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Smooth operation

A modified liquid filler helps one commercial skincare products company clean up its act.

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At Cincinnati-based Kutol Products Co., filling bags with foaming hand soap is a whole lot more efficient since the firm replaced its in-line piston filler with a PureFil 1000 filler from HealthStar Inc. (www.healthstaronline.com)

Also eliminated is hand-torquing of manually applied foaming pumps. Instead, a PureCap 500 cap torquer, also from HealthStar, performs the task of torquing.

To fully appreciate this packaging upgrade, it helps to review how things used to be done. First, an operator would attach six pre-made bags to a 30” long holder that Kutol designed in-house. “The bags have a 38/400 opening, which is a good size,” says plant manager Greg Nichols. “But the holder supported them in a position that made filling much easier.”

The filler would index one bag at a time and an operator would hit a foot switch to trigger the piston filler to dispense product. “It was slow and cumbersome,” says Nichols.

Filled bags exited the filler and had a foaming pump dispenser applied by hand. It was also torqued by hand. “That created a problem with people’s wrists,” says Nichols.

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