Industry News August Faller launches digital folding carton production with PackEx
Packaging manufacturer August Faller has expanded its portfolio by founding a subsidiary which specialises in the production of folding cartons in small and very small batches – PackEx in Worms. Customers can order the desired products online at any time and benefit from short delivery times and significantly reduced operating costs. With the founding of PackEx, August Faller has set itself the goal of meeting the
increasing demand of the packaging market flexibly and economically – for small and very small quantities down to batch size 1. “We pursue an open-industry approach. We do not only serve the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, we also have customers in other sectors, like the consumer goods and food industries,” explains Nikolaus Reichenbach, managing director of PackEx. Customers can place their orders with PackEx on a web-based software solution
and receive the products in just a few days. This is much faster than the several weeks often needed by companies that use conventional production methods. PackEx relies on a largely digital business model and state-of-the-art technologies. Orders are combined in automated processes and printed together on collection sheets.
Fortress launch food metal detector
Fortress Technology has launched a food inspection breakthrough - a metal detector that inspects low profile, high value products vertically and horizontally concurrently high sensitivity. The Interceptor DF (Divergent Field) is a result of the company’s longstanding expertise in metal detection and its more recent development of the two channel, two frequency Interceptor range. “The ability to choose the direction of the inspection field is itself ground- breaking,” says Fortress European managing director Phil Brown. “Performance wise, nothing else on the market comes close to the Interceptor DF when looking for thin, non-spherical metal contaminants in products,” claims Phil. Believed to be the first ever multi-orientation, multi-
scan food metal detector, the Interceptor DF is especially sensitive to very thin metal contaminant flakes and foils that are difficult to detect on low profile foods, including chocolate, confectionery, nutrition bars, cookies and biscuits. The Interceptor DF can also be used to inspect small thin packages of conductive products like cheese and deli-meats with a high value and high market image, for example steak burgers, Parma ham and Parmesan cheese.
Sussex IM reports two years of energy cost savings following Meech investment
Key to the smooth operation of Sussex IM's in-mold labelling systems, and essential to efficient production, is the generation of static by means of compact, lightweight generators. Choosing the right static generating equipment for each individual context is vital and Sussex IM has come to depend on Meech International's static generation products for maximum production efficiency and product quality. “We were looking for a step up from our existing static generation systems,” says Victor Rohrig, automation engineering supervisor at Sussex IM. “We needed more energy efficiency and reliability to bring down production costs, so we turned to Meech and enlisted their products and services to help us to improve our own.” Since 2016, Sussex IM has installed thirteen
Meech 994IML Static Generators across nine of its IML systems, with two remaining systems currently in the process of converting as well. A Meech hand sampling wand has also replaced a competitors' wand. Providing 0-20kV, negative polarity, a
lightweight package, and powered by 24V DC, Meech's 994IML Static Generators' full local and remote control makes it ideal for system integrators, OEMs, and end-users alike. “Meech's static generation equipment was
simple to install,” Rohrig concludes. “And right from the start we've found it cost-effective and easy to use. It is extremely energy efficient, which
has obvious environmental benefits as well as reducing our costs, and End of Arm Tooling (EOATs) have proven to be straight-forward to design. The equipment has worked exactly as we hoped it would and has saved us thousands of dollars over the last couple of years in improved productivity and reduced energy costs. We anticipate that all of our future IML systems will use Meech static generation products.” Matt Fyffe, VP and general manager at Meech Static Eliminators USA says: "Meech pinning
systems offer the ultimate in controlled static generation and the Meech Model 994IML Static Generator has been specially designed to work with the Hydra In-Mold Label pinning system.”
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