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PRODUCT INNOVATIONS SPOTLIGHT: KLIKLOK Kliklok demonstrates


equipment Kliklok held a series of open days in September at the company’s premises in Bristol


Among the equipment being demonstrated was Kliklok’s Collating Robotic Loader and Race Track system, fully integrated with its SFR end load cartoner, automatically picking, grouping and packing collations of flow wrapped cereal bars at up to 150 cartons per minute.


handle the output from low to high-speed machines (such as flow wrappers) and collate wrapped products into cartons or trays at up to 600 products per minute. It incorporates advanced design electronic motion control technology using a combination of servo motor drives and a robotic Flex Picker. The SFR is Kliklok’s best selling


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end load cartoner, offering a short footprint, with patented rotary carton feeder, interactive colour touch screen and easy, repeatable size change for maximum productivity. For those wanting to see a


higher speed, higher specification end load cartoner, Kliklok was able to demonstrate the CELOX model. This award-winning machine continues to lead the way in the competitive and demanding world of food packaging. In recent months, Kliklok has installed several of these machines to pack a variety of products like flow wrapped burgers, muffins, cupcakes, crackers, pizzas and biscuits. To accommodate the huge


variation in today’s growing food industry, Kliklok offers a choice of product infeed systems for both the SFR and CELOX cartoners. This ranges from simple conveyor extensions to fully automatic re- orientating, conditioning, transfer and stacking units. One of these product-handling systems is Kliklok’s Cascade


he Collating Robotic Loader is an innovative flexible machine, ideally suited to


Loader, which was also being demonstrated during the open days. 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 using a timed three-stage vertical drop rotor system. The products can be dropped


either into the moving flights of an end load cartoner’s 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 quick change over. This operator-friendly screen also enables fully adjustable drop timing and conveyor speed adjustment. One machine demonstration


that proved popular was Kliklok’s CERTIWRAP wraparound cartoner. The company has installed over 70 of these machines throughout the world to sleeve a variety of products with many different carton styles being used. For example, a “watch- strap” style for pizzas; a shaped sleeve for ice cream or snack pots; “stand-up” style for shelf ready display packs; gusseted sleeves for Tetrabottles or beverages; ‘V’ keel style for yoghurts or dessert pots; and traditional full sleeve for ready meals. With a proven history of


expertise and success in automatic packaging machinery, Kliklok’s open days were the perfect opportunity to showcase the company’s impressive range of


equipment to the food industry.  Cascade Loader Collating Robotic Loader


CERTIWRAP


CELOX


Kliklok International Ltd Western Drive, Hengrove Park Estate, Bristol Tel: +44 (0)1275 557537 Fax: +44 (0)1275 89175


Email:M.Newman@kliklok-int.com Web: www.kliklok-int.com


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