Thiele Technologies Improves Cushion Caser Reliability

Customers are guaranteed to spend more time filling dairy cases and far less time maintaining dairy lines, saving time and money.

14/02/06 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Thiele Technologies, a leading producer of cartoning, case packing, bagging and palletizing equipment, announces the introduction of a revolutionary cushion caser system that improves reliability using a servo-controlled cushion drop.

The Thiele Pak Tek (formerly Edmeyer) Cushion Caser for the dairy industry enhances cushion casing with more reliability, more repeatability and much less maintenance. Using Thiele’s new "soft-touch" servo-controlled cushion drop, customers are guaranteed to spend more time filling dairy cases and far less time maintaining dairy lines, saving time and money.

The servo motor eliminates higher maintenance air lines, cylinders and filters. It offers far more smoothness and consistency than air controls, eliminating dirty air lines and erratically performing air cylinders. In addition, changeover to corrugated cases or other pack patterns using the Thiele system is much simpler. Simply flick a switch on the servo controls and the system is ready to go.

Benefits include:

• Improved consistency and reliability—guaranteed to enhance efficiency

• Improved accuracy and repeatability—eliminating inconsistency of erratic air controls

• Easy maintenance saves money—no air lines, filters or cylinders to clean or fix

• Quick changeover saves time—change to corrugated cases or new pack patterns with the flick of a switch

ABOUT BARRY-WEHMILLER

Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc. is a world leading supplier of packaging, corrugating and paper converting technology, as well as consulting services, across a broad spectrum of industries. Barry-Wehmiller’s balanced and diversified approach to the market is made possible through 12 interactive divisions: Accraply, a leading manufacturer of automatic labeling systems; Barry-Wehmiller Company, manufacturing bottle washers and pasteurizers for more than 120 years; Barry-Wehmiller International Resources, a leading information technology services provider and e-business solutions developer; Central Bottling International (CBI), specializing in quality industrial manufacturing equipment and services for the food, beverage, and packaging industries worldwide; Design Group, a world leader in manufacturing automation and engineering consulting services; FleetwoodGoldcoWyard and Ambec, leading suppliers of advanced conveyance technology and material handling equipment; Hayssen Packaging Technologies, a form/fill/seal technologies and services leader for more than 90 years; MarquipWardUnited, a leading manufacturer of equipment for the corrugated and folded carton industries; Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), specializing in the design and manufacture of converting machinery for the tissue and nonwovens industries, as well as printing systems for the flexible packaging industry; Pneumatic Scale, a global provider for can seaming, capping, centrifugation, dry filling, labeling, and liquid filling; and Thiele Technologies, a leading producer of cartoning, case packing, bagging, and palletizing equipment.

In fiscal year 2006, a combination of organic and acquisition growth is expected to grow Barry-Wehmiller’s annual revenues to more than $800 million for the first time in the company’s 120-year history, with over $200 million of that in global markets.