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Banner Engineering Corp.: Light screen system

A measuring light screen system with built-in DeviceNet compatibility is available from Banner Eng. (Minneapolis, MN). DeviceNet Mini-Array permits users to centrally monitor and control the operating status and diagnostics of several light screens simultaneously over a DeviceNet control network.

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SICK, Inc: Sensor and measurement system

Sick’s (Bloomington, MN) OD optical displacement sensor finds even small objects and measures them to detect depressions, unevenness or rippling. The OD comes with either an LED light source with a scanning range of 25 mm or a laser light source with a range of 50 mm.

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In Memoriam

Harry Rosenthal, 96, founder of Rosenthal Mfg., Inc., passed away in his home on Jan. 7, 2001.

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Achievements

Cargill Dow LLC’s (Minneapolis, MN) NatureWorks technology has earned the company two science and technology awards by Popular Mechanics and Industry Week.

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Campbell reshapes bowl

Campbell Soup Co., Camden, NJ, hopes to bowl consumers over with a new design for “Soup to go!” that’s taller, slimmer and curvier than the ubiquitous microwavable bowls it debuted in summer ’99. Soup to go! was re-introduced in a new bowl starting last August.

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P&G, DuPont invest in Packtion

Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble and DuPont (Wilmington, DE) have agreed to become investors in Packtion™ (Chicago, IL), an online solution provider that matches global buyers, sellers and converters of packaging materials. The investment is a combination of cash (amount undisclosed by the three parties) and certain intellectual property.

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RxPak: Leaflet insertion

On this prescription drug repackaging line, after the cottoner, a two-head pick-and-place machine from Minnesota Automation (Crosby, MN) uses vacuum pickup to grab two inserts from magazines and place them over the tops of two containers. Then a mechanical plunger strokes down to fold the insert neatly into the bottle.

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PCI Services acquires UK ph

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Deal includes long-term agreement for the supply of pharmaceutical packaging services. Click logo for full article.

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Machinery failures a major

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM OUR EUROPEAN PARTNER: Problems caused by failures in packaging and process machinery accounted for half of all recalls of food, pharmaceutical and drink products published in the UK press last year. Click logo for full article.

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Packs provide shimmer

Revlon’s new hair treatment line was designed to put the shine back in damaged hair. Housed in equally luminous packaging, the premium line includes nine different products.

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Rockwell Automation: Proximity sensors

Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, WI) introduces two new Allen-Bradley WorldProx inductive proximity sensors designed to address more diverse applications.

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Phoenix Contact Inc: Sensor/actuator connection box

Pluscon-Sensor Actuator Connector Box from Phoenix Contact (Harrisburg, PA) presents quick disconnect, pluggable connectors for sensors or actuator valves in one convenient junction box.

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