YEAR END REVIEW
Double coated Metsä Board
launched two new double- coated Kemiart kraftliners to give POS displays and retail-ready
packaging richer colours and enhanced gloss. Metsä Board, one of the global market leaders in coated white top kraftliners, launched two new double- coated grades: Kemiart Graph+ and Kemiart Lite+. The
double coating provides a smoother and glossier surface, enhancing printability with improved ink laydown, brighter colours and more accurate detail. The new grades are ideal for retail-ready packaging, point-of-sale and promotional displays and other high- end packaging applications. Kemiart Graph+ has been developed for flexo preprint, as well as offset, screen and water-based inkjet printing; Kemiart Lite+ is designed for flexo postprint. Made from fresh forest fibres, they have good consistency for smooth running. For further information please telephone +358 (0) 10 46 11 or visit
www.metsaboard.com
Receptive topcoats
and overprint varnishes At DSCOOP EMEA, in Barcelona, Spain (Nov. 7-9), Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH), introduced its new, comprehensive range of digital print receptive topcoats, as well as new overprint coatings designed for HP Indigo digital printing platforms in its PurekoteTM and PureRadTM coatings product lines. Kelly Williams, Global Industry Manager, packaging adhesives and coatings, Ashland Performance Materials commented, “our commitment to the packaging, label and wide web converting segments has resulted in exciting comprehensive new product lines Purekote and PureRad coatings to fill an important growth gap in the digital market.” Ashland Performance Materials’ packaging and converting division produces the coating and adhesive technologies you need – above, below and in between the substrate. Ashland’s range of radiation curable, water-based, and solvent-free two-component urethanes cover a comprehensive selection of products for the packaging, converting and label markets. Ashland Performance Materials is a global leader in unsaturated polyester resins and vinyl ester resins. In addition, it provides customers with leading technologies in gelcoats, pressure- sensitive and structural adhesives, coatings and elastomers. For more information call +31 10 497-5529 or email
jknoblach@ashland.com.
Kliklok
demonstrates equipment
During a series of open days held in September, Kliklok demonstrated their 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. The Collating Robotic Loader is an innovative flexible machine, suited to handle the output from low to high-speed machines 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 end load cartoner, offering a short footprint, with patented rotary
CERTIWRAP
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 demonstrated the CELOX model. Kliklok has installed several of these machines to pack a variety of products such as flow wrapped burgers, muffins, and pizzas. To accommodate the huge variation in today’s 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 Loader, 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 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 worldwide to sleeve a variety of products with many different carton styles being used. For example, a “watch-strap” style
Collating Robotic Loader
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. For more information call + 44 (0)1275 836131, email
m.newman@
kliklok-int.com or visit
www.kliklok-int.com.
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