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.
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.
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.
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.
Compressed air energy management
01 July, 2008 | domnick hunter Pty Limited
An energy-management system from Parker domnick hunter is designed to save up to 80% of power consumed during drying compressed air.
Official ecolabel for NZ
01 July, 2008 | Environmental Choice
Although claims of sustainability and environmental performance abound, in New Zealand Environmental Choice is the one ecolabel that is backed by the New Zealand government and verifies all its applicants’ claims using independent, third-party expert assessors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
VFFS
01 July, 2008 | Propac Industrial Pty Ltd
The Propac Lite vertical form fill seal includes many features of Propac’s proven AV-xx series of machines, but in a simplified version built into a small footprint.
Real-time quality control using near-infrared
10 June, 2008 | Unity Scientific Asia Pacific
The Unity Scientific range of SpectraStar NIR analysers are suitable for lab locations and at manufacturing lines and will deliver the user time and cost savings in quality control efforts.
Process improvement software
01 June, 2008 | Minitab Pty Ltd
Minitab has released its Quality Companion Dashboard, a tool for users of Quality Companion.

