SPOTLIGHT: KLIKLOK
Packaging efficiency & reliability Reliable machinery manufacturer Kliklok have a number of new additions to their range
With over 60 successful years in the packaging machinery industry, Kliklok International has built an enviable reputation for quality and durability. Their range of automatic product loading and cartoning equipment offers food companies a strong combination of efficiency and reliability.
Race Track system, which created considerable interest from food companies at the recent PPMA exhibition. The CRL is a flexible machine
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ideally suited to handle the output from low to high speed machines, such as wrappers, and collate wrapped products into cartons or trays at up to 600 products per minute, with a maximum load of 3kg. The CRL incorporates advanced design electronic motion control technology and a robotic Flex Picker. Three versions of the CRL are
available depending on speed and tracking distance requirements, with optional modules such as a Carton Management System which allows cartons to be either indexed into place or to be continuously moving while being loaded. User-friendly innovative recipe-
driven menus are accessed from Kliklok’s Insight®
colour touch
screen to ensure fast change over between product styles, sizes and collations. This also offers superior troubleshooting capability, advanced servo diagnostics and a complete digital manual. Another addition to Kliklok’s
likok’s newest innovation is the new Collating Robotic Loader (CRL) (right) and
range of product handling equipment is the Cascade Loading System, introduced last year to complement Kliklok’s wide range of end load and top load cartoning equipment. This stand-alone unit has a top
speed of 120 products per minute, and is designed to feed bags or sachets in singles or collated stacks
quick change over. This operator- friendly screen also enables fully adjustable drop timing and conveyor speed adjustment. A particularly interesting
development in the food packaging industry has been the huge growth in the chilled convenience food market. Kliklok’s successful CERTIWRAP®
CERTIWRAP® cartoners have been
proven to efficiently handle a wide range of economically shaped sleeves, with the added ability to incorporate features such as product retention, tamper evidence and ‘upright’ shelf-ready display. Since its launch, the
CERTIWRAP® range has introduced range of wraparound
a variety of new infeed systems to accommodate the growing variation in product types: side chains for regular shaped products, scrolls for round tubs or pots, ‘smartbelt’ for frozen ready meals or pizzas, and a stacking infeed for multiple layers of product. Similarly, to accommodate a
wide variety of products for end load cartoning, such as ready meals, cereal bags, confectionery, biscuits & frozen food, Kliklok also offers a choice of infeeds for their best-selling SFR and award- winning CELOX end load cartoners (above left). This ranges from simple conveyor extensions to fully automatic re-orientating, conditioning, transfer and stacking units. With the benefits of rapid size
using a timed three-stage vertical drop rotor system. The products can be dropped either into the moving flights of an end load cartoner infeed, or directly into a top load carton as part of a forming, filling and closing line. Standard features include an icon
based colour touch screen, to enable easy recipe-style product listings and selectable multi-collations for
sleeving machines (above right) has brought an innovative solution to the needs of the fast moving chilled foods sector. More and more ready meal producers & packers are using ‘watch strap’ style carton board sleeves. This not only enables the consumer to view the product itself, but also represents a growing commitment to reducing packaging material. Given these criteria,
change ability, easy access, user- friendly touch screen technology, plus the option to run end load cartons and five-crease sleeves on the same machine – the SFR and the CELOX provide the flexibility and versatility needed in a demanding production environment.
Kliklok International, Western Drive, Hengrove Park Estate, Whitchurch, Bristol BS14 0AY Tel: +44 1275 836131
m.tatum@kliklok-int.com www.kliklok-int.com
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