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The Montalvo Corp. introduces its modified T-Series live shaft load cells with expanded capabilities. Designed to handle live shaft rollers, they can be used to retrofit existing machines or included in the design of new ones.

The T-Series uses an integral, high-performance, spherical bearing assembly that allows for misalignment, roller deflection, and changes in roller length from temperature variations.

Montalvo’s technical specialists can assist customers to know which model and configuration of the T-Series will be right for the customer’s application.

For more information, call 800-226-8710 or visit www.montalvo.com.

Radius Solutions Ltd. now offers improved capabilities of its flagship Enterprise Resource Planning/Management Information System (ERP/MIS), PECAS Vision. Specifically designed to meet the requirements of packaging and printing organizations worldwide, the system supports integrated processes in the areas of: sales and production estimating, order processing, scheduling, materials movement, shop floor data collection, customer relationship management, and financials. It supports immediate access to critical business information and integrated multi-site, multi-currency, multi-product, and multi-language capabilities.

The PECAS Vision product was recently updated based on the leading proven open architecture and in support of industry best practices and Lean manufacturing principles. Over the course of the past 24 months, significant market and customer-driven enhancements have been made in the following areas:

•Sales Order Processing – expanded sales order maintenance, exceptions management, and dispatch enhancements.
•Hub Order Processing – improved Master Estimate, checking, and processing features.
•Multi-Plant – more robust user plant activity and color recognition capabilities.
•Work in Progress (WIP) – increased capabilities and flexibility in work-in-progress tracking.
•Production Scheduling – introduced Sequel Server version of Production Scheduling Assistant.
•Outsource Management – enhanced programs for response to job changes.
•Inventory – enhanced pallet splitting multi-product container capabilities.
•Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) – additional new format options.
•Improved Reporting and Filtering – customer details, supplier details, work centers, tooling libraries, and tooling maintenance.
•Estimating – increased capabilities in pricing options, set-ups, standard pricing, and costing areas. (Also, new features added for Roll Labels, such as comparative costing and calculations for die and print laydown.)
•Tooling Library – significant enhancements in areas such as user defined tool types, tool status codes and details, allocation of tools to jobs and tools movement between plants.
•Kitting – new features to facilitate the management of kitting and fulfillment orders.
•Customer Relationship Management – expanded capabilities in prospecting, opportunities management, planning, quotations, sales, security, and reporting.
•Integration – additional data transfer capabilities between PECAS Vision and other applications.

For more information, visit www.radiussolutions.com or call 312-648-0800.

The Color Management Group releases color management and RIP competency tests that can be used to assess and evaluate a person’s color management skills. Available online at www.colormanagement.com, the tests offer a realistic measure of the person’s knowledge and skills about color management, press calibration, and the use of five specific color management RIPs for digital inkjet proofing and wide format output.

Employers can use these tests in a variety of scenarios, including pre-employment screening, testing an employee’s ability before or after color training, in-house testing to evaluate an employee’s current skills and knowledge, or assessing an employee’s skills and knowledge over the course of time. It can also serve as a barometer to determine whether an employee needs user training from a vendor or a color management expert. Vendors and associations can use them in their training and certification classes, while consultants can use them to assess and evaluate clients before, during and after consulting services.

The seven test topics include a general color management test, a press calibration test, and five specific tests on third-party RIP products, including GMG ColorProof, EFI XF, ColorBurst, Oris Color Tuner, and Onyx Production House. For example, the types of information the test taker needs to comprehend to pass the test about any of the five third-party RIPs includes familiarity of the product, experience installing the software, a good understanding about color management and color reproduction, and familiarity with use of a spectrophotometer when setting up a RIP.

After The Color Management Group receives payment, the user receives via email a locked PDF file with a password. The person has seven days from the time the file is received to complete and return the test, where The Color Management Group grades it. The corrected test and grade are returned to the user or employer via email.

Tests can be ordered at www.colormanagement.com/store/CID90, at a cost of $150, which includes grading. The test can also be licensed for multiple users. Quantity discounts are available.

EAM-Mosca’s new MCB-2 is a fully automatic bundle squaring and strapping system that accepts single bundles from a pacer conveyor or counter ejector, squares them, and places a single strap across the flaps in the direction of bundle travel. The sophisticated system produces tighter bundlers than conventional bundle strappers — while minimizing strap consumption.

Touch screen controls and an automatic setup feature allow for easy product changeovers. Six-sided bundle control provides square, neat bundles, while proven heat seal technology provides secure strap seals.

New to the MCB-2 is a Lift-up Conveyor Exit Table, which provides working access to the sealing head for maintenance — as do the Double Coil Dispensers, which swing open to 90 degrees. The dispensers feature automatic coil changeover to eliminate process interruptions. Sealer access, dispenser and controls are all positioned on the same machine side for operator convenience.

The MCB-2 can strap up to 27 bundles per minute to keep pace with the fastest new flexo lines. The company offers various options, including Ethernet for remote troubleshooting and/or order data transmission to the MCB, and pacer conveyors.

An information brochure is available. Call 800-456-3420, email info@eammosca.com, or visit www.eammosca.com/brochures.

The servo-driven Aku-Feed from ADI/PDM Trade Group offers a smooth drive system that works accurately even at high speeds. It also offers reduced setup times, the elimination of grip crush, and lower maintenance costs. The unit will interface with prefeeders and the use of vacuum controls and staggered wheel patterns gives better control, traction and support of the board.

Aku-Feed is engineered for complete integration with all existing original equipment manufacturer machines.

For more information, visit www.arcdoyle.com or contact Jim McDonald at 912-564-2400 or jlmcd1492@aol.com.

ADI/PDM has applied for a U.S. patent for its fully automatic one-pass two-piece box gluer for litho-laminated two-piece boxes and large two-piece boxes. This two-piece gluer offers a dual-feed setup table with center joint pre-gluing that eliminates the need to prefold two-piece boxes.

Sheet one is fed through a glue station and under sheet two. Both sheets are then fed into the folding section with a center compression rail, to ensure adhesion on the center seam. The box continues to a programmable logic controller (PLC) automatic adhesion system on the center seam. The box then moves to a PLC automatic stacking section, which sends the completed unit to the plant conveyor system.

For more information, visit www.arcdoyle.com or contact Jim McDonald, 912-564-2400 or jlmcd1492@aol.com.

National Adhesives unveils two new adhesive products: Ultra-Melt® 34-772C and Easy-Pac™ X 34-275.

Ultra-Melt 34-772C is a “prime” grade 350° Fahrenheit hot melt that provides tack, speed and adhesion, excellent heat resistance, and reduced odor. It also offers non-stringing and release-from-metal qualities, which enable quicker clean-up of equipment rails.

Because of their high-stability formulations, all Ultra-Melt adhesives are clean running and produce minimum char. The adhesives reduce production line downtime caused by charring and clogged nozzles, and provide the heat resistance that some applications require.

Easy-Pac X 34-275 adhesive is designed for case and carton sealing operations that require adhesion on difficult carton and corrugated stock.

The highest performer in the Easy-Pac X product line, the new adhesive also works well for freezer grade packaging applications. It features an operating temperature of 275° Fahrenheit and provides robust adhesive performance within a wide operating window. The product, which is currently being used with excellent results by a baked goods co-packager for a major consumer goods manufacturer, is only available as part of the Easy-Pac Package Sealing Solution.

For more information on these and other National Adhesive products, call 866-266-5565 or visit www.myeasypac.com or www.nationalstarch.com.

EskoArtwork’s Esko Kongsberg i-XE series digital dieless cutting table is now available in two, larger sizes: the Kongsberg i-XE32 with a working area of 51 by 63 3/4 inches and the Kongsberg i-XE54 63 by 120 inches. These two new models join the compact Kongsberg i-XE10.

The system easily cuts semi-rigid materials such as carton and single flute corrugated board and polycarbonate, among other materials.

The Kongsberg i-XE series of automated digital finishing systems, based on the technology and robust architecture of the Kongsberg i-XL series of large-format digital finishing tables, was specifically created for signs and displays. The Kongsberg i-XE models provide speed, acceleration and precision cutting. Screenprinted decals, digitally printed point-of-purchase displays, and pressure sensitive films, among others, are perfectly kiss-cut or through-cut using an advanced motion system and Mikkelsen Graphic Engineering’s (MGE’s) patented i-cut® vision system. This is supported by proven, rugged construction, with robust rack and pinion motor drives, and an ultra-fast multi axis servo system that permits superior acceleration and full speed without loss of precision.

Each graphic element on every sheet is checked by the MGE i-cut Vision Pro system for any type of distortion in the printed image or substrate and corrected on-the-fly, even for nonlinear type stretch or skewed images, without any user intervention. Even jobs printed months earlier will be cut accurately, despite any material shrinkage or image distortion.

The i-cut vision software and camera integrated into the tool head, reads printed registration marks that are strategically placed by the ai-cut™ Adobe® Illustrator® plug-in module, which is able to create register marks in seconds.

The i-script™ software is an additional component enhancing finishing productivity. The software connects the separated routes of the graphic design and the finishing data. It is the interface between the digital print control and RIP software and the i-cut digital finishing system. With i-script, the operator does not have to re-register the toolhead for each printed file on one sheet or roll of material.

The i-script standard allows digital print control software to generate and communicate key finishing data to the Kongsberg i-XE. Setup time can be reduced to just placing the printed material on the Kongsberg i-XE table and pressing the “start” button.

Esko Kongsberg i-XE tables feature an entirely new tooling system, for lightning-fast motion to increase productivity, for a wide range of materials. The tooling system offers two configurable tool positions with quick connectors, prepared for a range of advanced tool stations. In addition, there is a permanently mounted block holding the i-cut vision control camera, a ballpoint pen, and a laser pointer for fast indexing.

Kiss and through cutting of vinyl, polycarbonate, polyester, carton, and more, up to single flute corrugated material, is performed with a variety of tooling, including a press-cut tool allowing kiss and through cutting within the same job; a vari-cut tool used for kiss cutting with fine depth tolerance, as well as through cutting within the same job; a static knife tool for through cutting of thin, rigid material such as carton board and polycarbonate; a reciprocating knife tool suitable for single flute corrugated board up to and including C-flute and other light-duty fibrous materials; and a crease tool for creasing of folding carton and corrugated board.

The Kongsberg i-XE can be equipped with a conveyer system and the MGE sheet feeding system for automated material processing. For more information, visit www.esko.com.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.’s Automated Packaging Systems Group introduces the Meta KD-8™ case erector corrugated packaging system. Existing systems are designed to erect Meta® cases by forming and gluing a diecut blank around a fixed mandrel. The new patent-pending Meta KD-8 system is designed to erect an eight-sided Meta case, offering material reduction and efficiency, increased stacking strength, enhanced graphic and display capabilities, and stronger shelf impact.

“A regular case is four sides; ours is eight,” says Ricki Anderson, director of sales for Smurfit-Stone’s Automated Packaging Systems Group. “There are a lot of container customers in the market that can use an eight-sided box for liquids and granular materials. Anything that’s not perfectly square can use an eight-sided box.”

Marketed for case-up or monthly lease, the system features:

•A large-capacity magazine, capable of handling up to 150 cases and eliminating the need for a full-time operator.
•A case selection system that enables the machine to handle warped board and corrugated variations.
•Opposing vacuum cups to slowly separate cases as they are erected, effectively breaking score lines and over-glued manufacturer’s joints.
•Hand cranks for fast, easy changeover without tools.
• Vacuum transducers, rather than pumps, to reduce clogs and downtime.
•A program logic controlled (PLC) timing sequence.

For more information, visit www.smurfit-stone.com.

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