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Dairy Field, Sep 2004

Precision Balance

The Mettler Toledo XP Precision Balance brings more efficiency to the production floor by filling an. urgent need for smarter, higher-resolution performance in accurately controlling calibration, testing and optimization. The configurable display allows customization to individual users, while optional hands-free sensors allow users to customize work in regard to the surroundings. The XP precision balance incorporates color touch-screen technology, combining unprecedented clarity with a secure, user-friendly, informative terminal allowing for unparalleled flexibility and increased productivity. The new technology also improves efficiency by re-calibrating the balance whenever ambient conditions exceed tolerance limits or at time intervals preset by the user. - Mettler-Toledo Inc., 1900 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, Ohio, 43240-4035, phone: (614) 438-4511, fax (614) 438-4900, Web site: www.mt.com

Holographic Shrink Bands

Seal-It's new holographic shrink bands and labels are designed to provide manufacturers of consumer products with a visible security device that cannot be copied or simulated. The heat-shrink bands and labels with a holographic strip can be applied to any package that needs to be tamper evident. The holographic strip is a three-dimensional image and can be custom designed with a company logo or pattern. It is highly visible and the complexity of the pattern makes it almost impossible to be reproduced. The unique properties of the hologram provide higher security and eliminate the counterfeiting of products. - Seal-It Inc., 70 Schmitt Blvd., Farmingdale, N.Y., 11735, phone: (516) 935-3965, fax: (516) 935-3967, Web site: www.sealitinc.com

Standard Methods Reference Book

The 17th edition of Standard Methods of the Examination of Dairy Products (SMEDP) is now available through Nelson-Jameson Inc. This publication serves as the primary analytical reference for the sampling and testing of dairy products in the United States and is used extensively by those involved in dairy product analysis. The new SMEDP reflects many additions, revisions and deletions occurring to recognized laboratory practices since the 16th edition was published in 1992. - Nelson-Jameson Inc., 2400 E. Fifth St., RO. Box 647, Marshfield, Wis., 54449, phone: (715) 387-1151, fax: (715) 387-8746, Web site: www.nelsonjameson.com

Intermediate Bulk Container

The all-plastic OTP intermediate bulk container from Meese Orbitron Dunne Co. is available with PDA-compliant valve discharge assemblies. Featuring a choice of PVC, polypropylene and stainless steel, the OTP enables food and beverage packaging, processing and material handling personnel to specify the ideal valve material needed to meet PDA regulations for contact with food without overspending. - Meese Orbitron Dunne Co., a division of Meese Inc., 4920 State Road, RO. Box 607, Ashtabula, Ohio, 44005-0607, phone: (440) 998-1202, fax: (440) 992-4667, Web site: www.modroto.com/ibc

Rotary Bottle Filler

Evergreen Packaging Equipment, a unit of International Paper, will be exhibiting in Booth 1123 at BevExpo in Tampa, Fla., September 29 to October 1. The company will also be exhibiting in Booth N4522 at Pack Expo in Chicago, November 7 to 11. Evergreen's standard unibloc bottle filler featuring 30 rinse heads, 30 fill heads and eight capping heads (30/30/8), will be the main focus of the display. This machine is ideal for filling water, juice or dairy products. This type of bottle-filling system can also be equipped with Class 100 HEPA air filtration, process-specific bottle sanitation, a volumetric electronic filling system and automatic CIP. - Evergreen Packaging Equipment, 2400 Sixth St. SW, RO. Box 3000, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 52406, phone: (319) 399-3200, fax: (319) 399-3543

Convenience Opening Feature

Curwood's IntegraScore® convenience opening feature can be combined with press-to-close or a slider zipper in horizontal and vertical form/fill/seal (HFFS/VFFS) applications to give consurners easy opening and resealable features in one package. The IntegraScore feature is achieved by applying a continuous, controlled score to a multi-layered film. Curwood's proprietary system controls scoring to the proper layers, ensuring the barrier protection is not compromised, while providing the convenience of an easy-opening system. This controlled system even allows the feature to be applied to a forming web without compromising the barrier or strength needed during the F/F/S process. - Curwood Inc., RO. Box 2968, Oshkosh, Wis., 54903, Web site: www.curwood.com

Thermoformed Plastic

PBM Plastics has developed Ultraware(TM), an ultra-thin, ultra-heat-resistant thermoformed plastic suitable for a wide range of applications in food, medical and laboratory packaging. Ultraware is the result of the company's Melt-Phase(TM) forming process, a patented new technology that forms deep-draw and thinwall at extremely high tolerances with virtually no molded-in stress. - PBM Plastics, 240 Enterprise Drive, Newport News, Va., 23603, phone: (757) 888-6800, fax: (757) 888-6373, Web site: www.pbmplastics.com