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Color forecast

Three companies have partnered to produce a forecast of colors for plastics in packaging and product design for 2000. The forecast, compiled by Intl.

June 30, 1999

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Plant Operations & Equipment

Sensors

A family of ultrasonic position sensors from Baumer (Southington, CT) are designed with a "teach" mode that permits operators to preset the sensing range limits, between 4" and 27", as well as the steepness of the rising or falling analog output.

June 30, 1999

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DUPONT AWARDS

DuPont announces the call for entries for the thirteenth- annual DuPont Awards for Innovation in Food Processing and Packaging. The competition includes both food and nonfood packs.

June 30, 1999

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IFT FOOD PACKAGING DIV. MEETS

Packaging for the New Millennium: an Industry Perspective and Safety Strategies for Meal Solutions are the two programs scheduled for the annual meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists' Food Packaging Div.

June 30, 1999

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Defending plastic packaging

GMA and the American Plastics Council have teamed up to counter what they say are misleading and inaccurate allegations about plastics and plastic food packaging.

June 30, 1999

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A kinder, gentler FDA?

FDA needs to revise its constricted approval process to provide "an efficient, effective and timely process for dealing with health claims for foods and beverages," GMA told the agency in comments on the FDA Modernization Act of 1997, adding that the First Amendment prohibits FDA from acting as a "national censor." Both GMA and NFPA urged the agency to be more flexible in accepting authoritative statements to support health claims by a wider group of "federal scientific bodies." Currently, only two groups can make authoritative statements: a federal government scientific body with responsibility for public health protection or research directly related to nutrition (such as the National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) or the National Academy of Sciences and its subdivisions.

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Feed-through sealer

Aline Systems' (Santa Fe Springs, CA) HD Long Line Sealer is available as a constant heat or thermal impulse machine. Both machines seal a wide variety of plastic films, fabrics, foams, copolymers and laminates.

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Laser coding system

Rofin-Sinar U.K. Ltd. (Kingston upon Hull, England) has introduced the Blazer FlexScan®, a new dot-matrix laser coding system suitable for best-before dates, batch, time and company logos.

June 30, 1999

Plant Operations & Equipment

Sunx Sensors: Hot melt glue detector

Sunx Sensors' (West Des Moines, IA) TH11 series sensor detects the presence of hot glue melt as small as 3 mm dia with a response time of less than 1 millisecond.

June 30, 1999

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Complaint-tracking software

Interpharm Press (Englewood, CO) has introduced Complaint Tracker, a software program that allows companies to document complaints as they originate in a manufacturing setting.

May 31, 1999

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Tri-Tronics Company: Tri-Tronics Company: Low-cost gap probes

Gap Probe(TM) optical blocks from Tri-Tronics Co. (Tampa, FL) are designed to convert any of the company's photoelectric sensors into low-cost slot sensors.

May 31, 1999

Automation & Digital Transformation

AutomationDirect: Windows CE control

Automationdirect.com (Cumming, GA), formerly PLCDirect, has introduced the WinPLC starter kit. Features the Think & Do control software release 5.0, the WinPLC embedded PC control hardware platform, Windows(TM) CE operating system, Ethernet adapter card and Think & Do software development system.

May 31, 1999

Plant Operations & Equipment

Banner Engineering Corp.: Photoelectrics guide

Banner's (Minneapolis, MN) Specifier's Guide to Photoelectrics is a resource for specifiers of photoelectric and ultrasonic sensors. The colorful 20-pg guide includes photos and descriptions of 12 new photoelectric sensors, along with numerous special application sensors and sensor accessories.

May 31, 1999