Baking & Snack - December 2017 - 88

PACKAGING INNOVATIONS

Innovations over the past year feature
the ability to bolster throughput
while increasing the variety of options
at the end of the processing line.

Horizontal packaging
lines saw innovations
this year to make
them faster and
more flexible.

machine with an electronic changeover. "By just going to
the HMI, they can do either," Mr. Kehrli said. "There is
tremendous interest in that."
He added that Cavanna's approach to packaging
doesn't revolve around a flowwrapper or single piece of
equipment, but that it's an "all around" approach. The
company looks at the product starting with ingredients
all the way to how it is fed into the packaging equipment
and tailors a solution.
But sometimes there are challenges in aligning expectations with reality. As bakers look to produce faster, smaller products, packaging has to work at even higher speeds
to keep up with the oven. "There's a bit of a contradiction
between the volume and the package sizes. If you want
smaller package sizes, the equipment has to run faster to
get the same volume out," Mr. Kehrli said. "Then, you've
got these cleaner, high-quality packages that have to run
quite slowly compared to other packaging materials."
At interpack, Cavanna introduced the G41 robotic
cartoning system. It features quick changeovers and an
easy-to-format program with a reduced footprint and
higher speeds. The system runs up to 80 rows, 620 packages and 98 cartons per minute.
TNA has taken stock in the fact that small, singleserve bags easily fit into consumers' busy lifestyles and
provide on-the-go convenience as snacks do not require

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cutlery, meal planning, refrigeration or cleanup. "As an
equipment manufacturer, it's important that we deliver
high-speed packaging systems that will help food manufacturers package the same amount of product into more
bags and retain similar levels of production volumes,"
Mr. Lozano said.
TNA's vertical form/fill/seal systems are capable of
speeds faster than 200 bags per minute. But it's not
enough to just aim for high speeds, Mr. Lozano said.
TNA ensures that the equipment delivers effectiveness, a
low reject rate, flexibility and ease of maintenance, operation and integration. The TNA Robag series of vertical
f/f/s machines can handle gusseted, block bottom, canoe
pack and quattro seal formats and provides ease-of-use
when switching from one packaging style to another.
"The more flexible the packaging system, the less time
is required to change production runs to accommodate
different pack sizes or formats, resulting in minimum
interruption to the production flow," Mr. Lozano said.
"This includes no mechanical adjustments when changing product or film, quick former changes, and a wide
variety of jaw size configurations that enable full flexibility of bag size and format, film type and application on a
single packaging system."
Flexibility can mean multiple things on the packaging
line. Machines need to handle a wide range of products
but must also be able to package them in a wide variety of formats. A-B-C Packaging Machine Corp. offers
a variety of options including flexible bags, multipacks,
cartons and rigid containers. The Model 436 case sealer
provides interchangeable tape and adhesive sealing on
one machine. "The modular design of this case sealer
allows snack packagers to easily switch from one sealing method to another without excessive downtime or
the added expense of purchasing two machines," said
Bryan Sinicrope, vice-president, sales and marketing,
A-B-C.
A-B-C's case sealer has independent sealing modules
for adhesive and tape sealing that are designed for quick
changeover with "drop in" accessibility, Mr. Sinicrope added, allowing maintenance personnel to quickly make the
switch from one method to another in less than 10 minutes.
As bakers look for ways to enable their packaging
lines to be as streamlined as the rest of their line, suppliers are getting creative with automation for both
secondary and primary packaging. Rob Thompson,
southeast regional sales manager, BluePrint Automation
(BPA), said BPA's new cartoning equipment allows companies to reduce manual labor and increase efficiency.
Introduced at Pack Expo Las Vegas, the horizontal Delta
case packer with integrated case erector and close is one
example of that. The vision system scans the incoming
products, and their exact position and orientation is sent
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