Marden Edwards Journal

Amongst the machines on the Marden Edwards stand at this year’s Total will be two individual pack overwrappers, including the new Evo-Fold low cost overwrapper and a high speed W200s, plus a B125LH8 collating overwrapper.

The Evo-Fold, which is being exhibited for the first time, is the latest development from Marden Edwards.

It has been designed specifically to appeal to customers who are new to overwrapping and are looking to improve the presentation of their products.

Using experience gained over the past 40 years, Marden Edwards has managed to produce a low cost, inexpensive but not cheap overwrapper offering fully automatic operation at speeds up to 45 packs a minute over a wide range of pack sizes, at an entry level price.

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Marden Edwards has recently despatched another playing card overwrap machine to German original equipment manufacturer Ziegler & Herzinger. Ziegler & Herzinger manufacture the Mirus playing and game card slitting, collating and round cornering system.

Marden Edwards has been producing playing card overwrapping machines for more than twenty years. The LX60 machine supplied to Ziegler & Herzinger has been specially designed to be built into the Mirus round cornering machine to provide a fully integrated card slitting, round cornering and individual pack wrapping system.

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Marden Edwards has recently supplied one of its B100LH8 collating and overwrapping machines to a multi media supply company in California, USA. The application involved the collating and over wrapping of two plastic, DVD style, clamshell cases which contain digital media devices.

To achieve the high collating speed of 80 cases per minute on the B100LH8 low cost overwrapper, an innovative collating system was designed which allowed the bundle to be made cheaply and efficiently.

Marden Edwards’ usual method of product stacking on the B100LH8 is to lift the pack up to sit on sprung fingers. This system is tried and tested and suits a wide variety of packs and collation configurations. However, the pneumatic system used on the B series range is limited to 60 rows per minute. For speeds greater than this traditionally Marden Edwards supplied the LX range of wrapping machinery which incorporate either a mechanical or servo stacker suitable for speeds of 120 lifts per minute or greater. Read the rest of this entry »

Marden Edwards has recently supplied one of its LX150FF confectionery over wrapping machines to a German company that manufacturers Advent Calendars. This is the second Marden Edwards machine that the customer has purchased, the last one being over ten years ago.

Wrapping Advent calendars is an area that Marden Edwards specialises in. Because the product inside the carton is chocolate, overwrapping is favoured to shrink wrapping not only for the quality of the appearance but also the reduced level of heat transfer. The LX150FF is able to fully overwrap the carton and seal the ends with the normal diamond end fold pattern or to simply wrap a tight sleeve around the pack. Read the rest of this entry »