New Packaging Equipment: September 2022
Bakery and snack plants are moving away from manual cartoning and case packing to automated equipment.
Company: Delkor Systems, Inc.
Website: www.delkorsystems.com
Equipment Snapshot: Delkor Systems Inc., St. Paul, MN, has developed the LSP line of vision-based, robotic case packers, backed by the inverted Fanuc M-10 robot which acts as a human arm.
Company: Brenton
Website: www.brentonengineering.com
Equipment Snapshot: Brenton, a ProMach product brand, Alexandria, MN, has introduced the RT1000 Top Load Case Packer, which is geared toward customers that have been hand packing and now realize they need to streamline the output of their production lines.
Company: BluePrint Automation
Website: https://blueprintautomation.com
Equipment Snapshot: BluePrint Automation, South Chesterfield, VA, offers the Spider 100v robotic stacking system, which is being used in new ways such as product accumulation, nesting, and de-nesting. The company’s stacking and loading solution forms stacks of product and loads them into horizontal form/fill/seal machines, including continuously moving flow wrapper chain in feeds or indexing thermoform machines.
Company: JLS Automation
Website: www.jlsautomation.com
Equipment Snapshot: JLS Automation, York, PA, has introduced a robotic carton closer and upgraded its Peregrine cartoning solution with two different options for carton transport and handling.
Company: R.A Jones
Website: www.rajones.com/en
Equipment Snapshot: R.A Jones, Covington, KY, has introduced the IndeCart 3 transfer for grouping cracker slugs before they are packaged into cartons using the Criterion CL-240 mid-speed cartoner. The first installation was used for graham crackers with the capability of running two, three, or four slugs per carton for a given SKU.
Company: PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems
Website: www.pmikyoto.com
Equipment Snapshot: PMI KYOTO Packaging Systems, Elk Grove Village, IL, has added robotics to its secondary packaging machinery, which allows for gentle product handling.
Company: Cama North America
Website: www.camagroup.com
Equipment Snapshot: Cama North America, Buffalo Grove, IL, offers cartoning, case packing, tray packing, and robotic loading systems that are used for products such as bars, cookies, crackers, baking mixes, and pastries in a variety of packaging formats, such as bags, packets, flow wraps, trays, cases, cartons, and rigid containers.