Cartoning solution for soup cubes
Optimize your soup cube packaging process with a compact, high-speed wrap-around solution that enhances efficiency and minimizes energy consumption while ensuring top-quality cartoning outcomes.
Packs and Forms Cartons for Soup Cubes
The AD8 Series from IMA Group is a wrap-around cartoning machine designed specifically for packing soup cubes. What sets this machine apart is its ability to process up to 600 cartons per minute, utilizing electronic motion control for precise and efficient operation. This machine is versatile, handling a range of carton sizes for diverse end-products including beef, chicken, and vegetable bouillon cubes. Integration into production lines is seamless, with compact footprints that enable easy operator access for maintenance and component handling. Energy efficiency is enhanced by sharing kinetic energy between modules and optional vacuum pumps, reducing overall energy consumption. Its robust design is suitable for continuous, high-speed operations common in food packaging, ensuring reliable performance.
Benefits
- Maximizes packaging efficiency with a throughput of up to 600 cartons per minute.
- Reduces operational costs by utilizing kinetic energy sharing for improved energy management.
- Saves procurement expenses with wrap-around cartoning from flat blanks.
- Ensures operator convenience with compact design and easy accessibility.
- Supports sustainability by allowing the use of recyclable packaging materials.
- Applications
- Food packaging,Soup cubes
- End products
- Mushroom soup cubes,Beef bouillon cubes,Chicken stock cubes,Vegetable broth cubes,Fish fumet cubes
- Steps before
- Dosing,Soup cube feeding
- Steps after
- Wrapping,Carton sealing,Box outfeed
- Input ingredients
- flat blanks,soup cubes,cardboard
- Output ingredients
- packaged soup cubes,cartons,cardboard boxes
- Market info
- IMA is known for its expertise in manufacturing automated packaging machines and solutions, particularly for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, tea, and coffee industries, offering innovative, high-quality equipment and comprehensive customer service.
- Carton capacity
- 2 to 48 cubes
- Production speed
- Up to 600 cartons/min
- Compressed Air Consumption
- 220–300 Nl/min (min. op. pressure 6 bar)
- Vacuum
- 10 m³/h (op. vacuum 600 ± 50 mm Hg)
- Weight
- 3,500 Kg Approx.
- Dimensions
- (A) 30 ÷ 97 mm,(B) 49 ÷ 189 mm,(C) 11 ÷ 45 mm
- Electric Requirement
- 3P x 400 Volt – 50 Hz
- Control
- Fully electronic mechanisms
- Lane Capacity
- 1 ÷ 4
- Layer Capacity
- 1 ÷ 3
- Automation level
- Fully electronic mechanisms
- Changeover time
- Easy access for component handling
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Energy efficiency
- Kinetic energy sharing during braking
- Sustainable packaging materials
- Yes
- Recyclable packaging materials
- Yes
- Corrugated cardboard
- Yes
- Flat blanks
- Yes
- Low vacuum system consumption
- Yes
- Product type
- Soup cubes
- Wrap-around cartoning
- Flat blanks used for carton formation
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Box dimensions
- A
- Box forming method
- Wrap-around from flat blanks
- Feed/Discharge Method
- Soup cubes fed from dosing machine
- Control panel type
- Fully electronic mechanisms
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Integration possibilities
- Handles different-sized cartons
- Energy efficiency
- Kinetic energy utilization during braking
- Use of sustainable materials
- Sustainable and recyclable packaging materials