ADAPTING TO THE DEMANDS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

 

Developments have been made to U-E-T’s compact cartoning machine specifically to target the pharmaceutical markets, an enhanced version of this has recently been installed within the UK for a World leading global manufacturer.

 

Many products in this industry could be hazardous and with this in mind U-E-T changed the machine plate style to ensure that in these instances there is no chance of particles/droplets being left in difficult to clean areas or indeed them dropping to the floor.   Other nice features include coding systems, synchronisation with vision inspection systems checking leaflets, cartons & pharma codes.

 

In cases where there may be products that have more than 1 part to it additional product sensors are built into the machine enabling the operator to be alerted if there are any missing parts, the operation is then halted until the carton is filled correctly/removed. 

 

Health & Safety has been enhanced by fitting security switches onto access doors allowing them only to be opened when machine is in stop position and not during cycling.

 

CONTACT:

SPRINGVALE EQUIPMENT LTD FOR FURTHER INFORMATION – 01420 542505

WAR ON WASTE

 

 

 Product Recovery

 

 There are a number of reasons why faulty packages especially in the food and confectionery industry need to be unpacked.  This may be necessary due to machine start-up waste, wrong coding, best-before-use date overdue, under-or overfilling etc.  It would be too expensive to unpack such material manually or to completely throw away the product.

The German made PACK-SAVER range of Product Recovery Machines from LEU-TRONIC (www.Leu-Tronic.de) are designed to allow a clean separation of product from its packaging material.  The PACK-SAVER does not work with knives, but using adjustable tear-off rails to open the packages.  Due to the rail rotation and the special shape of the assorting chamber, an air-stream is produced which “blows” the empty wrapping material out of the machine.  The product is then transported to a vibration sieving device, where an exhausting device separates small wrapper particles from the product, which then can be re-processed and used again.

Depending on product, a capacity of up to 400kg per hour can be achieved.  Only one operator is needed to control a PACK-SAVER.

Typical products which are being recovered are;

coffee, tea, sugar, confectionery, chewing gum, chocolate bars, biscuits, crisps, detergent tablets etc.

For further information call

Springvale Equipment Ltd – 01420 542505 – www.springequip.co.uk