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Asia Pacific Packaging magazine will be at Auspack 2003 from September 30 to October 3 on stand #727. The exhibition promises visitors a swag of new technologies and products to view. Asia Pacific Packaging picks out some of the new highlights.Accuweigh - stand 104
Sentry XR: Sentry XR is the latest addition to the Sentry Detection range. The Sentry XR combines proprietary x-ray technology and enhanced functionality, all at a lower cost than every seen before. This system is set to firmly establish x-ray inspection as a cost-effective alternative to other inspection methods.
Brenner Hume Engineering - stand 706A
Aliquad Air Shaft: Aliquad lightweight airshaft, designed and manufactured in Australia, to suit 3" cores for unwind and rewind applications for the packaging, printing and associated industries.
Alilite Air Shaft: Alilite 6" airshaft is a lightweight style of shaft for unwine and rewind applications. Alilite airshaft is a lighter alternative to steel airshafts.
Ezy-Chuck: Ezy-Chuck is a safety holder used to hold airshafts in position on unwind/rewind applications, ensuring safe loading and unloading of rolls on assorted machinery.
Carter Holt Harvey - stand 411
KX2 Thermal Insulated Paper Cup: IP Foodservice (a joint venture with Carter Holt Harvey Packaging Australia) has just launched a new paper cup in the US which insulates your hand from heat transfer, providing a much more comfortable drinking experience. Called the "KX2", it is created using a unique process which effectively aerates the paper using granules of polyethylene. This aeration significantly reduces the amount of heat transferred from the hot drink to your hand, allowing you to hold the cup comfortably for two minutes or more. Research conducted on the cups shows it significantly outperforms competitors in a number of areas, including look, feel, consumer perception of quality, comfort and insulation ability.
Twinpack: An innovative first to Australia and to CHH Packaging, Twinpack is a multipacking solution which uses adhesive tape to package beverage products together and applies a tape handle. It is a cost effective way of lifting volume. Whilst retailers can sell one multipack unit through the checkout with one bar code, consumers also have the benefit of an easy to carry pack to take home.
Celtic Industries - stand 213
PadPak System from Ran Pak: PadPak converter for producing PadPak paper pads for void filling, cushioning, blocking and bracing, wrapping. An environmentally friendly packing solution.
Checkpoint Meto - stand 425
Meto MR 4206 Mid-Range Thermal Printer: The MR4206 is the newest addition to the Meto family of printers. The MR4206 combines industry-recognised engineering and a superior design, borrowed from the industry-leading Meto MI-Class of printers. The printer’s design allows for field installable options and quick media changes for users requiring mission-critical printing capabilities. The MR4206 features a compact, modular design for use in environments with limited space, and offers low total cost of ownership. Options such as thermal transfer, internal rewind, peel and present and a cutter are user installable and removable.
Cling Packaging
Systems - stand 203
MW2 Semi-Automatic Mobile Wrapper Machine: Semi-automatic wrapping machine for palletised leads, suitable for every shape, dimension and weight using stretch film. It comes with a digital control panel that allows the management and set up of various programs and wrapping parameters.
Smart H5 XL Robot: Fully programmable pallet dispensing/ palletising, heavy duty, 6 axis, 360º robot.
Compact Labelling
Systems - stand 515
Compact 900-322 Bottle Labeller: A two-head labelling machine for applying multiple labels to bottles with orientation capability.
Dy-Mark - stand 510
Willett 470SI: The Willett 470 is ideal for wash down areas. The 470 is the flagship of Willett small character ink jet and is designed to work in aggressive, dusty environments and is the only continuous ink jet printer on the market with a Certified IP66 rating.
Willett 210 Label Applicator: High speed labeling has never been easier thanks to the Willett 210 Label Applicator which is now available with Airjet Tamp or synchronous attachments.
Willett 263 Label Printer Applicator: Willett’s groundbreaking range of Label Printer Applicators deliver on the promise of labeling curved surfaces, recesses, around corners and varying heights.
Datamax M-Class: The M-4206 has been designed to replace the legendary Allegro Printer. The M-Class Thermal Printer is packed with new features including a USB as a standard feature.
EDP Australia 623
Daumar PA52: Process food weighing machine – stainless multi-head combination weigher with large easy removable buckets (product size up 25cm). A low cost machine.
Emrich Industries - stand 202
RPM 1000 Horizontal Flow Wrapper: An Australian built horizontal form, fill and seal wrapper.
Endupack (France) - stand 713
Grip Sheet: Grip Sheet is a non-slide, protective insert paper sheet used to reduce breakages and protect products distributed on pallets. Grip Sheet reduces slips between layers.
Ferag - stand 405
Easy Clean Conveyor: Being launched at Auspack the chain driven Slip-Torque Conveyor is recommended for thorough wash or wipe down conveying applications in industries such as bakery, meat, dairy, pharmaceutical and healthcare. Test results from a study conducted by Purdue University’s Department of Food Science confirm that the Easy Clean conveyor will not be a source of contamination when cleaned and sanitised using Shuttleworth prescribed procedures.
Gregorson & Co - stand 512
Flex-Wrap Topseal: Intermittent horizontal wrapper with inverted material feed, suitable to wrap a wide variety of products, especially those that are difficult to handle on conventional wrappers.
HandiTags 704
Di It Hang Tags and Citizen Thermal Printers: HandiTags is a specialist manufacturer of tags, tickets and labels to identify, brand and promote products and services. HandiTags exhibited solutions shall show how tags can be used to identify products throughout the manufacturing process, improving productivity, quality control and reducing manual requirements; why branding through tags and tickets will give your product improved brand awareness and quality consistency; and how to grow sales without major packaging changes by using tags for promotions.
InMotion Engineering - stand 510
InMotion Carryline: InMotion Carryline was the first multiflex, light goods carrier. InMotion Carryline is not restricted to simple standard solutions but offer special customised applications. Utilising an integrated range of components, which form the basis of InMotion Carryline, almost anything can be transported on InMotion Carryline from soup in the sushi bar to sensitive and heavy items. InMotion Carryline is a system that saves floorspace, is clean and requires a minimum of maintenance.
InMotion Airveyor – Bottle Conveyor: The InMotion Airveyor was designed for the rapid stable conveying and accumulation of plastic beverage bottles by compressed air. An innovative fresh solution to an old concept. This modular machine is constructed from extruded aluminium section, with snap together pieces known as the "Plenum". This helps with rapid assembly and easy future modification if required. The air blowers are also modularised for easy fitment and future relocation. The blower design has been engineered for low noise and a reduced power requirement, which is ultimately cheaper to run. The InMotion Airveyor is available with a variety of product guides, dependent on the types of products being conveyed. This conveyor design is well thought out, a fresh alternative to the conveyor designs of yesteryear and an Australian made product.
Insignia - stand 514
M-4206 Thermal Printer: Incorporates desktop features like small and versatile footprint, a plastic cover and an advanced menu system with industrial performance capabilities. Provides users with a unit that has all the options of a Datamax I Class, including internal rewind, cutter and peel and present. A new, sophisticated design for implementing barcoding throughout an entire organisation.
IJ3000 – Ink Jet Printer: The IJ3000 is the flexible solution that combines cost-effectiveness and reliability with the latest in control technology. With a touch screen graphical user interface changes are made easily and efficiently. Around the clock monitoring, diagnostic functions and worldwide networking means it is clearly the most advanced system on the market.
ALP/4500 Series Label Printer Applicator: The ALP/4500 represents the latest in automated labelling technology. It is a modular, low maintenance system designed to grow with your labelling needs. This medium-volume printer applicator handles up to 45 products per minute on your production line, printing and applying labels with variable alphanumeric information, graphics and barcodes.
Johns Adhesives - stand 702
Bam Futura: Bam Futura is a hot melt adhesive which is clean and allows for trouble free running. There are no nozzle blockages, no downtime, no production losses, no tainting and it is approved for direct food contact.
Kameo Textile Engineering Pty Ltd - stand 120
Total Bag Control Stitching System: A new and fully imported automatic bag filling, weighing and stitching system for woven polypropylene bags and sacks.
Krones - stand 413A
Canmatic Labelling Machine: The fully automatic Canmatic labelling machine is designed for wrap-around labelling of a large variety of container types. Precise and reliable, this labelling machine type, designed to handle pre-cut paper labels, has been proved in many installations worldwide. Transfer elements such as gluing pallets are not required for labelling with hotmelt, as the label is directly applied to container. The different Canmatic labellers operate at speeds ranging from 15,000 to 64,000 containers per hour, their solid construction guaranteed smooth operation and easy maintenance.
Kurz - stand 701
K700 Thermal Transfer Ribbons: Kurz Australia is showing a first class thermal transfer ribbon direct from Kurz production facilities. The product is competitively priced, easy to order and prompt delivery is assured. High print definition ribbons are available for most printers, (the product is IS09001 certified), and full technical after sales backup is available.
The Kurz K700 Thermal transfer ribbon for inline printing has undergone exhaustive overseas testing on a range of inline thermal transfer printers, to ensure that it meets the company’s high standards.
After successfully establishing the effectiveness of the slip coating deployed on the product, Kurz technical staff pressed on until not only did they produce a ribbon with consistent image density at high speed, (K700 has a maximum speed of 600mm per second), but also at 300mm per second provides a clearer and darker print image than its competitor’s products.
K700 is realistically priced and readily available (in various lengths and widths), on either cardboard or plastic cores, depending on your requirements. And unlike competitive products, Kurz is the manufacturer – thus there is no "middle man" involved in supplying the product, – and no shortage of local technical backup should you require it.
Coding Foils: The information conveyed by your coding and identification systems plays a vital role in packaging law and consumer confidence. Kurz coding foils represent quality and performance, (IS0 9001 Certified ), and are thoroughly tested prior to release. Customers can choose the most suitable coding foils for their needs from a diverse range of grades and colours.
Hot Stamping Foils: Kurz Australia is the premier supplier of large volume and high speed application hot stamping foils for a host of packaging and other commercially printed items. With an array of vibrant colours, Kurz offers a comprehensive range of metalised, coloured, holographic, and clear foils, as well as special effects.
Brand Protection: Kurz Australia delivers Brand Protection and High Security products through state-of-the-art, optical/anti-counterfeiting technology such as Trustseal and Kinegram. The Kinegram process has unique features that are easy to verify but difficult to copy, and is widely used around the world for bank note security (notably the recent Euro banknotes).
Plantic Technologies - stand 201
Plantic: A biodegradable plastic made from plants.
PT. Forindoprima Perkasa (Indonesia) - stand 432
Yana Cargo Pallet: Yana Cargo Pallet is made from carefully selected PP or HDPE; and has the size that fits perfectly into the width of the container, to support easy packaging and distribution for your products. It is designed to meet the requirements of light-weight pallet with high loading capacity and nestable. Using its injection-compression technology from Germany, it manufactures one piece Yana Cargo Pallets with excellent quality and strength while maintaining a competitive price.
Sealed Air Australia - stand 103
Instapacker Tabletop: Benchtop system that dispenses sealed bags or expanding foam to mold to the shape of any product. Most important is its compact size for small applications.
SpaceKraft Asia Pacific - stand 616
SpaceKraft for Liquids: SpaceKraft is the environmentally friendly tote designed for today’s global marketplace. Using patented technology, SpaceKraft is continuously wound from six to nine corrugated plies, resulting in a strong seamless container – up to 50,000 pounds of top-to-bottom compression strength for stacking up to four high. SpaceKraft can be set up in one minute by one person and it is recyclable, biodegradable and waste-to-energy efficient. SpaceKraft is also ideal for export – just one SpaceKraft bin can store and ship as much as five drums in 20 per cent less space.
Thermal Coding Australia - stand 521
Jaguar TP4000 Multi-head Printer: The TP4000 Multihead is designed to print onto thermo-forming machines. It has one to six print heads and prints in one swift action.
Jaguar R3500 Label Applicator: The R3500 is a multi-purpose label applicator or print and apply label applicator.
Visy Automation & Packaging Systems - stand 324
Otorflash: The Otorflash is a revolutionary shelf ready packaging system that optimises board surface, distribution, fast shelf filling and converts into a display in just three seconds, benefiting the manufacturer, distributor and retailers of consumer and industrial products. With automated alignment of products without handling and perfect superposition, shelf packaging is 100 per cent product facing to the consumer. Automatically erected, it features both side and vertical loading and the formation around a mandrel guarantees erection precision and assembly of the two diecut blanks, in order to produce new geometric designs.
Visy Tray Erector VT20 Variable Mandrel: The Visy Tray Erector VT20 Variable Mandrel, is a compact design with an easy to load magazine; the VT20 Variable Mandrel can erect up to 20 trays per minute, erects multiple footprint trays and ensures that trays will maintain rigidity during storage and transportation – from the processing factory to the retail consumer. The VT20 Variable Mandrel comes with a variety of options to customize and automate the erecting process including fully automatic size change, HSC lid stuffer and multiple easy load magazine trolleys.
Walls Machinery - stand 108/418
Fuji Form-Fill-Seal Machine:Fuji Machinery of Japan has been a world leader in Form Fill and Seal technology for several years, and its latest release, the Alpha V series, is no exception. The specifications of the machine can be tailored to specific applications, and with 24 models available, almost all flow wrapping applications can be catered for. In recent times, complete packaging lines from Fuji have been supplied to the bakery industry for a variety of applications including modified atmosphere bread products and the wrapping of bread rolls, pies, sausage rolls, cake. To ensure the entire Fuji range of horizontal machines keep up with today’s demands for high levels of hygiene, Fuji have taken the decision to supply their range of FW34—horizontal machines in stainless steel.
