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Flat case blanks are erected automatically and then sent to the case packing machine from Fallas Automation.

Pasta moves through a Triangle combination scale on its way to the bagging machines.

Massed bottles move into the Krones Variopac tray packer, where they're divided into lanes and then collated and tray packed.

Freshly blown PET bottles are conveyed overhead and then move down to the filler/capper, where a sophisticated system of transfer stars moves them through filling and capping on Krones equipment.

Prior to filling, bottles are inverted and rinsed on equipment from KHS.

Empty bottles are automatically palletized on KHS equipment and then banded.

A stack of knocked-down gift box bottoms and tops are pushed into a center-folded tube of film that provides clarity, as well as puncture and tear-resistance. The tube is side-sealed with two impulse wires. Next, a cross-sealing station employs hot-knife jaws that create a seal between the leading and trailing pack of boxes before cutting in the seal area between the packs. Packs then are conveyed through a heat tunnel. Euipment is supplied by Shanklin.

This continuous-motion bagger from Heat and Control uses patented twin heat-sealing jaws that simultaneously seal the top of the leading pack and the bottom of the subsequent pack. These vf/f/s machines produce 1- to 3-oz bags for vending machine and multi-pack sales, at speeds to 150/min. That rate is three times faster than previous vf/f/s equipment.