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CERMEX introduces high-speed shrinkwrap bundling for mini-bricks width
CERMEX's patented "CCO®"diagonal flight bar technology now enables dairy industry specialists to collate mini-brick bundles at speeds of 32,000 cartons per hour in order to match the output of next generation high-speed filling lines.
Cermex, based in Normandy, is already widely established in the following industries: mineral water, soft drinks, tinned food, dairy products.
However, the increase in line speeds for mini-bricks (fruit juice, flavoured milk, cream) has encouraged the company to develop a specific system for collating and shrink-wrapping these relatively unstable products (from 200 to 300ml in basic or "slim design" formats).
The machines manufacturing and filling these cartons run at speeds ranging from 8 000 products per hour for classic lines to 20 000 products/hour for high speed lines. Today?s shrink-wrappers are not designed to handle batches of 1 x 3 products at a speed of 20 000 products/hour.
The speed increase to 24 000 products per hour on latest models of filling machines will only accentuate the problem as well as add the 2 x 3 collation to the batches which cannot be handled.
In the long term, shrink-wrappers will have to be able to run at a speed of 32 000 cartons per hour in order to absorb any production build-back.
CERMEX'S SOLUTION
- The products are fed into a diagonal flight bar system on a single lane conveyor installed at 45° in relation to the shrink-wrapper direction of motion. The infeed system generates product collations which are transferred by the flight bar to the shrink-wrapping unit (injection table + film wrapping system)
- This patented system makes it possible to reach speeds of 16 000 cartons/hour on one lane to meet the current market requirements and 32 000 cartons per hour on two lanes (even in batches of 1 x 3.)
Advantages for the customer
- High speed
- Reliability of the diagonal flight bar selecting system at all speeds
- Specifically adapted to small formats
- Optimised product protection
Continuous movement, no intermittent motion therefore no falling products
Compact footprint
Machine manufactured to dairy industry standard, i.e. stainless steel construction
Numerous collations: 3 x 1, 4 x 1, 3 x 2, 3 x 3, 4 x 2, 4 x 3
Quick size changeovers thanks to "Cesam" and the programming mode of the CCO diagonal flight bar system
Working height of 800mm improving operator access for machine running
Fully accessible film injection table (even when machine height lowered) thanks to lateral extraction by means of a drawer system
Machine operation via a PC with "Cesam" software
Modem connection in standard version for software support
- Dairy industry (mini-bricks, small bottles)
- Soft drinks (mini-bricks, small bottles, cans)
- Tinned food (half size and smaller)
- Soup
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