Zimmbäcker, based in Greeley, Colorado was unhappy with the look of the shrink overwrap used on cartons for its range frozen and flash frozen gourmet braided breads and rolls in a variety of flavours. Its search for a solution led to UK overwrap specialists Marden Edwards’ stand at Pack Expo 08 where Zimmbäcker discovered the answer to its overwrapping needs…
Propack exhibition 20th to 23rd October 2009 in Johannesburg South Africa will show a Marden Edwards Evo-fold overwrapper In co-operation with Pakmatic the Evo-fold will demonstrate the overwrapping of cartoned game or playing cards at 40 per minute with the facility of added tear tape to easily open the pack.
Marden Edwards has recently supplied one of Russia’s oldest established manufacturers of confectionery products with a new BX100FF over wrapping machine. The BX100FF wraps the chocolate boxes at a rate of 50 wraps per minute.
A major UK logistics company has recently purchased and installed another Marden Edwards B125LH8 collator overwrapper. It is becoming more common for logistics companies to act as contract packers for brand owners for small run and promotional batches. Rather than disrupt high speed production lines in the main manufacturing plant, companies can contract out the packaging of different pack formats.
Marden Edwards has recently manufactured a large format S4B225FF overwrapping machine for wrapping very large cartons of chocolate selections. The largest box being overwrapped is 460mm long and 320mm wide whilst the smallest carton that the machine is wrapping is only 100mm long and 100mm wide. Although the size range being wrapped is very large, the time taken to change over from one size to another is still less than 15 minutes. Using quick release tooling, once the size change has taken place the machine is ready for the production run.
t is now nearly a year since I wrote the “Overwrapping films come full circle†and nearly six months since the Packaging and the Environment the Role of Film Overwrapping” articles. The purpose of this article is to bring some of this information up to date and to outline some of the developments within biodegradable films and specifically their application to overwrapping. There are now three competing technologies for biodegradable overwrapping films. These are films made from polypropylene, films made from polylactic acid (corn starch) and finally films made from cellophane (wood pulp).
Marden Edwards has just completed the installation of a number of overwrapping systems being used to wrap an innovative product from Imperial Tobacco, West Quickies XL.
The overwrappers form part of the new production lines at the Imperial Tobacco Reemtsma plant where the new style of cigarette is being produced. Quickies are 180mm long tobacco rods that can be trimmed by the consumer to any length required, thereby using a smaller amount of amount tobacco if only a quick smoke is wanted.
A large international condom manufacturer has recently taken delivery of a new WR200s fully automatic high speed over wrapper for its factory in Thailand.
Film overwrapping of condom packs is essential to promote the integrity of the product inside. It shows that there has been no tampering of the product since it left the factory and [...]
In the search for market differentiation in the tobacco, cosmetic and food industries more and more brand owners are turning to non rectangular cartons for their products. These trapezoidal, ballotin or bevel edge packs have been considered difficult to overwrap.
Marden Edwards has just delivered another of it’s new range of trailing edge overwrappers to a French customer wrapping perfume cartons. The TM100 range of machines has been available for nine months and has been suitable for products with a height up to 100mm. The TM120 is a development of the original TM100 and now has the ability to overwrap products up to 120mm in height.
Friday, September 11, 2009
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