Product News

Orbital wrapper manufacturer TAB Industries, LLC, Reading, Pa. (www.tabwrapper.com), has introduced a Quick Ship Program. Devised to help packaging and material handling professionals begin pallet wrapping with the TAB Wrapper Tornado orbital wrapper as quickly as possible, the new Quick Ship Program offers to deliver a new TAB Wrapper...

Jergens Inc. announces fixture plate machining kits and new receiver bushing plugs for its popular line of Ball Lock® quick-change mounting systems. The fixture plate machining kits consist of extra-long Ball Lock® shanks and spacers permitting the fixture plate to be installed on a subplate with clearance between the two....

Signode Industrial Group, a leading manufacturer of a broad spectrum of consumables, tools, software and equipment to optimize end-of-line packaging operations and protect product in transit, delivers greater pallet load stability and product protection for corrugated box plants with its line of Octopus stretch wrappers and Lachenmeier stretch hood...

Macnaught Americas has introduced its K32-01 Flexigun manual grease gun for automotive, fleet, construction, agricultural, mining and industrial applications. Offering an industry-leading warranty, this grease gun delivers best-in-class cost of ownership. The Flexigun’s variable-stroke piston and valve arrangement facilitates one-handed operation. It is fully serviceable and features a heavy-duty stepped...

Syntegon Technology, formerly Bosch Packaging Technology, contributes its vast packaging and processing expertise to the European initiative CEFLEX to foster a circular economy for flexible packaging. As a leading consortium of companies and associations representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging, CEFLEX aims to establish a collecting, sorting...

The first of an innovative range of high-performance X-ray CT (computed tomography) systems offering enhanced levels of precision, resolution and scan speed has been introduced and is ready to order from the Industrial Metrology Business Unit (IMBU) of Nikon Corporation (https://industry.nikon.com ).The large-volume VOXLS 40 C 450 is able...

The Industrial Metrology Business Unit of Nikon Corporation has released the automatic wafer measurement system NEXIV VMZ-NWL 200 to solve the challenges of wafer metrology in the semiconductor back-end process, where more work is traditionally carried out manually than in front-end process control. The main target market for NEXIV VMZ-NWL 200...

INDEX Corporation has announced iXworld, a new online portal that expands the company’s service offerings and establishes a single interface for a broad spectrum of information and functionality. At launch, iXworld will include four distinct areas: iX4.0, iXplore, iXshop and iXservices. This suite of services will provide customers with...

Traditional clamp and press mode actuation applications present the challenge of having a rapid stroke at a low force, while requiring a steep ramp-up to a high force for a short period. The inherent nature of achieving these demanding performance parameters typically means expensive oversizing of the hydraulic infrastructure...

The compact, high-precision Quicktech S-32 ATM 9-axis twin spindle mill/turn center combines integral-motor main- and sub-spindles with a 190° B-axis milling head and a fast automatic toolchanger to maximize output of small, complex parts. On display at IMTS 2018 in booth S-338536 by Absolute Machine Tools Inc., Quicktech machines...