New packaging solutions and technologies

NO CHILD’S PLAY

With the topic of child-resistant packaging becoming increasingly important at the same time as packaging must also meet the special needs of the aging population, Rieke Packaging (a TriMas Packaging brand) has launched a new two-piece child-resistant cap designed to meet both requirements, with sustainability in mind. According to the company, its new child-resistant caps are designed to help manufacturers and distributors of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products to prevent children from accidental access to harmful products while advancing their own sustainability goals. The new two-piece, push-andturn Child Resistant Caps range features innovative patent-pending interlocking inner/outer cap design to ensure convenience for seniors and an added level of difficulty for children to open. Available in 53-mm and 63-mm diameters, the new caps were designed with less plastic—reducing their plastic footprint without compromising quality, durability or functional performance. The caps are also available with a post-consumer recycled (PCR) inner cap option for an even more sustainable solution, with pictorial instructions on the cap clearly illustrating how to open and close them properly.

Rieke Packaging

HIGH HYGIENE

Rittal Limited has launched a new range of hygienic-design (HD) pushbutton enclosures and accessories designed specifically for the high-hygiene zones inside busy food-and beverage facilities. Available in five sizes, the pushbutton enclosure line includes one-, two-, three-, four-, and six-hole enclosure options that fit standard 22.5-mm pushbuttons and switches. To meet strict food safety regulations and help maintain the highest level of protection, the HD pushbutton enclosures feature three-degree sloping on all sides to prevent accumulation of liquids; 304 brushed-grain stainless-steel construction; zinc-plated sheet-steel mounting bracket; and IP 66 and IP 69 protection ratings. All HD enclosures and accessories use an FDA-compliant blue silicone gasket to help prevent the ingress of contaminants and bacteria, while making it easier to identify any potential containments left on the enclosure after cleaning. For their part, Rittal’s range of HD accessories—already including cable glands, wall spacers, leveling feet, hinges and hose-proof hoods—has been expanded with the addition of a viewing window, a pressure- release plug, a new alternative cam lock option, and a key-lockable T-handle.

Rittal Limited

THE SWEET MEDIUM

Designed for application needing a little boost in load capacity, the new 2700 Medium Duty conveyor from Dorner Mfg. Corp. has the strength to carry heavier products for a variety of industrial automation and packaging applications including palletizers, multi-lane processing, case- and tray-handling, and end-of-line packaging. Engineered for safe conveying of up to 150 pounds, the 2700 Medium Duty conveyor offers the benefits of extended widths between 26 and 36 inches—available in two-inch increments—to provide improved compatibility with AMRs (autonomous mobile robots), robotic palletizing and other technologies widely used in modern warehousing and manufacturing facilities. Because the conveyor can actually be wider than its length, it can enable an AMR to dock sideways—allowing for more efficient and faster loading and unloading across a broad range of multi-lane and medium part handling, product transfer and accumulation, and automated and manual assembly applications. The innovative design incorporates V-Guided positive belt tracking to ensure smooth, maintenance-free performance even under demanding side-load applications.

Dorner Mfg. Corp.

MAKING IT COUNT

The new Pharmafill TC4 tabletop tablet counter from Deitz Co. features a choice of four funnel discharge sizes to accommodate a wide range of pill sizes, as well as a variety of lozenges and other oral solid dosage formats. Selecting the funnel size that promotes maximum tablet flow, yet fits securely into the bottle opening, ensures smooth filling at rates up to 3,000 per minute with 99.99-percent accuracy, based on 10.25-inch diameter coated tablets. Well-suited for contract packers and growing pharmaceutical and nutritional product companies, the TC4 tablet counter allows the funnel sizes to be swapped without tools in minutes for fast and easy changeovers, with the novel design allowing for all product contact parts to be removed, cleaned and returned to service in 15 minutes or less. The compact semi-automatic machine can easily fit into nearly any filling area, according to the company, while being able to accommodate bottle sizes up to nine inches in height.

Deitz Co.

TERMINAL CASES

The new open tool-slot and push-button TOPJOB S distribution terminal blocks from WAGO are designed to allow feed-in up to a nominal cross-section of 8 AWG (10 AWG with ferrule) connecting 6- to 14-AWG outputs, with both options featuring dual row jumper slots for parallel configuration with additional distribution blocks and full integration with TOPJOB S terminal blocks and accessories. This new distribution line-up comes in four different color choices for intuitive field identification and various design requirements, whereby each connection point comes with molded-in conductor entry marking—meeting the distribution terminal block requirements of many CAE systems. The thin profile provides panel space savings and open design configuration options help to minimize exposure to incoming power sources.

WAGO

COMBINED EXCELLENCE

Designed to meet the production requirements of small-and mid-sized manufacturers in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, the new CT33 combination checkweighing and serialization system from METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection gives operators a deep level of integration between mark-and-verify, serialization and precision weighing capabilities— helping them to achieve compliance, better brand protection, quality control and supply chain traceability. To ensure enhanced brand protection, companies can use the CT33 to carry out serialization of individual cartons to improve supply chain transparency and help pharma and cosmetics manufacturers to protect their brands against the counterfeit products. The serialized cartons then pass into the checkweigher, where precision weighing with FlashCell EMFR technology enables complete control checks, ensuring that all product components, including leaflets, are present. Built around the company’s modular C-Series frame, the flexible system allows users the choice of many different configurations—including thermal-transfer overprinting systems and smart cameras—depending on the application. Moreover, the system’s innovative new transversal adjustment handling unit, can take cartons from upstream processing machines and adjust them to ensure they are positioned correctly on the conveyor belt for marking, verifying and precision weighing.

METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection

BUILT TO WORK

Compatible with the Yaskawa HC10, HC10DT, HC10XP and HC10DTP collaborative robots, the new HC10 workstation from Yaskawa Motoman is designed as an economical mobile solution for integrating HC10 robots with the high-performance YRC1000 controller into a single package that is well-suited for a diverse range of pick-and-place, assembly, machine tending and other repetitive industrial applications. Featuring space-saving footprint to easily integrate into current manufacturing environments, the portable workstation can be easily moved to where it’s needed with a pallet jack or forklift, and the compact metal cabinet housing the robot controller offers a comfortable working height for most collaborative applications. Moreover, built-in leveling feet ensure a highly stable platform even when the robots are running at maximum speeds and payload capacity.

Yaskawa Motoman

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On Board Video Guidance

■ Allows for line operator troubleshooting for common issues ■ Easy-to-follow onboard video display with animation

New Algorithm

■ Substantially improved code clarity ■ Allows clearer codes at faster line speeds

Ink Guard

■ Up to 3 times longer printing between cleaning cycles ■ Less faults and print quality issue with more production output

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