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Plant Operations & Equipment

Distance-settable sensors

Omron Electronics (Schaumburg, IL) has introduced new distance-settable sensors that assure stable detection of objects and materials. Background immune, they're effective regardless of color or material pattern.

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Plant Operations & Equipment

Small photoelectric sensors

KA ultraminiature photoelectric sensors from Allen-Bradley (Milwaukee, WI) are as small as 7 x 9 x 20 mm and feature stability and output LED indicators and sensitivity adjustment.

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Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Sekisui TA Industries, Inc. (Garden Grove, CA) has adopted a new logo to more accurately express its full name.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Algus Packaging (DeKalb, IL): Art Gustafson, president; Dave Bauer, vp of operations; Fred Boyd, dir. of sales & mktg.

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Supplier news: Achievements

Jefferson Smurfit Corp's (St. Louis, MO), Memphis, TN, container plant has received the Valued Supplier Award from the Kellogg Co.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Pinnacle Automation Canada Inc. (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada): Arnold B. Cunje, vp, sales.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

The Woodman Co. (Decatur, GA): Jeffrey W. Almond, vp and general mgr.; T. Ross Long, vp, technology; Barry W. Phillips, vp, customer service.

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Supplier news: International agreements

Seaquist Dispensing (Cary, IL) and Perfect Valois Ventil GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) have merged.

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Supplier news: Achievements

AlliedSignal Inc. (Morristown, NJ) has attained the S-B Power Tool Company's Hallmark Supplier status.

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Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Continental Glass & Plastic, Inc. (Chicago, IL): Tom Payne, vp, sales.

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Supplier news: International agreements

Monsanto Co. (St. Louis, MO): completed the sale of its styrenics plastics business to Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

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Klockner Pentaplast of America, Inc. (Gordonsville, VA): Thomas Goeke, COO.

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