Brushless DC motors
01 July, 2008 | M Rutty & Co Pty Ltd
The GR 22, G 30.1 and G 30.0 motors are now available in versions with neodymium magnets.
Clean area automation
01 July, 2008 | Baldor Australia Pty Ltd
Baldor has launched a family of frequency inverter drives for AC motors.
Fill solution for delicate foods
01 July, 2008
Multi-Fill has recently sold a MPFSC-120-01 filling machine to a customer in the US who had a very delicate product to fill — jelly cubes. The requirement was for a filling machine that would retain the shape and size of their delicate product after it passed through the system. The jelly cubes are loaded into the low-level infeed hopper and a conveyor belt (with a special finger design) passes the product to the filling head. The food is then measured volumetrically and discharged into trays.
Talking bar code scanner
01 July, 2008 | Visual Independence
Life just got a whole lot easier for Australia’s vision impaired with the release of a portable talking bar code scanner.
Radiation-free carton inspection
01 July, 2008 | Detection Systems Pty Ltd
The second generation of packaging contents inspection systems (PCIS) is easy to install, simply dropping over existing product lines and occupying minimal line length.
Roll-fed labeller
01 July, 2008 | Le Mac Australia Group Pty Ltd
The Marathon SLA combines the field-proven Marathon SL technology with a complete Allen-Bradley drive-train and controls platform consisting of servo drives, servomotors, programmable logic controller (PLC) and human machine interface (HMI), as well as reconfigured electrical control cabinets.
Vibration switch
01 July, 2008 | Hawk Measurement Systems Pty Ltd
Hawk has released the Gladiator vibration switch series, a heavy-duty point level device.
Bagmaker
01 July, 2008 | Heat and Control Pty Ltd
Ishida has launched the Atlas-122C and 112C, compact models of the existing Atlas high-speed snack foods bagmaker. These models have the capacity of the existing Atlas models in downsized compact flame, providing high-speed packaging with high seal integrity.
Metal detection monitoring
01 July, 2008 | JL Lennard Pty Ltd
JL Lennard has introduced AuditCheck to its Goring Kerr DSP range of metal detectors for the food processing and packaging industries, reducing or eliminating quarantine and improving line efficiency.
Thermography camera
01 July, 2008 | Teledyne FLIR
Flir has released its pocket-sized i5 model, full-function thermography camera aimed at the electrical contractor, mechanical and building trades.
Compact thermal transfer printer
01 July, 2008 | Dy-Mark Identification Solutions
The Datamax M-Class Mark II is a compact, rugged industrial-strength printer series that has been designed to provide ease of use and a lower total cost of ownership.
Skin packaging
01 July, 2008 | Select Packaging Systems Pty Ltd
The chilled format of ready meal packaging is not only quicker to prepare for the consumer, it gives manufacturers an opportunity to use eye-catching and practical packaging, helping differentiate their products from those of competitors.
Mesutronic metal detector
01 July, 2008 | Perfect Packaging
Mesutronic has released the Aluscan metal detector that allows the user to detect smaller metal contaminants down to 0.8 mm in diameter, within aluminium-wrapped products.
Anti-fog films for fresh produce
01 July, 2008 | Taghleef Industries Pty Ltd (Australia)
Shorko Australia has been appointed the exclusive sole Australian and New Zealand distributor for Taghleef Industries (Ti-Films) complete product range of biaxially orientated polypropylene film and cast polypropylene films.
Just-in-time liquid packaging
01 July, 2008 | Arvinoil Pty Ltd
The RTCE series monoblocks by ABTechno of Italy integrate in one single machine all the functions required to package non-carbonated liquid products and beverages.



