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Industrial Wrapping Machines

Stretch wrappers enclose a single or multiple product units in one or more layers of plastic wrapping film for the purpose of protecting, sealing, or consolidating the product. Choosing the right equipment depends on the type of product, the primary product packaging, and the main purpose of wrapping the product.

Industrial stretch wrappers

Shrink wrapping is used to protect your products from the elements and assure anti-tampering. The packaging technique involves covering the items in a polymer plastic overwrap and passing them through a heat tunnel causing the film to contract and seal tightly around the processed objects in a uniform manner. Printed film also makes wrappers ideal to communicate your brand.

Shrink wrappers

Shrink Sleeve Systems

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You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy chocolate; that’s basically the same thing. We were not surprised to discover that chocolate - to be specific, cocoa beans – was so valuable that it was used as a currency in Mayan times. When making chocolate, cocoa beans need to be dried, fermented, and roasted before using chocolate making equipment to turn them into your favorite chocolate product.

Chocolate

A beverage is any kind of liquid or drink, usually other than water, made for human consumption. Beverages are further classified into two categories: alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages refer to liquids that contain 1% to 75% of liquor and are produced by fermentation such as wine, beer, or distillation such as vodka, rum, tequila. Non-alcoholic beverages are drinks that don’t have any liquor such as tea, coffee, fruit juices, soft drinks, and carbonated beverages. They can be produced premix or postmix, depending on the setup of your production line.

Beverages

Spreads

During the Middle Ages, sugar sweets were a delicacy only for the rich due to the high cost of sugar. Thankfully, the discovery that sugar could be extracted from sugar beets made sweets affordable for everyone. The sweet category is broad, covering chocolates, chewing gums, sugar candies, and candied/glazed products with sugar. To make these confections, sugar manufacturing equipment needs to cover different steps within the production line such as sugar dissolution, syrup cooking and cooling.

Sweets

To make candy, all you need to do is create a syrup by dissolving sugar and boiling it to your desired consistency. For medium to large scale candy production, candy making equipment fully automates the whole process and takes care of other production regulations and standards (such as hygiene and proper homogenization). Planning on getting one? There’s a wide range of choices to pick from.

Candy

A snack is a small portion of food ready to eat and simple and fast to prepare. People usually consume snacks during the day between traditional meals such as breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Snack foods include simple products such as nuts, dried fruits, peanuts as well as packaged and processed foods. Puffed corn products made by extrusion or flavored potato chips are examples of processed foods.

Snacks

<span style="font-weight: 400">If Popeye needed spinach for his power, you need healthy snacks to boost your energy! From dried fruit chips to nuts and protein bars, healthy snacks have become more popular since the 2000s, and t</span><span style="font-weight: 400">he global healthy snack market will reach USD 98 billion by 2025. </span><span style="font-weight: 400">In the wide range of healthy snacks, raw fruits and vegetables appear as the main ingredient, and these snacks focus on the high protein content and reduced fat or carbohydrate percentages. Also, “less processed” and “less amount of added chemicals” are the primary trend in making healthy snacks as the clean eating movement began after the 2000s. </span>

Healthy snacks

Among all dosage forms in use today, tablets constitute the most common one. They are pharmaceutical solid dosage forms containing active ingredients and excipients such as diluents, binders, glidants, and lubricants. Using tablet making equipment, these solid dosage forms are made by compression of granules or powder blends and then shaped by molding.

Tablets

Parenteral preparations refer to drugs using non-oral means of administration. Injectables, such as needles and syringes, are used to deliver a drug into the systemic circulation directly in the veins, muscles, under the skin, or in the tissue.

These parenteral formulations are pharmaceutical dosage forms that have strict regulations on being sterile, pyrogen-free, and free from visible particulate matter including reconstituted sterile powders. Solutions, suspensions, emulsions, and gels with APIs intended for administration by injection are usually supplied in vials, ampoules, pre-filled syringes, or pens to facilitate ease of use.

Injectables

According to a legend, Cleopatra soaked her sails in her perfume so that Mark Antony could smell her ships before they arrived. This is to say that, from soaps and shampoos to perfumes, conditioners and pomades, cosmetics have always been highly valued and used for their properties of aesthetic enhancement. Cosmetics are a broad class of topical agents applied for various purposes such as cleansing, protecting, beautifying, or otherwise altering your appearance. As a result, a wide array of processing equipment is used in the cosmetics industry.

Cosmetics

Can it be said that we live in the Plastic age? Basically, yes. From pillows over toothbrushes, and packaging to utensils, plastic is a widely used material in our day-to-day lives. But what is it? Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic materials built of polymers that are easily shaped into various structures with the help of plastic processing equipment such as extruders and molders.

Plastics

Synthetic fertilizers are made of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and are often produced as dry pellets or soluble product.

Synthetic fertilizer

Our food chain starts in the soil, growing crops and livestock. But between the fields and the stores, there is a line of industrial food processing equipment. Processes may be as minimalistic as cleaning fruit and as complex as homogenizing milk alternatives made from pressed legumes. In each case, processing technology is an important link in the food production chain.

Food

We continuously talk to suppliers of feed processing technologies that have important know-how on how to create the smarter, better, and greener feed products we need to kickstart a better tomorrow. Are you into making animal feed or pet food and looking for ways to improve your production process? Let’s navigate the world of feed production technologies together!

Feed

A cheeseboard demonstrates the different possibilities that milk and dairy can take. There are hundreds of recognized cheese recipes worldwide, but the main ingredients remain the same: milk, fermenters, salt, and time. Cheese manufacturers combine these elements to craft unique flavors, aromas, and textures. Advanced cheese making equipment provides better control over these elements to create ever more diverse cheeseboards.

Cheese

Wrapping is the final step before your finished products are ready to leave the manufacturing site. Packages are bundled tightly together with a low-density polyethylene wrapper to secure the goods inside during transportation and distribution. Automatic or semi-automatic stretch wrapping machines cloak the palleted load in expandable film at high speeds and precision.

Batch

Continuous

Do you pack your butter wraps in aluminium foil, parchment paper or ecoline solutions? And do you require rectangular, stick or semi-round portions with bottom folds?


<h2>Fill form and pack your butter wraps efficiently inline.</h2>
The ARM product range from FASA for filling and wrapping paste-type products like butter, margarine, spreads, edible fats and curd offers flexibility to shift between portion weight by simply adjusting the brick height. Product feeding is possible with a hopper and augers or directly from the production line. Product input temperature is controlled for different product types i.e., butter 10 to 14 °C and margarine 8 to 14°C. The stainless-steel design is durable and in line with CE regulations.

The wrapper is equipped with a stationary foil roll spindle and a belt driven foil broaching shaft. A foil centering device with photocell ensures precise alignment and positioning of the foil or wrapping material over the paste-type products. The two sensors control the foil roll width and track the end of the roll.

A PLC automates and controls the entire sequence of operations in the product filling and wrapping process. The HMI touch screen panel assists in user-friendly operational control. The machine has a fully automatic lubrication system to reduce friction between moving parts and prevent overheating due to continuous operation. If required, printers like Ink-jet, Thermo-printer or Cold emboss coding units can be integrated.

This machine can package products in various sizes, from 50-100 g and 100-250 g, with a capacity of up to 70 packs/min. Three additional machine versions can package products in sizes of 10-25 g at 80 packs/min; 200-500 g at 40 packs/min; and 500-1000 g (1-2 lb) at up to 20 packs/min capacity.  The base ARM model has a production history of over five decades, providing proven reliable packaging with more than 8300 models delivered worldwide.

Automatic butter wrapping machine

Filling lines are used extensively in all industries, such as food, pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetics, to accurately package different products into a container suitable for that product. Although the filling process is at the very end of the production line, it is no less important than the earlier steps. Last but not least, the idiom that dates back to 1382 when John Wyclif wrote the firste the laste, and the laste the firste, indicates just that the last things on a list are just as valuable as the previous ones. In this case, this idiom fits perfectly.

Filling

The process of forming allows you to shape your products homogeneously. Forming machines are fed the manufactured material in bulk and cut it down to specification, so the process takes place between formulation of the mass and the packaging of the final item.

A special class of this equipment – Form, Fill, and Seal Machines (FFS) – creates bags and pouches from flat material such as plastic sheets, fills them with your designated product, and seals them.

Forming

<span style="font-weight: 400">At last, you reached the final stage of processing your product - welcome to the packing world! Packing preserves and protects a product from damage, spoilage, and contamination while it makes its way from the production line to the consumer or further production. Depending on which industry your products belong to, the type of primary packaging equipment can change drastically. You need to pay careful attention to products with </span><span style="font-weight: 400">chemicals or hazardous substances since they can be potentially dangerous to human health. </span>

Packing

Wrapping

liquid

solid

When producing cream cheese and selling them in foil wrapped bricks you need a reliable and customizable solution that allows flexible product presentation with respect to portion size, shape and material of packaging.


<h2>Automatically pack cheese spreads in different brick sizes and shapes with foil</h2>
The processed cheese filling and wrapping machine (ARU) from FASA is an automatic machine designed for foiling and packaging of cream cheese and cheese spreads. It wraps the cheese into aluminium foil or laminate with a tear strip applicator that is heat-sealed to maintain product freshness. The packages come in rectangular or square shapes, offering an option of an easy opening system and flexible labelling. The machine is installed with a labelling device that can apply labels on one side, three sides, or no label at all. To meet consumer requirements, the machine provides flexibility to shift between portion weight by adjusting the brick height.

Volumetric dosing and product feeding is done via a double jacket 85l hopper with agitator. Product input temperature is +65 to +75 °C. The machine is designed to pack products in sizes ranging from 15-100 g, in a single fixed size, with a capacity of up to 50 packs/min. The wrapping unit is equipped with a foil centering device with photocell which ensures accurate alignment of the foil over the product, giving a consistent and centered wrapping. A foil cuts collection system gathers the excess foil trimmings generated in the foil cutting process, thus managing waste and preventing contamination. The machine is PLC controlled and has an HMI touch screen panel for user-friendly operation and control.

Foil wrapping machine for cream cheese

During a shrink-wrapping process, a change of reel can slow down the production cycle as manual intervention is required. A system that automatically changes the reel after it has been used to the end, makes it possible to continue working without interruptions, even without an operator present.


<h2>Shrink wrap PET bottles while eliminating any waste of film</h2>
The Shrink wrapper from Baumer is a highly versatile and configurable shrink-wrapping system fit for most production requirements. Products can be shrink wrapped with film only or a combination of pad and film or tray and film. The system also features a green tech tunnel that helps save energy. Other features include automatic reel changeover for less interruption in production and touch screen panel controls for product packing configuration. Apart from smoother operation, automatic reel change lets you reduce film waste, which is usually generated when the photocells detect the end of the reel. Speeds can also be adjusted and go as much as 200 cycles per minute.

Shrink wrapping machine for PET bottles

Bottling equipment draws a measured quantity of your drink, food, or formulation from a holding tank and fills it into bottles. These bottles usually need to be checked, capped, labeled, and sealed for distribution. Bottling solutions differ in product metering system, sterilization level, and bottle type and sealing system depending on your production scale and product format and regulations. Bottling systems are utilized in a variety of industries. For example, in the food and beverage industry as well as in cosmetics and pharma.

Bottling

Bunch wrapping with aluminium foil is a popular method to use for an attractive finish to individual chocolate products. Because of the delicate nature of such items, traditional bunch wrappers have to operate at low speeds in order to guarantee a high-quality finish with no damage to the products. By using a state-of-the-art machine designed specifically for chocolate products you can achieve extremely high speeds combined with the most gentle handling to increase your productivity.


<h2>Fast and gentle bunch wrapper for enrobed and deposited chocolate products</h2>
The EMC1 from Theegarten Pactec is a high-speed bunch wrapper that has been specifically designed to quickly wrap large volumes of chocolate products with very gentle handling. The full servo control using the continuous motion principle guarantees that the most delicate of products can be aluminium foil wrapped.

The machine features automatic speed control, adapting to the infeed speed and availability of the product. The maximum operating speed is 900 pieces per minute. Incoming product is synchronised with a phasing feed belt.

To reduce wastage of wrapping material the EMC1 features a “no product, no wrap” device, and for the highest quality control the machine will automatically reject spliced, misregistered andunwrapped products.

Engineered with excellent accessibility for cleaning and maintenance, the EMC1 is extremely easy to operate by a single user from its intuitive touchscreen HMI. Automated functions include automatic splicer which eliminates the need to stop the machine for wrapping material changes, and photoelectric print registration system.

High-speed bunch wrapping machine for chocolate

Larger scale wrapping of individual chocolate products demands gentle handling. Traditional twist wrap machines cannot run at high speeds when wrapping delicate product and are inflexible. By adopting a modern modular design with gentle handling, line throughput can be increased, as well as being able to wrap multiple product types. This results in an excellent return on investment.


<h2>High-performance wrapping machine for a range of chocolate products</h2>
The MCC from Theegarten Pactec is a cutting-edge chocolate wrapping machine that can easily handle different products and wrapping styles with delicate handling.

Despite its flexibility, the MCC is still design for larger-scale production and is capable of wrapping up to 1,200 pieces per minute in double twist or foil wrap, and up to 800 pieces per minute in a top twist, side twist or Vienna fruit-fold style.

Gentle handling is possible thanks to the MCC’s continuous motion principle and pressure-free feeding, suitable for the most delicate product. Adaptive speed control allows the machine to react to the product in-feed speed, facilitating product changeover. Feeding can be by belt or lug chain to suit your needs, including the option of robotic pick and place.

To minimise wastage of wrapping material, the MCC features “no product, no wrap” technology. Quality control systems allow automatic rejection of spliced and double-wrapped products. The automatic splicer means wrap can be changed without stopping the machine.

Despite its complexity and flexibility, the MCC can be operated and monitored by a single user, with all features and changeover parameters accessible by intuitive touchscreen HMI.

Medium-speed flexible wrapping machine for chocolates

Bottom fold wrapping is an attractive solution for hard candies, toffees, and eclairs. However, traditional wrapping solutions are often too rough to wrap at higher speeds. They also require additional downstream units to add secondary packaging. A purpose-designed, high-speed bottom wrapper with combined flow wrapper with gentle handling offers increased throughput and reduced costs even for high-quality and delicate products.


<h2>Combined folder wrapper and flow packer for multipack hard candy</h2>
The HCW4+FPC5 from Theegarten Pactec is a custom-designed high-speed wrapping machine for bottom fold wrapping of hard candies and similar products. The direct connection of a high-speed flow pack unit enables the individual products to be grouped and secondary-packaged, increasing efficiency and reducing cost.

Designed to operate at up to 1,500 pieces per minute, the HCW4+FPC5 can bottom fold products in wax paper, cellophane, polypropylene, or aluminium / coated paper. It can then flow pack grouped items using hot or cold sealed foil.

Designed for gentle handling, the machine uses the continuous motion principle to enable high-speed packing of even delicate items. Highest quality results are also ensured by the feeding system with integrated sorting station to remove sugar dust, chips, and broken pieces before wrapping.

The flow pack unit features a durable servo motor driven foil pre-draw off system. This allows accurate splicing at the print mark position at full machine speed, minimizing the amount of spliced products rejected.

The combined unit is controlled via a single touchscreen HMI and requires only one operator. The HCW4+FPC5 has been designed with excellent accessibility in all areas, facilitating operation, maintenance, and cleaning.

High-speed fold wrapping machine for hard candy

Where high speed wrapping, without toppling, is required in tightly securing palletised loads, the items need to be rapidly but securely bound in their stretch covering.


<h2>Bind any load, quickly and automatically</h2>
The AV600 series from Paglierani utilises a rotating arm to achieve the highest level of speed and performance. The load remains still while a rotating arm turns around it wrapping the load. The elastic recovery of the wrapping material keeps the items tightly bound for protection.

Extremely versatile and able to be incorporated into a production line, this efficient equipment is designed and made in Italy for use in any fast moving stretch wrapping application.

High speed stretch wrapping machine

If storing and transporting products easily is a problem for your industrial production, then you need palletizing solutions. A pallet is a flat structure, on which containers of the packaged products are stacked to consolidate the product and to make it easier for a forklift to lift the goods for warehousing and transportation. A palletizer is a machine that automates or simplifies the process of stacking product containers onto a pallet. The choice of an industrial palletizer depends on the type of product packaging such as bags, drums, or boxes, the level of automation required, and the in-feed to the palletizer. Palletizers find applications in all major industries including food, chemical, and pharmaceutical.

Palletizing

For secure, automated stretch wrapping at medium speeds, the key is easy manipulation of the item to be wrapped.


<h2>Achieve complete coverage of stretch wrapping with rotating table</h2>
The completely automatic AV500 series from Paglierani boasts a rotating table to allow easy stretch wrapping under any circumstances. The load to be wrapped sits on a turntable which spins the load relative to the film roll, housed in a moving carriage. Stretch is achieved by rotating the load at a faster rate than the film is fed.

Easy to integrate into a production line, this stretch wrapping machine is sturdy enough for even the most aggressive environments.

Automatic stretch wrapping machine for medium speed

At lower speeds, some level of automation is required to provide a cost-effective method of protection for palletised loads.


<h2>Stretch wrap semi-automatically using a rotating table</h2>
The AV300 series from Paglierani wraps the load on the turntable with a secure stretch wrap. The elastic recovery of the wrapping material keeps the items tightly bound for protection.

For stand alone applications, or integration into any production line, this stretch wrapping machine is sturdy enough for even the most aggressive environments.

Semi-automatic stretch wrapping machine

Although bulk butter blocks are commonly used in commercial food production, they are heavy and difficult to handle manually.


<h2>Re-pack bulk butter packs into consumer-size portions</h2>
The butter re-packing line (RPL) from FASA is engineered to re-pack previously packaged 10-25 kg butter blocks into portion sizes as per consumer demand.  With four different steps, the butter is cut, homogenized, re-filled, and wrapped into smaller bricks:

To start with, the butter block is cut into 20-90 mm thick pieces, while the core temperature ranges from +4 to +10°C (SLP). Then, it is homogenized to restore its properties to its pre-freezing state (SHG or BH). Once homogenized, the butter is set for filling and wrapping into individual bricks (ARM). The butter portions are organized in the desired arrangement, concerning the number of layers, rows, and portions in each row. A transporter then feeds the block of portions to the case packer, where the machine further pushes the blocks into a manually placed pre-prepared carton box (DSU).

The machine offers a range of package sizes from 50-1000 g, and its modifications cover a broad dosing range and a wide variation of brick sizes. It can pack products in sizes ranging from 50-100 g and 100-250 g, with a capacity of up to 70 packs/min; 250-500 g, with a capacity of up to 40 packs/min; while 500-1000 g with a capacity of up to 20 packs/min.

Butter Re-packaging Line

Industrial cooling equipment varies according to the consistency and temperature conversion demands the material you are handling, but the process typically involves heat exchange treatment as your products are conveyed through a cooling chamber equipped with extraction fans or circulating water. Temperature control is a crucial aspect of your commercial production and cooling systems are applied to a range of industries.

Cooling

Cutting

Homogenization is the process of reducing particle size in mixtures to improve the consistency, uniformity, and stability of the product. The choice of a homogenizer depends on the nature of the product, desired particle size, the physical state of the ingredients, and pressure requirements during the process. Homogenization is widely used in the biotech industry for cell lysis and in the pharmaceutical industry for the emulsification of creams and ointments; it also finds applications in the cosmetics and food industries for improving the consistency and uniformity of various products.

Homogenization

Most packaging applications require different types of packaging machines, some need wraparound cartoners and others shrink wrapping systems.
Having two machines demands a considerable amount of space. An economical alternative could be a packaging system that combines both functions in one for multiple product applications.


<h2>Combined packaging system for wraparound cartons and shrink wrapping</h2>
The Combi provided by Baumer is a combined packing system that can perform wraparound carton packaging and shrink-wrap packaging. It is ideal for packing a wide range of products such as canned pet food, as it can pack quickly and safely in film only or pad and film and wraparound cartons. This machine features a patented BM BELT conveyor placed in between the transport chains to shift functions from wraparound cartons to shrink wrapping film. This can be done only by using controls from the touch screen panel. The system can work both with loose products and multipacks and is available in 3 models depending on production capacity. The production capacities are 35, 50, and 80 packs per minute.

Machine for packing canned pet food

Cartoning involves erecting a folded carton, filling it with the product, closing the flaps, or applying a lid and sealing with glue or adhesive tape. Choosing a cartoning solution involves, considering the type of primary packaging, the production volume, the size and count of the product in a carton, and the desired level of automation.

Cartoning

New ways of packaging products are popping up all the time on the market. These new types of packaging, such as display tray with a lid, allow manufacturers to keep up with the latest market trends, make the product more appealing to customers and at the same time save cardboard and reduce costs.


<h2>Pack your products in wraparound, shrink-wrap, and tray with lid packaging</h2>
The Multifunction system provided by Baumer is an all-in-one complete packing system capable of wraparound carton packaging, shrink wrapping, and other special functions such as providing special lids or covers in combination with trays. With its wide array of formats, this system can provide packaging that is ready for display at retailers or stores. The system also features touch screen panel controls that can change the configuration of the production.

Multifunction case packer for bottles and jars

Many gums, chewy candies, toffees and caramel products are most suited to individual wrapping. A modern, all-in-one, high-speed forming and twist wrapping machine designed particularly for these product types will increase line efficiency and improve product quality thanks to gentle handling and advanced wrapping options.


<h2>High-performance forming and wrapping for gum and chewy candy</h2>
The WHD2 from Theegarten Pactec is a combined high-speed forming, cutting and wrapping machine for chewy products using a double twist wrap.

With a line speed of up to 1,800 pieces per minute, the WHD2 can be paired with either a batch roller and rope sizing machine for toffees and hard and soft caramels, or with an appropriate extruder and cooling tunnel for chewing gum, bubble-gum, and other chewy candy. The machine can produce square, rectangular or round pieces.

Thanks to its continuous motion operation, the WHD2 features gentle product handling, reducing wastage and increasing end-product quality.

The wrapping unit can utilise all common wrapping materials, and the “no product, no wrap” detection system reduces material wastage. The output of the machine features an automatic rejection system to eliminate spliced, misaligned or unwrapped products being sent downstream.

Full servo control means enhanced reliability and quieter operation than traditional control methods. The intuitive touchscreen HMI is easy to operate and means one operator can easily monitor and control several machines if required.

High-speed cut and wrap double twist machine

When producing large volumes of butter in consistent quality, taste and appearance you need to control key factors such as separating temperature, butter moisture and proper drainage of butter milk.


<h2>Optimal beating, gentle churning and proper separation of butter grains and butter milk</h2>
The Continuous Butter making Machine (BMM) from FASA facilitates butter production from ripened cream. Different versions of this machine have the capacity to handle cream processing at a rate of up to 10000 l/hr and 5000l/batch. The machine delivers butter milk with a low-fat content up to 0.5%, while using cream with fat content of 35 to 42%. For the product with fat content 72,5% -82,5% no stabilizers and emulsifiers are needed. The vacuum chamber achieves low air content in butter for improved shelf life and a special moisture metering system is integrated. Different kinds of dosing units are available for ingredients such as moisture, culture, oil (for spreads production), dry ingredients (mushroom, herbs, cacao etc) and salt.

The process flow of the continuous butter making machine comprises of a cream beater, churning section, separating drum, kneading sections, vacuum chamber, butter milk collection tank with level control, butter milk pump and cooling system. The freshly produced butter can be directly fed to a packaging machine via a butter silo.

Continuous butter production line

Dosing systems are a line of hoppers, feeders, filling machines, and checkweighers that operate in sync to dispense materials accurately. Dosing is an essential feature of the packaging process, whether you’re filling shampoo bottles or tea bags. But dosing equipment is critical for formulations, too, particularly in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Imprecise dosing may cause quality degradation in the best-case scenario. In the worst scenario, it creates serious health risks.

Dosing

Sleeves are very popular in food, beverage, Chemical and pharmaceutical industry because they can act as tamper-evident labels. By slipping a sleeve over the container, it automatically covers and seals the cap. Therefore, you can combine protection (tamper-evident) and brand identity (labeling) in one step, saving money and time. A hot air tunnel is a great choice for tamper evident application as well as for the transparent label for very small products such as mascara or creams.


<h2>Forming tamper-evident labels using hot air</h2>
The TAL is a hot air tunnel designed by Scaligera that uniformly shrinks sleeves around containers while exposed to hot air. The shape and size of the container and the sleeve you want to apply are conditions in choosing the right shrink tunnel.

After loosely applying a sleeve on a container with a sleeve applicator, the shrinking process begins, and containers are moved on the conveyor into the shrink tunnel. Hot air is injected by a heater and blown onto the sleeve that covers the container. The hot air shrinks the sleeve which adheres evenly to the container and takes its shape. The numbers of heaters can vary from two to ten. Furthermore, they can be manually adjusted in height and inclination according to your needs.

Hot air tunnel for shrink sleeve labels

Labels provide customers with important information about both your product and your brand. Different labeling technology attaches the printed film to the packaging using a range of methods such as shrink wrapping, side sealing, and adhesives. For added traceability and protection, you may also use serialization coding equipment and anti-tampering labeling systems.

Labeling

When it comes to the option of applying sleeves or film on a container without wrinkles or imperfections, steam tunnels provide the right answer. Compared to other shrink tunnels such as infrared tunnels, steam tunnels provide the most uniform heat distribution due to the 360° application of heat around the container at low temperature – steam is also the least aggressive heat compared to the other heat sources. Steam tunnels can handle many products of various shapes and sizes in a short time, thus resulting in cost and time effectiveness.


<h2>Shrinking wrappers on a container using steam</h2>
The TVPSE is a steam tunnel designed by Scaligera to shrink sleeves uniformly around containers when they are exposed to steam. The shape and size of the container and the sleeve you want to apply are conditions in choosing the right shrink tunnel. Among all different types of the shrink tunnels, the steam tunnel is the most used, as it is suitable for most sleeve-label applications. Specifically, it is great for full sleeve application. Given the flexibility and thus countless varieties in sleeves is it a great solution for all kind of industries, such as for example the cosmetic, food, beverage, pharmaceutical or chemical industry.

After loosely applying a sleeve on a container with a sleeve applicator, the shrinking process begins. Containers are moved down the conveyor into the shrink tunnel that uses steam as the selected source of heat for shrinking the sleeve on the container. The steam tunnel is provided with one to ten chambers according to the production speed and type of products. In each chamber there are regulation and distribution cells which serve to distribute the steam to the exact point where you want to shrink the sleeve. This regulation step makes the steam process very precise. For faster format changes, the TVPSE can be fitted with optional external devices. These devices allow the cells to be adjusted from the outside without having to open the chambers.

Steam tunnel for shrink sleeve labels

Shrink sleeves are new type of full-colour labels that give the opportunity to create a 360-degree branding on your product. If you want to apply them on a container, what you need is a shrink sleeve applicator. A shrink sleeve labeling machine that could handle and wrap different container forms would be an ideal solution, even when your container has an unusual shape or size. Additionally, if flexibility is something you are looking for, it is important that the machine is suitable for all types of label applications (body, half body, full body, underlap, temper evident and multipack).


<h2>Applying sleeve labels above, under or around various containers</h2>
The Sleeve Applicator ULISSE is a machine designed by Scaligera to apply shrink sleeve labels onto different containers. The machine is suitable to cover many different types of containers such as tin, can, PET or glass bottles, plastic or glass jars, cups, kegs or even products or containers that have a special and irregular form. These labels are used in a wide variety of industries such as beverage, food, home and personal care, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and chemical.

The shrink sleeve labels are fed in the machine by reels in the form of a continuous tape. The number of reels will depend on the capacity of the machine. The ULISSE offers different models that can have one or several reels. A roller system called ‘dancer’ will keep the film under tension as it moves towards the rotary cutting head. The head is fitted with rotary blades that cut the tape forming the sleeves. According to the capacity, the ULISSE can be provided with one cutting head (20.000-22.000 bph) or two cutting heads (30.000-55.0000 bph). Meanwhile, the containers are conveyed one by one under the rotary cutting head by a single or double screw. Screws are the most used separators for conveying the containers, but based on product features, you can also opt for side motorized belts (for unstable products). When the sleeve is formed, it is slipped over the container in a loose way. Using a steam or hot air tunnel, the sleeve shrinks due to the heat or steam obtaining the shape of container, fitting properly.

Creating one seamless continuous roll between two different reels (splicing process) is always manual, except when there are 4 or 6 reels to connect. In that case, splicing can be automatic. The capacity of ULISSE varies depending on the model. Production speed ranges from 2.000 up to 55.000 bph.

Shrink sleeve labeling machine

Palletised loads need to be securely wrapped in order to protect them from shifting, crushing, ripped or loose packing, water damage or infestation.


<h2>Stabilise and fully cover any palletised product load</h2>
The Paglierani stretch hooding machine applies a protective top cover to bags, bundles and boxes on pallets. Holding unstable loads together, the palletised load is totally covered in seconds by the automatic process.

The fully stainless steel construction is Italian designed, yet strong and suitable for the most aggressive environments.

Stretch pallet hooder

Bagging is the process of packaging measured portions of a product into bags that protect it from spoilage, enable easy and safe transportation, and secure the product against tampering and pilferage. The choice of bagging equipment depends on the desired mass or volume per bag, the flow characteristics of the product, and bag construction and design. Bags vary in size from small sachets to bulk flexible containers. Bagging systems are often the last processing step that is generally integrated into a production line.

Bagging

With a combined system you can help free up valuable real-estate, optimize your packing processes, reduce running costs, and increase your capacity. And all with the additional benefits of proven reliability, efficiency and a high level of automation.


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The Gemini range from OCME combines the functions of shrink-wrap packers with those of wraparound packers to provide a flexible system with the capacity to supply various pack configurations on the same packaging line. With the Gemini machines, 4 main pack types may be processed; loose containers or multipacks in wraparound cardboard, trays with or without film, and multipacks (in bundles or cardboard) in film only packs.

Combined wraparound and shrink-wrap packer

Biscuits are confectionery products that contain mostly flour, which you mix and bake with other ingredients as sweet or savory snacks. Biscuit production involves four primary processes: mixing, forming, baking, and cooling. For you to perform these processes, you need basic biscuit processing equipment, including mixers, molders/cutters, and ovens.

Biscuits

People have always loved butter. Suffice it to say that Ancient Norsemen were buried with it to take to the afterlife. It seems impossible but making butter is all about separation. First, you separate the raw milk to get the buttercream using a cream separator. After cooling, mixing and pasteurizing your buttercream, the churning process separates it into buttermilk and butter grains. Then, mix butter grains with salt and use a butter churner to mix the ingredients again, before shaping begins using butter molds. Which butter-making equipment can improve your process?

Butter

“A party without cake is just a meeting.” America's beloved chef, Julia Child, couldn't have been more right. Nowadays, cakes are a blaze of colors and flavors and it's amazing to think that it only takes a few basic ingredients and steps to make them. Mix fat, flour, eggs, sugar, water and salt to make the batter. After baking and cooling it, let your imagination run wild when it comes to toppings, fillings, and decorations.

Cakes

It’s important to get timing and temperature right when making caramel, and this implies being vigilant. For small scale production of caramel, ensure that your heat source distributes heat evenly and monitor the caramelization process closely. This prevents recrystallization and burning the sugar. For medium to large scale caramel production, consider investing in automated caramel making equipment.

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Caramel

Chocolate bars are popular snacks and gifts for many occasions and events, dating back to the Mayans and the Aztecs. They may also include other ingredients such as caramel, fruits, or nuts. Considering making chocolate bars? Make sure, though, that your chocolate bar making equipment can cover various processes such as grinding and melting, tempering, refining, and cooling.

Chocolate bars

Bonbons are chocolate confectioneries originating from the French royal court in the 17th century. From the French word bon meaning “good”, bonbons are chocolate candies with a filling inside, usually fruits, brittle, nougat, or caramel. Equipment for chocolate bonbons are varied and must be capable of chocolate tempering, molding, scraping, filling, and covering.

Chocolate bonbons

What does a $300,000 burger taste like? Meat. The first lab-grown burger took two years and 20,000 strands of muscle tissue to produce. But with rapid advances in cultivated meat processing technology, non-animal meat alternative products can now take a lot shorter to prepare. And cost much less.

Cultivated meat

Aphrodite’s Rock, the Limassol Carnival, and the Tomb of the Kings are defining features of Cyprus. But perhaps nothing characterizes the Mediterranean island as well as halloumi. The salty, springy cheese has been a staple of Cypriot homes for centuries. But halloumi production technology is now bringing this delicacy to others far away from the region.

Halloumi

It's always a good time to eat chocolate, but let's face it... During Easter time, it's even more impossible to resist those millions of chocolate figures popping up on the shelves like chocolate eggs or cute chocolate bunnies. But have you ever wondered how the hollow chocolate molding takes place?

Hollow figures

Sweets, candies, ice lolly, confection, lollypop, and even popsicles - lollipops, the hard candies attached to a short stick, go by different names. While choosing your lollipop equipment now is very different from the time of its creation, back in 1908, the opportunities to differentiate the product in the market are wider.

Lollipops

Choosing efficient, fast and specialty medical devices manufacturing equipment is just one of the steps involved in their production. From ideation to execution, producers need to mind the devices’ quality and comply with strict regulations, for example the FDA in the United States, integrated within the healthcare environment. And don’t forget to think about customer-centered, convenient, updated and accessible solutions.

Medical devices

Mineral water is mother nature’s cocktail of dissolved solids. The concentration of essential chemicals in the water makes it an excellent source of nutrients and electrolytes. Although your bottled product retains most of the properties present at its natural condition, the water still needs some help before it can be safely consumed.

Mineral water

With consumerism comes great responsibility. More and more are switching their diet towards vegan and vegetarian alternatives, varying from dairy to meat. As more plant-based meat technologies are being invented, the production is rising in popularity. Ever wondered which challenges come with that?

Plant-based meat

In NASA's early years, a research program was established on how to provide food for astronauts while in space. In fact, in the 1960s, nutrition bars were launched with a label called "Space Food Sticks" because they were designed to allow astronauts to eat them easily while wearing their helmets. Protein bar manufacturing equipment is used to mix ingredients, extrude the mixture at a set temperature, cool the product before cutting it to size, coating it, and allowing it to cool to prepare it for packaging.

Protein bars

Rice cakes are a versatile, low-calorie, fiber-rich food consumed in many cultures either as a dish, like in Asian countries or as a healthy snack. Rice cake production and properties come in a wide range of varieties, and it’s important to have rice cake making equipment that can accommodate the manufacturing of all of them.

Rice cakes

Salad dressing has found its way onto dinner plates for millennia as a quick way to liven up leafy dishes. Experimentation with oil, vinegar, wine, salt, and other ingredients developed into the broad selection of dressings we enjoy today. Through a process of emulsifying the basic formula, adding additional elements, and then bottling and labeling the final mixture, consumers have easy access to reliable tastes on demand.

Salad dressing

Despite only one letter difference, silicon and silicone are two different things. While silicon is the 14th chemical element on the periodic table, silicone is a synthetic material that, among other chemical elements, contains silicon. Although commonly observed as plastic, technically silicone is rubber. Among others, silicone processing equipment mainly involves several high-temperature machines, mixers and molds.

Silicone

Originally developed as medicinal remedies, soft drinks quickly burst into a whole new category of non-alcoholic beverages. To make a soft drink, simply dissolve one part syrup into five parts water. For extra punch, add carbon dioxide to turn the mixture into a fizzy drink.

Soft drinks

Stock cubes, also known as bouillon cubes or broth cubes, have been used in cooking for centuries. Think that, the first written version of a stock cube comes from Anne Blencowe’s recipe book from 1694. Made of dehydrated vegetables or meat stock, the bouillon cube production line consists of mixers, homogenizers, cube forming machines and packaging machines.

Stock cubes

Yogurt makers start with raw milk from animals like cows and goats and produce yogurt by standardizing milk, reducing fat content and increasing total solids before pasteurizing to remove harmful bacteria. After pasteurization, the milk undergoes homogenization to make it smoother and more consistent. The milk then receives yogurt cultures, and the product undergoes a fermentation process. Finally, you can cool and refrigerate the yogurt and prepare it for packing.

Yogurt

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