Secures Packaging with Versatile Closing Solutions

OMVE’s FS-Series Closing and Sealing Equipment offers a comprehensive line of packaging solutions designed for the food and beverage industry, accommodating everything from small-scale operations to pilot plant settings. This equipment series excels in performing precise closing and sealing, utilizing a flexible system that integrates seamlessly within a production line. It features options such as the FS107 can seamer, FS105 screw cap sealer, FS108 heat sealer, and FS104 crown cork capper, each tailored for specific packaging formats such as beverage cans, PET bottles, HDPE cups, and glass bottles.

The equipment is designed with hygiene in mind, integrating seamlessly into clean-fill systems and counter-pressure fillers. With a focus on energy efficiency, these units offer PLC control for effortless operation and integration, meeting stringent industry standards with CE certification. Built with robust materials to withstand high demands, each unit offers easy cleaning solutions, ideal for maintaining production line efficiency. OMVE supports customization needs, offering engineering support to adjust specifications according to your unique operational requirements.

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Carbonates, Fills, and Seals Canned Beverages

The CF213 and CF214 Carbo-Fill systems from OMVE are engineered for precision carbonation and sealing of canned beverages. These compact units bring industrial-level reliability to small-scale operations by combining carbonation with a built-in can seamer. Designed for versatility, they accommodate both premix and postmix drinks, making them ideal for a wide array of products including sodas, sparkling water, flavored milk, kombucha, and more. With single or dual filling head options, the CF213 and CF214 handle variable throughput needs while ensuring consistent fill levels and CO2 content up to 11g/L. The systems incorporate an advanced Cooling-In-Place (CIP) capability allowing seamless transitions between product runs, thereby minimizing downtime. Constructed from high-grade materials, they offer excellent corrosion resistance and comply with industry standards, ensuring durability and safety across diverse production environments. OMVE supports customization and offers comprehensive service agreements to optimize integration into existing operations, making these systems a vital addition for beverage manufacturers, R&D facilities, and pilot plant operators.

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Fills, Seams, and Caps Beverage Cans

The Modulfill Bloc FS-C from Krones is a can filler-seamer block engineered to enhance the efficiency of beverage production lines. It distinguishes itself with a volumetric filling system and servo-driven control, achieving precise fill levels while minimizing oxygen intake and CO₂ usage, thereby ensuring superior product quality. This equipment is ideal for processing a wide range of beverages, including beers, carbonated drinks, juices, and teas, with the capacity to handle up to 135,000 cans per hour. Its integrated design reduces space requirements and streamlines operations, featuring a common operator interface for seamless control. Energy efficiency is enhanced with a 30% energy savings achieved through advanced servo technology. Maintenance is simplified with optional CIP and foam cleaning systems, supporting high hygiene standards. The system supports quick changeovers, thanks to automatic height adjustment and quick-change handling parts, facilitating flexible production across multiple can formats. Additionally, the Modulfill Bloc FS-C can be configured with a compact clean room for sensitive beverage processing, ensuring compliance with stringent hygiene protocols.

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Seals and Secures Powder-Filled Cans

The SeamTec™ Can Sealer Machine from JBT is engineered for precision sealing of powder-filled cans, offering a robust solution for food and beverage manufacturers. What sets the SeamTec™ apart is its hygienic design, boasting no exposed lubricants to ensure compliance with stringent sanitary standards crucial for sensitive products like infant formula and nutraceuticals. Operating at speeds from 50 to 600 cans per minute, it integrates seamlessly into high-speed production lines with ease. With options for three or six spindles, the machine allows for quick can and cover format changeovers, significantly reducing downtime. The SeamTec™ supports continuous operations and is equipped with optional foreign-particle prevention systems to maintain product purity. Designed for use with metal and composite cans, it excels in applications ranging from powdered milk formula to canned tuna in brine. Comprehensive engineering support is available for customization, and the machine meets rigorous standards necessary for maintaining product safety and quality in diverse manufacturing environments.

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Tracks and Measures Production Variables Efficiently

The Custom Efficiency Management System by JBT Control Systems provides unparalleled precision in tracking and measuring critical production variables within poultry and food processing lines. This proprietary solution stands out with its user-friendly MARS Food Processing Solutions controller, featuring a 7-inch touchscreen for simplified setup and operation. Designed to integrate seamlessly into existing systems, it facilitates continuous, real-time monitoring and custom reporting, empowering operators with actionable insights.

Ideal for diverse applications ranging from processing chicken breasts and ground beef to fresh produce and plant-based proteins, this system ensures high-speed operations while maintaining strict quality standards. Automation is enhanced through PLC control, allowing for remote monitoring and efficient process adjustments. Its robust design promotes energy efficiency, contributing to lower operational costs, and it supports a variety of materials and product types, ensuring compatibility with your specific processing requirements.

With optional customized engineering support, the system can be tailored to fit unique production needs, reinforcing your line’s versatility. Reliable and compliant with industry standards, it facilitates ease of maintenance and cleaning, optimizing uptime and ensuring safe, hygienic production conditions.

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Fills and Seals Canned Food and Beverages

The TwinTec™ Filler & Closer from JBT is engineered to enhance efficiency in high-speed canning operations, featuring seamless integration of filling and closing processes. This monoblock unit excels in applications spanning baby food, beverages, and ready meals, ensuring precise filling and robust sealing of a wide variety of products, including canned coffee, soups, and pet foods. Operating at speeds up to 600 cans per minute, it significantly boosts throughput and operational efficiency.

TwinTec™ technology eliminates the need for an external transfer section between the filler and seamer, thus enhancing food safety and reducing potential contamination points. It offers unparalleled flexibility with options for Unifiller or Vacuum filler setups, accommodating both liquid and solid product types. Its compact design enables easy plug-and-play installation, minimizing floor space requirements while simplifying integration into existing production lines.

Constructed with full-length stainless steel guards and integrated cable trunking, the equipment assures operator safety and dry floor operation. Its low-maintenance design is complemented by a clean-in-place (CIP) system, facilitating quick and easy cleaning. Every TwinTec™ system meets stringent hygiene and safety standards, making it an ideal solution for demanding productions in the food, dairy, and beverage industries. For specialized process requirements, customizable options and comprehensive engineering support are readily available to ensure optimal performance and compliance.

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Seals and Closes Liquid-Filled Cans

The X-52 and X-59 Can Seamers from JBT deliver seamless can sealing solutions for liquid products, tailored for food and beverage industry needs. These machines facilitate high-speed processing, ranging from 100 to 1,500 cans per minute, ensuring consistent seam quality across products like juices, dairy, and sauces. Utilizing power-driven seaming spindles and automated lubrication, these units enhance operational efficiency while minimizing maintenance. With stainless steel construction and an optional wash-in-place system, they cater to stringent hygiene standards, making them ideal for corrosive environments. Integrated with JBT fillers, these seamers provide a synchronized filling and sealing line solution, boosting throughput and reducing waste. Designed with easy-access features, the X-52 and X-59 models offer reliable operation with minimal downtime, supported by JBT’s engineering expertise for any custom requirements.

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Hygienic package 1: Stand base with “sloping” tub

This design features an angled stainless steel drip pan, simplifying liquid drainage and preventing fluid build-up, even during the cleaning process, thanks to a removable exhaust outlet. The newly developed drainage system is more efficient in cleaning the drainage channel.

When using this hygiene package, the bottom of the equipment is upgraded with a tilted stainless steel tray, so the liquids dripping can flow out, reducing potential cross-contamination. In addition, users can disassemble the drainage channel for easy cleaning.

Hygienic package 2: housing and lid made of stainless steel

The top section housing, casing, and lid are 100% stainless steel and feature a fully welded construction. This also allows you to use more efficient chemical cleaners for the top that would otherwise cause corrosion on the painted surfaces.

The design also presents more rounded frames with external seals, which ease the cleaning process.

Hygienic package 3: instrument with improved hygienic design

The can is in contact with the tool parts, so our engineering team paid particular attention to minimizing flat surfaces and optimizing edge radii to keep the risk of contamination low. This also includes the improved stacking cylinder and the use of hygienic screws. The can makes contact with the transfer parts, which must have a hygienic design, minimizing smooth surfaces and an optimized corner radius on the transfer parts to keep contamination as low as possible.

The pneumatic stainless steel cylinder with a “no can, no lid” function allows the use of chemical cleaners in this area. More efficient cleaning thanks to reduced spray shadows. Use of hygienic screws and threaded fittings

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One of the main benefits for users of this equipment is its compliance with higher hygiene standards, as this Co2 exhaust is highly efficient, featuring more significant pressure at the ventilator outlet. + Low MAK (Maximum workplace concentration) concentration around the seamer to keep you and your team safe during operation and cleaning. The exhaust is available as an upgrade bundle for the ferruBasic can seamer

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Reducing slippage problems by using gear driven lower lifters

The SAGA M series (consisting of three machines, available with 4, 6 or 8 spindles) by JK Somme has gear driven lower lifters, allowing to seam thinner metal thickness at higher speeds. Gear driven lower lifters result in an increased capacity of seamed cans per minute and it reduces the slipping of the seaming chuck.

The machine will seam cans with pet food, sliced mango, almond paste or a wide range of other canned products. Seaming with this series can be executed atmospheric, with steam vacuum, undercover gassing, liquid nitrogen dosing or clinching. A filled can made of tinplate or aluminum is placed on a belt and lifted up. During a compression stage, force is provided to hold the can that is being sealed against the seamer chuck. The can is then fed to the first roller while the chuck keeps the lid attached to the can while the seamer turntable moves the can upwards towards the chuck. Vacuum sealing machines suck oxygen from the can and put nitrogen gas in before resuming the sealing process. After this, the lid is put on the can and double seamed by the two rollers. The first roller folds the lids curl towards the flange of the can. The second roller tightens the sealing by compressing the hooks of the lid and the flange of the can.

The machine can handle round cans up to a 99 mm diameter, with heights up to 120 mm. Changing to another can shape is quite fast and can be done manually by unscrewing three main bolts and rotating a pinion located on the roof of the machine, which will move the complete seaming turret as well as the lid feeder till it reaches the desired height. Of the three machines, the 4M can seam up to 300 cans per minute, the 6M will do up to 450 can per minute and the 8M will go up to 600 cans per minute.

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