www.dvtsensors.com

A new inspection system unites DVT's SmartImage Sensor with the InnerVision X-ray unit from KMV Technologies for applications that can't be served by conventional machine vision technology. Vision-enabled x-ray imaging produces results with extraordinary analytical capabilities at production line speeds in applications that involve non-transparent elements. Because the unit uses low-level x-ray intensities, no harmful x-rays are emitted while in operation, making it completely safe for operators, The DVT Legend 540 camera is built into the unit, making operation easy and efficient.

Booth: C-1736

Company: Enercon Industries Corp.

Phone: 262-250-3142

Website: www.enerconind.com

The Super Seal Deluxe induction sealer is capable of sealing caps from 20 to 120 millimeters thanks to Enercon's "All-in-One" sealing head. The "All-in-One" features pivoting action that provides ultimate flexibility. The Super Seal Deluxe also features advanced microprocessor control and operator interface that provides critical set-up and operational data, An integrated "e-jector" rejection system will also be in operation with the Deluxe cap sealer.