Automatic packing line for multipacks with robotic system.
(video: FuturaPack)
Creativity in the robotic sector for the food world
If there is an ingredient that is certainly not lacking in the SMEs of their area, it is creativity. The company’s brand is renowned and appreciated in the robotics sector for its unique and innovative applications especially dedicated to the food world.
Packing pouches with caps with a complete robotic line
FuturaPack has already successfully entered, “cranking out” high-end end-of-line systems, in the packaging sector for food, beverage, cosmetic-pharmaceutical products and pet food.
Now, with this most recent automatized system, the company proposes itself in the Baby Food sector and does so with the implementation of an important complete robotic line for packing pouches for baby food with caps containing fruit puree for childhood.
Let’s see in concrete how the system works: first of all the products come directly from the packaging machine, on 4 rows and a vision system determines the correct position.
Dedicated heads of the robots to the inclined transport of cases
The pouches are inserted by 4 high-speed robots, of the Flex-Picker kind, in the case formed by a flat blank.
The inclined transport of the cases allows to introduce the products with the dedicated heads of the robots that keep the pouches horizontal, filling the case up to its outer edge, since the front side of the case remains open until the filling is completed.
This solution allows the so-called “game 0” inside the box, which then closes on the products, making the row of pouches very stable.
Once the front of the box is closed, the lid is also closed and the package is weighed (with a static scale integrated inside the case packer) before exiting the line. Note that FuturaPack had already supplied a line in Usa for the same product in cups, that are packed in cluster and then in boxes and shipping case.
Specialised partner dedicated to the Baby Food sector
All the loading and unloading management of the autoclaves for the puree cups is supplied by FuturaPack, which supplies systems for both flexible and rigid packaging.
This is dedicated to the loading of trays and unloading of the same, when the products are sterilized in autoclave.
This new robotic plant for packing pouches for baby food places FuturaPack Srl in the international Baby Food market, for which this company had already delivered a line to the United States, where the fruit puree was inserted into cups that were wrapped in a cluster and then inserted into the case, with the technology described above.
FuturaPack can therefore be considered in all respects a specialized partner dedicated to the Baby Food sector, as well as to the historical Food, Beverage and Pet Food sectors.
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