AFA Systems: Vertical autoload cartoner

AFA Systems introduces the VC-VCA–Vertical Autoload Cartoner for liquor bottles featuring dual rotary feeder carton erectors to feed cartons at 300 cpm. The rotary feeder can handle glue, tuck, or auto-bottom carton closures.

AFA Systems Ltd.

Sep 6th, 2018

VC-VCA–Vertical Autoload Cartoner

VC-VCA–Vertical Autoload Cartoner

Bottles come on a single lane to the cartoner, and a servo-driven carousel loading system will securely grip bottles and top load into the open carton. No carton, no load feature is standard on the system and rejected bottles are conveniently placed onto a reject conveyor to remove from the machine.

An Allen Bradley ControlLogix Control System provides increased performance, capacity, productivity, and security to help meet end users manufacturing goals. All major actuations on the system are controlled by servo motors and drives. A Festo pneumatics package is standard on the VC-VCA. The machine features a robust frame that reduces component vibration and ensures 24/7 operation. Remote trouble-shooting features can be included for remote programming support.

AFA Systems Ltd.

Straw Former/Wrapper

IMA Group’s machinery line for producing paper straws consists of the SF-150 forming machine and SW-2000 wrapping machine.

Immersive Virtual Experience 2020

Premier Tech Offers Virtual Tour of Its Headquarters

Premier Tech’s Immersive Virtual Tour allows individuals to visit its world headquarters in Rivière-du-Loup, Qc, Canada from the comfort of their homes and offices.

Automatic Pallet Stacker

Qimarox introduces the Prorunner mk10-PS automatic stacker for loaded pallets designed to create more than 60 pallet stacks/hr.

Dual Hp To Seamless Merge By Multi Conveyor Low Res

Dual Lane Hand-Pack to Single File Merge Maximizes Production

Multi-Conveyor recently built a dual lane hand-pack line, made up of a series of small conveyor sections, all joined by seamless transfers, that manually feed a new merging section to further semi-automate for one of its customers.

Exair Super Air Knife

Air Knife

Exair’s Super Air Knife is suitable for blowoff, cleaning, drying, and cooling parts in industrial applications, as well as acting as an environmental separator or air curtain.

Somic Pe Connects Machine

Case Packer

Somic America launches the SOMIC 424 retail ready bottle case packer designed to run a variety of pet care products in blow molded bottles with pull spouts or trigger sprayers.

Metal Detector Conveyor Systems

Eriez added 6- and 18-in. belt sizes for its Xtreme metal detector conveyor systems with automatic rejects.

One case packer receives cartons from one of two different robotic cartoning systems.

Nestle Purina’s ‘Most Modern’ Packaging Operation

Sophisticated use of robotics is the key to this impressive cartoning and case-packing line for 85-g tins of cat food in 4, 8-, 12-, and 24-count cartons.

Refurbished Equipment

Eriez Adds Refurbished Processing Equipment Feature to Website

The new feature allows customers to view the refurbished equipment currently available from Eriez.

Packaging operations at Pelican include a full canning line and a full bottling line, each capped by its own combination stretch wrapper/palletizer.

Craft Brewer Grows into Two-In-One Palletizer, Stretch Wrapper

Automation often begets more automation. That was certainly the case with Pelican Brewing Co., whose fast filling operations soon necessitated end-of-line palletization.

The Brenton RP1000 robotic palletizer with integrated Orion MADX stretch wrapper.

Robotics Integration in End-of-Line Packaging

Showing how various modules can be integrated into a packaging line with robotic capabilities, Brenton highlighted innovations in case packing and linear servo tracks.

The Packsize Scan2Pack

New Automated 3D Dimensioning System for On Demand Packaging

The new Scan2Pack from Packsize uses a customizable laser light curtain to scan products, gathering dimensional data to create right-sized shipping cases on its converting machines.

Liquid Atomizing Spray Nozzle

Exair’s 3/8 NPT FullStream liquid atomizing spray nozzle provides a full cone spray pattern for pressurized liquids.

RSC Case Erecting and DRC Case Forming in One Machine

Fallas combines the features of its case erector for pre-formed, pre-glued cases with its plunge-style case former for flat blanks to enable RSCs, Display Ready Cases, beer trays, and other case/tray styles to be created on one machine.

Shawn Cheney, Chief Controls Engineer at Pearson Packaging Systems,

End-of-Line Automation: Risk Reduction Through Digital Twin Technology

See how digital twin technology can speed design and concept level processes for risk reduction and faster machine development solutions.

The form, fit, and function is combined with the specialized design and selection of the materials for each application.

Modular and Specialty Conveyors at PACK EXPO Connects

Modular conveyors for reduced downtime and hybrid system made for specialized design to accommodate customer needs.

This top-load carton former from Syntegon Kliklok made its debut at PACK EXPO Connects.

ACE Carton Former Debuts

The Kliklok ACE (Advanced Carton Erector) topload carton former made its North American debut at PACK EXPO Connects 2020.

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Paperboard Can Handle Applicator

This modular paperboard can handle applicator accommodates latest in aluminum can and beverage trends.

At PACK EXPO Connects, Hamrick Packaging Systems introduced a number of innovative case packing solutions.

Re-brand for Hamrick

Proud of being a family-owned firm in a world of acquisition, Hamrick Packaging Systems (formerly Hamrick Manufacturing & Service, Inc.) took advantage of PACK EXPO Connects to highlight its new identity.

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High-Speed Pallet Wrappers

With a standard 260% load stabilizing pre-stretch, the MA-DX2 incorporates a second rotary arm and film carriage on the opposite side of the load.

More in Secondary/end-of-line

A feature at the Delkor booth during PACK EXPO Connects was a case packer having remarkable versatility.

Versatile Case Packer

The Performance Case Packer is a case and tray packer designed and engineered with key performance features in mind, including pick-and-place gantry and an innovative infeed system to reach loading speeds up to 250 containers/min.

Aagard at PACK EXPO Connects highlighted a new case packer that uses the Rockwell iTrak technology to deliver remarkable versatility.

Variety Case Packing

Aagard at PACK EXPO Connects described how they solved one customer’s business challenge by developing an automated case packing system that produces variety packs in up to 4,000 configurations.

The HL2200 high-level palletizer from Columbia Machine

Compact High-Level Palletizer

Flexible conventional palletizer can handle a wide variety of package types and is equipped with Columbia Machine’s industry-leading safety and guarding system for next-level protection.

CH-100 Tamper Band Applicators are designed with stepper motor driven, single film unwind with tension control, cutter assembly, and pneumatic cylinder to provide accurate and consistent tamper band application.

Tamper Evident Banding

With SNAPCUT, agri-food manufacturers are sure to get a functional tool, tailored to their PET, machine, and process.

Multipack Pre-Cutting System

With this reliable PET pre-cutting solution, Synerlink offers a more sustainable alternative to PS for all existing Form/Fill/Seal machines as well as future models.

Ambaflex used PACK EXPO Connects to highlight its single-belt accumulation system.

FIFO Spiral Accumulation

AmbaFlex, which supplies a broad range of product platforms for packaging, bottling, and logistics applications, used PACK EXPO Connects to showcase its AccuVeyor AVh.

At PACK EXPO Connects, Syntegon showcased its latest intelligent and efficient technologies, including advanced customer services and a variety of digital solutions.

Advances in Pharma

At PACK EXPO Connects, Syntegon showcased its latest intelligent and efficient technologies, including advanced customer services and a variety of digital solutions.

MGS used PACK EXPO Connects to talk about their machinery and line integration capabilities in the life sciences field.

Medical Device Packaging

Specialists in supplying packaging and automation solutions to the Life Sciences Industry, MGS took advantage of PACK EXPO Connects to talk about a remarkably integrated line supplied recently to a medical device manufacturer.

At PACK EXPO Connects, Industry 4.0 concepts were on full display at the Cama show room.

Virtualization to the Rescue

Cama Group used PACK EXPO Connects as an opportunity to demonstrate the impressive progress they’ve made in terms of getting their machinery Industry 4.0-ready.

BW Integrated Systems identified an opportunity to add a smaller, more flexible high-level case palletizer to its product portfolio.

Maximus Mid-Speed Case Palletizer

With its new palletizer debuting at PACK EXPO Connects, BW Integrated Systems meets growing demands for a flexible, high-level case palletizer with a smaller footprint aimed at the 30-70 case-per-min. speed range.

The ERX-15 Automatic Case Erector designed to efficiently form and seal the bottom of corrugated cases in a single pass.

Entry-Level Case Erector Offers Efficient Alternative to Manual

The ERX-15 is designed to keep production and maintenance efforts at a minimum while providing fast, efficient case erecting, making the ERX-15 an ideal alternative to manual case forming.

Rite Hite Defender Cell

Automated Door and Fencing Safety Cell

The unit combines two perimeter safety products into a single four-sided safety compartment that keeps employees and potential bystanders safe around common automated processes.