Hard Candy Packaging
Creating sustainable packaging solutions
The need for packaging variety in hard candy confectionery sees integrated machinery and new labelling techniques to produce less waste
End-customers and retailers are calling for ever greater packaging variety. At the same time, packaging and materials need to become significantly more sustainable for the future. These trends demand the shortest possible response times from manufacturers and very rapid adjustments to the market. This can only be achieved with highly flexible packaging machines. With the Flowpacker flow-wrapping machine, Schubert says it is offering an integrated machine solution that opens up a new era of flexibility and future-proofing.
Compared with conventional machine solutions, the
Flowpacker saves up to 70 per cent space in production. At the same time, customers benefit from extraordinary flexibility: Virtually any type of and rapid changeover between sealing technologies, product formats, or proven and new packaging materials is possible. This all contributes to making the packaging machine much more cost-effective in the future. With the Schubert Flowpacker, manufacturers can now adapt much more flexibly and sustainably to the needs of consumers and the trade, thereby creating new market opportunities and competitive advantages.
“Improving packaging processes in the interest of the customer – has always been the mission and goal” says Schubert, and this message is still being pursued by the third generation of the family-owned packaging machine manufacturer. With each of its innovations, the company not only wants to pick up on market trends, but also to optimally meet its customers’ needs for efficient, compact and interface-free solutions. Part of this success is an approach that the founder, Gerhard Schubert, pursued back in the 1980s: packaging with the aid of robots. Schubert’s developers and machine builders are always picking up on impulses from the field of robot technology. And all these strengths come to fruition with the Flowpacker flow-wrapping machine.
An integrated flow-wrapping process in a packaging line Compared to mechanical flow-wrapping machines with conventional infeed, Schubert’s packaging line offers unique customer benefits. This technological quantum leap is only made possible by the unique combination of pick & place robots and a horizontally positioned flow-wrapping unit: Both machine functions are installed in TLM frames from Schubert and seamlessly connected in a single line. The pick & place robots place each product into the infeed system of the flow-wrapping
20 Kennedy’s Confection August/September2022
KennedysConfection.com “Modularity is a top priority
because the modular approach brings more flexibility to the machine configuration and the packaging process”
machine, replacing the long infeed belts that were previously used. Image processing allows only perfect products to be packaged. As a result, the flow-wrapping process is compactly and entirely integrated into the system.
Modular packaging technology for wider performance ranges
Modularity is a top priority because the modular approach brings more flexibility to the machine configuration and the packaging process. This also applies to the flow-wrapping machines: Depending on requirements, the number and type of pick & place robots can be varied to adapt the Flowpacker’s performance range to customer needs. The interaction of image recognition, pick & place robots and the flow-wrapping unit integrated into the line enables a remarkably high machine efficiency of up to 99% – and guarantees virtually 100% unrivalled product quality.
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