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Fleetguard's integrated solution

During Pack Expo Las Vegas held in late September, Pro Mach’s booth included a U-shaped packaging line that will be installed in December 2005 at Nashville, TN-based Fleetguard Inc., a leading provider of industrial filtration products.

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Pro Mach is the single-source provider for the highly automated new line used to case, label, and palletize Fleetguard’s wide range of industrial oil filters. Packaging World learned that the equipment had not been preassembled, but was installed together as a complete line for the first time at the show (for further details, see packworld.com/go/c151).

Fleetguard’s wide range of industrial oil filters vary in size and weigh from 2-lb to 5.3-lb each. The system uses equipment from Pro Mach divisions Wexxar Packaging, Belcor, Brenton Engineering, and ID Technology. The system includes two robots provided by Brenton. One robot transfers the filters from infeed flights into the erected cases near the start of the line and a second robotic system at the end of the line palletizes the packed, sealed, and labeled cases.

Fleetguard engineer Philip Bryant says the Pro Mach line will increase line speeds from 23 to 50 filters per minute and improve ergonomics—a packed case can weigh 40 lb—yet use the same footprint as its previous system.

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