Unstable bottles are easy to collate

denesters, if required.

Also on show was an hygienic continuous carton machine that handles small and large carton sizes and allows for gentle product handling and carton closing at up to 500 cartons a minute as well as an hygienic, open design concept horizontal case packing machine that handles a wide range of case formats at up to 25 cases per minute.

Machinery from Mpac is available in the UK from Springvale Equipment.

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Sidel unveiled the new Cermex ProSelex flexible collating system for complex unstable bottles. This gentle, streamlined, grouping device is designed to work with any type of case packer and is designed to deliver efficiency, high availability, and greater operability.

Acting as an integrated module of a case packer that is receiving products upstream from one lane, the latest Cermex ProSelex continuously pitches, collates and prepares the container batches before they are transferred, and case packed. Based on a simplified and streamlined kinematic process, this new generation improves on the performance of the previous module with an increased speed capability of up to 300 products per minute, and on a more compact footprint. Productivity is also delivered by additional timesaving, achieved through a reduction in changeover time, courtesy of a simplified and repeatable process for operators, which anticipates an average changeover to last between 1 minute for a new collation to 2 minutes 30 seconds for a complete bottle change.

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Overwrapping range of equipment can handle paper-based materials as well as recyclable and/or biodegradable film

At interpack, Marden Edwards showed a range of its overwrapping equipment that, as well as traditional films, can also handle BOPP and biodegradable BOPLA films along with paper-based materials to wrap individual cartons and carton collations.

For instance, reduced packaging can be achieved by offering banding of packs or groups of packs in widely recyclable PE, using the company’s cost-effective stretch bander that holds

The range of overwrappers was demonstrated packs tightly together for distribution or point of sale presentation. And as no shrink tunnel is required, the unit also offers low energy consumption.

This stretch bander was joined on the stand in Germany by a manual individual carton wrapper; a multipack bundle in paper; an individual carton overwrapping in paper; and an individual carton overwrapper with fully adjustable tooling.

The overwrappers are designed to provide a versatile solution to add not only shelf appeal but also tamper evidence and also eliminate any odour contamination.

Other features offered by the range of overwrappers include seal area flexibility which allows the longitudinal seal to be positioned either on a trailing edge or on the base of the carton, depending on carton design and any marketing needs along with geometrically exact end folds to give a sleek finished look for confectionery packaging.

T 01202 861200

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