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Driving down costs surely has to be in the forefront of many manufacturers’ minds.  Leading the way to fulfil these requirements Boato Pack, a world leading manufacturer of vertical form, fill & seal machines for sachets and stickpacks stand out from other suppliers with their seal integrity and the ability to run thinner packaging materials.

With the life time of these efficient machines being 20 years+ the ability to save money every year with lower priced film, less wastage and reduced labour costs are a big attraction for many manufacturers, in many cases giving them payback on this capital investment in under 2 years!

To learn more about Boato Pack and their technical benefits when considering equipment of this nature, call us at Springvale to discuss.

Mespack’s sachet/pouch machines always operate on a horizontal basis where reel fed film (or pre-made pouches) are fed from one end and processed through sealing jaws to create either flat 3 or 4 seal sachets or stand-up pouches. With additional modules can create a shaped pouch; insert a spout/cap into the corner or top seal; insert a zipper; insert a straw etc.  On the larger machines there can be up to 5 filling stations so either a multi-component product can be filled using a combination of different fillers or on a quad machine four sachets containing the same product can be produced simultaneously giving an output of 320spm.

The largest stand-up pouch is 420mm x 400mm which can contain up to 10,000cc of product.

Mespack is a particular specialist for large pouches, example can be seen below;

The seal quality has to be absolutely secure for pouches weighing 2kg and this is achieved with some important technical features that stand Mespack machines apart from other manufacturers, the same features deliver equally superb results for smaller pouches:

-      Independent unwind system

-      Automatic adjustment control of seal jaw position

-      Automatic hole punch correction system for stand-up pouches

-      Servo driven change over system for forming plough

-      Servo driven stroke indexing system by rollers

-      Internal slot cams (no springs)

-      Pouch grippers that are engineering to hold up to 2kg

-      Static pouch stretching prior to sealing to avoid wrinkles in the top seal

-      PLC controlled automatic lubrication system

Aseptic is not part of Mespack’s range, easy clean and the manufacture of retortable pouches is part of their business.

The latest machine launched by Mespack is claimed to be “fastest HFFS machine ever” known as the HCM 320.  The patented continuous motion filling system allows twice as much filling time compared with a conventional HFFS machine.  It is capable of producing 140 x 1 litre stand-up pouches per minute (60% more than a conventional HFFS machine).

Also, patented pouch transfer system enables the change over for a new pouch size in less than 5 minutes via a touch screen.

Key suppliers to many Global leading multinational companies, their UK portfolio alone is broad including coffee refill pouches, probiotic powders, hair dye, breakfast cereals, soft drinks, confectionery and sauces.

The focus on new innovation is increased change over speeds and faster stand-up pouch machines to replace bottles, particular with the ever increasing cost of PET .

Discover more about Mespack, call our office 01420 -542505.

Andy Keeling, our service engineer, last week completed a rigorous training programme with flying colours gaining an A+ qualificiation on all of the machines within Langen Packaging Groups range of horizontal automated cartoning machines – the Air, Breeze, Chinook & Vento.   Covering semi-automatic machines running @ 50cpm, fully automatic intermittent motion and continuous motion machines running at up to 500cpm many with bespoke infeed solutions.

“MANY CONGRATULATIONS ANDY” from all of us @ Springvale

Being able to provide after sales support is of paramount importance, working with JMT Technology Ltd, Springvale Equipment can offer UK based engineering support covering servicing and breakdown requirements.

With Langen’s factory full of interesting builds, we draw your attention to the “VENTO” continuous motion horizontal cartoner.

The latest build features a smart multiple belt infeed system bringing in sachets of powder from 4 upstream lanes at 100/min in conjunction with additional infeed from 2 separate sauce pouch units.  Result = 1 sachet + 1 pouch cartoned at  400/min.

Running at this speed this cartoner also features a fully automatic carton magazine loading system providing a buffer capacity of  30 minutes.

Viewing taking place week 14

Langen Packaging Group recently supplied a Vento cartoner to a respected food manufacturer,  to provide effective cartoning for their sealed trays of ready meals into both pre-glued cartons and trapezoidal sleeves at high speed.

The in-feed system developed to take the trays coming from 2 upstream machines at 125/min sees the ready meal trays going through product rotation directly into buckets ready for insert.

With special exchangeable lugs it was made possible to handle both standard rectangular cartons as well as trapezoidal sleeves.

To discuss this application in more detail contact Victoria Marshall @ Springvale Equipment.

There are a number of reasons why faulty packages especially in the food and confectionery industry need to be unpacked.  This may be necessary due to machine start-up waste, wrong coding, best-before-use date overdue, under-or overfilling etc.  It would be too expensive to unpack such material manually or to completely throw away the product.

The German made PACK-SAVER range of Product Recovery Machines from LEU-TRONIC are designed to allow a clean separation of product from its packaging material.  The PACK-SAVER does not work with knives, but using adjustable tear-off rails to open the packages.  Due to the rail rotation and the special shape of the assorting chamber, an air-stream is produced which “blows” the empty wrapping material out of the machine.  The product is then transported to a vibration sieving device, where an exhausting device separates small wrapper particles from the product, which then can be re-processed and used again.

Depending on product, a capacity of up to 400kg per hour can be achieved.  Only one operator is needed to control a PACK-SAVER.

Typical products which are being recovered are;

coffee, tea, sugar, confectionery, chewing gum, chocolate bars, biscuits, crisps, detergent tablets etc.

Further information:

Springvale Equipment Ltd – 01420 542505 – www.springevaleltd.co.uk

With around 100 machines sold in the last three decades for pharmaceutical applications –thus representing around 30% on the total installations world wide – the Unifill technology is proven to be particularly attractive for the packing of a variety of liquid and semi-dense OTC products.

While in Europe and the Americas the most common product packed with our technology are cough syrup, mouth washers, neutraceutical products, topic ointments, pain-relief creams, tooth-pastes, etc the Far East market is mostly concentrating on vitamins, herbal drinks, energisers, body oils, etc.

From a packaging point of view the production of drinkable medicines into disposable plastic unit doses offers great economical and practical advantages in respect to glass containers which are often critical for what concerns sourcing, transportation, handling and outer packing.

The large consumption of healthy products such as ginseng-based drinks, herbal supplements, vitamins and energetic drinks – especially in the Far East markets – greatly contributed to the success of the Unifill technology in the para-pharmaceutical and the healthcare industry. China is  today Unifill’s main market where a number of machines have been sold with over 50 installations, 70% of which are for pharmaceutical applications.

HYGIENE

Although Unifill machines are not aseptic and are therefore not suitable for the handling of sterile products such as injectables, a special ultra-clean package is available to greatly increase hygienic handling and filling conditions. In particular, the ultra clean package – that is available for any Unifill model- includes thermoforming with sterile air, inert gas flushing before or after filling, magnetic dosing and filling unit, laminar flow with HEPA filter.

Further to this, Unifill has recently developed, together with some of the top material suppliers, some projects where the Unifill machine utilise special retort materials such as PP/EVOH/PP or PA/EVOH/PP. Such materials are suitable for autoclaving and/or Gamma rays sterilisation.

SUPPOSITORIES

The RESNOVA machines represent UNIFILL’s ultra modern interpretation of suppositories packing. These hi-tech machines have been designed by the biggest world experts of suppositories packing, following the inputs and the suggestions gathered from the market in over 30 years of experience.

Fully complying with latest GMP regulations, the RESNOVA machines combine the most advanced manufacturing technologies with technical solutions that are absolutely innovative to the suppositories market.

Easy and quick size changeover operations -only 2 hours to switch from PVC/PE to ALU/PE and vice versa against the 8 hours needed on conventional systems – balcony construction for immediate tooling access, no top trimming required, in-production reel replacement and many other features make this product a dream come true for the operators.

The RESNOVA family – entirely electronically controlled to grant the highest reliability and accuracy- consists of two models: the Resnova-15 for outputs between 12,000 and 24,000 suppositories per hour (available in different configurations and versions also depending on the number of cooling units) and the Resnova-35, capable of reaching up to 35,000 suppositories per hour.

Contact UK Agents:

SPRINGVALE EQUIPMENT LTD – 01420 542505 – www.springvaleltd.co.uk