Multipacking |
See video of multipacks of glass cleaner on Arpac’s versatile TS37 with interchangeable horizontal and vertical sealing. This system is wrapping these multipack with a vertical seal for high quality package display.
Not all multipacks are created equal—neither from a consumer nor a production standpoint. Depending on a company’s resources, desired throughput, and marketing goals, choosing the multipack style best suited to an operation can mean the difference between a profitable venture and a multipack misstep that doesn’t deliver the desired return, according to a new White Paper from Roberts PolyPro.
This white paper from Wexler Packaging Products outlines the ways in which banding offers energy conservation, material savings and waste reduction. In addition, find out which new enhancements are occurring all the time, making banding a state-of-the-art method for enhancing a packaging operation.
Italy’s Brescia Milk Depot debuts Braille via hot-melt adhesive dots applied to shrink-sleeved milk bottles.
If stacking strength is essential, consider cartons. But when thick-film packs with carrying strength and message flexibility are key, bundle wraps are an emerging option.
Brought in-house to save the costs of copacking, a new, fully automated packaging line for Ace Paint fills paint-sample containers at 50/min with minimal operator intervention.
Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line at contract packager Brecon Pharmaceuticals in Wales.
Snack maker King Nut upgrades X-ray inspection systems used for metal detection on multipacks of single-serve bags of airline snacks.
Primary packaging of Bifi snacks isn’t the only operation that has been upgraded through automation at Unilever’s Ansbach plant. Multipacking of unit packs into multipacks also took a step forward about a year ago when a Model CP5.14.14/S vertical form/fill/seal system from Hastamat (www.hastamat.com) was installed.
Before you purchase shrink wrapping or shrink bundling equipment, download this white paper from Arpac to learn about how servo technology can improve such equipment.
Six servo-driven shrink-bundling machines help a pickle company transition out of corrugated reshippers and into tray packing.
Pharmaceutical maker Apotex works in concert with systems integrator to assure its packaging operations will meet customer demands at least through the year 2010.
Last September, Tokyo, Japan-based Kirin Beverage Corp. introduced its’ “Fire”- brand canned coffees to two supermarket chains in Tokyo and Osaka.

New for 2008, Cavanna adds continuous motion carton transport and tight integration with flow wrapping to its highly successful G35 series 'robotic island' along with a new OEE system offering.
A robotic solution lets Necco put its popular Sweethearts Conversation Hearts on a fast track to greater throughput at higher speeds with reduced labor costs.

The odd shapes and sizes of tubes have always been a challenge to package. Watch this patented automatic pick-and-place loading system feed a completely automated tube multipacking process.
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