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Colomer Italy gains filling, contract packaging efficiencies

Hair color producer improves OEE and contract manufacturing capabilities by repositioning its tube-filling line directly underneath the mixing vessels.

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Italian cosmetics firm Colomer Italy recently extended its production capacities with a new space allocation strategy. Part of the Spanish Colomer Group, Colomer specializes in the production and processing of hair colors. As part of a modernization project at its Bologna site, a Romaco Unipac U 20100 tube filling line was installed underneath the processing equipment.

In the future, the colors can be fed directly from the mixing vessels to the dosing unit of the tube-filling machine. That is especially practical for filling shear-sensitive products, which have to be processed gently. Alternatively, the product solution can be stored temporarily in special tanks before being transferred to the inlet hopper of the tube filler.

The Unipac machine has operated in line with a Promatic PC 4200 cartoner at Colomer Italy since 2005. Now the unit is mainly used to fill Colomer's premium “Revlonissimo” and “Voilà” hair colors. The company's intensified positioning in the contract-packaging sector has broadened the Colomer product range. That requires the company to be able to adapt quickly to accommodate different products.

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