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Horizontal flow wrapper

January 8, 2015

The Campbell Revolution horizontal flow wrapper features an Allen-Bradley servo drive and controls, a digital film feed servo drive, sanitary modular design, servo cutting head drive and production speeds up to 600 packages/min.

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Stretch/shrink wrapping without the twist

A German winery finds a better way to stabilize pallets for highway shipping.

January 7, 2015

Headquartered in Freyburg at the Unstrut in Saxony-Anhalt, the Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH winery has a 50 percent market share of bottled sparkling wine in Germany.

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Vertical wrapping system

October 7, 2014

Designed for moderate-speed vertical shrink packaging, the Texwrap 914BVS continuous motion system wraps bottles, cans and jars directly from a filler while they stand upright.

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Fold wrapping unit

October 7, 2014

Positioned at the end of a production line, the ALPMA MultiSAN fold wrapping unit packages portioned cheeses of all shapes, sizes and consistencies; the packaging material can be defined individually for each type of cheese.

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Tray shrink packer

October 7, 2014

Able to support tray, pad or unsupported pack styles, the Standard-Knapp 298 Tritium tray shrink packer has a wrapping module that can be fully customized to follow the height and length of the final pack pattern; the module runs up to 120 trays/min. and offers multi-axis control.

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Perfect frozen pizzas: It’s a wrap

Palermo’s new high-speed shrink wrapping line can side-seal 150 frozen pizzas per minute compared to the old sealing machine’s rate of 90 pizzas per minute.

May 6, 2014

Based in Milwaukee, WI, Palermo’s Pizza was started by Sicilian immigrants Gaspare and Zina Fallucca who opened an Italian bakery on Milwaukee’s east side in 1964.

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Washdown shrink wrapper

March 8, 2014

Running both clear and print-registered films, the Polypack CLEARPRINT shrink wrapper features chemical-resistant, high-visibility stainless steel door panels and stainless steel washdown motors.

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Pallet stretch wrapper

March 8, 2014

Integrated with a precision scale and digital controls, the ARPAC semi-automatic Pro Series LP Wrap-N-Weigh pallet stretch wrapper has a 4,000-lb. capacity.

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Stretch overwrapper

February 7, 2014

An end-seal machine, the Ossid 500im intermittent-motion, leak-resistant stretch overwrapper is designed for red meat, pork, poultry and produce packers.

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Rotary shrink wrap system

February 6, 2014

Used for high-speed applications that require repeatable seal placement, the Extreme XR servo rotary shrink wrap system features a 4-axis, servo, multi-belt fall-through infeed and 4-axis, servo wrapper.