Fair in France

The Beumer Group (Hall 5a, stand 3152) will promote its innovative palletising product range, including the Robotpac, a space-saving, fully automatic articulated robot. Bags, boxes, crates, canisters or trays can be palletised safely and efficiently. Beumer has developed gripping systems suitable for all types of packaged goods. The Paletpac series includes high-capacity machines that palletise bulk material filled in bags. The stretch hood high-capacity packaging system packs palletised goods with minimal film consumption and secures the load with a ‘perfectly fitting’ film hood that displays the packaged goods. The stretch hood is also able to create inliners (insertable bags) and insert them in octagonal bins made of corrugated board.

Bruni Glass (Hall 6, stand E076) supplies glass containers for wine, champagne, spirits, oil and vinegar, preserves and cosmetic and pharmaceutical products, devoting particular attention to special products, designed to suit clients’ specific request. The new Tonneau range for wine and Champagne is said to be easy to label and stable during filling. Four capacities are available: 330, 500, 750 and 1,500ml with two crown and bartop finishes.

Cermex (Hall 5a, stand C028) is presenting its new VersaFilm range of shrinkwrappers without a sealing bar. Their modular design offers advantages in terms of costs and lead times. The range is divided into three functions: product infeed, selection and lapping, and film shrinking in a heat tunnel. These modules feature a 25% reduction in components and parts to optimise maintenance. Cermex is also presenting the first end-of-line packaging machine to integrate Fanuc’s new 6-axis parallel-link (delta) robot. The combined SD/P5 case packing and palletising unit is configured in a new stand-up pouch application, offering ‘truly innovative’ performance in terms of both movement and payload capacities.

Supplier of total solutions to the packaging industry, Intertek (Hall 6, stand CD102) will showcase new packaging innovations and relevant services for various industries, including converters, base materials and films. Intertek offers regulatory services; sevices related to sustainability (including LCA and carbon footprint); food contact issues related to international and national regulations; quality assessment and control; support in research and development; process and product optimisation; and material characterisation.

Ishida Europe (Hall 5a, stand B056) is launching a multi-head weigher for citrus fruits and root vegetables. The new CCW-RS- 214/70-SS model offers fast, gentle handling of large, bulky items such as oranges, limes, lemons, potatoes, and onions. It is said to allow a controlled product flow while minimising collisions and bruising in the weighing process, while maintaining a high output for the large target weights being handled. Features include a highly durable urethane coating on the dispersion feeder table, smooth edges on the feeders and hoppers, gentle transfers between radial feeders and hoppers, silicone liners in the hoppers, and a gently sloping discharge chute. The total design also reduces the noise generated while still providing fast packing speeds of up to 60 packs/min from 500-5,000g.

Visitors to stand C122 in Hall 4 will see Primera Technology Europe’s new FX1200e digital label finishing system offering, in a single automatic process, the ability to laminate, die cut, slit, rewind and remove the waste matrix. Suitable for use with either the company’s CX1200e digital label press or other narrow web output engines, one of the major benefits of this system is a finishing speed of up to 6.1m/min. This is accomplished with Primera’s patent-pending QuadraCut technology, which uses up to four knife blades at a time across the web. Instead of hard tooled or flexible steel dies, the FX1200e uses digitally controlled tungsten carbide steel knife blades. “This means that users never have to buy a die or wait for it to be made and delivered,” says Primera.

Protective Packaging will be on stand K 072 in Hall 6, exhibiting barrier foil packaging to provide total climatic protection for products which may deteriorate due to moisture, oxygen and other gas ingress, odour transfer, UV light and temperature extremes. Exhibits will range from export packing to prevent corrosion of metallic goods, and a range of liners for the protection of powders, flakes and granules, through to ISO container liners with bulkhead, filling and discharge design options. All bags and liners are tailor-made to suit the dimensions and style of the outer packaging with no minimum order quantities.

With its exclusive distributor Ariflex, Schutte Bag Closures (Hall 5a, stand E051), Netherlands-based manufacturer of bag closures and binding materials for the consumer bag industry and the food and agricultural sectors, has developed a large market in France. The company will launch the new T4800 bag closing machine at the show. Advantages promised are that it is fast, the closures are entirely made of plastics; it is ready to run with biodegradable closures; and it is easy to install and use.

In Hall 4, on stand 029, Stork Food & Dairy Systems will promote its development, production and supply of integrated processing and filling lines for the dairy, juice, food, pharmaceutical and neutraceutical industries. The company is continuously expanding its expertise in the areas of aseptic filling, UHT processing, plastics bottle making and packaging technology for liquid food products. Stork specialises in extending the shelf life (ranging from several days to many months) as well as the packaging of dairy products and food. It can supply both single machines and integrated lines for processing and packaging these products.

Uni Packaging, exhibiting on stand E095 in Hall 6, is to display a stand-up pouch for moist wipes with an airtight and waterproof valve cap that allows the user to extract the wipes as and when needed. Developed to replace a rigid container, this Wipen’clos concept has enabled the weight of packging material to be reduced by nearly of 70%.