Design News - February 27, 2006

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No one wants to create a "me too" design for a new machine. Ultra Packaging took that notion to an extreme. For its latest line of vertical cartoners, the company replaced every bit of roller chain of an earlier design with servos and timing belts. As a result, the new all-electric machines focus on quick product changeovers, choice of continuous or intermittent motion operations and production rates as fast as 120 cartons/min.

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