New Year solutions
number of new innovations designed to cut costs and increase
efficiency. One of these is the new compact CE 201 case erector,
which the company claims is capable of erecting and bottom sealing
up to 30 packaging cases per minute.
SWF says that the system can accommodate many different case styles, and is therefore of use to a wide range of food processors. The CE 201 can be deployed in industries such as produce, prepared foods, dairy, converted paper products, baked goods and snack foods, and meat, fish & poultry.
The all-mechanical design and multiple case size and style capabilities of the product means that the CE 201 allows for quick case changeovers. These can be done in five minutes or less, using scaled and pointed adjustments. Additional standard features include PLC controls, a pressurised hot melt glue system, automatic jam detection, and a double-40 pre-stretched chain with take-ups, taper locks and QD sprockets.
Available options on the CE 201 include UL certification, tool-less changeover, steel casters for convenient portability and pressure sensitive tape sealing. There is also a power infeed conveyor for greater case blank magazine capacity.
The company has also launched the CE 100P returnable plastic container (RPC) erector. This is capable of running both full and half-size RPC style cases, and can operate at speeds up to 1,200 cases an hour. SWF says that the CE 100P is ergonomically designed for ease of operation and can run various case depths with minimal changeover.
The system offers an automatic infeed system and a 26 inch maximum stack height, which provides a compact footprint. Other standard features include Allen Bradley components, plexiglass guarding and sensor for major side panel overlap detection.
US-based SWF Companies provides global packaging automation solutions to the food and beverage processing industry. It offers an extensive array of products including tray, bliss and RSC formers/sealers, case packers and vertical/horizontal cartoners.
