Hugo Beck recently collaborated with an instant noodle producer to implement its servo X packaging line, aiming to improve the company’s packaging capacity and meet its demands for rapid output.
Hugo Beck’s UK sales partner, Yorkshire Packaging Systems (YPS), provided the company with a servo-driven side sealer, the servo X, along with a double chamber shrink tunnel. Hugo Beck says its servo X packaging machine has a potential throughput of up to 10,000 cycles per hour in order to comfortably handle the desired number of instant meals. It explains that this output speed is achieved through the servo-driven motor and the continuous motion transverse sealing bar which moves with the product, ensuring there is no stop/start action that would slow the process down.
The servo X is designed to create the side seal before the transverse seal, said to achieve tighter packs, improve the overall aesthetic and result in significant material savings. On average, Hugo Beck says this model has documented approximately 15% film savings compared to similar competitive systems.
The line also runs an ultra-thin film supplied by YPS - reportedly the thinnest available on the market - and can be supplied with 30% recycled content. Hugo Beck states the film has reduced material thickness from 35 microns to 12.5 microns with no loss of performance, a plastics saving 64%, and with the new packaging line, the instant meal producer has reported a tripling of its packaging capacity compared to its previous system.
In related news, this summer Twinplast invested £1.5m in a new extrusion line, aiming to enhance its ability to deliver bespoke packaging, storage and display products. The new machinery is expected to increase the capacity of Twinplast’s extrusion line by 3-4 times, at an energy consumption rate of 40% less per tonne of material produced.
More recently, Ferag and Sparck Technologies designed a continuous, ‘one-touch’ process to prepare boxes automatically, from order-picking to dispatch, in a ‘first’ for the e-commerce industry. The system’s Z-shaped conveyor section is designed to align and position every item for 3D scanning and processing at a ‘well-matched’ and ‘consistent’ pace sequenced with the upstream Ferag sorter.
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