SUPPLIER'S MARKETPLACE

Dairy Field, Oct 2004

Aseptic Stick-Pack Form/Fill/Seal Machine

Hassia offers the SAS 20/30 Aseptic Stick-Pack Form/Fill/Seal Machine to provide a new standard in shelf stability for tubular, flexible convenient packaging of food products. The SAS 20/30 is the first multi-lane machine to aseptically package low-acid food products to increase shelf life to one year without refrigeration. The machine meets all U.S. and international hygiene standards including the FDA's CFR-21. The SAS 20/30 features an unmatched output performance due to its multi-lane system, producing up to 24,000 aseptic liquid stick packs per hour. The flexible design also enables the packaging of different substances or flavors simultaneously on one machine. - Hassia USA, 1210 Campus Drive West, Morganville, N.J., 07751-1262, phone: (732) 536-8770, fax: (732) 536-8850, Web site: www.hassiausa.com

Resealable Packaging Solutions

At Pack Expo in Chicago, November 7 to 11, Zip-Pak will showcase a wide range of new applications from around the world and, for the first time, demonstrate how these technologies are applied using groundbreaking new OEM solutions. Attendees can visit Zip-Pak at two booths, S-1819 and S-2009. - Zip-Pak, a division of ITW, 1800 Sycamore Road, Manteno, Ill., 60950, phone: (800) 488-6973

Repackaged Web Site

ThermoSafe Brands has launched an enhanced Web site featuring a comprehensive range of products as well as testing and qualification services from ISC Labs. At www.thermosafe.com, visitors can identify their applicable market and view more than 400 stock products specific to their temperature-assurance shipping needs. ThermoSafe Brands offers more than 180 stock sizes of ThermoSafe® expanded polystyrene insulated shippers (EPS), ThermoSafe® wine, cake and cheesecake shippers, polyurethane (PUR) insulated shipping containers, PolarPack® refrigerant gel packs and U-tek® phase change materials. Food-distribution market users will find EPS shippers and totes along with a comprehensive selection of polyethylene and fiberglass ThermoSafe® Durable Transport containers and ThermoSafe® Storage and Transport Chests ideal for transporting large payloads. ThermoSafe Brands, a leader in temperature assurance packaging solutions, is a division of SCA Packaging North America. - SCA Packaging North America, ThermoSafe Brands, 3930 Ventura Drive, Suite 450, Arlington Heights, Ill., 60004, phone: (847) 398-0110, fax: (847) 398-0653, Web site: www.scanorthamerica.com

Digital Motion Control System

B&H Labeling Systems will introduce its expanded Marathon family of roll-fed labelers at Pack Expo booth S-1613. The Marathon labelers feature SMARTdrive(TM), a digitally-based motion control system that uses multi-axis, independent servomotors that communicate on a highspeed communication bus. Eliminating the gears, belts and chains found on traditional labeling systems, Marathon improves labeling accuracy over the life-cycle of the machine and increases production throughput with superior system reliability and faster changeovers. - B&H Labeling Systems, 3461 Roeding Road, Box 247, Ceres, Calif., 95307-9442, phone: (209) 537-5785, fax: (209) 537-6854, Web site:www.bhlabeling.com