With the addition of natural navigation capability to Kollmorgen’s NDC8 platform, the need for reflectors or markers to the existing environment for navigation has been removed.
Hardy Process Solutions has again doubled the speed of their EtherNet/IP enabled HI 6500-XP Extreme Weight Processor by increasing the update rate from 300 to 660 updates per second, providing a PLC with a new weight reading every 1.5 milliseconds (previously 3.3 milliseconds).
DynaClean food conveyor systems can now be used in very cold environments. Utilizing plastic link style belting on DynaClean conveyors offers customers the option of conveying product as cold as -50 degrees Fahrenheit.
Toray Plastics (America), Inc., the only United States manufacturer of polypropylene, polyester, metallized, and bio-based films, announced that it has begun construction on a new, 28,800-square-foot facility designed to house a new, high-speed, 4.5- meter metallizer.
The cracker market, like many other snack segments, is in an evolutionary state. If you ask Craig Lieberman, president and founder of Denver-based 34 Degrees, changes in the category span “from the types and styles of crackers to the location and placement of crackers in the store.”