The Dresden-based company has launched its new BLM innovation: the first cartoner for the company, which can keep pace with the high speed of the primary packaging machines, as it can secondarily pack up to 2,000 individual products (120 cartons per minute). 

As production facilities continue to be challenged by smaller batch runs, higher OEE requirements and skilled labor shortages, there is a desire for simpler, more flexible equipment. One way to achieve more flexibility is by addressing the time, tools and parts needed to implement changeovers.

Dr. Kurt Wolff GmbH & Co. KG., the brand manufacturer of hair-care products from Bielefeld, opted for a Schubert top-loading machine when restructuring its production and packaging processes. 

In the realm of cartoning machinery, the wisest subjects have a full armor of skills, like efficiency and speed, and offer quick changeovers for maximum flexibility.

In a dramatic departure from its established regional craft brewing business, Wachusett Brewing Company (Westminster, MA) is moving into new beverage territory, figuratively and literally. 

Bradman Lake awarded for the second time the “Technical Procurement Supplier of the Year Award 2014” from Nestlé in the US in the area of Capital Equipment Supply

Multiple lane table-top conveyor includes clamps and blade stops

Food and Beverage Packaging: What’s the difference between robotics and automation?
Chris Follows: While the terms have become perhaps incorrectly interchangeable, robotics is the term used to describe the field of robots and its uses.