Wrap-around cartoning solution for butter and yeast
Optimize your packaging line with a high-speed cartoning system that efficiently wraps, glues, and seals butter, margarine, and yeast products, enhancing consistency and reducing product handling.
Cartons, Wraps, and Seals Butter, Margarine, Yeast
The AB8 from IMA Group is a sophisticated wrap-around cartoning machine designed specifically for high-speed packaging of butter, margarine, and yeast. This equipment excels by utilizing flat blanks, efficiently wrapping and sealing up to 80 boxes per minute with hot-melt glue for secure packaging. Ideal for the food, dairy, and confectionery industries, it processes solid products into butter bricks, margarine blocks, and yeast cubes. Its automated systems include grouping, layering, and capsizing, ensuring optimal integration within existing production lines. With the ability to reduce energy consumption through regenerative motor control and vacuum assistance to minimize compressed air use, the AB8 supports sustainability initiatives. It accommodates various box dimensions and configurations, making it a versatile solution for different production requirements.
Benefits
- Increases packaging efficiency with a capacity of up to 80 boxes per minute.
- Minimizes energy usage with regenerative motor control, lowering operational costs.
- Supports sustainability by enabling the use of recyclable and eco-friendly packaging materials.
- Enhances production flexibility with adaptable box dimensions and layout configurations.
- Reduces maintenance downtime through robust design and integrated vacuum systems.
- Applications
- Yeast,Butter,Margarine
- End products
- Yeast cubes,Margarine blocks,Butter bricks
- Steps before
- Stacking,Bundling
- Steps after
- Box Capsizing,Distribution,Shipping
- Input ingredients
- butter,yeast,flat blanks
- Output ingredients
- boxed butter,boxed yeast,sealed cartons
- 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.
- Production capacity
- Up to 80 boxes/min
- Full load current
- 3P x 400 Volt – 50 Hz – 8 Amp
- Compressed air consumption
- 300 Nl/min. (min op. pressure 6 bar)
- Weight
- 2,100 Kg Approx.
- Box dimensions
- A
- Lanes
- 4 ÷ 5
- Layers
- 2 ÷ 5
- Working mechanism
- Wrap-around cartoning
- Integrated steps
- Box blank denesting,wrapping,side gluing,and closing
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- Changeover time
- Not specified
- Energy efficiency
- Kinetic energy recovery system
- Cleaning method
- Manual/CIP
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Box dimensions
- A
- B
- 100–335 mm
- C
- 20–75 mm
- Weight
- 2,100 Kg Approx.
- Feed/discharge method
- Wrap-around
- 180° capsizing
- Motorization Energy Management
- Energy recovery via kinetic sharing
- Packaging Material
- Sustainable and recyclable options