New Packaging Equipment: August 2021
The latest product handling equipment, cartoners, case erectors and packers, loaders and palletizers, are designed to meet the needs of bakery and snack producers as well as consumers in a fast-changing marketplace. These flexible systems can run a large array of SKUs and they feature quick-change capabilities.
Company: A-B-C Packaging
Website: www.abcpackaging.com
A-B-C Packaging Machine Corp. has introduced the 72AN Compact Low Level Palletizer, which is ideal for bakery and snack plants that have limited floor space or a small budget. The machine occupies from 10 percent to 30 percent less floor space than conventional low-level palletizers, depending on the accessories required, and offers flexibility for product feed and pallet configuration.
Company: AFA Systems
Website: www.afasystemsinc.com
AFA Systems Ltd., recently designed a case packer that can run RSC and HSC (half slotted container) cases on the same machine. The company also completed a shelf-ready display case packer for a snack food company.
Company: SOMIC America
Website: www.somicamerica.com
SOMIC America Inc. has introduced a high-speed, compact bar cartoner, which incorporates an infeed system that can accept 800 wrapped bars per minute. The infeed re-orients the bars into a perfect row 90 degrees to the infeed direction in preparation for group cartooning. In the next stage, the bars are picked and placed into four pre-erected cartons, followed by the closing of these cartons and then discharged for case packing.
Company: BluePrint Automation
Website: https://blueprintautomation.com/en/
BluePrint Automation offers an array of secondary case packing systems as well as high-speed, vision-guided robotics. The company recently introduced Multi-Flavor Variety Pack Systems for the salty snack industry.
Company: Syntegon
Website: www.syntegon.com
Syntegon Packaging Technology has introduced a robotic pick-and-place platform that facilitates product handling, feeding and loading. Designed as a modular system, it allows individual configuration of the robotic cells. Delta robots can be flexibly connected and, together with transport modules, seamlessly integrated into a system.
Company: Schubert North America
Website: www.schubert.group/en/
Schubert North America recently introduced the T5 robot, which has a fifth axis that can pivot and tilt products. This is ideal for pastries that need to be placed vertically into a tray.
Company: Yaskawa Motoman
Website: www.motoman.com/en-us
Equipped with food-grade grease and an IP67 rating, Yaskawa Motoman’s HC-series collaborative robots are easily deployed in case packing and palletizing applications. Flexible and easy to use, they are available with a 10- or 20-kg payload capacity, and 1,200- or 1,700-mm reach respectively.
Company: Columbia Machine
Website: https://columbiamachine.com/
The DASS palletizer from Columbia Machine Inc., Vancouver, WA, offers gentle handling and package orientation to maximize the effectiveness of shelf-ready package designs. A servo control “bump turn” unit allows for better control and cushioning of package orientation, especially when a wide range of package sizes are run on a particular line.