In addition to sales packaging, which needs to be attractive and leak-proof, machine manufacturer Hugo Beck, based near Stuttgart, also focuses on packaging for transport. The company specialises in highly automated solutions.
21 August 2020
Ten milk drinks are shrink-wrapped on each tray.
In addition to sales packaging, which needs to be attractive and leak-proof, machine manufacturer Hugo Beck, based near Stuttgart, also focuses on packaging for transport. The company specialises in highly automated solutions in particular, where the machines have to run around the clock with maximum availability 365 days a year.
A well-known company in the dairy industry has once again opted for the company's solutions for round-the-clock use and has invested in two new lines: These take over cardboard trays filled with plastic cups for the production of transport packaging at an output of 50 cycles/minute. The products come from the upstream system at irregular intervals and are first clocked in for transfer to the machine.
The machine requires virtually no operating personnel - firstly due to the use of the travelling transverse sealing unit for a continuous process and secondly thanks to the use of large flat film rolls.
Continuous flow-wrapping machine Servo X 5 with longitudinal sealing for an output of up to 5,000 cycles per hour.
In contrast to the attractive packaging that is presented on the sales shelf, it is particularly important for this transport packaging that the usually heavier product containers are Packed for reliable production arrive at the shop undamaged and easily unpacked can be realised. In order to fulfil these requirements, a solution with Ionisation of the film in the longitudinal area the best choice. In contrast to other longitudinal sealing systems, there are no film waste strips that have to be disposed of and cause the machine to come to a standstill.
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Polyolefin and polyethylene films are used as packaging materials. The 50 trays, which are shrink-wrapped per minute in the application, are each filled with ten milk drinks with a length of around 400 millimetres. For other applications, packaging machines with an output of up to 300 cycles/minute are available from the company's portfolio.
Timo Kollmann
„Today, companies that need to automate and are looking for machine equipment that requires little manpower are investing in particular. This is where our company scores with reliable machine solutions, where the operator hardly needs to intervene,“ says Timo Kollmann, Sales Manager of Hugo Beck Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, Dettingen.
Cross-industry solutions
Hugo Beck not only offers machines for bagging and shrinking for sales or transport packaging, but also has many years of experience in the flowpack sector. Machine solutions are available for almost all applications, featuring intelligent servo technology and maximum modularity of all components as well as reliable interlinking with upstream and downstream production units. Only by perfectly integrating the machine into the overall line can a smooth workflow be guaranteed and a high level of customer satisfaction achieved.
The machines are equipped with side or bottom cut-off welding, top or bottom overlap, with or without sealing (here with longitudinal welding).
Technical highlights of the film packaging machines
The following can be used different types of packaging such as side sealing, top or bottom overlap sealing, ionisation or separating sealing. Regardless of the product and dimensions, an optimum packaging result is achieved with a wide variety of films, whether thin films for sales packaging with or without target printing or extremely hard-wearing films for transport packaging.
There are numerous possibilities for equipping the technology with options such as perforation for easy opening, feeders for dispensing or inserting leaflets, for example, tear strips, automatic film changers and hanging packaging. The product is fed manually or automatically at regular or irregular intervals using High-speed synchronisation.
Servo axis control, motion control and Siemens Sinamics of the latest generation ensure Reproducible results and Maximum availability in three-shift operation. All machines are characterised by a touchscreen with extremely simple operator guidance via Copilot and product data memory for child's play operation plus maximum service and maintenance friendliness.
[infotext icon]Packaging machine specialist Hugo Beck With 110 employees, the company designs and produces machines for the Horizontal packaging in film. In addition to the flowpack machines for packaging with a „fin seam“, which are used in particular in the pharmaceutical and food industries, Hugo Beck has been selling film packaging machines for bagging and shrink-wrapping worldwide for more than 60 years.
