• MPI's PA SL4 checkweighing technology will be a highlight on its stand at this year's AUSPACK PLUS 2013 show in Sydney in May.
    MPI's PA SL4 checkweighing technology will be a highlight on its stand at this year's AUSPACK PLUS 2013 show in Sydney in May.
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Exhibitors at this year's AUSPACK PLUS show in Sydney in May have started to whet prospective visitors' appetites with details about their technology highlights planned for display at the event.

MPI Australia, Esko Australia and Paksmart Machinery have announced details of the equipment set to take the limelight at their respective stands, with a suite of new offerings ranging from tray sealing machines and high speed friction feeders to carton machines, high speed bagging equipment, x-ray machines and palletisers

Paksmart has revealed it will be showing its new PF400 high speed friction feeder for the feeding of flat paper, fibreboard and plastic products and some sachet style packets.

The PF400 is designed for high-speed production lines in conjunction with other machinery such as conveyors, glue systems, labellers, inkjet printers and other PF400s.

The machine can also be used for other purposes such as tipping, inserting, offline coding and collating.

Also on display from Paksmart will be its PC40 carton machine, an intermittent motion carton machine with automatic end loader and using a new generation servo motor drive technology to load at up to 40 cycles per minute.

Privately owned local company Esko Australia, meanwhile, plans to showcase a large range of equipment suitable as part of a processing, filling, retorting, packaging, palletising/de-palletising or packing line for PET or glass bottles and jars, pouches, trays and cans.

MPI Australia, for its part, will be exhibiting newly released state-of-the-art products including the launch of its PA SL4 Eclipse range of tray sealing machines, the launch of APS FAS for high speed bagging and the launch of the Safeline X3310 x-ray machine.

It will also be exhibiting a new concept for economical bagging of consumable and industrial products and protective packaging from its Autobag range of equipment, as well as the Automac tray stretch wrapping machine, the Shrinkmaster L bar sealer and shrink tunnel and Cryovac Polyolefin shrink film.

Visitors can further expect to see an enormous variety of products from over 240 exhibitors, representing 12 countries, 55 international exhibitors and taking up over 7000 square metres of floor space.

AUSPACK PLUS 2013 will be held at the Sydney Showgrounds, Sydney Olympic Park from 7-10 May.

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