MU July \ August 2017

Issue 4, Volume XXVIII, July/August 2017 

The machinery only journal for processing & packaging | www.machineryupdate.co.uk 

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NEWS 

Connecting industry 

This issue is dominated by a 42 page feature covering automation, 

robotics & vision and is packed with articles about Industry 4.0 

and the myriad of enabling technologies to help make this a reality 

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July/August 

Contents 

7 NEWS 

Manufacturing workers in the 

UK are confident robots will 

not be taking their jobs over 

the next decade, says survey 

29 

12 NEW MACHINERY 

Eight pages of new options 

include equipment from a 

broad technology spectrum 

23 INSTALLATIONS 

An upgraded production 

line is coping with lighter 

PET bottles at high speed 

32 SPECIAL FEATURE 

AUTOMATION, VISION 

AND ROBOTICS 

This 42 page feature reports 

on technology that is, or that 

will, help companies adopt 

smart manufacturing on the 

road to Industry 4.0 uptake 

32 

REGULAR FEATURES 

74 LABELLING, 

CODING & MARKING 

A range of on-demand label 

printers and accessories is 

enabling end users to take 

label production in-house 

76 COMPONENTS 

A Gorgonzola producer is using 

a centralised vacuum supply to 

deliver production gains 

80 REGULATIONS 

The challenge for global 

regulatory authorities is how 

to catch up with the Industry 

4.0 technological tidal wave 

82 WHO WHAT WHERE 

People, events and diary dates 

83 BUYERS’ GUIDES 

Machinery and services 

EDITOR: 

Gail Hunt 

PUBLISHING MANAGER: 

Bill Lake 

BUYERS GUIDE CO-ORDINATOR: 

Chris Valdes 

ARTWORK CONTRIBUTOR: 

Barry Heath 

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PPMA matters 

Getting to grips 

with the smart 

new factory 

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Rulmeca 

WE’VE BEEN AROUND FOR OVER 50 YEARS 

Conveyor 

rollers 

Mark Williamson 

CHAIRMAN PPMA GROUP OF ASSOCIATIONS 

(INCORPORATING PPMA, BARA AND UKIVA) 

Welcome to the largest ever July/August issue of 

Machinery Update. This edition is of particular 

interest to me as the feature topics not only touch 

on my industry sector of machine vision, but also encompass 

the growing conversation about Industry 4.0, automation and 

robotics. While these are hot topics in their own right, hence 

the need to make this a bumper issue, I believe combining all 

three subjects will have significant impact on the processing 

and packaging machinery industry in future years. 

To many, Industry 4.0 is still just hype and theory however that 

is changing faster than you think. I sit on the VDMA (German 

machinery association) machine vision board which has been a 

staunch promoter of Industry 4.0 or the so-called smart factory. 

Indeed, its importance is now seeing new standards frameworks 

emerging across a wide range of industries and technologies. 

Industry 4.0 is just hype 

to many, but our 42 page feature 

shows how fast it is developing 

At a recent conference, I learnt about case studies where 

manufacturing, inspection and ERP systems are tightly integrated 

while production equipment’s health is monitored, providing 

predictive maintenance alerts and providing an overview of 

the equipment utilisation across an entire factory. Exciting stuff 

and, as Karen Carpenter once sang, it’s only just begun! 

It will not be long before processing and packaging machinery 

purchasers will expect machines to be compatible with their 

own smart factories and it is great we are seeing the standards 

and initiatives to help develop this further. 

I believe that coverage in Machinery Update on these topics 

is critical for the industry to get to grips with what is ahead 

and the opportunities these technologies can bring. And how 

to get started in this area forms the backbone of our 42 page 

feature in this issue (see page 32). 

Going back to my roots, it is 25 years since the UKIVA was 

founded, just a few years after I started in this industry. Turn to 

page 36 for a history lesson about the association’s formation 

and its coverage in this magazine though to the current day as 

a special interest group of the PPMA. In particular, I would like 

to pay tribute to the late Don Braggins who was instrumental in 

starting the association, running it for many years and ensuring 

it continued to prosper by passing the administration of the 

UKIVA to the PPMA as he retired. 

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Rulmeca drum motors provide the ideal drive 

solution for belt conveyors and associated material 

handling equipment. They are versatile, energy 

efficient and hermetically sealed for hygienic 

operations and wash-down applications 

(IP66/IP69) in food processing, packing operations 

and logistics. 

Contact our experienced Rulmeca team to discuss 

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News 

www.machineryupdate.co.uk july/august 2017 MACHINERY UPDATE 7 

imPacked was held in Nottingham 

In-house event saw 

new kit launched 

for various markets 

Hayssen Flexible Systems 

held its week-long packaging 

event in June where its own 

equipment was demonstrated, 

along with other company’s 

machinery supplied by 

Accraply, BW Containers, 

Interactive Coding Equipment, 

Jacob White and Yamato Scale 

Dataweigh. 

Billed as the largest in-house 

packaging event in the UK, 

Hayssen’s imPacked 2017 

demonstrated a range of 

food packaging machinery 

in operation for a variety of 

market sectors including a 

new bagger from Hayssen 

itself (more details page 20). 

Sales and marketing 

director, EMEA Tony Crofts 

was delighted with the 

attendance during the week. 

PROGRAMME LOWERS THE AUTOMATION BARRIER 

Helping with robot literacy 

Universal Robots has developed its own Robots Academy, a free of 

charge e-learning programme containing six modules designed to 

maximise user engagement among students. The company believes 

facilitating knowledge creation and access to the latest cobots will 

attract more young people to help meet the looming skills gap in 

manufacturing industry across Britain. 

www.universal-robots.com 

British workers are 

confident that robots 

won’t take their jobs 

Manufacturing workers 

in the UK are confident 

robots will not be 

taking their jobs over the 

next decade, according to 

a survey commissioned by 

Epson. More than six in 10 

(62%) said manufacturing 

roles will evolve rather than 

be replaced, while 59% are 

confident machines will not 

be able to replicate human 

qualities like flexibility, 

creativity and reaction. 

While confident about 

retaining their jobs, British 

workers expressed optimism 

about the impact of technology 

on the manufacturing sector. 

More than two thirds (68%) 

think the quality of goods 

will increase as the result of 

innovation, while 64% agree 

that technology will reduce 

the impact on the environment. 

Workers did share some 

concerns about the role of 

robots in manufacturing. 

Over seven in ten (72%) think 

Jobs will evolve and not be replaced 

robots will be able to take 

on more complex tasks that 

would take humans longer 

to master. Almost two thirds 

(64%) are concerned about 

cyber security, seeing it as the 

greatest obstacle to innovation. 

• Our annual feature covering 

automation, robotics and 

vision systems starts on page 32. 

Industry needs to 

address its archaic 

image to the young 

The MTA (Manufacturing 

Technologies Association) 

CEO James Selka used his key 

note speech at the National 

Manufacturing Debate hosted 

by Cranfield University in 

May to highlight the importance 

of industry collaboration in 

tackling the skills gap. 

He highlighted that the image 

of manufacturing is still a 

barrier for recruiting new talent. 

“We need to refute 

the pervasive myth that 

manufacturing is dirty, 

dangerous and a dead end,” 

he said. “Whereas modern 

manufacturing is clinical, it is 

clean and that jobs in it come 

with remarkable opportunities.” 

PPMA Show 

shines light 

on industry 

The PPMA Show 2017 returns 

to reveal the best of global 

manufacturing innovation from 

26-28 September 2017 at 

the NEC Birmingham. 

Seen as the UK’s unmissable, 

free-to-attend, processing and 

packaging machinery exhibition, 

it will provide manufacturers with 

insights into the latest machinery 

products, technologies and 

materials. Registration is now 

open and easier than ever before 

– taking less than three minutes 

for attendees to secure. 

Organised by the Processing 

and Packaging Machinery 

Association (PPMA), the show 

will offer visitors a chance to 

see new machinery in action, 

find inspiration, new ideas and 

solutions, gain access to potential 

new suppliers and evaluate and 

purchase the latest technology 

as well as talk face-to-face with 

the industry’s leading technical 

experts across all sectors. 

The PPMA Show 2017 will also 

feature all-new entertainment and 

interactive features, including a 

computer-controller goalkeeper, 

known as RoboKeeper. Described 

as the World’s Best Goalie, the 

RoboKeeper has already taken 

on the likes of footballers Lionel 

Messi and Neymar and will 

challenge visitors to try and score 

a goal live at the exhibition. 

The RoboKeeper uses cuttingedge 

robotics and vision 

technology, reacting within 

fractions of a second. 

W www.ppmashow.co.uk 

Can you beat the RoboKeeper?

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News 

Survey reveals worrying gaps in 

training schemes for Industry 4.0 

Sparc Systems Ltd, Sparc House, Merebrook Business Park, 

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APPLICATIONS 

• Muscle or ground meat 

• Poultry trimmings 

• Pie fillings and slurries 

• Ice cream and dairy products 

BENEFITS 

• Suitable for use in harsh 

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• Simple, robust design 

• Product not compressed 

• Servo-driven rotary reject 

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• Easy to change over 

• HACPP compliant 

Asurvey commissioned 

by Bosch Rexroth has 

revealed worrying gaps 

in training provision and 

readiness for Industry 4.0 

in the UK engineering and 

manufacturing sectors. 

The survey revealed that 

two-thirds of respondents were 

not aware of Industry 4.0 and 

the majority of those that were 

aware of it are not undertaking 

specific Industry 4.0 training. 

Meanwhile, 40% identified 

gaps in training for automated 

production processes and 

more than half viewed finding 

the right training course to 

meet employee needs a major 

challenge. 

WEAK TRAINING OFFER 

Entitled ‘Tackling the training 

gap in UK manufacturing: 

remaining competitive in 

rapidly changing times’, the 

survey was undertaken by 

the Institute of Engineering 

and Technology. It garnered 

responses from about 100 

decision makers within the 

sector and it covered topics 

including the structure 

of training, Industry 4.0, 

apprenticeships, links to 

academia and maintenance. 

The study revealed that 

in as many as a quarter of 

companies, less than 10 

hours of training is delivered 

to employees each year on 

average. Meanwhile, results 

found there was no widespread 

optimism around a greater 

commitment to, and role for, 

training in the next five years. 

Automated production 

processes and modern 

automation techniques 

were identified as the areas 

where the greatest gaps in 

knowledge exist. 

There was some optimism 

in the area of apprenticeships, 

with most companies taking on 

apprentices each year. 

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News 


Larger facility allows a 

united growth strategy 

Manufacturer of 

automation and 

industrial robotic 

solutions Fanuc UK has 

officially opened its new 

headquarters at Ansty Park, 

Coventry. 

The result of an investment 

of more than £19 million, 

the new 107,000sq ft facility 

highlights the significant 

growth the company has 

experienced over recent 

years, as well as its unified 

approach for the future. 

This new headquarters is four 

times larger than its previous 

location and will enable the 

business to further develop 

its offering and strengthen 

its position in the market. 

Crucially, all aspects of the 

business will operate under 

one roof, while the three-storey 

building is also home 

to a design, manufacturing 

and training facility, offices 

and showroom area. 

The business specialises in 

factory automation, which is 

split across three categories: 

robotics, machine tools and 

factory automation systems. 

Training is a vital and 

The capacity at the new facility can be increased in the future by at least 25% 

growing part of the company’s 

offering and the expansion 

of the UK facility has helped 

to enhance its training 

academy’s capabilities through 

the introduction of a new 

advanced course for more 

experienced engineers. 

The dedicated suite consists 

of four training rooms, each 

of which caters for up to eight 

students at any one time. 

The Academy houses eight 

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robots of various sizes, as well 

as 12 simulators for factory 

automation. Programmes are 

offered on Fanuc technologies 

such as Roboguide and 

iRVision, while bespoke 

training can be created based 

on individual customer 

application requirements. 

All courses provide practical, 

hands-on training exploring 

the areas of programming 

and maintenance. 

Share deal between 

two Italian giants to 

benefit integrators 

Robopac and Ocme have signed 

a share deal with the purpose of 

developing a corporate growth 

strategy with a clear international 

vision. The ‘local for local’ policy 

is designed to bring them closer 

to their customers and system 

integrators, and for them to 

be a strong and reliable partner 

in the global market. 

The companies operate with 

manufacturing and local service 

centres in: USA, Brazil, China, 

Mexico, UK, Spain, France, 

Germany, and Russia as well 

as in Italy, in the heart of the 

Packaging Valley. 

Thanks to this strategic 

agreement, the two companies 

strengthen their own product 

ranges and increase their capacity 

for innovation in the market 

place. It is designed to deliver 

the most efficient machines with 

the best after-sales service. 

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News 

How to get 

ready for 

Industry 4.0 

Mitsubishi Electric has launched 

a 28 page white paper that sets 

out to explain the background, 

consider the challenges and 

offer solutions to the adoption 

of Industry 4.0 related technologies 

and solutions. It is designed to give 

a practical viewpoint of the current 

situation for many plants, the 

challenges to be faced and how 

to plan to achieve the end goal 

of a smart factory. 

Industry 4.0 – The road 

to digitalisation in future 

manufacturing is a comprehensive 

document that introduces the 

concept, outlines the opportunities 

and challenges as well as 

explaining the current and future 

state of Industry 4.0. A section 

covering network requirements 

and help with strategic planning 

on the road to digitalisation is 

also included. 

One of the paper’s conclusions 

is that the speed and scale of 

future technology development 

ensures that Industry 4.0 will 

become a common feature of 

manufacturing industry within 

a few years. Another is that the 

road to digitalisation may be 

challenging but by approaching 

the task in a structured manner 

and ensuring that any return on 

investment can be seen for each 

phase of the project, delivering 

smart manufacturing can be 

achieved today. 

• Turn to page 58 to find 

Mitsubishi’s marketing & 

operations group manager 

Chris Evans talk further about 

smart manufacturing. 

Strapping company is 

enjoying 80th birthday 

Gordian Strapping 

is celebrating its 

80th anniversary by 

launching a new StraPack 

strapping machine from 

parent company StraPack, 

one of three machines to be 

introduced this year. 

The company has come 

a long way since setting up 

in London in 1937 to supply 

wire strapping equipment. 

Its product offering today 

has evolved into high speed 

automatic equipment and 

plastic consumable packaging 

materials. In concept, 

however, it still provides the 

same packaging securement 

solution it did 80 years ago. 

Gordian says it is the 

largest volume seller of 

automatic and semi-automatic 

strapping machines in the 

UK, and the business is 

growing; achieving record 

sales turnover in each of the 

last three years. “Gordian 

Strapping prides itself on 

continuous improvement, 

consistent quality and on time 

delivery and installation,” 

says Andrew Lea, managing 

director of Gordian. 

“We will continue to work 

OAL is building a new facility 

in Peterborough to support 

its APRIL robotics systems. 

The new facility will support 

a growing order book as food 

manufacturers seek to avoid 

rising costs in the UK and 

Europe through productivity 

improvements. 

“We’re committed to 

eliminating manual handling 

in the front end of food 

processing, and the new 

APRIL facility gives our team 

a great space to develop and 

L-R: Gordian Strapping’s Daren Spice and Andrew Lea celebrate success 

extremely closely with our 

customers to deliver tailored 

solutions that will maximise 

the effectiveness of our 

packaging systems.” 

This year, Gordian will 

launch three new StraPack 

machines to the UK market: 

the RQ8GL, SQ800 and UB19. 

The RQ8GL and UB19 are 

additions to the standard 

StraPack range and run 

ultra-thin polypropylene strap 

(0.28mm and 0.2mm thick 

respectively) at a speed of up 

to 48 and 38 straps per minute. 

New robotics production facility will give 

more resource for Peterborough-based firm 

demonstrate what that means 

for food manufacturers,” 

says Harry Norman, owner/ 

managing director at OAL. 

Demonstrations of the 

technology will take place 

at the factory opening on 

Thursday 18 January, next 

year. This event will coincide 

with the Food Manufacturing 

2013 conference. 

The conference will look to 

the future of producing food. 

An artists impression of new facility 

The SQ800 is a brand 

new, high-speed automatic 

strapping machine which 

uses a brushless DC motor 

to deliver less maintenance 

and more uptime. 

The SQ800 is the successor 

to the market leading RQ8 

series and runs at up to 

55 straps per minute. 

The company also sells 

automated pallet strapping, 

wrapping and hooding 

systems from OMS along with 

case erection and sealing 

equipment from Lantech.

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New Machinery 

Coding systems offer a 

range of benefits for all 

At interpack, Rea Jet 

introduced a range of 

coding and marking 

systems along with mobile and 

static code verifiers and a new 

operating concept designed 

to work across all of the 

equipment produced by the 

company. 

The Rea Titan Platform 

operating system is said to 

represent the most diverse 

and future-proof operating 

and control system available. 

Thanks to this uniform 

operating concept throughout 

all Rea coding and marking 

technologies, every system 

can be operated once the 

operating logic is learned and 

understood. Thus, no further 

training is necessary for 

operating other ink or 

laser systems. 

In addition to cost and time 

savings, the risk of human 

error is also reduced. 

At the show, a new 

generation of the globally 

established large character 

ink jet printers: Rea Jet DOD 2.0 

was launched. The production 

speed achieved is 600m a 

minute, while its print head 

durability has also been 

increased. Another new family 

member of the Titan platform 

is the new continuous small 

character inkjet printer, the 

SC 2.0. This system can 

print in up to eight lines at 

48 vertical pixels, says the 

company. 

Also introduced was the 

VeriPad, which is described 

as the first mobile verification 

device for 1D and 2D codes 

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The new Rea Verifier VeriPad for mobile verification of 1D and 2D codes 

which is operated via a 9.7in 

touch tablet. The big screen 

provides a comprehensive 

overview and the measuring 

optic can be rotated up to 

180deg and guarantees best 

code verification on both flat 

and shaped bodies. 

Meanwhile, the Rea Verifier 

PC-Scan LD4 unit was also 

introduced. 

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Smart glasses can 

deliver real time 

machine support 

Remote Assist is a service 

concept which enables Romaco 

to support machines in real time. 

Four machines at interpack were 

equipped with smart glasses and 

the technology permits virtual 

communication between machine 

operators and service technicians. 

These internet-enabled smart 

glasses allow Romaco’s machines 

to be monitored from a distance 

by connecting its technicians to 

the machine operator at the user 

via a Wi-Fi interface, anywhere in 

the world. Customers requiring 

urgent assistance to operate its 

equipment can now opt for virtual 

support from Romaco. 

A camera integrated in the 

glasses transfers its perspective 

of the machine directly to the 

Romaco hotline employee’s 

monitor so the support team 

can take action. 

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Production speeds continue 

during film reel changeovers 

KHS has developed a 

film storage facility 

that enables automatic 

changeovers from one reel 

to the next on its packaging 

machinery. This means it is 

no longer necessary to stop 

the machine or throttle the 

production speed. 

“In applying this principle 

often found on printing 

presses, production isn’t 

interrupted and efficiency 

is boosted,” says Karl-Heinz 

Klumpe, product manager for 

packaging at KHS. This new 

level of efficiency is brought 

about by a built-in buffer; once 

the current reel of film has 

been unravelled to a certain 

minimum, the storage facility 

is automatically filled parallel 

to production. 

WITH A STOP OF UP TO 

21 SECONDS PER REEL, 

1.2% 

more capacity can be achieved 

per year in a two-shift operation 

The switch is triggered by 

a sensor which scans the 

diameter of the active film reel 

and recognises when a change 

of reel is imminent, once the 

store has been filled and the 

active reel reduced to the 

absolute minimum. 

“After switching over to 

the film store, the usual film 

splicing process begins,” 

explains Klumpe. “This joins 

the reel which was previously 

active to the new one.” 

Thanks to the size of the 

storage facility and the very 

short time needed for film 

splicing, there is enough cooling 

time to create a stable splicing 

seam. This function can also 

be retrofitted on existing 

systems to process shrink film. 

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Labelling, New Machinery Coding & Marking 

Detecting 

metals with 

more ‘smart’ 

Mettler-Toledo Safeline has 

launched a series of enhanced 

features for profile throat 

metal detectors and gravity fall 

systems. These enhancements 

have been designed to allow 

manufacturers to benefit from 

increased productivity, enhanced 

brand protection and improved 

product and process quality. 

The four new elements: 

reduced test mode (RT), 

automatic test system (ATS), 

eDrive and emulation, are aimed 

at making metal detection a 

smoother, safer, less disruptive 

process that adds to the 

profitability of operations. 

RT enables a significant 

reduction in the frequency of 

metal detector testing. 

“We have a customer in the 

UK that, since applying RT now 

tests every 12 hours not every two 

hours, which gives them a major 

productivity benefit,” says Mike 

Bradley, head of sales at 

Mettler-Toledo. “Testing still takes 

between three and five minutes, 

but now they only have to do it 

twice a day,” he continues. 

In order to reduce this five 

minute testing window, the ATS 

was developed to keep downtime 

to a minimum. ATS automatically 

introduces three test pieces into 

the metal detector’s aperture at 

the touch of a button. 

In terms of performance, new 

eDrive technology drives greater 

power to the transmit coil of 

the metal detector, enabling it 

to detect significantly smaller 

real life metal contaminants 

and systems fitted with eDrive 

can deliver up to 20% increased 

spherical sensitivity, says Mettler. 

The fourth element, called 

emulation, allows operators to 

mirror the HMI of one or multiple 

metal detectors onto remote 

networked devices, including 

mobile phones, tablets and 

also laptops. 

T 0161 848 8636 

W www.mt.com/metaldetection 

Side-load case packer 

offers speedy benefits 

tna has 

launched the 

ropac 5 ultra 

high speed case 

packer for flexible 

bags that is 

capable of speeds 

of up to 300 bags 

a minute. 

Part of the 

company’s 

performance 

5.0 packaging 

systems, the 

ropac 5 is the first 

side-load case 

packer that uses 

tna’s patented 

semi-rotary bag stacking 

technology to pack small 

to medium, pillow-style 

snack bags quickly and 

efficiently into secondary 

containers. With its compact 

design, the cartoner is 

said to offer snack food 

manufacturers double the 

average case packing speeds 

in a small footprint. 

Contrary to the majority 

of case packers that employ 

vacuum pick and drop 

technology, the ropac is 

Two new additions to 

Videojet’s range of thermal 

transfer overprinters (TTO) 

were unveiled at interpack. 

The new DataFlex 6350 and 

6330 have been developed 

to minimise production 

downtime, reduce waste 

and increase code accuracy. 

Within these systems 

comes Videojet iAssure that 

automatically checks every 

code printed to ensure it 

matches what the printer 

expected to produce. iAssure 

also proactively identifies 

The high speed case packer from tna forms part of the performance 5.0 packaging system 

based on tna’s own semirotary 

bag stacking motion. 

Using continuously revolving 

horizontal platforms that 

can accommodate multiple 

rows of bags, this system is 

able to quickly and efficiently 

form, lower and side-load 

vertical stack of bags into 

secondary packaging such 

as boxes. 

This stacking technology 

delivers the speeds of up to 

300 bags a minute. 

The semi-rotary bag 

stacking system also 

avoids bags being gripped 

and dropped by vacuum 

heads, ensuring that each 

bag is handled with care, 

minimising the risk of 

product breakage and any 

missed bags. 

In addition, the machine 

features semi-automatic 

changeovers that take less 

than ten minutes to complete, 

without any tools. 

T 0121 628 8900 

W www.tnasolutions.com 

Thermal transfer overprinters introduced 

to offer features that ensure code quality 

The DataFlex 

6350 and 6330 

were introduced 

by Videojet 

print defects and can detect 

situations where operator 

intervention is required, such 

as a dirty printhead that needs 

cleaning, a ribbon wrinkle 

that doesn’t self-correct, 

or where an adjustment to 

the printhead is required to 

improve overall print quality. 

“No other TTO printers 

on the market have these 

capabilities,” says Anthony 

Blencow, business unit 

director, cij at Videojet. 

T 0800 500 3023 

W www.videojet.co.uk

Components 


Stretch wrap is applied 

with economic benefits 

New weigher enhances hygiene 

Weigher design 

allows for easy 

access cleaning 

Ishida has expanded its highperformance 

hygienic multihead 

weighers for fresh and frozen 

applications. It has introduced 

a range of models with a new 

open frame design that allows 

fast and easy access for cleaning 

and inspections, particularly in 

the timing hopper area. 

The new design for the Ishida 

CCW-RV 10 and 14 head WP 

waterproof models means there 

is no conventional base unit 

to restrict access to the lower 

contact parts. In addition, the 

design allows the weigher to be 

positioned lower in the separating 

floor of a factory while the frame 

itself can also be integrated into a 

concrete floor and sealed. 

T 0121 607 7700 

W www.ishidaeurope.com 

Qimarox has released an 

improved version of its 

standard OEM stretch 

wrapper introduced by the 

materials handling components 

company last year. 

New on this version is 

the patented tensioning 

arms which stretch the 

film wrap over the products. 

The lack of a framework, in 

which the tensioning arms 

are traditionally connected, 

also improves the flexibility 

of the design. 

Guidepost positions are 

determined in the project 

specifications, allowing 

the stretch wrapper to meet 

specific customer demands. 

This also allows pallets to be 

processed from two different 

directions, allowing the 

machine to be used in corners. 

The compact stretch hood 

machine has four tensioning 

arms that can stretch a wrap 

taut, and pull it over the 

loaded pallet. When the 

tensioning arms release the 

stretch hood, the boxes, bags 

or other products on the pallet 

are secured. Because the 

tensioning arms can move 

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This is the improved version of the standard stretch wrapper from Qimarox 

horizontally in two directions, 

it can wrap any size of pallet, 

says Qimarox. 

Like all its other components, 

such as palletisers and 

vertical conveyors, Qimarox 

supplies the stretch wrapper 

to specialised certified system 

partners without a control 

system. This means control 

systems can be combined with 

other end of line packaging 

components for ease of use 

by the end user. 

T 00 31 341 436 700 

W www.qimarox.com 

Lantech modular case erector capable 

of up to 30 erected cases per minute 

• Unique vacuum pick up frame 

• Ergonomic magazine for easy filling of case blanks 

• Small footprint 

• Easy size change from one format to another 

• Supplied as a hot melt glue option or adhesive tape 

• Colour operator touch screen panel 

• Can be a stand-alone machine or integrated into 

other machinery 

• Installed and commissioned with after sales support 

C1000/2000 

case erector 

from Lantech 

17 Elizabeth Court, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 8PF 

T: 01480 382739 M: 07764 772965 E: andrew@maters.co.uk www.maters.co.uk


New Machinery 

Thermoformer design delivers 

optimum product performance 

At interpack, Multivac 

launched its X-line 

thermoforming 

packaging machine that 

includes a whole host 

of new features. As a result 

of its seamless digitalisation, 

comprehensive sensor 

system and networking 

with the Multivac Cloud, 

the X-line creates a new 

dimension when it comes to 

packaging reliability, quality, 

performance and future proof 

technology, said the company. 

OPTIMUM SET UP TIME 

In operation, the Multivac 

Pack Pilot enables the 

machine to be set up to the 

optimum level using machine 

control support. When new 

recipes are created, the 

machine parameterises itself 

to the optimum operating 

point, using the die set data 

and the features for the pack, 

product and packaging 

material that have been 

selected by the user. 

This means that the 

machine can be used without 

special operator knowledge. 

Pack Pilot has access 

As an option, the X-tools can be designed with a narrower edge trim width 

so film trim is reduced by up to 30% and also to aid operating reliability 

to comprehensive expert 

knowledge, which benefits 

from process data from 

over 1,000 new packaging 

solutions per year. 

The X-line produces packs 

with maximum packaging 

reliability, consistent quality 

and very high output without 

production loss during any 

machine start-up. 

This leads to significant 

savings in product, packaging 

materials and production 

time, said Multivac. 

The X-line has a very 

high level of sensor control, 

whereby the Multi Sensor 

Control captures all the 

relevant parts of the process. 

Using closed control circuits, 

the sensor system constantly 

captures a wide range of 

process values, such as 

for forming, evacuation 

and sealing. 

ALL IS INTEGRATED 

Even the forming and sealing 

dies are integrated into the 

sensor control via electronic 

sensor modules. 

The intuitive HMI 3 Multi- 

Touch user interface is 

high-resolution and is 

equivalent to the operating 

logic of today’s mobile devices. 

It enables the operating 

processes to be controlled 

even more easily and reliably, 

and it can be individually set 

to the particular operator. 

This includes different 

access rights and operating 

languages. User login is 

contactless by means of RFID 

chip cards. All the relevant 

machine parameters are 

displayed on one screen page. 

A new die generation called 

X-tools is designed to offer 

low operating costs. 

T 001793 425800 

W wwww.multivac.co.uk

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New Machinery 

Flexible screw conveyor with 

trough hopper is flexible unit 

A 

new flexible screw 

conveyor with trough 

hopper from Flexicon 

can receive material from 

multiple outlets of feeders, 

grinders, blenders and other 

process equipment. 

The hopper features an 

extended length charging 

adapter that exposes 1143mm 

of the flexible screw rotating 

within an included U-shaped 

trough to charge material 

entering the hopper at any 

point. The rugged inner 

screw is the only moving part 

contacting material, and is 

offered in numerous designs 

to handle both free and non 

free flowing materials 

including products that packs, 

cakes or smears, with 

no separation of blends. 

Degradation is minimised on unit 

Material exits the conveyor 

below the rive point, 

precluding contact with 

bearings or seals. 

The hopper is equipped 

with a stainless steel grate for 

worker safety. 

Smooth, crevice free 

surfaces of the screw and 

tube interior allow in-place 

flushing with water, steam 

or cleaning solutions through 

a lower clean-out cap and/or 

upper discharge housing. 

The flexible screw can also 

be removed through the 

clean-out for separate 

sanitising and inspection 

of the polymer conveyor tube 

and stainless steel hopper, 

as well as the screw. 

T 01227 374710 

W www.flexicon.co.uk

Components 


Bread dough mixers are 

best for test and lab uses 

General residues can be cleaned 

Cabinet-style washer 

can be customised 

for many returnables 

Industrial Washing Machines 

has developed a new cabinetstyle 

washing machine that can 

be readily customised to provide 

high-performance washing and, 

where necessary, sanitising 

for a wide variety of returnable 

transit containers including 

pallet boxes, bins and bin lids. 

The new machines can be 

configured for applications in 

the food industry, and in other 

industry sectors including 

automotive manufacture. 

Designed with efficiency and 

cost-effective operation in mind, 

the new cabinet washers feature 

robust, easy to clean construction 

and an intuitive operator 

interface. The throughput is 

dependent on the degree and 

type of soiling but the machine is 

typically capable of achieving up 

to 20 cycles per hour. 

T 0121 459 9511 

W www.indwash.co.uk 

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Two machines for test 

bakery and laboratory 

applications have been 

added to the range of Baker 

Perkins Tweedy bread dough 

mixers – the Tweedy 8 and 

Tweedy 20 have maximum 

batch capacities of 8 and 

20kg respectively. 

They are intended for use 

by high-output bakeries for 

development work on new 

products; ingredient suppliers 

working on new formulations 

to improve high-speed mixing; 

and research organisations 

studying high speed mixing 

and other aspects of the bread 

making process. Applications 

in artisan scale bakeries, 

bagel, pastry and other bakery 

sectors are also anticipated 

by the company. 

The small batch size is 

ideal for research and testing 

purposes: a viewing port in 

the lid allows progress of the 

mix cycle to be monitored and 

process parameters can be 

repeatedly changed to analyse 

and assess results. For even 

greater flexibility, the batch size 

may be reduced by up to 50% 

without affecting the process. 

Tweedy mixing systems are used for the complete range of bread doughs 

All the important process 

control features found on 

the production mixers are 

incorporated, including 

variable speed control and 

pressure-vacuum mixing for 

enhanced texture control. 

This allows exact replication 

of the process of production 

scale systems, enabling new 

product developments to be 

successfully scaled up to full 

production. 

The machine is compact 

with an integrated control 

panel and mounted on 

wheels for easy mobility. 

The mixing bowl has an 

electric tilt mechanism for 

easy discharge. 

T 01733 283000 

W www.bakerperkins.com 

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Labelling, New Machinery Coding & Marking 

Making the 

most of joint 

bakery offer 

GEA Comas and GEA Imaforni 

joined together to present their 

range of integrated bakery 

solutions at interpack securing 

order agreements in the bakery 

segment for approximately 

¤ 10 million during the event. 

The show was the first time 

the two baking specialists had 

come together to exhibit as part 

of GEA. The stand was therefore 

designed to show visitors 

that GEA is a single business 

partner for complete solutions 

in industrial bakery applications 

with the opportunity to access 

a wider and more complete 

technology and application range. 

“It was great to have GEA 

Comas and GEA Imaforni 

together under one roof,” said 

Marco Gandini, head of bakery 

applications for GEA. 

“It’s obvious from the value of 

the orders taken, and the level of 

general interest shown by visitors 

in our combined offering that 

they like having the opportunity 

of complete production lines.” 

Technologies on show 

included: GEA Imaforni hard 

biscuit and cracker sheeting line; 

GEA integrated solution for soft 

biscuit and cookie production 

line featuring a GEA Comas 

co-extruder and a GEA Imaforni 

rotary moulder; a high-capacity 

GEA Comas cupcake production 

with GEA Imaforni tunnel oven; 

and GEA Comas Tartomatic 

compact pie machine. 

T 01908 513500 

W www.gea-foodsolutions.com 

Combined competence on show 

Bagger offers hygiene 

to challenging sectors 

Hayssen Flexible 

Systems launched 

its vertical form, fill 

and seal (VFFS) machine 

at its imPacked in-house 

exhibition in June. 

This bagger is available in 

two versions and offers high 

speed intermittent motion 

with precise film control. 

Called Verus, the machine 

demonstrated in Beeston 

had already been sold to a 

cheese company. 

The flexible bagger 

produces a large range of 

bag styles including quad, 

block bottom, gusseted, 

pillow, strip and resealable 

zipper. Sealing systems 

are available for PE and/or 

heatseal materials. 

“The high operational 

efficiency of the Verus is 

achieved by its reliable, 

functional and durable 

design and construction, 

but also its ease of use, 

operation and maintenance,” 

says Tony Crofts, sales and 

marketing director, EMEA 

at Hayssen. “Bag format 

changeovers are a matter 

When gas analysis in food 

packaging gets difficult, 

for instance when tiny 

particles in fine-grained 

foods clog the filters of gas 

analysers, back-purging keeps 

the lines clear. 

These foods pose a 

challenge to any quality 

inspector but this new 

development from Witt is 

extending the service life of 

these devices significantly. 

“Gas analysers do have 

built-in filters to protect 

the pump and sensor,” 

Two versions of the Verus VFFS 

machine are available: the 35 and 

the 45. Both these machines handle 

various flat bag widths efficiently 

of minutes between simple 

format sizes.” 

Up to 110 bags a minute, 

depending on bag 

style and size, can 

be achieved on the 

machine. 

The Verus 35 

handles flat bag 

widths between 

50 and 320mm 

while the Verus 45 

version handles 

flat bag widths of 

a minimum 70mm 

and a maximum 

of 400mm. 

“With its 

multitude of 

features and 

options, we believe 

the Verus bagger is one of 

the most versatile, efficient 

and competitive machines on 

the market,” says Crofts. 

Also demonstrated during 

the week-long open house 

event was the Hayssen DoyZip 

380 that was launched at 

interpack in May. Croft says 

the machine can produce the 

biggest Doy bag available 

– with a height of 380mm – 

along with other bag formats. 

T 0115 967 8787 

W www.hayssen.com 

Back-purging device helps to keep lines 

clear by keeping gas analysers working 

says Martin Bender from 

Witt. “However, clogging is 

unavoidable when particles 

get sucked in.” Thanks to 

Witt’s new back-purging filter, 

this is now a thing of the past. 

The device is built into the 

suction pipe, where it does 

its job automatically. 

FOODSTUFFS HANDLED 

Whether handling milk 

powder, coffee or flour dust, 

the back-purging device 

registers the accumulation 

of particles on the filter, from 

the resultant line pressure 

increase. If the filter gets 

clogged, it is blown clean 

from behind. 

It is also possible to run 

this filter flushing manually. 

No changes to the gas 

analyser are required and 

even the filters remain 

untouched. 

The device’s stainless steel 

housing measures 172 x 242 

x 343mm and it uses a 230 V 

power supply. 

T 01925 234466 

W www.wittgas.com

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Installation News 


Press-fit lidder offers a range 

of efficient and reliable gains 

Cleaning products 

manufacturer Star 

Brands has increased the 

efficiency and reliability of its 

high speed filling line since 

installing a new hygienic 

design press-fit lidding 

machine from Partners in 

Packaging (PiP) to apply lids 

to tubs of soap powder. 

Built by PiP in the UK, to 

GMP standards with a balcony 

style design, the new R Series 

uses the well proven rotary 

pick and place mechanism for 

picking and presenting the 

lids to the incoming product. 

In operation, four driven 

pick heads rotating on 

planetary gears and driven 

by an intermittent drive 

servo motor, pick the lid from 

the magazine using suction 

heads. Pots arriving from 

upstream are policed into 

the machine on the transport 

conveyor using a simple 

gating mechanism to ensure 

a minimum gap is achieved, 

and the leading edge of the 

pot picks up on the lid which 

is presented at an angle to 

the pot itself. 

As the pick head rotates, lid 

The new R Series press-fit lidder can cope with speeds of up to 120 a minute 

placement is completed and 

the lid compression conveyor 

then snaps the lid into place. 

“The use of four pick heads 

means the machine runs at 

an extremely relaxed rate, 

presenting the lids to the 

incoming pots before being 

snapped into place using the 

integral compression belt,” 

explains Paul Kirby, operations 

director at Star Brands. 

“The R Series lidder is part 

of a high speed filling line 

and we find it to be a good 

workhorse, offering high 

efficiencies and reliability,” 

he continues. “It has a very 

compact footprint, and is 

simple to operate and also 

size change.” 

Specified to handle two 

sizes of product for this 

application, the R Series lidder 

takes a maximum of a couple 

of minutes to change size, 

says director at PiP Duncan 

Macintyre. The pick head 

height is adjustable using a 

handwheel located at the front 

of the machine, and different 

lid sizes are accommodated 

using a quick change 

magazine mask which is 

pre-set to the required 

parameters. 

Supplied in left and right 

hand versions, the R Series is 

available in either intermittent 

drive or continuous drive with 

scroll-policing of incoming 

products for speeds of up to 

120 a minute. The machine 

has a touch screen HMI with 

simple to navigate menus, and 

full height guard doors on the 

front of the machine for total 

access to the product. 

T 01706 369000 

W www.partnersinpackaging.com 

Henderson Food Machinery Company – Working in Partnership 

Henderson Food Machinery, Irelands’ Largest Supplier of New & Used Food Processing 

and Packaging Equipment has signed a joint partnership agreement with Moody Process 

Equipment for them to market the range of equipment HFM offers to customers in 

Ireland. 

“This venture represents the final piece of the HFM strategy,” said Managing Director 

David Henderson. HFM states it wants to tap in to demand in England, Wales & Scotland 

and Moody Process Equipment are the ideal partner to work with going forward in the 

future. 

Based in Retford, Nottinghamshire, Moody Process Equipment have a strong Sales & 

Marketing team, with excellent after-sales service on the wide range of equipment on 

offer. 

Malcom Wilkinson, Director of Moody Process Equipment will head up the team in the 

UK, and stated this is exciting times for the food industry, especially with all the quality 

machinery on offer. 

Henderson Food Machinery and Moody Process Equipment will be offering an extensive 

range of new processing and packaging machinery from Slicing, Dicing, Mincing, Sieving, 

Grinding, Shredding, Cooking & Cooling, Mixing, Depositing, Tumbling, Tray Sealing, 

Thermoforming, End of Line Hygiene Equipment and many more applications. 

“HENDERSON FOOD MACHINERY is 

delighted to announce that it has been 

appointed as the exclusive distributor for 

Porlanmaz Bakery Equipment in the UK 

and Ireland. Porlanmaz has been 

manufacturing bakery equipment in 

Turkey since 2001 and is renowned 

internationally for its top quality 

products, quality control and post 

production after sales service.Please 

contact Henderson Food Machinery for 

more information on the Porlanmaz range 

of ovens, dough processing and all your bakery machinery 

requirements”. 

Henderson Food Machinery 

www.hendersonfoodmachinery.com 

E: sales@hendersonfoodmachinery.com 

Tel: +4428 9099 4202 

Moody Process Equipment 

www.moodyprocessingequipment.co.uk 

E: malcolm.wilkinson@moodyprocessingequipment.co.uk 

Tel: +44 7970 947155



Pick and place robots deliver 

gentle and efficient handling 

The Delfi solution from Bosch Packaging Technology has worked well as the rusk manufacturer Brandt has boosted line output significantly at its site 

German food company 

Brandt is using flexible 

robotic technology from 

Bosch which is delivering 

gentle and accurate handling 

for its traditional rusks 

with irregular surfaces or a 

premium chocolate coating. 

The flavour coatings 

applied to some rusk types 

is a new departure for the 

company and initially, created 

some packaging challenges. 

The freshly baked rusk 

slices are randomly placed 

on the conveyor belt during 

production and to pack the 

slices into paper trays, the 

company was looking for 

highly versatile pick and 

place technology. 

Products needed to be 

oriented and positioned with 

accuracy, and in straight lines, 

with quality checks to ensure 

that only products meeting 

the quality standards were 

packaged. Moreover, gentle 

handling was essential, 

particularly for rusks with 

irregular surfaces or the new 

premium chocolate coating. 

A Delfi feed placer, which 

features an integrated vision 

system and three Delta 

robots from Bosch Packaging 

Technology was selected for 

the task. 

“We were confident that 

Bosch had asked the right 

questions, really addressed 

our product 

needs and come 

up with the most 

suitable solution 

for us,” explains 

Marco Geimer, 

plant manager 

of the Brandt 

plant in Ohrdruf, 

Germany, the 

man behind the 

decision to buy 

the machine. 

The Delfi 

solution has 

worked well 

as the rusk 

manufacturer 

was able to 

boost its output 

significantly. 

This increase can 

be attributed to both a 

higher pick and place speed 

and also a lower rejection rate 

which results from gentler 

product handling. Two end 

effectors per robot pick the 

rusk slices and place them 

into the infeed chain of the 

downstream tray loader. 

Product handling is more 

hygienic on the new line 

Here, the products are lifted 

up very carefully by Venturibased 

end effectors because 

this approach ensures that 

the robots’ air tubes are 

protected from 

contamination 

with product 

particles. 

“The machine 

is designed 

to handle 390 

products per 

minute,” says 

Geimer. 

“We are looking 

to achieve this 

quantity by 

optimising 

the entire 

production 

process step 

by step.” 

It was 

important 

for Brandt 

to pack the 

various types of rusks, with 

their different properties, on 

a single line. Currently, the 

Delfi system is handling four 

different flavours including 

rusks with a chocolate or a 

coconut coating. 

And the Delfi feed placer 

is also able to handle any 

increased volumes in the 

future. The integrated and 

camera-based vision system 

ensures precise picking and 

placing by recording all 

products before they are being 

picked up by the robots. 

Via parameter settings of 

the vision system, new 

product formats can be added 

and easily simulated on the 

human machine interface 

(HMI), says Bosch. 

This can be executed 

without using actual products 

and during production. 

New product types also 

present the company with 

novel challenges from a 

quality assurance perspective 

but the new system 

performs continuous quality 

inspections which were 

previously done manually. 

“Product handling is now 

more hygienic and efficient 

than ever,” says Geimer. 

“The Delfi picker is working 

so perfectly that we’re 

even receiving feedback 

from employees when the 

production process on other 

machines isn’t working quite 

so well.” 

T 01332 626262 

W www.boschpackaging.com



Twin aperture detector 

brings operational gain 

Family baker Borgesius 

recently took delivery 

of a new twin lane 

multi-aperture Stealth metal 

detector for its Amsterdam 

factory that was built in the 

UK by Fortress Technology. 

Dutch manufacturer Jansen 

Control Systems supplied 

the customised installation, 

integrating the twin-aperture 

single metal detector with a 

new section of robust, easy to 

clean conveyor. Two special 

reject systems, one for each 

lane, were also included. 

Incorporated with the 

bakery’s existing cooling 

tower, the entire footprint of 

the new inspection system 

measures less than 1.7 metres 

at its widest point and less 

than 5 metres in length. 

Within 12 hours of 

installation, the bakery’s 

new factory was running at 

full capacity and accurately 

inspecting 14,000 loaves 

per shift. 

The twin lane project 

came about after Borgesius, 

which already has 15 

Fortress metal detectors 

installed in its six bakery 

facilities in the Netherlands, 

approached Jansen to discuss 

the feasibility of having a 

twin lane conveyor with 

an individual reject system 

for each lane. “Rather than 

The twin lane, twin-aperture detector is part of the fully automated system 

having one metal detector 

head spanning both lanes, 

the bakery wanted to be able 

to measure if there was a 

particular metal contaminant 

issue in the individual line,” 

explains Jansen Control 

Systems managing director 

Gerard Schuurman. 

Fortress was the only 

company Schuurman knew 

of that could provide a 

single unit with two in-built 

individual apertures within 

the same frame. 

Prior to this installation, 

operatives had to manually 

take the bread loaves from the 

cooling tower and load them by 

hand onto a separate conveyor 

for inspection. Having the 

twin lane system now gives 

Borgesius the capacity to 

inspect 3,600 loaves an hour. 

A bakery spokesperson 

says the twin lane metal 

detection technology enables 

us to maintain our European 

reputation for the highest 

quality bread and continue 

meeting the stringent retailer 

Codes of Practice. 

T 01295 256266 

W www.fortresstechnology.co.uk 

Reliability has been improved 

Replacement coders 

have improved 

overall efficiency 

Reduced waste, mess, and 

downtime are the key benefits 

of coders from Interactive Coding 

Equipment (ICE) installed by 

Rockline Europe, provider of 

various consumer goods, at its 

factory in Redditch. 

In replacing its existing 

continuous ink jet coders, 

Rockline was seeking cleaner and 

more efficient models which had 

the capability to keep up with line 

throughputs. In particular, the 

new coders had to be reliable and 

be able to operate consistently 

at high speeds. 

Rockline has therefore 

installed 13 ICE Zodiac thermal 

transfer coders and nine ICE 

Viper thermal ink jet printers: 

the Zodiacs are used for primary 

packaging and the Vipers for 

secondary packaging. 

“Rockline is a highly 

automated high volume lowcost 

manufacturer, and the ICE 

machines are reliable and can 

keep up with the demands of 

our operation,” explains Simon 

Neale, UK general manager 

at Rockline. 

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Carton feeder and inkjet coder 

meets increased volume needs 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dragonfly Foods has 

removed the production 

bottleneck caused by 

manual date coding and 

hand labelling by installing 

a PrintSafe udaFORMAXX 

carton feeder with continuous 

inkjet coder to print date codes 

for its 15 different product lines 

which are all made from 

plant-based proteins. 

“Before we had the carton 

feeder, we were hand labelling 

with one of the sticker guns 

that you see in supermarkets,” 

explains production manager 

at Dragonfly Gareth Burton. 

“It was an outdated way of 

doing it and prone to error.” 

Now, the sleeve and carton 

feeder has given Dragonfly 

Foods a fast, accurate method 

of printing date codes. 

Date codes are always accurate 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operators load the cartons 

into a magazine, select 

the required message and 

quantity and press go. The 

machine feeds the packs 

underneath a print head and 

into a hopper for collection. 

“What I really like about the 

udaFORMAXX is that we can 

set it up for each day with the 

right codes and they can’t be 

changed accidentally,” says 

Burton. “It’s also accurate.” 

Operators find it easy to 

code packs for the different 

batches produced each day 

and production numbers 

have increased substantially, 

says Burton. 

T 01962 761761 

W www.printsafe.co.uk


Line upgrade meets need for 

high speed water production 

French mineral water 

producer Carola has 

upgraded its production 

line to cope with a new, lighter 

PET bottle and an increase 

in output speed of 3,000 

containers an hour. 

The upgrade was carried 

out by Gebo Cermex, with 

installation and ramp-up to full 

speed production achieved in 

less than three weeks. 

Following the buy-out of 

the company by Spadel, a 

new investment strategy 

called for a complete 

overhaul of the Ribeauvillé 

PET line facility, in Alsace 

(France). The ageing line was 

causing problems because 

of its limited flexibility, 

restricted accumulation 

capacity, reduced speed due 

to the limitations of certain 

machines within the line and 

poor working conditions. 

More importantly, the 

performance of the line was 

preventing Carola from keeping 

pace with the fast-changing 

beverage market and the 

fluctuations in consumer 

demand. The company was also 

eager to minimise the weight of 

the PET bottles it was producing 

and to switch to more modern 

packaging formats. 

The new investment 

strategy also included a plan 

for the reduction of overall 

production costs at the plant. 

The line covers everything including 

palletisers that handle each format 

Gebo-Cermex had previously supplied a returnable glass line to the bottler with impressive project management 

Within this type of 

installation, which covers 

everything from bottle 

conveyors right through to 

the palletiser, the connection 

between the lines various 

pieces of equipment is vitally 

important, says Gebo Cermex. 

Output performance is largely 

determined by the efficiency 

with which the line handles 

increases in speed as well 

as stoppages. 

The project at the Carola- 

Ribeauvillé factory presented 

the team in Gebo Cermex 

with several other challenges. 

The company had to change 

everything within a complete 

production line without 

creating a supply problem 

for the water producer. This 

meant all the equipment had 

to be replaced and the entire 

line back in operation at full 

speed and in all formats, 

in no more than 21 days. 

Also, the customer had to 

upgrade the line, taking up 

no more room in a facility 

where floorspace was already 

at a premium. 

José Lefort, industrial 

manager at Carola-Ribeauvillé 

has been pleased with the 

project. “The line productivity 

target has been met - and 

speed and line regulation 

have been optimised for all 

packaging formats,” he says. 

Productivity targets have been met 

The new line has increased 

output rates by 3,000 bottles 

per hour for all pack formats. 

This increased productivity 

means that Carola can now 

produce greater volumes to 

tighter deadlines, enabling 

the company to respond 

to spikes in demand while 

reducing the stock managed 

by an external storage 

provider. “Increasing output 

speeds by about 3,000 bottles 

per hour for all formats has 

allowed us to switch to two, 

eight-hour shifts – with barely 

any production now taking 

place at night,” Lefort tells 

Machinery Update. 

The most crucial stage of the 

project, the dismantling of the 

existing line and the assembly 

of the new equipment, took 

place well within schedule 

and the restart proved 

successful for all formats, 

which now includes packs 

of 6, 8 and 24 bottles. All the 

machines and conveyors were 

reinstalled as close as possible 

to the ground so that they were 

directly accessible with no 

need to climb up on walkways 

– unlike the previous line. 

Line control is one of the 

major strengths of the new 

system, not least the advanced 

management of stoppages 

and restarts on the conveyors 

and the accumulation tables 

between the machines. 

Format changeovers on the 

new line are also much more 

efficient than they used to be. 

T 01480 455919 

W www.gebocermex.com



Full integration delivers 

efficiencies on crisp line 

Operators like the user interface 

Inspection units are 

installed at solid 

dose manufacturer 

Following the expansion of 

its solid dose operations, 

USA contract manufacturer 

AAA Pharmaceuticals has 

installed customised Insight 

Pharmaceutical (PH) metal 

detectors from Loma Systems. 

Produced from polished 

stainless steel for hygiene and 

wash down benefits, the PH 

metal detector’s compact design 

allows it to be located on virtually 

any line without disrupting the 

plant layout. 

The tablet presses at AAA 

Pharmaceutical are located in 

close proximity so Loma set up 

the frequencies on the metal 

detectors to avoid interference. 

“With the help of the Loma 

team, the metal detectors were 

installed quickly and have proved 

easy to use, clean and maintain,” 

says Jeff Biggs from AAA. 

T 01252 893300 

W wwww.loma.com 

Flexibility is the key 

for cosmetics maker 

The new Linx 10 

coder has earned 

high praise from a 

cosmetics contract 

manufacturer for 

greatly improving 

the efficiency 

of the company’s short-run 

production operation. Creative 

Cosmetics has been particularly 

impressed with the coder’s 

flexibility, manoeuvrability and 

also its ease of use. 

T 01480 302100 

W www.linxglobal.com 

Ishida has installed a 

complete potato crisp 

packing line at leading 

Czech manufacturer Petr 

Hobža’s factory in the 

Czech Republic to give the 

manufacturer complete 

control over its process. 

The fully integrated 

line comprises a 16-head 

Ishida CCW-RS-216B 

multihead weigher and 

two Astro bagmakers, 

TSC-RS seal testers and 

DACS-G checkweighers 

incorporating Ishida’s IDCS 

data capture and production 

monitoring software. 

The 16 head weigher is 

operating in twin mode, 

with eight weigh and booster 

hoppers feeding each of the 

two Astro bagmakers. 

Handling two bag sizes 

of 60g and 175g, the line 

is achieving speeds of 180 

and 110 packs per minute 

respectively, delivering 

accuracy to within 0.1g of the 

target weight, with overall 

efficiency levels close to 100%. 

While ensuring effective 

quality control monitoring for 

the integrity of each sealed 

bag, the Ishida seal tester also 

provides valuable feedback 

for the overall production 

of the potato crisps. This 

high level of monitoring is 

further supported by the 

Ishida Data Capture System 

(IDCS) which records and 

analyses data from every 

pack that goes across each 

checkweigher to provide 

fully customisable real-time 

production information and 

displays the line’s overall 

equipment efficiency in terms 

of availability, performance 

and quality. 

The multihead weigher and 

bagmaker combination has 

been specifically designed 

for snacks applications. 

As well as the accuracy of 

Ishida’s multihead weighing 

technology, the Astro bagmaker 

features servo-motors and 

software controlled variable 

seal time, jaw temperature 

and pressure for the effective 

sealing of each pack. 

The reliability of the 

equipment is another 

important factor for a line 

that is in operation 16 hours 

The site produces about 600kg of crisps every hour in a variety of flavours 

The line includes multihead weighers, bagmakers and also checkweighers 

a day, five days a week, while 

the local support provided by 

Ishida is a further significant 

advantage. 

“Having a single supplier 

for the entire line who can 

respond quickly means that 

in the event of a problem, the 

issue can be speedily sorted 

so that the line is up and 

running again,” explains 

director Petr Hobža. “It also 

means that we do not have to 

keep lots of spare parts on site 

as these can be supplied only 

if they are needed.” 

The Strážnice factory 

produces about 600kg 

of crisps every hour, the 

equivalent of 10,000 60g 

bags, in a variety of flavours 

including salt, garlic, 

bacon, and pepper and salt. 

Changeovers between flavours 

is simple using the remote 

control unit on the weigher 

where all pre-set information 

is stored, while all parts of the 

weigher are easy to remove 

and replace for rapid cleaning. 

As well as the complete 

line, Petr Hobža is operating a 

second Ishida CCW-216/Astro 

combination system and this 

line will also become fully 

integrated with the arrival of 

a further two seal testers and 

checkweighers later this year. 

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Feature: Automation, robotics and vision 

This feature looks 

at how UK PLC is 

eyeing automation 

We are living in 

turbulent times 

in all sorts of ways 

and no more so than 

in manufacturing 

where the consequences of 

Brexit are looming large. No one 

knows what these will be, but the 

immediate one seems to be a loss 

of workforce, which is where robots 

may have a key role. 

It is no secret that the UK has 

been slow on the uptake where 

robotics are concerned but the 

British Automation & Robot 

Association (BARA) is currently 

more optimistic than ever about 

the use of robotic automation. 

Turn to page 34 to find out why 

it thinks this. 

It is also a generally held view 

that workers can be anti-robotics 

due to the perceived threat to 

the jobs they bring. However, 

a recent survey has found that 

British manufacturing workers are 

confident robots will not be taking 

their jobs over the next decade. 

According to an Epson survey, 

62% felt manufacturing roles 

would evolve rather than be 

replaced, while 59% are confident 

machines will not be able to 

replicate human qualities like 

flexibility, creativity and reaction. 

INCREASING ROBOT UPTAKE 

Whether this is true or not, 

UK manufacturers are currently 

looking at robotic technology, 

even in the slow to automate food 

industry. And not only big robots 

at the end of a line, but pick and 

place robots handling all sorts of 

products. On page 38, you will find a 

food company producing traditional 

shortbread products taking the 

first plunge into robot technology. 

Operations director at Dean’s of 

Huntly Les McArthur believes the 

development in grippers is helping 

hasten robot uptake. “Gripper 

technology handles our delicate 

shortbread without a problem,” 

he tells Machinery Update. 

Connecting 

the industry 

The so-called 

4th industrial 

revolution is 

connecting more 

and more 

processes for 

the greater good 

Of course, no major feature 

on automation is complete without 

covering Industry 4.0, the so-called 

fourth industrial revolution 

and what this may mean for the 

future of manufacturing. 

We have therefore dedicated 

many pages and words to this 

topic and the operational benefits 

that digitisation can deliver as 

well as what it actually means in 

practice. Although the integration 

of automation has increased 

significantly, reports suggest that 

just 8% of UK manufacturers have 

a significant knowledge of 

Industry 4.0, so hopefully many 

of the articles included will help 

to share knowledge. 

Technologies that help to 

pave the way for Industry 4.0 

was a key trend at interpack 

Industrial organisations are 

operating in ways they scarcely 

could have imagined a few 

decades ago. They are converging 

historically separate information 

technology and operations 

technology systems, and using 

mobile, analytics and cloud 

to increase connectivity and 

information sharing. And although 

this is significantly improving 

operations, it is also creating more 

potential entrance points 

for security threats. 

To address this, Rockwell 

Automation has developed a 

three-step approach for building 

an industrial security program 

that extends from the enterprise 

to the plant level, and helps 

mitigate risk across people, 

processes and technology. 

An e-book outlining this is 

on its webpage. 

• The next 40 pages cover all 

things Industry 4.0, robots, 

sensors and vision systems.



The potential for 

robotic uptake is 

more promising 

Chairman of BARA (British Automation & Robot Association) 

Mike Wilson says there is much happening in the UK just now 

that could drive a step change in the uptake of robotic automation 

A 

s many will know, the UK 

has been one of the slowest 

adopters of robot automation. 

Outside the automotive 

industry our robot density 

(number of robots per 10,000 employees) 

is 33 compared to 170 in Germany, 81 in 

Spain and 75 in France, according to the 

International Federation of Robotics, 

World Robotics 2016. China is currently 

very low on this measure, due to the very 

large number of workers, but this is set to 

change as it is now installing more robots 

than any other country in the world. 

The UK Government has recognised 

the need to improve productivity within 

UK manufacturing and, I believe, 

has also recognised the positive role 

robot automation can play. 

The recent Industrial Strategy green 

paper emphasised the need to improve 

productivity and recognised the low 

uptake of robots in the UK. It stated that 

Germany and France can produce in four 

days what we take five days to make. 

The Industrial Strategy paper called 

on industry to develop sector deals. 

These would effectively be a partnership 

between businesses, academia and 

government to address the specific 

barriers that are holding back each sector. 

It was not intended that these are asks 

for large investment by government but 

an opportunity to collaborate to put in 

place the necessary skills development, 

regulations and policy as well as the 

delivery mechanisms to enable these 

sectors to thrive. 

One of the key sector deals for robot 

automation will be the Industrial 

Digitisation Review (IDR). This is heavily 

oriented towards Industry 4.0 or the 

4th industrial revolution and industrial 

robotics is recognised as a key element 

of the review. In addition to the points 

above, this review is also addressing 

issues such as barriers and the question 

of jobs verses growth and productivity. 

The IDR is covering a range of industry 

sectors including food and beverage. 

This, I would argue, is therefore an 

opportunity for the food and beverage 

sector to influence the key actions that 

will be the outcomes of the sector deal. 

ROBOTS BRING GAINS TO FOOD 

Food and beverage is now being 

recognised as a major manufacturing 

sector which also has a need to increase 

the use of robot automation. The trend in 

robot use has been positive with a growth 

in robot use of more than 50% in 2016 

compared to 2015. However, this is from 

a relatively low base and we still use 

much less robot automation than our 

major competitors in Europe in this market. 

sUMMARY 

INCREASING USE 

■ UK is the slowest adopter of robotics 

■ The Government has recognised the need 

to increase productivity in manufacturing 

■ Industrial Strategy paper has called on 

industry to develop sector deals 

■ Food and drink has a pressing need to 

increase its use of robot automation due 

to future labour availability concerns 

There are also growing concerns related 

to the availability of labour, particularly 

in this sector. This is due to the historical 

heavy dependency on a non-UK labour 

force and the concern that one of the 

implications of Brexit may be that this 

labour pool chooses to relocate to other 

countries within the European Union. 

This may drive an urgent need for 

the food sector to significantly increase 

the use of robot automation in order to 

maintain its levels of production. 

A study by the Copenhagen Business 

School (Automation, labour productivity 

and employment – a cross country 

comparison) reviewed specific sectors 

across a number of European countries 

and also Japan. For food and tobacco,


Feature: Name here 

Food and beverage is now being recognised as a major manufacturing sector which also has a need to increase the use of robot automation, says 

BARA, although the number of installations have been increasing in the last few years as demonstrated by this equipment developed by PWR Pack 

the UK was placed equal last, with Japan, 

in terms of productivity. If we were to 

be as automated as the most productive 

country, Finland, we would increase 

our productivity by 13.7%. 

This conclusion demonstrates that the 

increased use of automation would not 

only help address the forecast labour 

shortages but would also significantly 

increase the productivity and 

competitiveness of the food sector. 

The positive aspect of our current 

position is that many of the solutions 

required have already been developed 

and proven in other countries. They may 

well need modifying to suit the specific 

needs of our factories, but the basic 

concepts and technologies already exist 

and are in use. However, there is a lack 

of awareness of these solutions. 

One major challenge may well be our 

supply chain for automation solutions. 

A key component of the supply chain is 

the system integration businesses that 

implement these automation solutions. 

In the UK, these are often relatively small 

businesses with limited resources. 

Due to the current lack of uptake 

of automation there is also limited 

technical resource within the food sector 

businesses to concept, specify and 

purchase robot automation systems as 

well as then operate and maintain these 

systems once they have been installed. 

Therefore, there needs to be strong 

co-operation between all companies within 

the sector as well as the supply chain for 

automation and also the education system 

There should be 

strong co-operation 

between all companies 

within the robot sector 

to ensure the needs of the industry can 

be met both in terms of the solutions, 

and also the expertise required to 

implement and operate these systems. 

This is where the sector deal can help. 

By identifying these barriers and 

proposing solutions, government support 

can be gained to ensure the appropriate 

resource can be applied, with support of 

industry. The submission of the sector 

deal was timetabled for the summer 

with decisions to be made later this year. 

Recent political events may cause some 

delays but we are still optimistic that the 

government remains committed to the 

industrial strategy it outlined in January. 

This could be our opportunity to make 

a once in a lifetime change to the use of 

automation within UK manufacturing 

and particularly drive increased use 

in the food and beverage sector. 

Let us all make the most of it. 

T 020 8773 8111 

W www.bara.org.uk



The UK Industrial 

Vision Association 

(UKIVA) was 

formed in 1992, 

shortly before 

the UK withdrew from 

the monetary European 

Exchange Rate Mechanism. 

In 2017, it celebrates its 25th 

anniversary against the 

backdrop of the UK leaving 

the European Union! 

“Some people might say 

‘nothing changes’, but in 

fact over the last 25 years just 

about everything has changed 

in the world of vision,” says 

UKIVA chairman Paul Wilson. 

Back in 1992, it was clear 

that UK industry was largely 

unaware of which company 

had what kind of experience 

and expertise in vision 

markets, and it was difficult 

for them to find out who 

they should be approaching 

for the best results. The 

UKIVA was formed to bridge 

that gap, and unlike many 

trade associations who get 

involved in political lobbying, 

the prime objective of the 

association has always been 

to promote the use of vision in 

industry, primarily through a 

series of educational activities. 

This desire to educate 

continues right up to the 

present day with the first ever 

Machine Vision Conference 

and Exhibition held at Arena 

MK in April (see Machinery 

Update – May/June 2017). 

This proved to be a great 

success with exhibitors, 

speakers and visitors alike. 

On the day, over 250 visitors 

had the chance to choose 

from 55 presentations held 

across seven presentation 

theatres, as well as to visit an 

exhibition hosting 57 of the 

world’s leading manufacturers 

and suppliers of vision 

components and systems. 

And the event certainly 

helped to demonstrate the 

technical revolution that has 

taken place over the years. 

The embryonic vision 

industry had to ‘borrow’ 

components from other 

industries but as vision 

The formation of the UKIVA was written about in the September/ October issue of Machinery Update in 1992 and 

25 years later, we celebrate the silver jubilee of the vision trade association on these two feature pages 

Celebrating 

anniversary 

The UKIVA has helped develop the sector since it was 

formed 25 years’ ago, as chairman Paul Wilson details 

became more established and 

the ‘semiconductor revolution’ 

took place, dedicated 

industrial vision components 

evolved along with a set of 

industry standards. Nowadays 

processors continue to get 

smaller and faster; cameras 

get smaller and offer higher 

resolution and frame rates 

Visitors and exhibitors were pleased with the format of the new UKIVA event 

and measurement software 

becomes more sophisticated 

yet easier to implement. 

Significant improvements 

continue to be made in optics, 

lighting and data management. 

Newer techniques become 

commonplace – for example 3D 

vision is now a ‘standard’ vision 

technique whereas vision has 

become established as a widely 

used enabling technology for 

quality control and automation 

throughout industry. 

The latest industry 

buzzwords are ‘embedded 

vision’ and ‘Industry 4.0’


where vision undoubtedly 

has a major role to play 

in the ‘smart’ factories 

of the future. Embedded 

vision offers an even closer 

interlinking between imaging 

and processing capabilities 

utilising low cost components 

to provide economy of scale. 

And all of this development 

seems a far cry from early 

industrial vision systems. 

These systems used cameras 

with a resolution of just a few 

hundred pixels, while today 

cameras with a resolution of 

many thousands of pixels are 

routinely available on most 

mobile phones. 

individuals, not just through 

quality control of the products 

we all buy but in everyday 

life, too. 

Traffic and surveillance, 

sport, medical diagnostics 

and solar energy are just some 

areas influenced by vision 

technology. There is every 

reason to expect that during 

the next 25 years, vision will find 

further applications in markets 

that don’t even exist today! 

T 020 8773 8111 

W www.ukiva.org 

CRYSTAL BALL GAZING 

And so what does the next 

25 years hold? 

“The vision market has 

enjoyed spectacular growth 

in the last 25 years and this 

shows no real sign of slowing 

down,” says Wilson. 

There are estimates that the 

global machine vision market 

will be worth in excess of $14 

billion by 2022. 

Nevertheless, there is bound 

to be some uncertainty for the 

UK vision market until the 

terms of Brexit are agreed, 

a deal that could also affect 

the European vision market as 

the UK is a major importer of 

European vision components. 

Over the last 25 years 

however, vision has 

expanded to encompass 

new applications, many of 

which did not exist in 1992. 

For example, household solar 

panels were not available, 

2D Datamatrix codes were not 

in use and the use of traffic 

cameras was in its infancy. 

Vision now touches so many 

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Dean’s of Huntly 

is making savings 

in time and labour 

Hhigh quality shortbread 

producer Dean’s took 

the bold step last 

year to instigate a 

project that would see 

its manual packing operation 

taken over by robots on one of 

their lines. Indeed, the Huntlybased 

company has not only 

embraced pick and place 

robotics by installing a bespoke 

system this March, but it is 

already considering what else 

the technology could do for its 

business in the future. 

Operations director at Dean’s Les 

McArthur instigated this complex 

project last year and initially 

approached four companies. 

Two dropped out quite quickly 

but of the remaining contenders, 

McArthur went with the proposal 

from PWR Pack, even though it was 

not the cheapest option. 

“PWR Pack instilled confidence in 

us that they would hold our hands 

and guide us through this whole 

process,” McArthur tells Machinery 

Update. “And this has been true 

right through the commissioning 

phase which went much better than 

we could have hoped for.” 

SPECIALLY DESIGNED UNITS 

PWR Pack has supplied a specially 

designed four robot solution for 

packing shortbread and biscuits 

into trays which are then flow 

wrapped. It was designed with four 

separate conveyor in-feeds to allow 

the team at Dean’s to supply it with 

anything from one to four different 

products which are then loaded 

automatically into shortbread trays. 

Dean’s produces all of its 

premium products by hand baking 

techniques which is why product is 

loaded onto the line by operators. 

Clever timing of the project has 

ensured the permanent staff 

members have remained since the 

installation of the machine, but 

the need for seasonal workers at 

peak times is now less of a burden. 

Reducing seasonal recruitment in 

this way, and increasing packing 

Automating 

has benefits 

PWR Pack has 

supplied a 

specially 

designed four 

robot solution 

for packing 

shortbread and 

also biscuits 

into trays which 

are then flow 

wrapped 

flexibility to cope with the dozens 

of SKUs produced at the factory, 

is paying dividends. 

“A high degree of flexibility 

was one of our absolute musts for 

the equipment,” says McArthur. 

And he is pleased to report that 

employees have been keen to work 

on the new equipment, too. 

MULTIPLE SKUs HANDLED 

This is why the system was 

specifically designed to be versatile 

and allow Dean’s to run different 

products from single component to 

multi-component assortment trays 

and either products on edge or flat. 

In operation, the unique grippers can 

place the biscuits flat or tilted and 

pack them into the tray to achieve 

perfect product presentation. 

The system was also supplied 

with a PWR Pack designed denester 

that can run a variety of different 

trays with minimal change parts. 

McArthur acknowledges that the 

food industry has not always been 

the quickest to take advantage of 

robot technology but he believes 

the advances in gripper design, 

as demonstrated on this machine, 

will help hasten their adoption. 

“Gripper technology has really 

moved on and it handles our 

delicate shortbread without 

a problem,” he says. 

“The equipment is already 

proving itself and helping us to 

keep labour costs under better 

control, not an easy task in the 

current climate,” he continues. 

“This is just as well as staple 

ingredient of shortbread butter 

is seeing prices rocket just now 

something that, unfortunately, 

the new system can’t help us with.” 

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Investing in the 

future of a 

total business 

Machinery Update talks to Andrew Armstrong from 

Fanuc UK about future trends and customer demands 

Manufacturer of automation 

and industrial robotic 

solutions Fanuc UK has 

invested more than 

£19 million in a new 

107,000sq ft facility at Ansty Park, 

Coventry to enable the business to further 

develop its offering and strengthen its 

position in the market. It opened the 

new HQ in May (see page 9). 

Crucially, all aspects of the business 

Andrew Armstrong from Fanuc’s UK business 

will operate under one roof, while the 

three-storey building is also home to 

a design, manufacturing and training 

facility, offices and showroom area. 

The business specialises in factory 

automation, which is split across three 

categories: robotics, machine tools and 

factory automation systems. Machinery 

Update talked to Andrew Armstrong, 

the UK sales and marketing manager, 

about future trends and what customers 

are asking for. 

MORE MACHINE CONNECTIVITY 

“In the future, we will see greater 

machine connectivity for ease of 

production control, machine monitoring 

and ‘large’ data collection for analysis/ 

process improvement and feedback 

control such as predictive maintenance,” 

says Armstrong. “There will also be 

increased use of soft safety systems such 

as our Dual Check Safety,” he continues. 

(Fanuc offers this across its range of 

products, which facilitates the interaction 

of robotics with machinery and machine 

tools to define the safety boundaries 

of a system). 

Armstrong also predicts better, simple, 

intuitive operator interfaces becoming 

more prevalent in the future while he 

also sees a rise in additive manufacturing 

technologies. 

“Far-East manufacturing for machine 

building (especially more traditional 

designs), will continue; some OEMs will 

control their design and use a third-party 

to build, but others will act as agents 

that just re-badge a product,” he says. 

Armstrong acknowledges that the 

food industry has been a slow adopter 

of automation – especially robotics 

but that the last few years have seen 

increased activity regarding the number 

of automation enquiries received. 

And these are anything from handling 

packaged parts to palletising and primary 

food handling. 

“The National Living Wage is driving 

the food industry to be more cost effective 

as where once labour was an easy 

solution to a problem, it is now 

becoming a financial burden,” he says. 

“This is even more important when two 

and three shifts are employed. 

He believes the simplest activity is for 

end of line packaging and palletising, 

especially with the plug and play 

technology that Fanuc can implement, 

such as vision and line-tracking solutions. 

Turning to its customers, Armstrong 

says machine builders are demanding 

high quality, qualified and well-trained 

sales support; application engineering 

support; and, increasingly, sub-contract 

design and/or project support. Customers 

are looking at four main areas: 

• More flexibility from the CNC control 

for non-metal-cutting applications; 

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commissioning by less technically 

experienced engineers. 

“We are repeatedly challenged to 

understand the details of a wide range 

of manufacturing and machine tool 

technologies,” says Armstrong. 

“This enables us to actively advise 

customers on their machine design and 

which of our Fanuc products and their 

features will help them to manufacture 

the best product.” 

One recent application from the 

company has been for acoustics 

company Bowers & Wilkins, where a 

significant amount of effort goes into 

the manufacture of the speaker cabinet 

and in some instances, the cabinet 

can represent the majority of the cost 

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of the finished product. 

Multi-layered, laminated and formed 

speaker casings are initially processed 

using traditional CNC machines to 

produce speaker apertures, as well 

as other features. Other structural 

components are then added to the outer 

casings to produce a sub-assembly, before 

being presented to one of three Fanuc 

robot finishing cells. 

ROBOTS OFFER REPEATABILITY 

The cells sand and smooth the surface 

of the speaker cabinets using a 

combination of a model M20iA/M20 

robots and interchangeable sanding 

heads. The repeatability of the robots, 

coupled with feedback from the robots’ 

force sensors, ensures the orbital sanding 

head applies consistent pressure to the 

cabinet surface. 

There is a total of six sanding heads 

within the cell – three on each side of the 

rotary table. The automated tool changer, 

which is fitted to the robot, makes it 

possible for the robot to change the 

sanding heads as required, whether this 

is during the process or at the end 

of the robot cycle. The systems are also 

able to change the sanding discs by using 

the robot to strip off the used disc and 

collect a new one from a stack located 

within the cell. 

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Domino Ax-Series: Coding 

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A mobile robot supplied by RNA Automation has 

helped to meet car seat assembly requirements 

RNA Automation has been 

responsible for introducing 

lightweight collaborative robots 

(cobots) from Universal Robots 

on a car seats production line 

which has been achieved in the same 

working space as before. 

The customer needed a small, mobile 

robot that could be used directly 

alongside personnel without safety 

guarding as the individual production 

steps take place one after another on a 

conveyor belt. The optimum solution also 

had to be easy to program for people with 

limited experience of robot technology. 

The small UR5 cobot fits within the 

space constraints easily and also helps 

to prevent errors. 

The robotic arm is responsible for 

screwing together automotive seat 

and rest frames with an end-of-arm 

screwdriver, completing about 8,500 

drilling actions every day. In operation, 

the seats are equipped with a transponder 

containing individual identification data. 

As soon as the seat arrives underneath 

the robot, the transponder is read and 

the robot tightens several screws on 

both sides of the seat. 

If screws are missing on a seat, the 

robot picks this product out and issues 

a warning signal. RNA says the result 

is an increase in both production speeds 

and product reliability. 

Thanks to the intuitive user interface 

of the UR5, any worker can program the 

robotic arm by dragging and dropping 

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Detecting food 

contamination 

Stemmer Imaging talks about how hyperspectral 

imaging can benefit food inspection procedures 

Inspection is a critical component of HACCP principles to detect physical 

hazard analysis and critical control contaminants on food production 

points (HACCP) programmes in the lines, they each have their limitations. 

food industry and, says Rob Webb Metal detection concentrates on the 

of Stemmer Imaging, hyperspectral identification of metal contaminants 

imaging now provides a powerful 

while x-ray inspection is only effective 

complementary approach for the 

if there is a sufficient difference in density 

machine vision engineer. 

between the contaminant and the product 

Its ability to identify differences in being inspected. 

the chemical composition of organic 

materials opens up major new 

IMAGES ARE COLOUR CODED 

possibilities for detecting impurities in Conventional machine vision systems 

food products. And most importantly, look for contaminants based on 

systems are now available that operate parameters such as size, shape and 

in real time, allowing them to be used on colour. Hyperspectral imaging, however, 

high speed production lines, he says. combines spectroscopical analysis with 

While metal detection, x-ray 

machine vision to allow images to be 

and conventional machine vision 

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example of confectionery products. 

The jelly beans shown in the main image 

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confectionery itself, making them difficult 

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This principle of chemical colour 

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This gives a ‘chemical fingerprint’ of 

the materials being imaged while each 

chemical component identified can be 

colour coded in the image. 

In this way, chemical differences in 

similar looking materials can be identified. 

The CVS Hyperinspect system from 

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The system also includes flexible, 

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Hyperspectral imaging reveals that jelly beans have the same composition and show as green, 

but the contaminants have a different chemical composition and are shown clearly here, in red 

Similarly, chemically identical 

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An IR-sensitive sensor then acquires 

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By simplifying the whole process, 

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Everybody’s 

talking about 

Industry 4.0 and, 

by now, most 

people have a 

notion of what it means to 

them,” says David Hannaby, 

Sick’s UK product manager 

for presence detection. 

“Yet, for many, it may still 

seem more of a remote vision 

of universal connectivity and 

data sharing than a day-to-day 

practical reality.” 

Looking at Industry 4.0 

from the perspective of a 

sensor manufacturer can 

make things seem clearer, 

because sensors are on 

the front line of this fourth 

industrial revolution, he 

continues. Without their 

fundamental ability to 

monitor processes and collect 

reliable, high-quality data at 

the field level in the first place, 

the Smart Factory would 

simply not exist. 

Industry 4.0 brings 

with it the opportunity for 

distributed intelligent control, 

where a greater number of 

process decisions are made 

autonomously by devices at 

the field level. As a result, 

we not only have new levels 

of flexibility, remote monitoring 

and diagnostics, but we can 

also build in an intelligent 

capability to identify and 

respond automatically 

to situations on the shop floor 

in real time, for example, 

to change parameter settings 

on a product changeover. 

USING SMART SENSORS 

For both manufacturers and 

machine integrators, that 

means opting for sensors, 

from now on, that are Industry 

4.0-ready and that can 

guarantee an open gateway 

for future connectivity 

while providing the best, 

most reliable and intelligent 

response to the specific 

production task in question. 

Smart Sensors can be 

defined in four key dimensions, 

says Hannaby. 

1. Enhanced Sensing: 

Firstly, it’s a pre-requisite 

Industry 4.0 enables machines to gather and use data in real time to deliver greater flexibility in production 

Sensors are 

vital to 4.0 

Sick UK talks about what how sensors are on the front 

line of making the fourth industrial revolution a reality 

that sensors must be able to 

detect or measure any object 

no matter what the product, 

or how dirty, dusty or wet the 

conditions are. Sensors are 

already well on the way to 

achieving this, in virtually 

all industrial automation 

applications. 

2. Efficient Communications: 

Just as important as the sensors 

themselves, is the power of 

IO-Link. Before IO-Link, the 

information collected on 

machines was, in a sense, 

‘trapped’ there, ie the data 

was not automatically visible 

and available to the control 

system. Then came IO-Link – 

and sensors were given a voice. 

All the PLCs, computers, 

data networks and factory 

nets don’t mean a thing if they 

don’t have quality data fed 

to them in real time from the 

sensors operating reliably on 

the shop floor. So, you could 

say that the combination of 

IO-Link and intelligent sensor 

technology has bridged 

the final gap that leads to 

transparent production. 

Smart Sensors respond to 

all type of control commands. 

They can receive new settings 

in seconds, for example, 

to enable rapid product 

changeovers down to 

“Batch Size 1”. Replacement 

sensors are ‘plug and play’ 

because they can be 

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pre-set parameters 

downloaded via IO-Link. 

3. Diagnostics: With the 

control system fully connected 

to “see” the sensor, you 

have access to a full range of 

diagnostic capabilities that 

were not available previously. 

Is the sensor about to reach 

the end of its life? Does it need 

cleaning? Will it last until the 

next production changeover? 

Through the combination 

of sensor self-monitoring and 

full transparency, production 

teams have much greater 

flexibility in monitoring their 

processes. They can adopt 

best practice approaches for 

effective condition monitoring 

and predictive maintenance. 

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4. Smart Tasks: Advances in 

chip technology have enabled 

advanced intelligence to be 

embedded in the sensors 

themselves to make them 

smarter. Smart Sensors can 

therefore take processing load 

away from the central control 

system to the sensor itself. 

Smart tasks are processed 

locally in real time without 

the need for the raw data to be 

uploaded to the central PLC 

program, processed and then 

acted upon. 

Industry 4.0 enables 

machines to gather and 

use data in real time to 

deliver greater flexibility 

in production. As a result, 

manufacturers can achieve 

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Digitisation will 

now change the 

face of industry 

Business manager – food and beverage at Siemens UK & Ireland 

Keith Thornhill believes the time is now right for machine builders 

to look to the many operational benefits that digitisation can deliver 

D 

igitisation is the technology 

focus behind Industry 4.0 and 

the central message of how 

it can enhance manufacturing 

and production capabilities 

is gaining traction. Advocates believe 

it will drive productivity improvements, 

competitiveness and business value, and 

digitisation is set to help revolutionise 

many aspects of today’s industrial 

landscape. 

Its importance has been recognised by 

all stakeholders from government down. 

Central to its successful adoption 

Keith Thornhill from Siemens UK & Ireland 

across the UK (including the machine 

building sector) will be the uptake 

of digital technologies and work is 

underway to ensure this happens. 

The current Industrial Digitalisation 

Review led by Siemens CEO Juergen 

Maier, on the back of the Government’s 

Industrial Strategy, aims to forge a 

roadmap for how best UK companies 

can adopt digital technologies. It also 

explains how they can make the most 

of the opportunities the digitisation of 

industry offers the economy in terms 

of supporting growth, high value job 

creation, skills and improving productivity. 

Industry 4.0 is a confluence of several 

major innovative technologies which are 

in a state of stability and maturity. 

These technologies have the ability to 

transform manufacturing through tools 

such as robotics, advanced sensors, 

3D printing, the Internet of Things, 

cloud computing, digital fabrication and 

also simulation. 

Supporting this, new business and 

marketing models will underpin the new 

technologies and manage a more organic 

relationship with customers and their 

requirements. 

For the machine building industry, 

digitisation also offers tangible benefits, 

helping to confront current market 

challenges, open doors of business 

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DIGITAL JOURNEY 

■ A number of digital technologies will 

prove beneficial for machine builders 

■ Speed to market will improve 

■ Infield performance will be efficient 

■ A more radical approach will be an 

‘outcome, service-based’ model 

■ UK manufacturing performance will be 

supercharged by the business models 

opportunity and examine new and 

innovative future business models. 

Looking towards a post-Brexit world 

brings with it an issue of potential 

labour shortages as traditional sources 

of labour are potentially restricted. 

Business operators are already wrestling 

with predicted challenges around future 

labour recruitment problems. 

This is an issue facing the food industry 

in particular, and a drop in available 

manpower, as well as increased costs, 

mean business models will be forced 

to adapt and seek out the operational 

support they will require from automation 

that will allow efficient and highly 

productive machines to take over some 

repetitive tasks.



Robotics, new sensors, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, digital fabrication and simulation will transform manufacturing 

As the largest UK manufacturing sector 

with a £100bn turnover and only 15% of 

the sector automated to sufficient level 

points, the food industry presents a real 

opportunity for machine builders to make 

their case based on the productivity and 

performance benefits digitally enhanced 

production machinery can deliver. 

A number of digital technologies will 

prove highly beneficial for the machine 

building sector as it looks to take the next 

steps on a digital journey. 

The use of proven simulation tools 

can undoubtedly speed up time to 

market, allowing concepts, product 

developments and testing to take place 

in a virtual world before transporting to 

the delivery of a real version. Real time, 

intelligence-driven data acquisition and, 

more importantly, its interpretation to 

guide critical decision making, will form 

the bedrock of a machine’s capability 

and offer a compelling argument for its 

validity to the market. 

But, speed to market and improved 

infield performance also paves the way 

for what could be the most exciting and 

transformative aspect of the digital 

roadmap for machine builders as 

Industry 4.0 unfolds. 

It is perhaps time to consider a radical 

approach and move towards an ‘outcome, 

service-based’ model, as opposed to how 

business has traditionally been conducted. 

In a classic approach, customers 

may want to install a new asset or 

production equipment on site to improve 

competitiveness. They would raise 

the required capital via their CAPEX 

programme and procure from a machine 

builder where Siemens would work on the 

technology specification. 

RADICAL APPROACH REQUIRED 

The OEM would install the asset on 

site with a standard warranty term and 

the end user is left to ensure the asset 

performs through its life. 

In a new world, Siemens and machine 

builders could sell a service to deliver 

an outcome the end user wanted from 

the equipment through a period of time. 

The required asset would be procured 

and installed and deliver a performancebased 

service with the end customer being 

charged a monthly operating or service fee. 

The inclusion of technology hardware, 

the digital infrastructure and the service 

is part of the new model, meaning a 

shift from CAPEX to OPEX strategies that 

allows customers to be more competitive, 

enabling them to spend on other strategic 

investments, and improve their cash flow. 

Digitisation opens the doors of 

opportunity for machine builders, 

allowing a move towards a world of 

solutions, outcomes, relationships, and 

partnerships. Access to digitalisation, 

automation, robotics, energy efficiency, 

big data, predictive analytics, 

software, 3D printing and simulation 

is now possible. And it helps to avoid 

important issues around future product 

obsolescence, the challenges of 

immediate capital outlay and the 

pressure of staying at the cutting-edge 

of technology innovation. 

The time is now here as a changing 

industrial landscape sparks ambitious 

thinking for new, more appropriate 

business models to emerge. Embracing 

this opportunity will not only strengthen 

machine builders’ future prospects, 

but the wholesale adoption of digital 

technologies will help supercharge 

UK manufacturing performance, drive 

productivity enhancements and underpin 

economic success. 

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W www.siemens.co.uk/automation

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Pacepacker thinks 

that cobots are not 

always the answer 

for food factories 

There is much talk 

about collaborative 

robots, or cobots, 

yet food processing, 

packaging and 

palletising lines remain largely 

cobot-free zones,” says Paul 

Wilkinson, commercial & 

information systems manager 

at Pacepacker Services. 

“This is because cobots, which 

currently account for an estimated 

5% share of the robot market, 

aren’t always the answer for every 

application,” he asserts. 

The majority of the projected 

growth for cobots will be driven 

by uptake in automotive assembly, 

electronic parts assembly and 

medical device manufacturing 

applications. However, the 

opportunities in food processing 

or packing lines may be limited by 

speed, while payload could prove 

a challenge for cobots assigned to 

palletising tasks, he says. 

“To minimise the risk of injury 

to humans, cobots generally 

work at much slower speeds than 

conventional robots,” he continues. 

“This means a cobot may not 

achieve comparable product 

handling pick and place speeds.” 

Workplace safety is forever 

evolving and for repetitive and 

strenuous tasks like manual 

product handling and packing, 

robots can address some of the 

key causes of human injuries. 

“When it comes to safety, you 

are ultimately reliant on people 

understanding and following the 

rules,” says Wilkinson. Equally, 

safety risks will vary depending 

on the robot and application. 

Robotic work cells and plant 

layouts evolve quickly. This means 

that the risks can change rapidly 

too, so it’s advisable to regularly 

schedule a review of your safety 

policies, he says. Contrary to 

popular belief, installing a cobot 

doesn’t eliminate workplace risk 

assessments. In fact, the ISO/TS 

To cobot or 

not to cobot 

Food processing, 

packaging and 

palletising lines 

are still largely 

a cobot-free zone 

15066 safety standard introduced 

for cobots in March 2016 means that 

a comprehensive risk assessment is 

still required for both the robot and 

peripheral equipment. 

“It must be noted that 

there are different degrees of 

collaboration and there are safe 

ways of introducing robot-human 

collaboration,” he emphasises. 

“A fully-caged, perimeter guarded 

robot at the end of the line isn’t 

always necessary, although may 

be warranted for heavy duty 

palletising operations.” 

Adding virtual fencing software 

is one way to bring physical 

safety guards down and protect 

In time, cobots may be a 

mainstay in food production 

as they are in other sectors 

a workforce from automation 

hazards. Fenceless robot cells 

also facilitate quicker access for 

performing maintenance and part 

changeover tasks. “In contrast, 

shutting down a fully guarded 

system could result in considerable 

production downtime, more 

product waste and requires skilled 

engineering operatives, which may 

not be available.” 

Cobots could account for a large 

chunk of future sales and yet, 

like other forms of automation, 

deployment of cobots within 

the food sector may be slower to 

emerge than other manufacturing 

industries. “Collaboration between 

humans and machines will be a 

key driver for future technological 

trends,” adds Wilkinson, “and 

in time, cobots may very well 

become the mainstay in food 

production too.” 

T 01371 811544 

W www.pacepacker.com

Signed, sealed? 

Delivered! 

If you’re visiting the PPMA Show at the NEC this September, come and see us on Stand C60 where we’ll be 

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Vision technology 

is vital in resisting 

reputation damage 

The three Rs of crisis 

management should 

always be part of 

recall policy, but 

businesses should 

also add a fourth – resistance,” 

says David Buckley, managing 

director of Sparc Systems. 

Here, he outlines his reasoning. 

There are arguably three rules 

to crisis management, or the three 

Rs as they have become known; 

review, respond and repair. 

In essence, we need to quickly 

review and understand what has 

gone awry, respond to all impacted 

and external stakeholders and 

then embark upon a reputation 

repair campaign. 

RESISTANCE IS IMPORTANT 

But, I believe, in the lean industries 

in which we all now operate 

we should be thinking about a 

fourth R, and one that happens 

before anything can go wrong 

– resistance. 

We need to put up as much 

resistance through our processes 

to prevent the onset of a product 

recall. That means resistance to 

human error, resistance to machine 

error and most definitely resistance 

to complacency in quality control. 

All very well, but how do 

we install watertight standard 

operating procedures in 

processing, particularly inspection 

and labelling systems? 

David Buckley is managing director 

at inspection company Sparc Systems 

Resisting a 

pack recall 

News of any 

health problems 

caused by a 

product travels 

at the speed of 

light in the 

modern world 

Fortunately we don’t need 

superman and his x-ray vision to 

avoid recalls. But if an inspection 

system doesn’t have the capability 

to inspect labels, the most common 

cause of product recalls at point 

of sale, a business is exposed to 

the fallout that results from an 

inaccurate label or illegible barcode. 

The best way to ensure you are 

minimising your risks of a product 

recall – or resisting one – is to go 

through every process as if it were 

compartments of a submarine. 

We should not move onto the 

next section until we have locked 

down the last one, watertight and 

airtight. And the final resistance 

is the label, or vision inspection. 

Vision inspection technology 

is designed to help manufacturers 

identify label information issues 

at the earliest opportunity, and 

allows for accurate information 

on pre-printed date codes and 

weights, and allergen information 

to be matched and confirmed 

automatically. 

The escalating nature of costs of 

a product recall deems it difficult 

to associate a cost to any given 

crisis, but we here at Sparc Systems 

believe that a correctly specified 

vision inspection system can 

potentially pay for itself ten-fold 

by avoiding just one, single recall. 

Also, the cost of a product 

recall can be resisted, if managed 

properly by a company. 

We can see how it hits bottom 

line but we also need to be aware 

of the exponential aftermath that 

can be associated with a crisis. 

It can, after all, severely affect profit 

margins, brand, reputation and the 

consumers and markets we serve. 

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Choosing the right 

building blocks to 

offer Industry 4.0 

Intelligent machines 

are the foundation of 

smart factories, but 

incorporating the right 

capabilities into their 

designs creates new challenges 

for machine builders,” says Mark 

Turner, applications manager 

at Lenze. 

For machine builders, the 

concepts of Industry 4.0 are not 

exactly new. However, it does have 

some very important implications 

for them. 

Manufacturers are adopting 

Industry 4.0 strategies at the 

boardroom level, pushing 

decisions about technology choices 

and investments up the corporate 

agenda and creating opportunities 

for builders to demonstrate the 

value of smarter solutions. Rising 

levels of automation associated 

with Industry 4.0 implementations 

means that machine builders will 

have more equipment to monitor 

and control, while ensuring 

compliance with customer-specific 

standards related to managing 

and communicating the resulting 

high volume data streams. 

Manufacturers will also want more 

from their machines, particularly 

higher levels of performance, 

reliability and availability. 

And they’ll also want different 

services too, says Turner. 

To meet these changing 

requirements, machine builders 

need to make the right decisions 

about the technological building 

blocks of their products. Industry 

4.0 will place increasing demands 

on machine communication 

networks, for example, requiring 

them to handle more data types 

and larger data volumes while 

retaining the deterministic 

performance essential for safety 

and reliability. 

Customers’ preferred network 

standards must also be easily 

accommodated. 

Choosing the most capable 

components for an application 

Building up 

smart skills 

Many of the key 

enabling 

technologies for 

Industry 4.0’s 

‘cyber-physical 

systems’ are 

exactly the ones 

companies are 

using already 

doesn’t mean taking the most 

complex and costly options. 

For example, servo drives may 

be the first choice for high speed 

motion applications, but the 

availability of 120Hz motors that 

deliver higher speeds, and drives 

with sophisticated built-in control 

capabilities now provide an 

alternative at much lower cost. 

THINK ABOUT THE SUPPORT 

Beyond the capabilities of 

their chosen components, 

machine builders also need to 

consider the tools and support 

available to develop smart 

machine applications. And while 

customers demand more complex 

functionality, they will still require 

fast delivery and affordability. 

The right development environment 

is therefore critical to achieving this. 

Machine builders can now 

offer remote support and also 

predictive maintenance choices 

“Our FAST application software 

toolbox, for example, can speed 

up control software development 

using modules with embedded 

functions that cover a wide 

range of common machine 

applications,” explains Turner. 

These modules are autonomous 

and can be exchanged and tested 

completely independently, making 

engineering quick, easy and 

reliable. “Indeed, FAST has been 

shown to eliminate up to 80% 

of the work required to develop 

machine control applications from 

scratch,” he says. 

Access to properly tested and 

proven off-the-shelf software 

technologies can also dramatically 

simplify another key Industry 4.0 

requirement – the secure transfer 

of machine data to the cloud. 

Machine information can now 

be shared across wider networks 

without risk of compromise or 

misuse – enabling seamless 

integration with customer systems 

while helping machine builders offer 

a range of added-value services. 

T 01234 753200 

W www.lenze.co.uk



We read many 

articles 

discussing 

Industry 4.0 and 

the Industrial 

Internet of Things and 

defining these concepts can 

be difficult. However what 

these and other similar ideas 

clearly introduce is a forward 

thinking mindset and this has 

in some cases already led to 

smart manufacturing, where 

intelligent machines, systems 

and networks are capable of 

independently exchanging 

and responding to information 

to manage industrial 

production processes. 

Smart manufacturing looks 

at the complete holistic view 

from customer demand and 

order processing, control of 

raw materials and ingredients 

to flexible and efficient plant 

production, while minimising 

waste, energy usage and also 

downtime. 

It sounds very easy and 

what production director 

worth their salt wouldn’t 

immediately sanction 

investment to create their own 

smart manufacturing plant? 

In fact there are instances, 

across many industry sectors 

where new manufacturing 

plants, or new production 

facilities in existing plants, 

have been designed from the 

word go to deliver a smart 

manufacturing concept. 

Mitsubishi Electric’s Kani 

factory in Japan is a perfect 

example of this, deploying 

its e-F@ctory manufacturing 

methodology to achieve a 

smart production facility. 

PLANT UPGRADE NEEDS 

However, in many cases the 

luxury of new plant is not 

the reality and more likely 

the current plant will need 

to be upgraded to meet the 

requirements and enjoy 

the benefits of the smart 

manufacturing concept. 

‘Smart’ in its simplest 

form, is about gathering 

data from the manufacturing 

process, turning that data 

into information and then 

Mitsubishi says that true smart manufacturing is about having a reliable, efficient plant that can adapt swiftly and reduce 

errors and downtime. If manufacturers do not invest in the concept they are likely to be left behind their competitors, it claims 

Producing in 

a smart way 

Chris Evans from Mitsubishi Electric talks about what 

is meant by smart manufacturing and the benefits 

acting on that information. 

You could say that what is 

needed is intelligent data 

from the plant in order to 

make decisions that improve 

productivity and efficiency 

while minimising waste, 

energy usage and downtime 

It is important to understand 

that this intelligent data has 

to come from the sharp end 

of the process and it is clear 

from the advancement 

of sensor and actuator 

technology that these devices 

now deliver self-determination 

and advanced error checking 

as well as the traditional 

process information that is 

crucial for control, production 

analysis and preventative 

maintenance alike. 

The next crucial step of 

course is connecting various 

plant assets and systems 

together. Traditionally a 

production plant may have 

consisted of islands of 

automation but in order to 

maximise the data gathering 

potential, existing or even 

new infrastructures must 

be utilised to create an 

architecture for data 

collection and also data 

management. 

This is made more difficult 

if the production facility, as 

many are, is controlled by a 

disparate array of automation 

equipment from different 

vendors with no overall 

common network strategy. 

Thankfully, this problem 

is not insurmountable, and 

one technique is to overlay a 

data gathering layer on top 

of the existing automation 

control layer to communicate 

with and extract data from 

these disparate systems. It is 

therefore vitally important to 

choose an automation vendor 

for this task who has a flexible


open network strategy and can 

interface with many different 

network protocols. 

This data gathering layer 

can then marshal this vital 

production and maintenance 

data and pass it on to higher 

level systems for analysis and 

decision making. 

Another good thing is 

that the plant assets are 

almost certainly controlled 

by automation controllers 

such as programmable logic 

controllers (PLCs) and much 

of the data vital to deliver 

the smart manufacturing 

concept often already exists; 

even if this data is not 

currently being transferred 

to the higher level systems. 

This means that it 

may require minimum 

engineering effort to start 

to really understand the 

manufacturing process. 

It is clear that once achieved, 

smart manufacturing affords 

many benefits including the 

flexibility to react to customer 

demand, maximising plant 

productivity by efficient 

scheduling, achieving 

minimum downtime when 

changing from one product 

to another and also from 

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This is not to suggest that 

minimum investment will be 

required to deliver the smart 

manufacturing plant, it will 

clearly depend on the current 

infrastructure and age of the 

automation equipment, but a 

survey of what is already on 

plant may lead to some low 

hanging fruit on the road to 

smart manufacturing utopia. 

Productivity and efficiency 

improvements come from 

knowing exactly how the 

plant is currently performing 

and delivery of intelligent 

plant data via a reliable 

infrastructure (coupled 

with the convergence of 

business level systems with 

the production facility) is 

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Conveying system 

uses RFID to make 

production reliable 

Swiss company Ferag is 

using radio frequency 

identification (RFID) 

on a special version of 

its Skyfall conveyor for 

filling, sorting and packaging 

silicon cartridges to guarantee 

quality on this 12,000 pieces an 

hour system. 

The Swiss family-owned firm 

specialises in the development 

and manufacture of conveying 

and processing systems and is 

using industrial RFID technology 

from Balluff. 

The system has eliminated the 

previous bottleneck between the 

filling station and batch packers. 

This has been achieved as Skyfall 

not only handles the transport 

of the cartridges, but also the 

accumulation buffer. “In this way,” 

notes Roberto Fenile, development 

manager at Ferag, “the differing 

speeds of the filling and packaging 

process can be compensated for 

and a consistently high system 

output is achieved, in fact double 

the production capacity.” 

An output of 12,000 cartridges 

per hour is achieved on the system 

and reliable identification of each 

individual shuttle is absolutely 

critical. 

In operation, the BIS M industrial 

RFID solution from Balluff operates 

at a frequency of 13.56 MHz. 

The system provides high read speeds 

RFID brings 

control gain 

Self-adhesive 

Balluff On Metal 

RFID tags allow 

very flat marking 

of the shuttles 

“It not only meets the demanding 

requirements with respect to cycle 

rate and ruggedness, but it can also 

work reliably in challenging metallic 

surroundings,” explains Rolf 

Werner, sales engineer for Balluff. 

At Ferag, the system not 

only enables uninterrupted 

documentation of the processes, 

but also provides the data to 

the controller in real-time and 

automates the complete material 

flow – including the filling and 

packaging process. The type 

and current location of each 

individual cartridge is known 

during the entire process and data 

management is performed in the 

system’s central computer. 

Self-adhesive OnMetal RFID tags 

just 36mm x 8mm x 5mm (similar 

to a part label) enables very flat 

identification of the shuttle. 

Since the data carriers have a 

serial number fixed in memory, 

the so-called UID code (Unique 

Identification), the shuttles can be 

identified unambiguously at any 

time. The data carriers conform 

to the international ISO standard 

15693 and provide a general read 

distance of 10mm, even on metallic 

substrates. This was one of the 

essential requirements of Ferag. 

Uninterrupted detection of the 

roller bodies is thus ensured over 

the entire material flow. 

PASSIVE DATA CARRIERS 

The UID is read by tubular M16 

read/write heads from the Balluff 

RFID system, part number 

BIS0140, which are located at all 

the relevant locations along the 

transport path. The data carriers 

are passive, receiving the needed 

power from the read/write heads. 

This makes batteries unnecessary 

while the electronics and antenna 

are integrated into the tag. 

“Originally we tried a solution 

with another RFID provider but 

with our complex requirements 

it didn’t work,” continues Fenile. 

Start-up of the RFID system and 

handling of the controller couldn’t 

be simpler, he says. 

The read/write heads are 

easily connected to the front of 

the controller using plugs, after 

which they are immediately and 

automatically detected. 

T 01606 812777 

W www.balluff.co.uk

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To ensure that its new 

varieties of deepfrozen 

ravioli are 

carefully packed in 

trays at maximum 

speeds, Italian manufacturer 

Surgital has once again opted 

for TLM technology from 

Schubert. Thanks to the high 

flexibility of the TLM machine 

for new products and formats, 

the owners opted for an 

investment which would also 

prove itself in the future. 

Surgital has been packing 

its ravioli products with a 

Schubert system since 2005. 

The company is steadily 

growing and therefore needed 

a further machine to extend 

its capacity for its new product 

range. “We are constantly 

extending our product range 

with innovative products, for 

example, with different shapes 

or different colours,” explains 

Romana Tamburini and 

Edoardo Bacchini, managing 

directors of Surgital. 

In total, the new plant will 

pack nine ravioli varieties, 

with different shapes, colours 

and fillings. The filled pasta 

is delicate and requires 

very careful handling and 

at the same time, the pasta 

variations need to be sorted 

correctly and the trays need 

to be filled completely. 

UNDAMAGED PRODUCT 

It is also very important that 

only undamaged products 

are packed in the trays. 

Optical image recognition to 

determine the positioning of 

the product therefore plays an 

important role. Schubert uses 

a reflected light colour scanner 

for this purpose to transmit 

the corresponding information 

to the TLM F4 picker arms. 

The new installation 

comprises four sub-machines: 

from the cooling tunnel, the 

deep-frozen ravioli enters the 

first submachine unsorted and 

without touching each other 

at approximately -20deg C and 

are taken over by the infeed 

conveyor of the Schubert 

picker line. The products are 

then guided through 

Thanks to the high flexibility of the TLM technology from Schubert for new products and formats, Italian manufacturer 

of deep frozen pasta Surgital opted for an investment that would offer quick pay back for the long-established company 

Futureproof 

frozen food 

Italian manufacturer of deep-frozen pasta Surgital has 

opted for TLM technology from Schubert once again 

the following sub-machines, 

which have a total of nine 

F4 robots. The system was 

designed to save space and 

allows three F4 robotic arms 

to be installed in a single 

sub-machine. The F4 robots 

are equipped with suction 

cups with which they take the 

ravioli coming off the belt by 

Careful packing of frozen pasta 

classics in trays is achieved on the 

new TLM system from Schubert 

means of careful air suction 

and then place them carefully 

into the trays. 

These empty trays are 

supplied from a three-track 

magazine. The three trays are 

simultaneously removed from 

the magazine by an F3 transfer 

robot and placed on a chain 

conveyor. This, in turn, guides 

the trays in the opposite 

direction to the product 

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“We are constantly extending our product range with different shapes 

and colours,” explains Tamburini and Bacchini, joint MDs of Surgital 

stations, where they are filled 

by TLM F4 robots. Filled 

trays are passed to a delivery 

conveyor from the Schubert 

machine to the downline 

sealing unit. 

Nine different varieties of 

ravioli are sorted and packed 

in the corresponding trays. 

The production output can 

reach up to 720 ravioli per 

minute, depending on the 

variety. 

The stainless steel version of 

the machine ensures fast and 

thorough cleaning. 

The company deep-freezes 

its pasta because this method 

retains the products’ freshness 

and 9 different ravioli 

varieties are produced at 

the plant including Agnoli/ 

Scrigni/Quadrelli (in 16s) at 

670 per minute or 42 trays 

per minute. Meanwhile, 

Rivoluzionari (in 30s) are 

packed at 720 per minute or 

24 trays per minute. Triangoli/ 

Panciotti/Ravioloni (in 9s) 

can be packaged at 380 per 

minute or a maximum of 42 

trays per minute and finally, 

Raviolo piccolo/Mezzaluna 

(in 12s) is made at speeds 

of 500 per minute or 42 trays 

per minute. 

T 01676 525825 

W www.schubert-uk.co.uk

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Cama has been incorporating robotics into its range 

of packaging equipment to deliver complete systems 

Cama has developed 

a complete system 

for the handling of 

flowpacked crispy 

bread in piles into 

pre-glued cartons. The line 

has been sold to a global 

leader in the food sector and 

incorporates a Cama Triaflex 

Delta robot top-loading unit 

with a high speed 

continuous 

motion cartoner. 

This combined 

system is designed 

to handle 

two different 

product types in 

several loading 

configurations. 

Flowpacks are 

delivered at up 

to 600 pieces a 

minute to the 

Cama line where 

they are received 

by a vertical race 

track. The Cama 

Delta robot picks the flow 

wraps and places them in 

the right orientation onto the 

conveyor of the cartoning 

machine. 

The robot creates the 

necessary loading pattern, 

allowing the handling of flat 

and on-edge configurations 

with or without product 

rotation within the carton. 

The continuous motion 

cartoner side loads the 

groups of flowpacks into 

Gentle handling solutions are key in the bakery sector 

pre-glued cartons. Depending 

on the product and pack 

configuration, speeds can 

range from 80 up to 200 

cartons a minute. 

Because the line is a 

modular construction, a 

second loading unit can be 

added if future needs require. 

This provides an easy upgrade 

for additional capacity and, 

says Cama, offers future 

proofing for the customer. 

Versatility, reliability and 

ease of size changes are all 

offered by the equipment. 

Cama believes its ability to 

combine 4-axis robots and 

high speed cartoners is why 

it has been successful across 

several food sectors including 

this bakery application. 

The company has been 

offering gentle handling 

solutions to this market 

for several years that 

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systems to optimise product 

management. 

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New control system 

has allowed a line 

to be re-purposed 

Anew control system 

was at the heart of 

a recent project by 

Western Mechanical 

Handling (WMH) which 

has seen a redundant line saved 

from the scrap heap, re-furbished 

and re-purposed to provide the 

customer with the production 

facilities that it needs to meet 

current requirements. 

“WMH has provided us with 

a simple and clean approach to 

producing our products,” says 

Chris Terry from Samworth 

Brothers. “Their design and 

automation team removed much 

of the complicated equipment and 

outdated safety circuit system 

resulting in a control panel a fifth 

of the original size.” 

This line was originally designed 

to produce pies and flans with 

a pastry base but had stood idle 

for several years as production 

demands changed. WMH was 

approached to redevelop the line 

and bring it back into full use to 

produce cheesecakes. 

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of upcycling 

CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM 

The project required the line 

to be stripped back to its basic 

component parts before being 

built back up and integrating new 

denesters and depositors to cope 

with the new products. It also saw 

the installation of servo drives and 

a complete new control system to 

bring all the elements together into 

a seamless inline system. 

Operation and control of the line 

is via a touch screen HMI where 

the menus and functionality were 

designed in conjunction with the 

operators to give them access to 

all the functionality needed to run 

the line efficiently. Simplification 

of fault finding has been achieved 

by moving all the safety inputs 

into local enclosures which also 

reduced the amount of machine 

wiring needed. 

The line has been configured to 

handle three sizes of cheesecake, 

each of which need different 

WMH created a 

‘swirly-whirly’ 

arrangement to 

spin the products 

through 360 

degrees 

to create a 

pattern 

on top of the 

cheesecakes 

change parts and tooling. 

The control system monitors 

these change parts and tooling 

throughout to prevent any incorrect 

or mis-aligned parts being used 

in operation. 

A two-stage detester for the 

plastic pots and cardboard bases 

along with a granular dosing unit 

for the crumb base have been 

integrated into the line. It also 

integrates two depositors for the 

cheesecake topping. 

A closed loop feedback system 

has been used and deposit weights 

are continuously fed back to the 

The team has removed 

much of the outdated system 

giving a smaller control panel 

depositors to adjust for weight 

discrepancies. This helps to 

reduce product giveaway 

for overweight and rejected 

underweight products. 

To create a pattern on the top 

of the product, WMH developed 

a ‘swirly-whirly’ arrangement 

to spin the products through 

360 degrees allowing droplets 

of fruit compote to be swirled into 

an attractive pattern. 

Product leaves the line via a 

WMH pick and place unit which 

is profile controlled to ensure no 

product loss during acceleration 

or deceleration, while also 

improving the quality and look 

of the finished product. Optimum 

product flow is maintained as it 

is integrated with downstream 

production processes. 

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Robotic arm 

and grippers 

quicken tests 

Zonal Retail Data Systems has introduced 

a robotic arm to aid R&D and ensure the 

company meets the highest demands in 

product testing. Selected for its nimble 

movement and adaptable configuration, 

Zonal opted for a Universal Robot UR3 

table-top robotic arm and Robotiq 2-finger 

adaptive gripper supplied by RARUK 

Automation for this application. 

“As you can imagine, handling 

enormous volumes of financial 

transactions on behalf of our customers 

means the solution requires significant 

testing before being released,” explains 

the company’s COO Peter Edwards. 

“Typically every software release required 

up to 10 test analysts for periods of two to 

four weeks performing highly repetitive 

manual testing of 100,000 payment 

transactions through integrated chip and 

PIN devices. 

“This is not only expensive but is of 

course prone to human error,” he says. 

The robot and gripper is being used 

by Zonal to carry out instructions 

according to written test scripts for chip 

and PIN devices. This typically involves 

inputting a sale into the EPoS, inserting 

a payment card, using the keypad to 

enter information, and removing the 

card following completion of the test 

transaction. 

The UR3 is located in its own test 

environment complete with a camera and 

monitor to read and display the PIN pad 

screen. 

“The biggest benefit is that the UR3 is 

totally repeatable, which means not only 

can we pinpoint an issue, but we can 

repeat it,” says Edwards. 

T 01462 670044 

W www.rarukautomation.com 

The solution is tested thoroughly by system 

Connecting printers allows them to be monitored remotely before any downtime takes place 

Industry 4.0 is 

key to coding 

Interoperability is at the centre of Domino’s 

strategy to deliver Industry 4.0 to customers 

Domino is introducing a range 

of Industry 4.0 concepts to its 

coding and marking products 

by using the Domino Cloud 

service tool and the i-Techx 

platform to provide remote access and 

monitoring as well as error-free coding 

and system integration. This is designed 

to result in a smart, interconnected 

network of machines and processes that 

centralise and simplify coding procedures. 

“Interoperability is key for the 

success of Industry 4.0 and Domino 

firmly believes in open standards for 

communicating across factory equipment 

systems,” says James Murtagh, Industry 

4.0 Lead at Domino Printing Sciences. 

Indeed, the company is collaborating 

with organisations developing industry 

standard communication protocols for 

manufacturing. 

Domino is working in this way to make 

coding errors and unplanned downtime 

caused by equipment a thing of the past, 

and to safeguard our customers and their 

customers, says Murtagh. 

He does, however, point out that 

Industry 4.0 is not an overnight revolution. 

“Due to the breadth of changes, this 

transformation will require time to take 

effect,” he says, “But it is happening – 

and it’s happening now across a range 

of industries. 

Industry 4.0 isn’t an all or nothing state, 

it should be moulded to businesses and 

guided by the impact it has on their 

bottom line, he continues. “Products, 

technologies and new ways of doing 

things can be introduced bit by bit, 

eventually building up to a whole system 

optimised for maximum efficiency,” 

he tells Machinery Update. 

Domino believes it can help customers 

take their first steps into Industry 4.0 by 

slowly introducing its concepts to the 

entire factory floor through its printers. 

T 01954 782551 

W www.domino-uk.com

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· Use it as single unit or integrated in a manifold – With the in-line 

type speed controller. 

Large push-lock type knob 

– It is scaled with four different marks every 90º 

for easy one adjustment and set-up operation 

– The needle can be locked/unlocked without 

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Numerical indication and control 

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– Possible to select the orientation of the 

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Bosch Rexroth is 

ensuring that 4.0 

works in practice 

Bosch Rexroth has been 

employing a dual 

strategy at its factory 

in Homburg, Germany 

which is part of the 

company plan to develop 

Industry 4.0 technologies in its 

own facilities before rolling out 

subsequent proven solutions to 

the industry. 

This plant manufactures 

hydraulic valves for mobile 

machinery such as tractors, and 

the company made the decision 

to introduce Industry 4.0 on one 

specific manual production line 

that was struggling to keep up 

with Bosch Rexroth’s commitment 

to quality, and the demands of its 

customer base. 

“We identified three areas where 

we needed to deliver significant 

improvement, namely quality of 

the product, cost and also delivery 

times,” explained Dr Matthias 

Möller, director of the technology 

and process planning department 

at Bosch Rexroth’s Homburg plant. 

The core of the problem was 

that the line was manufacturing 

six main valve product types with 

250 variants and 2,000 individual 

parts. What’s more, the line had 

to be highly flexible, working 

with small batch sizes requiring 

assembly experts for each product 

family. 

INVOLVING COLLEAGUES 

For Bosch Rexroth, the solution 

was to use Industry 4.0 

philosophies of connectivity, 

open standards and the virtual 

representation of information 

while keeping people, namely the 

assembly line employees, at the 

heart of the process. Specifically, 

the valve production line at 

Homburg was re-engineered into 

autonomous workstations with 

RFID chips controlling the product 

as it flows through the line with 

sensors collecting and collating 

data which is used to frame the 

decision-making process. 

Delivering 

4.0 benefit 

The valve line 

at Homburg 

has been 

re-engineered 

into autonomous 

workstations 

with RFID chips 

that control the 

product flow 

through the 

complete line 

Crucially, each workstation 

recognises employees via a 

Bluetooth tag adjusting the work 

area to individual requirements 

automatically including 

language, font size and individual 

qualifications, while quality 

assurance apps track the full 

process for any faults or deviation. 

The brains of the Homburg line is 

the Bosch Rexroth ActiveCockpit, an 

interactive manufacturing system 

that collects, filters and visualises 

manufacturing data continuously, 

designed to give employees and 

management real data to facilitate 

fast decision making. 

The results of implementing 

Industry 4.0 have been felt across 

the business. Logistical and set-up 

Production savings and 

additional revenue have been 

realised with the connectivity 

time was reduced from 450 seconds 

in 2014 to zero in 2015. Inventory 

days were reduced from three 

days in the same period down 

to 1.5 days. Cycle times reduced 

from 474 seconds in 2014 down 

to 438 seconds in 2015. 

Indeed, the Homburg valve 

production line has undergone 

a 10% production improvement 

and achieved a saving of half 

a million euros. 

“Each stage of the process 

is fully integrated from the 

customer placing the order with 

the OEM through to suppliers, 

component machining, assembly, 

test and shipment, with capacity 

fully scalable and adaptable to 

demand, based on short term 

order fluctuations,” says Dr Möller. 

“We’ve already seen a 30% stock 

reduction, eliminated set-up 

time, and achieved a 10% output 

increase which has resulted in an 

annual saving of €500,000.” 

T 0345 604 4106 

W www.boschrexroth.co.uk



Robot cell is for 

first time users 

Loop Technology has developed an entry-level 

solution to aid integration with a range of robots 

“I’m sure this cell will be very popular 

with organisations breaking into the sector 

for the first time and more established 

robotic operators looking to improve 

the efficiency of their development 

processes,” says Loop Technology’s 

project manager Peter Eyre. 

INVITE TO EMBRACE ROBOTICS 

“The impact of this project is very exciting 

as it invites organisations to embrace 

robotics, open the door and enter into 

the industrial robotics sector,” he says. 

The cell was handed over to MTC 

advanced research engineer Jacob Brown 

by Loop’s newest apprentice Alex Garlic, 

who joined on the company’s electrical 

apprenticeship scheme and has been 

instrumental in the cell build. 

T 01305 257108 

W www.looptechnology.com 

Loop Technology has developed 

an entry-level solution to 

industrial robotics borne from 

the realisation of a recent 

project for the Manufacturing 

Technology Centre (MTC). 

Based in Coventry, the MTC asked Loop 

Technology to design a self-contained 

robot cell capable of providing a flexible 

development and demonstration 

platform with the capability for future 

expansion. The company created a cell 

in a modular format allowing rapid 

integration with a range of robots 

including the Kuka KR Agilus and also 

the Kuka LBR IIWA. 

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The 2 x 2 metre, self-contained and readyto-run 

format, has been designed to break 

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robotics. It has proved very popular, with 

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Labelling, Coding & Marking 

Blister lid foil printer is a 

quick changeover option 

Overprinter has delivered gains 

Pouch coder 

nets better 

efficiencies 

Fishing bait producer Nash Tackle 

is benefitting from a 50% increase 

in productivity after upgrading to 

Rotech’s new RF1-V+ dedicated 

pouch coder for late stage 

customisation of packs. 

It was the growth of its export 

business, and the corresponding 

need to produce ingredient 

declarations and product 

descriptions in foreign language 

versions, that first prompted 

Nash Tackle to purchase an 

offline coding system from 

Rotech in 2012. However, 

when Rotech demonstrated 

its new RF1-V+ system it was 

immediately apparent that 

this overprinter was ideal for 

equipping Nash Tackle to keep 

pace with its continued growth. 

The RF1-V+ is capable of 

coding up to 60 pouches per 

minute – 50% faster than its 

predecessor. Rotech has achieved 

this throughput through design 

innovations including a shingling 

infeed and by extending the 

reservoir capacity. 

Besides boosting productivity, 

the new coding system has given 

Nash Tackle extended text printing 

capabilities, through a wider 6in 

thermal transfer printhead. 

“With the wider format 

printer we can fit another word 

or two per line,” says Gary Bayes, 

operations director at Nash 

Tackle. “This may not sound like 

much, but it means that we can 

fit up to six language versions 

on a pouch without losing out on 

valuable marketing space.” 

T 01707 393700 

W www.rotechmachines.com 

At interpack, Atlantic 

Zeiser addressed the 

need for increased 

changeover speeds for blister 

lid foil printing with its 

Digiline Blister. Billed as a cost 

effective solution, this unit 

delivers variable print orders 

reliably and to a high standard 

without long setup times or 

production standstills. 

Its performance profile 

is based on a high quality 

digital printing system with 

UV-curable inks. To start a 

new print job on the Digiline 

Blister, the operator simply 

selects a recipe and thus loads 

a new PDF. The changeover is 

accomplished within just two 

minutes, says the company. 

With a flexo system, it can take 

an hour to achieve this, it says. 

Atlantic also talks about the 

new system’s lower running 

costs. For instance, the UV-A 

lamps for the Digiline’s drop 

on demand ink jet printing 

system are based on LED 

technology and last more 

than ten times longer than 

the UV-C curing lamps used 

in flexography, as well as 

reducing energy costs. And 

the secret to achieving 

excellent print quality is 

regulating the quantity of 

dispensed ink according to the 

material that is being printed. 

Easy integration is also 

offered. Images and codes 

are easily uploaded to the 

system without any additional 

software or an external 

The Digiline 

Blister system 

reduces setup 

times and 

also operating 

costs 

computer. It is also compatible 

with Atlantic’s serialisation 

software Medtracker, which 

can also be used as a data 

management platform. 

Digiline Blister is not only 

available as an offline system, 

but can also be used as an 

inline solution as well. 

T 01264 324222 

W www.atlanticzeiseruk.com 

Pressure sensitive labelling system delivers 

high throughputs for the fmcg marketplace 

Harland Machine Systems, 

now part of Accraply, 

demonstrated its Titan linear 

pressure-sensitive labelling 

system at interpack. 

Developed for the high 

volume, high throughput fmcg 

marketplace, the Titan is a 

heavy-duty 4-station linear 

labelling system for applying 

front and back labels to a 

broad range of containers. 

Totally servo-driven, the Titan 

can accurately label at speeds 

up to 400 packs a minute on 

containers up to 750ml. 

Harland Machine Systems has added the Titan to its product range 

It also offers changeover 

times of less than 10 minutes 

to reduce downtime and it 

is self-monitoring to provide 

optimum reliability and 

operational efficiency. 

T 01206 304982 

W www.accraply.com

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Track & trace is 

offered on labeller 

for FMD needs 

Newman Labelling Systems 

demonstrated its S350 fully 

automatic labelling system at 

interpack in May. 

The S350, along with all 

the company’s systems, is fully 

compatible with the track & trace 

requirements of the Falsified 

Medicines Directive (FMD) and 

is available with comprehensive 

validation support along with 

a wide range of printing and 

inspection systems. 

In operation, the S350 is 

designed to run at up to 300 

containers a minute with high 

levels of efficiency according 

to DIN 8743. It is capable of 

applying both paper and clear 

plastics labels to cylindrical 

containers in glass, plastics, 

metal and composite materials. 

A compact cGMP design, 

manufactured in stainless steel 

304 finish, the S350 comes with 

a range of features as standard 

such as Auto-teach label length 

facility, a positive accept security 

system and In Process Control. 

A further enhancement to 

track & trace requirements is the 

faulty label removal system. 

T 020 8440 0044 

W www.newman.co.uk 

Atwell - Barry M advert.qxp_BMH 10/05/2017 13:35 Page 1 

‘Brand on Demand’ is 

offered to small firms 

As more small businesses 

seek the opportunity 

to develop their own 

branding and marketing 

materials, Antalis Packaging 

has introduced a range 

of on-demand label printers 

and accessories from Epson 

– enabling customers to 

take their label production 

in-house. 

By delivering high speed 

and high quality, the 

on-demand Epson technology 

can process up to 200 metres 

of labels per minute, says 

Antalis. Each of the 

ColorWorks printers within the 

range is user-friendly, easy to 

maintain and compact, fitting 

conveniently into production 

or packing areas without 

taking up the organised 

space that is required for an 

optimum despatch flow. 

Waste reduction is another 

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due to out-of-date labels is 

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The on-demand label printers allow customers to take control of production 

only reduce costs but lessen 

environmental impact. 

This on-demand approach 

to labelling also offers 

flexibility. With PC-based, easy 

to use software, personalised 

promotional campaigns can be 

created at a moment’s notice; 

ideal when launching a new 

product, special discounts or 

a seasonal offer. 

Aside from marketing 

materials, the technology 

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for auditing, quality, batch 

and inventory control as 

up to the minute production 

information and data can 

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a specific time. If businesses 

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contractor’s data on bulk 

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Printers range in price from 

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New software allows even 

easier use of smart camera 

A significant reduction in wiring 

Improving 

operational 

performance 

When Sparc Systems sought 

further enhancements to reduce 

cost and improve operational 

performance for its Iris pipeline 

x-ray inspection system, it turned 

to elobau to assist with simplifying 

the complex electrical system. 

The solution was a new design 

of a comprehensive printed 

circuit board (PCB) which would 

replace the entire control panel 

‘hard’ wiring. The PCB would 

be required to have mounting 

facilities for key machine control 

and safety components which 

would have simple ‘plug & play’ 

features. The key design 

elements of the new PCB were 

that it should be robust, safe, 

simple to use and also enhance 

machine reliability and operation. 

After rigorous testing, four 

distinct elobau products were 

chosen to facilitate the simple 

‘plug & play’ approach required 

for the new machine: the 171 series 

M30 PBT safety switch, having an 

integral M8 socket, the 122MSV 

series M12 stainless steel safety 

switch, having an integral M12 

socket and IP 6K9 rating, the 363 

series ‘intelligent’ safety switch 

interface unit, allowing up to 4 

safety switches to be connected 

to each relay safe input, while also 

providing four individual control 

outputs for PLC monitoring and 

the 470 series safety relay, with 

plug and socket connection, 

completes the safe system. 

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The new weQubeVision 

software module with 

pattern matching 

is designed to make 

wenglor’s smart camera 

even simpler to use as well 

as being more intelligent. 

Now, complex image 

processing applications 

can be implemented in 

just three simple steps 

without expert know-how 

– thanks to edge-based 

object detection. 

In addition to already 

established modules 

including weQubeVision 

Standard, weQubeDecode 

and weQubeOCR, edgebased 

object detection is 

now also possible thanks 

to weQubeVision with 

pattern matching. The 

implementation of complex 

applications, intuitive product 

configuration and the cost 

and space-saving design 

are all important for users of 

industrial image processing. 

wenglor says weQubeVision 

with pattern matching unites 

all of these aspects in the 

weQube smart camera. 

The new weQube Vision software module 

brings several operator benefits into play 

With the new software 

licence, objects can be 

recognised regardless of 

their position and rotational 

orientation within the image 

(X, Y and 360deg tracking). 

An edge-based algorithm 

ensures that several identical 

and different objects within 

the camera’s visual field can 

be simultaneously recognised. 

In just three simple steps, 

weQube is ready for use in 

the pattern matching mode. 

The program code makes 

use of Halcon’s image 

processing library assuring 

quality, stability and also 

high speed. 

In addition to real 

360deg tracking, 

superimposed objects 

and objects in front of 

complex, non-homogenous 

backgrounds can also be 

accurately and reliably 

detected. Scaled objects and 

varying distances from the 

object are also mastered 

with flying colours by 

weQubeVision with pattern 

matching – to assure high 

levels of process quality. 

Pattern matching is an 

excellent basis for additional 

functions as well, for example 

dimensional accuracy checking. 

The new software licence 

is included with the smart 

camera at no additional cost 

and can be freely combined 

with weQube hardware 

variants with auto-focus 

or with C mount threaded 

connection. 

T 01536 313580 

W www.wenglor.com 

Latest modular drum motors for conveyor 

belt systems will cut costs and lead times 

Conveyor drive company 

Interroll has launched a 

new generation of drum 

motors that will be used 

predominantly for conveyor 

belt systems in distribution 

centres, production areas 

and in hygienic applications 

in the food industry. The 

motor platform has a modular 

design, encompassing 

both synchronous and 

asynchronous technologies, 

and is available first in 

80mm diameter drums and 

will be expanded to the entire 

The new drum motors 

product range in the future. 

Options such as encoders, 

brakes and return stops are 

available for all variants, 

designed to make it easier 

for system integrators and 

equipment manufacturers to 

plan and implement efficient 

materials handling solutions. 

The motors are IP69K 

protected, making them 

easy and quick to clean. 

The new motors 

include stronger shafts 

and ball bearings to 

guarantee a long service 

life, while robust planetary 

gears make it possible to 

transfer high levels of torque 

to conveyor belts efficiently 

and quietly. 

T 01536 312770 

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From sensor to SAP 

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Components 

Vacuum technology is 

delivering great cheese 

Latest range of contrast sensors 

Contrast 

sensors take 

leap forward 

Sick has launched the KTS/KTX 

family of contrast sensors which 

is billed as delivering a powerful 

next-generation technology that 

offers reliability, accuracy and 

versatility for print, labelling, 

converting and also packaging 

applications. 

“Sick’s contrast sensors are the 

industry standard for detection or 

registration marks,” claims David 

Hannaby, Sick’s UK product 

manager for presence detection. 

“However, that does not mean 

that we have stayed still. 

“Instead, we have moved on 

to build even greater speed and 

accuracy into one of the industry’s 

best used and loved devices.” 

Customers now have the 

option of upgrading to the more 

compact KTS, for a space-saving 

solution, or to the KTX, which has 

the same housing size as the KT5 

when replacement is the preferred 

option, he says. “One of the 

biggest advantages of the new 

technology is its more intuitive 

set-up to respond to frequent 

product changeovers.” 

The sensors also cope easily 

with high-gloss or fluttering 

materials and there is even the 

option of incorporating a colour 

sensing capability without need 

for an additional device. 

This new family of 

monochrome and colour contrast 

sensors are designed to bring new 

levels of detection accuracy and 

switching frequency speed in both 

sheet- and reel-fed production, 

even in challenging conditions. 

t 01727 831121 

w www.sick.co.uk 

Gorgonzola producer IGOR 

is using a centralised 

vacuum supply from 

Busch at its expanding 

production plant in the Italian 

town of Cameri. 

The plant will be 50,000sq 

metres by the end of this year 

which will help to satisfy the 

constantly growing production 

volumes as well as its large 

variety of products. Portions 

of Gorgonzola are packed on 

a total of 25 packaging lines 

using a protective atmosphere 

with CO2. These lines operate 

an average of 12 hours per day. 

The majority of the lines are 

fully automated. That means 

that the 12kg Gorgonzola 

blocks are automatically 

sliced, portioned and laid 

into trays which are then fed 

into the packaging chamber, 

which closes. The chamber is 

then evacuated to a vacuum 

level of four to five millibars. 

Afterwards, CO2 is added, 

the trays are sealed with the 

top foil, the vacuum chamber 

opens and the newly completed 

portioned packages are 

transported on a belt directly 

to an adjoining room where the 

outer packaging process and 

order picking is performed. 

The vacuum required for all 

these lines is generated 

by a centralised vacuum 

supply from Busch. Even 

On site, 25 tray sealers pack the portions of Gorgonzola using protective gas 

as early as 1996, when the 

company initially acquired 

the production building, 

attention was paid to placing 

the vacuum pumps outside 

the packaging room in a 

separate room. 

complex networks 

IGOR wanted to use this set-up 

to prevent waste heat from the 

vacuum pumps from entering 

the production areas, which 

are cooled to 6deg C. This 

avoids having to increase 

power to the air conditioning 

system. This also enabled a 

reduction in noise emissions 

in the workplace. Together 

with Busch Vacuum Pumps 

and Systems, a centralised 

vacuum system that was 

able to integrate the existing 

Partial view of the centralised vacuum system from Busch Pumps and Systems 

individual vacuum pumps 

was designed and realised in 

2004, to meet the sustainability 

goals of the company. 

A ring main with a total length 

of 100 metres connects the 

centralised vacuum system 

to the individual tray sealers 

in the packaging lines. This 

consists of a total of seven 

R 5 rotary vane vacuum pumps. 

The vacuum ring main 

simultaneously serves as 

a vacuum buffer where the 

required vacuum level is 

constantly maintained. 

This helps to make the 

packaging cycles as short 

as possible because the 

required vacuum is present 

immediately after the vacuum 

chamber closes and the air is 

quickly removed. 

Since start-up of the 

centralised vacuum system, 

it has been working extremely 

reliably, without problems or 

breakdowns. The R 5 rotary 

vane vacuum pumps from 

Busch proved to be extremely 

robust in continuous 

operation, and even the old 

R 5 rotary vane vacuum 

pumps that are now over 20 

years old still produce the 

same high vacuum level and 

pumping speed as they did 

when they were first installed. 

t 01952 677432 

w www.busch.co.uk


Tool management system is an 

economical, entry level option 

Tool identification using 

Balluff Industrial RFID 

increases production 

efficiency, as it makes 

incorrect tool allocation 

or missing tools a thing of 

the past. It also enables the 

service time utilisation of 

the tools to be optimised. 

In addition, scrap and 

rework due to excessive use 

of tools is virtually eliminated, 

says the company. With Easy 

Tool-ID, Balluff now offers an 

economical entry into tool 

management which is simple 

to retrofit and offers easy 

installation and configuration. 

All that is required is a USB 

port (keyboard expander) 

on the machine tool and a 

presetter. The data is written 

via RFID technology from 

the presetter to the tool and 

then passed on through the 

Easy Tool-ID system to the 

machine tool. 

SET UP IS NOW EASIER 

Manual entry is eliminated 

while setup times and the 

risk of incorrect entries are 

reduced. The system consists 

of a tool stand with integrated 

read/write head, a processor 

unit, a microcontroller and 

the power supply. 

At the tool presetter, each 

tool is measured and its data, 

such as diameter and radius, 

are written on the data carrier 

on the tool shank. The user 

simply brings the tool to the 

machine, places it in the tool 

holder and presses a key. 

The system then emulates the 

key input and automatically 

reads the data with the 

Balluff Tool-ID through 

the keyboard interface to 

the machine controller. This 

means that even existing 

machines can be modernised 

and upgraded with this cost 

effective tool ID solution. 

T 01606 812777 

W www.balluff.co.uk 

weQube − the Smart Camera 

New weQubeSeries enhances the weQube modular image processing platform with numerous 

innovations! Select between weQube with autofocus or with C mount threaded connection and 

combine the software packages on your Smart Camera just as you need. 

weQubeOCR 

the character recognition package 

weQubeVision 

the image processing package 

weQubeDecode 

the scan package 

Flexible Communication 

Software 

Protocol 

weQubeOCR reads predefi ned OCR-A 

and OCR-B fonts over several lines in 

a single scanning operation. 

weQubeVision combines any number 

of image processing functions in one 

application. 

weQubeDecode reads all common barcodes 

as well as 2D codes even if damaged 

or poorly readable. 

The new fi rmware update permits you to 

simply switch weQube with Industrial Ethernet 

to PROFINET or EtherNet/IP protocol. All 

weQube models incorporate an Ethernet TCP/ 

IP and a RS-232 interface as standard.


Regulations 

Enabling smart 

interoperability 

Paul Laidler Taylor 

BUSineSS MAnAGer direcTor for MAchinerY for MAchinerY SAfeTY SAfTeY AT Tüv AT Süd Tüv ProdUcT Süd ProdUcT Service Service 

As machinery end users increase their interconnectivity with Industry 4.0 technologies, the 

challenge for global regulatory authorities is how to catch-up with this new technological tidal wave 

The digital transition 

is an enormously 

challenging time for the 

machinery industry, while 

optimising the opportunities 

offered by Industry 4.0 is 

a must, reducing the risks 

involved in the increased 

interconnectivity of this 

‘fourth Industrial Revolution’ 

is an imperative. 

Advanced sensors are 

already finding their way 

into modern manufacturing 

lines, facilitating informed 

decision-making. But this is 

just the beginning. Further 

innovations will unlock 

the full potential of smart 

component technologies. 

Industrial manufacturing, 

and the global regulatory 

system, will face significant 

challenges as technological 

developments move 

towards fully connected, 

self-organising intelligent 

factories. Standing on the 

threshold of Industry 4.0, 

a new regulatory framework 

is therefore required, which 

adapts and evolves as smart 

manufacturing moves towards 

maturity. 

complex networks 

The main cornerstone 

of Industry 4.0 is the 

convergence of enterprise IT 

and operational technology 

(OT). New generations of 

complex networks are being 

created as the boundaries 

between these two areas, 

previously largely separate, 

become increasingly 

indistinct, and IoT devices and 

new automation technologies 

are rapidly introduced. 

The challenge for machinery 

end users is to maintain 

secure functioning of their 

automated processes, while 

protecting their networks 

from unauthorised access or 

even attack. The challenge for 

global regulatory authorities 

is to catch-up with this new 

technological tidal wave, 

introducing compliance and 

certification requirements that 

meet industry’s business and 

safety needs. 

Today, manufacturing 

lines depend on human 

supervision and decisionmaking 

to optimise operations. 

The production devices of 

tomorrow’s smart factory will 

have the ability to interpret their 

environment and autonomously 

react to it. Current regulations 

are not in place to tackle the 

new Industry 4.0 approach. 

Technology components 

can theoretically be combined 

to form a mature smart factory 

in the vision of Industry 4.0. 

However, each manufacturing 

device enters the production 

line with its own set of 

proprietary interfaces. In other 

words, the components each 

speak a different language. 

A new regulatory framework 

and certification approach will 

be needed, which supports 

the smooth and dynamic 

interoperability among odd 

components. 

The solution is an 

electronic reproduction – 

a so-called ‘digital twin’, 

or ‘administration shell’ of 

each physical component. 

The digital twin contains the 

complete set of parameters 

of its physical sibling, as 

well as adaptive algorithms 

for decentralised selfoptimisation 

and safety 

measures. Acting as an 

intermediary, the digital twin 

functions as a standardised 

interface between the smart 

components, facilitating 

flawless interoperability and 

delivering a dynamically 

reconfigurable system. 

A new modular certification 

scheme for smart factory components 

is currently being developed 

Currently, industrial 

automation is a consolidated 

reality, with approximately 

90% of machines in factories 

being unconnected. These 

isolated and static systems 

mean that product safety 

(functional safety and 

security) can be comfortably 

assessed. 

connected world 

However, the connected 

world of Industry 4.0’s 

smart factories adds a new 

dimension of complexity in 

terms of machinery safety 

regulation challenges. 

IoT connects people and 

machines, enabling 

bidirectional flow of 

information and real-time 

decisions. Its diffusion is 

now accelerating with the 

reduction in size and price 

of the sensors, and with the 

need for the exchange of large 

amounts of data. 

As we prepare for Industry 

4.0, it is therefore vital for the 

shifting landscape of risk to 

be taken into account. A smart 

factory will see reduced risk 

in several areas, such as fewer 

worker injuries as machines 

take over hazardous tasks. 

However, the increasing 

number of physical and 

digital interfaces, including 

interconnected devices 

controlled by intelligent 

dashboards, introduces a 

new set of vulnerabilities, 

risks and liability issues. 

Based on its complexity, a 

dynamically reconfigurable 

system requires a regulatory 

framework that delivers an 

integrated approach to safety 

assessment. 

These flexible system 

architectures and selfconfiguring 

systems of 

Industry 4.0 will call for a 

new, modular method of 

certification that delivers 

integrated support for 

machinery end users as they 

progress towards Industry 4.0. 

The key benefit of modular 

certification is the major cost 

and time savings it contributes 

to the operation of adaptive 

self-configuring Industry 4.0 

production systems. 

i For more information contact 

w www.tuv-sud.co.uk 

TÜV SÜD Product Service 

is the PPMA’s technical and 

legislative partner

Processing & Packaging Machinery Association 

Technical Seminars 

& Training Courses 

• Machinery Directive 

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• Machinery Risk Assessment 

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• Functional Safety 

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• Introduction to 

Operational Excellence 

Management & Development 

Training Courses 

• Introduction to 

Project Management 

• Managing Workplace 

Performance 

• Better Communications Skills 

in the Workplace 

• HR for Non-HR Managers 

Held at Northampton - Manchester 

Leeds - Leicester - Dublin 

For further details please e-mail: 

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Exclusive Recruitment 

Partner to the 

Specialists in recruitment to the packaging 

and process industry since 1996 

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If you need to recruit, 

look no further 

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• Service 

• Production 

Call Mike Horsley on 

01604 758857 

or email him at 

mph@wallacehind.com 

www.wallacehind.com


Who What Where 

Who’s done what and gone where... 

Baker Perkins 

John Cowx 

has decided 

to relinquish 

his role as 

managing 

director of Baker Perkins but 

he will continue as chairman 

of the company. It means 

that the UK and USA 

businesses now have new 

managing directors. 

Dan Bassett 

now has 

responsibility 

for the UK 

business based 

in Peterborough having first 

joined the company as a 

graduate trainee in 1990. 

He has had various sales and 

commercial roles throughout 

this time before becoming 

director of capital sales for all 

food sectors four years ago. 

Dan Smith 

has been 

promoted to 

managing 

director of the 

US business from general 

manager, a management 

position he has held since 2006. 

Geoff Hawley 

is replacing 

Bassett as 

director of food 

capital sales. 

He has held various roles at 

the UK and US businesses 

and has spent the last year 

as strategic development 

manager – sales. 

Langguth UK 

John Orme has 

been appointed 

general 

manager for 

Langguth UK. 

He has held a senior sales 

manager role at Grunwald UK 

for four years and in his new 

position, will be responsible 

for the direction of all sales, 

servicing and spares as well 

as actively developing new 

commercial partnerships with 

other specialists. 

CKF Systems 

Robbie 

Dawson has 

rejoined CKF 

Systems as sales 

and marketing 

manager having spent the 

last 18 months with a 

Poole-based systems 

integrator. “When a sales 

management role became 

available within the business, 

we wasted no time in 

approaching Robbie as he 

is a talented individual,” 

says CKF md Bryan Wheeler. 

Hayssen Flexible 

Dan Irod has been appointed 

to the newly created role 

of business development 

director Central and Eastern 

Europe, Commonwealth 

of Independent States 

and Russia, for Hayssen 

Flexible Systems. He will be 

responsible for developing 

new sales. 

RARUK Automation 

Alec Jackson 

has joined 

RARUK as senior 

automation 

sales engineer 

to develop the interest British 

manufacturers are showing in 

its MAFU disentangling and 

feeding technology. He has 

been in engineering for more 

than 30 years in various design, 

managerial and sales roles. 

Yamato 

Paul Ingall has 

joined Yamato 

Scale Dataweigh 

as business 

development 

manager and will work with 

the operations manager 

to improve the company’s 

spare parts and actuator 

repair offerings. Prior to 

joining, Ingall was a systems 

plus engineer with factory 

automation specialists Sick UK. 

Interactive Coding Equipment (ICE) 

ICE has recruited three new sales engineers (pictured here from 

left to right) to support business growth across the country. 

Tony Walker joins the team as national key accounts manager 

while Mark Webb will strengthen Zodiac thermal transfer 

overprinting in the South West of England and Sean Lyley will 

support Vulcan print and apply labeller business development 

in the South of England. 

Diary 

Dates 

26 – 28, SEPTEMBER, 2017 

PPMA Show 2017 

NEC, Birmingham 

www.ppmashow.co.uk 

12 – 14 JULY 

Propak China 2017 

Shanghai, China 

www.propackchina.com 

2 AUGUST 

PPMA Seminar 

Boost your sales 

effectiveness 

Forest of Arden Marriott Hotel 

and Country Club 

christine.jordan@ppma.co.uk 

8 AUGUST 

PPMA Seminar 

Introduction to project 

management 

Marriott Hotel, Northampton 

Christine.jordan@ppma.co.uk 

25 – 27 SEPTEMBER 

PACK EXPO Las Vegas 

Las Vegas, USA 

www.packexpolasvegas.com 

3 – 6 OCTOBER 

Japan Pack 2017 

Tokyo, Japan 

www.japanpack.jp/en 

24 – 26 OCTOBER 

Propak Cape 2017 

Cape Town, South Africa 

www.propakcape.co.za 

31 OCTOBER – 2 NOVEMBER 

Gulfood Manufacturing 

Dubai World Trade Centre 

www.gulfoodmanufacturing.com 

15 – 18 NOVEMBER 

Plastics & Rubber 

Indonesia 2017 

Jakarta, Indonesia 

www.plasticsandrubber 

indonesia.com

www.machineryupdate.co.uk JULY/AUGUST 2017 MACHINERY UPDATE 

Buyers Guide: Ancillary Equipment 

Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

83 

AC INDUSTRIAL DRIVES 

PILZ Automation Technology 

Pilz House, Little Colliers Field, Corby, 

Northants, NN18 8TJ 

Majors Road, Watchfield, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 8TZ Peter Buckley 


T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 

E: sales@pilz.co.uk www.pilz.co.uk 

AC SERVO DRIVES 


Buyers Guide: Processing 

HUMAN 

www.baumer.com 

Equipment 

MACHINE INTERFACE 

Oldfield Road, Hampton, 


Advertise: Middlesex TW12 2HD Christine Valdes Middlesex T 020 TW12 2HD 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 


Quin Systems Ltd 

Ancillary Equipment 

Oaklands Park, 

MACHINE GUARDING SYSTEMS 

www.ifm.com/uk 

Ancillary Equipment Advertise: Christine ifm electronic Valdes Ltd T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 



T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


AS-i / IO-LINKNETWORKS 

ifm electronic Ltd 


Middlesex TW12 2HD 

T: 020 8213-2222 

E: enquiry.gb@ifm.com 


CABLES / POWER SUPPLIES 


T: 020 8213-2222 



CARBON REDUCTION 

INDUCTIVE SENSORS 

www.schmersal.co.uk 

Processing Birmingham, B11 Equipment 2BH T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

E: miked@powercapacitors.co.uk 

www.powercapacitors.co.uk 

COLOUR SENSORS 


T: 07780 470457 

Advertise: Christine Valdes T T: 01536 312770 

020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 



T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 

Waldkirch House, 39 Hedley Rd, 

St Albans, Herts AL1 5BN 

T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 

E: info@sick.co.uk www.sick.co.uk 


Buyers Guide: Oldfield Road, Packaging Hampton, Machinery 



CONTROL SOFTWARE 




Advertise: T: 020 8213-2222 


Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 






T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


Processing Equipment 

T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 

Packaging Machinery E: info@sick.co.uk www.sick.co.uk Advertise: Christine INDUSTRIAL Valdes MOTORS T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

CONVEYORS – BELT 

CKF Systems Ltd 

The Pavilions, Olympus Park, 

Gloucester, GL2 4NF 

T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 

E: info@ckf.co.uk www.ckf.co.uk 

CONVEYORS – MOTORISED DRUMS 

Interroll Ltd 


Orion Way, Kettering, 

Northants, NN15 6NL 

T: 01536 312770 

E: gb.sales@interroll.com www.interroll.co.uk 

CONVEYORS –ROLLER 




T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


Interroll Ltd 



T: 01536 312770 


CYLINDER SENSORS / ENCODERS 

Baumer Limited 

33-36 Shrivenham Hundred Business Park, 

T: +44 1793 783 839 

E: sales.uk@baumer.com 





T: 020 8213-2222 


SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


DATA MATRIX READERS 



Majors Road, Watchfield, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 8TZ 

T: +44 1793 783 839 



T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 




DRUM MOTORS 

Interroll Ltd 




ENCODERS 




T: +44 1793 783 839 



T: 020 8213-2222 





T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


SICK (UK) LTD 



ENERGY EFFICIENCY 



Birmingham, B11 2BH 

T: 07780 470457 

EX-HAZARDOUS AREA EQUIPMENT 

FIELDBUS SYSTEMS 




T: 020 8213-2222 



Saint-Maurice cedex 

Tel : +33 (0) 1 45 11 60 00 

E: contact@marechal.com 

www.marechal.com 

FILTERS – MAGNETIC 

Goudsmit Magnetics Group 

T: +44 (0)7482 983183 

E: pbu@goudsmit.eu 

www.goudsmitmagnets.com 

FLOW SENSORS 



T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 




T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 





T: +44 1793 783 839 






T: 020 8213-2222 



Schmersal Ltd 

Worcestershire, WR14 1GL 

T: 01684 571980 E: uksupport@schmersal.com 

www.schmersal.co.uk www.schmersal.net 

SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 

INDUSTRIAL ENERGY SAVING 

Birmingham, B11 2BH 

T: 07780 470457 






T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


LEVEL SENSORS 




T: +44 1793 783 839 






T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


LINEAR MOTORS 

Wokingham, RG41 2FD 

T: 0118 977 1077 

E: sales@quin.co.uk www.quin.co.uk 

Axelent Ltd 

Modular Machine Guarding 

Swindon SN5 5FZ 

T: 01793 523535 

E: sales@axelent.com 

www.axelent.com 




T: 020 8213-2222 






T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


Schmersal Ltd 



www.schmersal.net 

SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


MAGNETIC SENSORS 




T: +44 1793 783 839 






T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


MAGNETIC SEPARATORS 


Peter Buckley 

T: +44 (0)7482 983183 



MANUFACTURING EXECUTION/ 

INFORMATION SYSTEMS 

Packaging Machinery 

METAL DETECTION 

Birmingham, B45 8JL 

Bytronic 

T: +44 (0)1564 793174 

E: enquiries@bytronic.com 

www.bytronic.com 


Peter Buckley 

T: +44 (0)7482 983183 


www.goudsmitmagnets.com

Advertise: Christine Valdes 020 8773 8111 chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

Ancillary Equipment 


Ancillary Equipment Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

MOTION CONTROL 




T: 020 8213-2222 






T: 0118 977 1077 


Interroll Ltd 



T: 01536 312770 


PHOTOCELLS / 

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT 




T: +44 1793 783 839 






T: 020 8213-2222 



PHOTOELECTRIC SENSORS 



T: +44 1793 783 839 






T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


PIPEWORK / DUCTING 

JACOB (UK) LTD 

T: 01694 722841 

E: sales@jacob-uk.com 

www.jacob-uk.com 

PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT 


T: 01694 722841 



PRESSURE SENSORS 




T: +44 1793 783 839 




SICK (UK) LTD 








T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 

Pilz Buyers House, Little Colliers Field, Corby, Guide: T: 020 8213-2222 Processing Northants, Equipment 

NN18 8TJ 




T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 

T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 




Advertise: Christine Valdes SICK T (UK) 020 LTD8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

ULTRASONIC SENSORS 


Schmersal Ltd 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 




PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS SICK (UK) LTD 


Processing Equipment Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 


SICK (UK) LTD 





T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 






T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


T: 020 8213-2222 


T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 




SENSORS FOR AUTOMATION 

SICK (UK) LTD 

MOTORISED DRUMS 

REGISTRATION MARK SCANNERS 


Balluff Ltd 






T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


RESOLVERS 

Baumer T Limited 



T: +44 1793 783 839 



RFID / DATA MATRIX 



VALVES 


SICK Packaging (UK) LTD Machinery T: 020 8213-2222 

Advertise: Christine PILZ Automation Valdes Technology T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 




Gemu Valves Ltd 




T: 01925 824044 

T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 

T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


E: customer.support@gemu.co.uk 

SICK (UK) LTD 



www.gemu.co.uk 


T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 



Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 ROBOT 8773 SYSTEMS 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

SERVO DRIVES 

Doncaster,Yorkshire DN11 8EW 

T: 01302 711056 E: sales@bwcontainersystems.com 

www.bwcontainersystems.com 




T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


FANUC UK Ltd 

Coventry, CV3 4LB 

T: 02476 639669 

E: marketing@fanuc.eu www.fanuc.eu 

Western Mechanical Handling UK Ltd 

Callington, Cornwall PL17 7SD 

T: 01579 383788 

E: enquiries@wmh-uk-ltd.com 

www.wmh-uk-ltd.com 

SAFETY COMPONENTS 




T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


Schmersal Ltd 




SAFETY LIGHT CURTAINS 




T: 020 8213-2222 



Cheshire, CW9 7UA 

T: 01606 812 777 

E: sales@balluff.co.uk www.balluff.co.uk 




T: +44 1793 783 839 



Buyers Guide: Packaging Machinery 




T: 020 8213-2222 



Advertise: Christine Valdes 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


SERVO CONTROL SYSTEMS 




T: 0118 977 1077 





T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


SERVO MOTORS 




T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


TACHOS 




T: +44 1793 783 839 



TEMPERATURE SENSORS 




T: +44 1793 783 839 






T: 020 8213-2222 






T: +44 1793 783 839 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


VACUUM GRIPPERS 

Turbo Vacuumentation Ltd 

T: 0161 482 4004 

E: steve.hurn@turbo-vac.co.uk 

www.turbo-vac.co.uk 

VALVE FEEDBACK 




T: 020 8213-2222 



VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES 

(INVERTERS) 





T: 01536 460766 F: 01536 460866 


VIBRATION MONITORING 




T: 020 8213-2222 



VISION SENSORS 




T: +44 1793 783 839 






T: 020 8213-2222 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 

E: info@sick.co.uk www.sick.co.uk


Buyers Guide: Processing Equipment 


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ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING: 

3D PRINTING 

KUKA Robotics UK Ltd 

Wednesbury, West Midlands, WS10 7LL 

T: 0121 505 9970 

E: sales@kukarobotics.co.uk 

www.kukarobotics.co.uk 

ADHESIVES 

Sealock Ltd 

Hampshire, SP10 5NU 

T: +44 (0) 1264 358185 

E: sales@sealock.co.uk 

www.sealock.co.uk 

Winkworth 

T: 01256 305600 E: info@mixer.co.uk www.mixer.co.uk 

AUTOCLAVES & STERILIZERS 

Holmach Ltd 

The Dingle, Pilsgate, 

Stamford, Lincs PE9 3HW 

T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 

E: sales@holmach.co.uk www.holmach.co.uk 

BAKERY PROCESS EQUIPMENT 

Baker Perkins Ltd 

Manor Drive, 

Peterborough, PE4 7AP T: +44 1733 283000 

E: bpltd@bakerperkins.com 

www.bakerperkins.com 

FlexLink Systems Limited 

Milton Keynes, MK14 5BN 

T: 01908 327200 

E: info.uk@flexlink.com 

www.flexlink.com 

Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 

E: info@morton-mixers.co.uk 

www.morton-mixers.co.uk 

Winkworth 


BAKING 

Reiser UK Ltd 

Maidstone Road, Kingston, 

Milton Keynes, MK10 0BD 

T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 

E: salesuk@reiser.com www.reiser.com 

Steck Depositors Limited 

Copthorne, West Sussex, RH10 3LF 

T: +44 (0) 1293 873439 

E: sales@steckdepositors.com 

www.steckdepositors.com 

BISCUIT PROCESS EQUIPMENT 


Manor Drive, 




Winkworth 


BLENDING 

T: +44 (0)1260 272894 

E: sales@jrboone.com 

www.jrboone.com 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


Silverson Machines Ltd 

Waterside, Chesham, Buckinghamshire HP5 1PQ 

T: 01494 786331 

E: sales@silverson.co.uk 

www.silverson.co.uk 

Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 Winkworth 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 


BOWL CHOPPER 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


BREAKFAST CEREAL 

PROCESS EQUIPMENT 

Baker T Perkins Ltd 

Manor Drive, 




Winkworth 

T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 


E: sales@atwell-labellers.co.uk www.labeller.co.uk Milton Keynes, MK10 0BD 

Packaging Machinery Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 T: E 01908 chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

585300 F: 01908 585400 


BULK PRODUCT 

HANDLING SYSTEMS 

Coperion K-Tron GB 

4 Acorn Business Park, Stockport, Cheshire, SK4 1AS 

T: 0161 209 4810 

E: ckb@coperionktron.com 

www@coperionktron.com 

The E Industrial Cleaning 

Equipment Company 

T: 01543 449259 E: info@ecoblastsupplies.co.uk 

www.ecoblastsupplies.co.uk 


T: 01694 722841 



piab 

Oaks Ind. Est., Festival Drive, 

Loughborough, LE11 5XN 

T: 01509 857010 F: 01509 857011 

E: info-uk@piab.com www.piab.com 

Riley 

Automation Ltd 

Foresters Business Park, 

Sinfin Lane, Derby, DE23 8AG 

T: 01332 275850 F: 01332 275855 

E: sales@rileyautomation.com www.rileyautomation.com 

Weber Packaging Solutions 

Macmerry Industrial Estate, 

Tranent, East Lothian, EH33 1HD 

T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 

E: patrick.hughes@weber.co.uk www.weber.co.uk 

CLEANING MACHINES 

The Industrial Cleaning 




COATING 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 

Lincolnshire, DN21 1QT 

T: +44 1427 611 969 

E: sales@amp-rose.com www.amp-rose.com 

Winkworth 

T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


Processing Equipment Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E: E salesuk@reiser.com chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

www.reiser.com 

CONFECTIONERY PROCESS 

EQUIPMENT 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 


T: +44 1427 611 969 



Manor Drive, 




Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 



Advertise: Christine Valdes 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

Winkworth 


CONVEYORS 




T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


Grote International 

Wrexham, LL13 7YP 

www.grotecompany.com 

E: sales@intl.grotecompany.com 

Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

COOKING KETTLES 

T: 01978 362243 F: 01978 362255 

Winkworth 


COSMETIC & TOILETRY 

PROCESSING EQUIPMENT 

Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 



Winkworth 


DAIRY EQUIPMENT 

AVE UK LTD 

Farnham, Surrey GU9 7UG 

T: 01252 733200 

E: sales@aveuk.net 

www.aveuk.net 



T: 01908 327200 



Reiser UK Ltd 



Yorkshire Packaging Systems Ltd 

Woodkirk Freight Terminal, Quarry Lane, 

Woodkirk, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire WF12 7JJ 

T: 01924 441355 F: 01924 440686 

E: enquiries@yps.co.uk www.yps.co.uk 

DEPOSITORS LIQUIDS/SOLIDS 



Manor Drive, 








T: 01978 362243 F: 01978 362255 

Karmelle Ltd 

Unit 17, Queens Mill Industrial Estate, 

Queens Mill Lane, Huddersfield HD1 3RR 

T: 01484 533356 

E: Karmelle@gmail.com www.karmelle.com 

G Mondini (UK) Ltd 

Whitebridge Lane, 

Whitebridge Estates, Stone, Staffs ST15 8LY 

T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 

E: info@gmondini.co.uk www.gmondini.co.uk 

Reiser UK Ltd 


Riggs Autopack Ltd 

Premier Mill, Brunswick Street, 

Nelson, Lancs BB9 0HU 

T: 01282 440040 F: 01282 440041 

E: info@riggsautopack.co.uk www.riggsautopack.co.uk 

SP Filling Systems Ltd 

Unit 28, Ddole Industrial Estate, 

Llandrindod Wells, Powys LD1 6DF 

T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 

E: sales@sp-filling.co.uk www.sp-filling.co.uk 




T: +44 (0) 1293 873439 





T: 01579 383788 



DIAGNOSTIC TEST STRIP EQUIPMENT 

TMG Marchesini UK Ltd 

Unit M3 & 4, Cherrycourt Way, 

Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 4UH 

T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 

E: sales@marchesini.co.uk www.marchesini.com 

DRUM EMPTYING 

NETZSCH Pumps & Systems Ltd 

Dorchester, Dorset, 

DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 

E: info.npu@netzsch.com www.netzsch.com 

DRUM FILLING 

Adelphi Group 

Mill Green Road, Haywards Heath, 

West Sussex RH16 1XQ 

T: 01444 472300 

W: www.adelphi.uk.com 



DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 


Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 



Valco Melton UK 

Hortonwood 32, 

Telford TF1 7YN 

T: 01952 677911 F: 01952 677945 

E: ask@valcomelton.com www.valcomelton.com 



DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 





T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 

E: sales@sp-filling.co.uk www.sp-filling.co.uk



Processing Equipment Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

EXTRUSION 


Manor Drive, 




Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


Winkworth 

T: 01256 305600 E: info@mixer.co.uk www.mixer.co.uk NETZSCH Pumps & Systems Ltd 




DT2 0LL 

FILLING MACHINES: LIQUID 

T: 01935 483900 

Advertise: Christine Valdes E: info.npu@netzsch.com T 020 8773 www.netzsch.com 

8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

Winkworth 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 





T: 01282 440040 F: 01282 440041 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 






T: 01978 362243 F: 01978 362255 

Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 



Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 01282 440040 F: 01282 440041 


Schmersal Ltd 






T: 01579 383788 



Winkworth 


GRILLING 



T: 01579 383788 



HEAT EXCHANGERS 

Krones UK Ltd 

Westregen House, 

Great Bank Road, Wingates Industrial Park, 

Westhoughton, Bolton BL5 3XB 

T: 01942 845000 F: 01942 E845091 

E: sales@krones.co.uk www.krones.com 

HIGH PRESSURE PROCESSING 

EQUIPMENT (HPP) 

Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Sealpac UK Ltd 

Units 1-3, The Concept Centre, 

Innovation Close, Poole, Dorset BH12 4QD, UK 

T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 

E: sales@sealpac-uk.com www.sealpac-uk.com 

HOMOGENISATION 



T: 01494 786331 



MECHANISATION –UNPACKED 

MECHANICAL HANDLING 

PROCESS AREA 



DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 


MINCING & GRINDING 

Bizerba (UK) Limited 

2-4 Erica Road, Milton Keynes, MK12 6HS 

T: 01908 682740 

E: info@bizerba.co.uk 

www.bizerba.com 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


MIXING MACHINES 

Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 



T: +44 (0)1260 272894 

E: sales@jrboone.com 

www.jrboone.com 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 




T: 01494 786331 



Winkworth 


MIXING VESSELS 


Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 


d h industries 

dh industries 

Sullivan House, Fenton Way, Laindon, 

Essex, SS15 6TD, UK 

T: +44 (0)1268 410 666 - F: +44 (0)1268 410 777 

E: dh@dhi.co.uk - www.dhi.co.uk 

Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 



PASTA COOKERS 

Winkworth 


Packaging Machinery Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 SLICING E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

& DICING 

PASTEURISERS 

Holmach Ltd 



Winkworth 

T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


FILTRATION EQUIPMENT 


KHS UK Limited 

Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 MEAT 8773 PROCESSING 8111 EQUIPMENT 

chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

6 Monkspath Business Park, 

d Sullivan h industries 

House, Fenton Way, Laindon, 

Highlands Road, Shirley, Solihull, B90 4NY 



T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 

dh T: +44 industries 

(0)1268 410 666 - F: +44 (0)1268 410 777 


E: info@khs.com www.khs.com 


DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 

PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSING 

FOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT 



Manor Drive, 






T: 0161 209 4810 



Winkworth 


PILOT PLANT 

Winkworth 


PIZZA EQUIPMENT 





T: 01978 362243 F: 01978 362255 




T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 


Multipond Limited 

Genoa Way, High Wycombe, HP11 1NY 

T: 01494 471580 F: 01494 533487 

E: info@multipond.co.uk www.multipond.com 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 




T: +44 (0) 1293 873439 



PUMPS 


Leatherhead Road, Chessington, Surrey, KT9 2QL 

T: 01372 737300 E: sales.LN@leybold.com 

www.leybold.com 



DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 


SANDWICH PREPARATION 

EQUIPMENT 





T: 01978 362243 F: 01978 362255 

SAUSAGE PRODUCTION 

EQUIPMENT 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 




T: 01908 682740 







Packaging 

T: 01978 362243 

Machinery 

F: 01978 362255 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


SMOKE GENERATORS 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


SMOKE OVENS 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


SNACK PROCESS EQUIPMENT 


Manor Drive, 




Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 



Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


Winkworth 


SORTING EQUIPMENT 

Scorpion Vision Ltd 

Lymington, Hampshire SO41 0ED 

T: 01590 679333 

E: sales@scorpionvision.co.uk 

www.scorpionvision.co.uk 

SPECIAL PURPOSE MACHINES 

Aylesbury Automation Ltd 

Unit 2 Farmbrough Close, Stocklake 

Industrial Park, Aylesbury, HP20 1DQ. 

T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 

E: enquiry@aylesbury-automation.co.uk 

www.aylesbury-automation.co.uk

Ancillary Equipment Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

T 

E 




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DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 


Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 





T 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 




T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


Cremer Speciaalmachines BV 

T: 01256 305600 E: info@mixer.co.uk www.mixer.co.uk Heereweg 5, 2161 AB Lisse, The Netherlands 

T: +31 252 419038 F: +31 252 418718 

E: sales@cremer.com 

www.cremer.com 

STERILISING TUNNELS 

WASHING EQUIPMENT 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 E216200 


UV CURING 

Jenton International Ltd. 

9 Ardglen Ind. Est., Ardglen Rd., 

Whitchurch, Hants RG28 7BB 

T: 01256 892194 

E: sales@jenton.co.uk www.jenton.co.uk 

Sewtec Automation Ltd 

3 Riverside Way, 

TABLET, CAPSULE AND 

Ravensthorpe Industrial Estate, 

Dewsbury Buyers WF13 3LG Guide: Packaging CONFECTIONERY PRINTING 

VACUUM Machinery 

PROCESS VESSELS 

T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 

E: sales@sewtec.co.uk www.sewtec.co.uk 

MACHINES 

Holmach Ltd 


Advertise: SPICE & HERB STERILISATION 

Christine Valdes T 

Weber 020 Packaging 8773 Solutions 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 


Buyers Guide: Processing Equipment 

T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Morton Mixers 

T: 0845 277 0939 


T 









T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


WASHING/STERILISING EQUIPMENT 








T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 

EE: sales@marchesini.co.uk www.marchesini.com 

Processing Equipment Advertise: Christine Valdes 020 8773 8111 chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

TABLETTING & 

TABLET COUNTING 

X-RAY INSPECTION 

Packaging Winkworth Machinery Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

Winkworth 

Ishida Europe Ltd 

Kettles Wood Drive, 


Woodgate Business Park, Birmingham B32 3DB 

T: 0121 607 7700 F: 0121 607 7666 

E: info@ishidaeurope.com www.ishidaeurope.com 



Sparc Systems Ltd 

Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6NP 

T: 01684 310000 

E: sales@sparc-systems.co.uk 

www.sparc-systems.co.uk 




ADHESIVES 

Brunel Engineering Services Ltd 

The Street, Broughton Gifford, Melksham, 

Wiltshire SN12 8PH 

T: 01225 784019 F: 01225 783400 

E: general@brunelengineeringservices.co.uk 

www.brunelengineeringservices.co.uk 

Sealock Ltd 

Hampshire, SP10 5NU 

T: +44 (0) 1264 358185 

E: sales@sealock.co.uk 

www.sealock.co.uk 

ADHESIVE APPLICATORS 

Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 BAGGING 8773 EQUIPMENT 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

Optima Packaging Machinery PLC 


7 Loader Close, Kings Worthy, Hampshire SO23 7TF 


T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 


T: 01225 784019 F: 01225 783400 

E: info@optima-gb.com 


www.optima-gb.com 


Nordson (U.K.) Ltd. 

25 Faraday Road, Rabans Lane Industrial Area, 

Aylesbury, HP19 8RY 

T: 01296 610 140 F: 01296 610 175 

E: sales@uk.nordson.com 

www.nordson.co.uk/adhesives 

Protek Packaging Ltd 

Warrington, Cheshire WA1 4RR 

T: 01925 819557 

E: sales@protekpackaging.com 

www.protekpackaging.com 




T: 01952 677911 F: 01952 677945 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


AEROSOL & SPRAY EQUIPMENT 


dh industries 



T: +44 (0)1268 410 666 - F: +44 (0)1268 410 777 


AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES 

Ocme UK Ltd 

King John Hse, Kingsclere Park, 

Kingsclere, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 4SW 

T: 01635 298171 F: 01635 297936 

E: sales.uk@ocme.com www.ocme.com 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 


T: +44 1427 611 969 


Audion Swissvac UK 

18 Victoria Way, Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8AN 

T: 01753 546777 

E: info@audionelektro.co.uk 

www.audionelektro.co.uk 

automated packaging systems 

Sandy’s Road, Malvern, WR14 1JJ 

T: 01684 891 400 F: 01684 891 401 

Email: sales@autobag.co.uk www.autobag.co.uk 



T: 0161 209 4810 



FischbeinSaxon Ltd 

T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 

E: sales@fischbeinsaxon.co.uk 

www.fischbein.com/eastern 

Gainsborough Industrial Controls Ltd 

Alpha Works, Sandars Road, Heapham Road 

Industrial Estate, Gainsborough DN21 1RZ 

T: 01427 611885 

E: sales@gic.uk.net www.gic.uk.net 

Ilapak Ltd 

Uxbridge, Middlesex T 

UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 

E: sales@ilapak.co.uk www.ilapak.com 

Line Equipment Ltd 

Nottingham, NG16 3SU 

T: 01773 717007 

E: enquiries@lineequipment.co.uk 

www.lineequipment.co.uk 

2 Pilgrim Way, Stanningley, 

Leeds LS28 6LU 

PFM Packaging T: Machinery 0113 239 3401 Ltd 

E: sales@pfmuk.com 

www.pfmuk.com 

105 Newdigate Road, Nottingham, NG16 1HN 

T: 0115 875 9846 

E: contact@raupack.co.uk www.raupack.co.uk 

Rovema Packaging Machines Ltd 

8 Merlin Centre, Gatehouse Close, 

Aylesbury, Bucks HP19 8DP 

T: 01296 310490 F: 01296 483440 

E: sales@rovema.co.uk 

www.rovema.co.uk 

Statec Binder GmbH 

Industriestrasse 32, 8200 Gleisdorf, 

Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 

E: office@statec-binder.com 

www.statec-binder.com 

BAG PALLETISERS 


T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 



Packaging Machinery Advertise: Christine Valdes 020 8773 8111 chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

KUKA E Robotics UK Ltd 


T: 0121 505 9970 



Phoenix Handling Solutions 

Burnley BB12 6HH 

T: 0845 265 7570 

E: info@phs-uk.com www.phs-uk.com 




Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 



BAG SEALERS 



T: 01753 546777 





T: 01684 891 400 F: 01684 891 401 



T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 



W H Leary, Robatech 

Basildon, Essex, SS15 6SW 

T: 01268 490035 

E: post@whleary.co.uk 

www.whleary.co.uk 

Gainsborough Engineering Company 

Long Wood Road, Corringham Road Industrial Estate, 

Gainsborough, DN21 1QB 

T: 01427 617677 

F: 01427 810443 

E: sales@gains-eng.co.uk 

www.gains-eng.co.uk 




T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


RM Sealers Ltd 

Valley Farm, Dagnall, Herts HP4 1QR 

T: 01442 843387 

E: enquiries@rmsealers.co.uk 

www.rmsealers.co.uk


Packaging Machinery Advertise: Christine Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

BANDING 

Gordian Strapping Ltd 

Brunel Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XX 

T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 

E: sales@gordianstrapping.com 

www.gordianstrapping.com 




T: 01256 892194 


Packaging Aids Limited 

Lords Way, Basildon, Essex SS13 1TN 

T: 01268 885885 F: 01268 885860 

E: sales@packer-products.co.uk 

www.packer-products.co.uk 

Sollas UK Ltd 

Hampshire RG28 7BB 

T: 01256 896930 

E: sales@sollasuk.com www.sollas.com 




T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


BAR CODE READER 

VERIFICATION-OCR 

BAR CODE SYSTEMS 

Acrovision 

Hertfordshire, AL3 8JP 

T: 0845 337 0250 

E: info@acrovision.co.uk 

www.acrovision.co.uk 


Bytronic 

T: +44 (0)1564 793174 



www.logopak.co.uk 

T: 01904 692333 

Advanced Labelling Systems Ltd 

Unit B, Bandet Way, Thame Ind. 

Estate, Thame, Oxon OX9 3SJ 

T: 01844 213177 

E: sales@als-eu.com www.als-eu.com 

Atlantic Zeiser Ltd 

53 Central Way, Andover, 

Hampshire, SP10 5AN 

T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 

E: ppma@atlanticzeiserUK.com www.atlanticzeiser.com 

T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 

E: sales@atwell-labellers.co.uk www.labeller.co.uk 

Cobalt Systems Ltd 

Cobalt House, Arden Square, 

Electra Way, Crewe, CW1 6HA 

T: 01270 539800 

E: sales@cobaltis.co.uk www.cobaltis.co.uk 

Industrial Labelling Systems Ltd 

D4 Brookside Business Park, Manchester M24 1GS 

T: 0161 655 4846 

E: sales@ilsystems.co.uk 

www.ilsystems.co.uk 

St. Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 8EP 

T: 01480 408500 

E: mail@leuze.co.uk www.leuze.co.uk 

BLISTER PACKERS 




T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 


E 

Dividella AG 

Körber Medipak Systems UK 

Fairacres, Windsor SL4 4LE 

T: 01753 754865 

www.dividella.com 




T: 01753 754865 E: info@uk.medipak.systems.com 

www.medipak-systems.com 

Mediseal GmbH 



T: 01753 754865 

www.mediseal.de 

Sepha Ltd 

Unit 25, Carrowreagh Business Park, 

Carrowreagh Road, Dundonald, 

Belfast BT16 1QQ 

T: 028 9048 4848 F: 028 9048 0890 

E: info@sepha.com www.sepha.com 




T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


BLOW MOULDING 

PO Box 1085, Aylesbury HP20 9LP 

T: 01235 537222 

E: info@serac-uk.com www.serac-group.com 

CAN FILLING EQUIPMENT 

All-Fill International Ltd 

5 Gateshead Close, Sunderland Rd, 

Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 1RS 

T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 

E: info@allfill.co.uk www.allfill.co.uk 




T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 




T: 01494 471580 F: 01494 533487 


CAPPERS 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 


Advanced Dynamics Ltd 

Unit 3, 606 Industrial Park, 

Staithgate Lane, Bradford, BD6 1YA 

T: 01274 731222 F: 01274 308953 

E: info@advanceddynamics.co.uk 

www.advanceddynamics.co.uk 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 

Cap Coder Ltd 

Monument Business Park, 

Chalgrove, Oxford, OX44 7RW 

T: 01865 891466 F: 01865 891292 

E: sales@capcoder.com www.capcoder.com 



T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 



Propack Automation Machinery Ltd 

10 Hill Wootton Rd, Leek Wootton, Warwicks, CV35 7QL 

T: 02476 470074 

E: office@propack.co.uk 

www.propack.co.uk 


T: 01235 537222 





T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


CARTONING SYSTEMS 




T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 





T: 01225 784019 F: 01225 783400 



CAMA 3 Ltd 

Suite 44, Berkeley House, 

Hunts Rise, South Marston Park, 

Swindon, Wilts, SN3 4TG 

T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 

E: cama3@camagroup.com www.camagroup.com 

CME Ltd 

Combe St Nicholas, Somerset, TA20 3NL 

T: 01460 269500 

E: cme@cme-ltd.com 

www.cme-ltd.com 

Dividella AG 



T: 01753 754865 

www.dividella.com 

ETPACK SPRINTER UK LTD 

NEWBURY, BERKS, RG14 5SJ 

T: 01635 905090 

E: dianne@et-pack.com 

www.et-pack.com 

Jacob White Packaging Ltd 

Riverside Way, Dartford, Kent DA1 5BY 

T: 01322 272531 

F: 01322 270692 

E: enquiries@jacobwhite.com www.jacobwhite.com 

Kliklok International Ltd 

Western Drive, Bristol BS14 0AY 

T: 01275 836131 

E: sales@kliklok-int.com 

www.kliklok-int.com 

now part of the Bosch Group 





Mediseal GmbH 



T: 01753 754865 




T: 02476 470074 





T: 0115 875 9846 





T: 01296 310490 F: 01296 483440 






Dewsbury WF13 3LG 

T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


CASE ERECTING/FILLING SEALING 

Aetna UK Limited 

Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7TA 

T: 01234 825050 

E: sales@aetna.co.uk www.aetna.co.uk 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 

T: +31 (0)348 410 999 E: sales@blueprintautomation.nl 

www.bpa-flexolutions.com 

CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 





T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


Endoline Machinery Ltd 

Biggleswade, SG18 8QB 

T: 01767 316422 

E: sales@endoline-automation.com 

www.endoline-automation.com 



T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 



Jacob White Packaging Ltd 

Riverside Way, Dartford, Kent DA1 5BY 

T: 01322 272531 

F: 01322 270692 

E: enquiries@jacobwhite.com www.jacobwhite.com 



T: 0845 265 7570 




T: 02476 470074 




T: 01904 692333 

Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Norden (UK) Ltd 

2 Tanners Drive, Milton Keynes, MK14 5BN 

T: 01462 895245 F: 01462 895683 

E: enquiries@norden.co.uk 

www.nordenmachinery.se 




T: 0118 977 1077 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


Karmelle Ltd 



T: 01484 533356 




T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 



SCM Handling Ltd 

Broadgauge Business Park, Taunton, 

Somerset, TA4 3RU 

T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 

E: sales@scmhandling.com www.scmhandling.com




89 

Woodward Avenue, Yate, Bristol BS37 5AP 

T: 01454 328660 F: 01454 326871 

E: machine.sales@smurfitkappa.co.uk 

www.machinesystems.co.uk 




T: 01296 310490 F: 01296 483440 





T: 01908 682740 



T: 01962 761761 E: sales@printsafe.co.uk 

www.printsafe.co.uk 

SOCO SYSTEM 





T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 


The Food Machinery Company Ltd 

Rochester, Kent ME3 8RF 

T: 01634 272345 

E: contact@foodmc.com 

www.foodmc.co.uk 




T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


Tekpak Automation Ltd (UK) 

T: +44 (0)113 3505694 

E: sales@tekpak.co.uk 

www.tekpak.co.uk 




T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


CASE LINING/FILLING/CLOSING 



CASE PACKERS AUTOMATIC 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 






CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 





T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 




T: 01767 316422 





T: 01634 272345 




T: 01454 328660 F: 01454 326871 




T: +44 (0)113 3505694 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


CASE TAPING/STRAPPING/GLUING 



T: 01234 825050 




T: 01767 316422 





T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 






T: 01296 610 140 F: 01296 610 175 




T: 01454 328660 F: 01454 326871 



CENTRIFUGAL BOWL FEEDERS 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 


www.aylesbury-automation.co.uk 





T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 





T: 0121 607 7700 F: 0121 607 7666 


Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 




T: 01684 310000 



Yamato 

Leeds, LS12 6HH 

T: 0113 322 1546 

E: sales1@yamatoscale.co.uk 

www.yamatoscale.co.uk 

CODING & MARKING 




T: 01844 213177 


Allen Coding 

Unit 9 Gateway 1000, Whittle Way, 

Arlington Business Park, Stevenage, 

Herts, SG1 2FP 

T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 

E: info@allencoding.co.uk www.allencoding.com 

ATD Marking Systems 

Marley House, The Mill, Great Bowden Road, 

Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7DE 

T: 01858 461014 F: 01858 436900 

E: mail@atduk.com www.atduk.com 




T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 


Cap Coder Ltd 



T: 01865 891466 F: 01865 891292 


CODING MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE 




T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 


COLLATING EQUIPMENT 

CME Ltd 


T: 01460 269500 







T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 


CONFECTIONERY WRAPPING 

MACHINES 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 


T: +44 1427 611 969 


CME Ltd 


T: 01460 269500 





T: 0121 505 9970 



CONTRACT LABELLING 




T: 01844 213177 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 


CONVERGERS 



T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 






T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 




T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 0118 977 1077 


CHECKWEIGHER METAL 

DETECTOR COMBI UNITS 



T: 01908 682740 





T: 01634 272345 





T: 01684 310000 



CHECKWEIGHERS 

Domino UK Ltd 

Bar Hill, Cambridge 

CB23 8TU 

T: 01954 782551 E: enquiries@domino-uk.com 

www.domino-uk.com 



T: 0161 655 4846 



Linx Printing 

Technologies Ltd 

St. Ives, PE27 5JL 

T: 01480 302661 

E: uksales@linx.co.uk www.linx.co.uk 


T: 01904 692333 

T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 





T: 01256 892194 


Kensal Handling Systems 

Kensal House, President Way, 

Luton, LU2 9NR 

T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 

E: sales@kensal.com www.kensal.com 





T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 


CONVEYORS 



T: 0845 265 7570 


Anritsu Infivis Ltd 

200 Capability Green, Luton LU1 3LU 

T: +44(0)1582 433227 

E: ais-europe@anritsu.com 

www.anritsu.com 

Open Date Equipment Ltd 

Mitcham, Surrey CR4 4DG 

T: 020 8655 4999 

E: sales@opendate.co.uk 

www.opendate.co.uk 

Advance Automated Systems Ltd 

T: 01325 328930 

E: sales@advance-as.co.uk 

www.advanceconveyors.co.uk



Astec Conveyors 

Robian Way, Swadlincote, Derbyshire DE11 9DH 

T: 01283 210333 F: 01283 210444 

E: Sales@Astecconveyors.com 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 




T: 01684 891 400 F: 01684 891 401 





T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 






Cap Coder Ltd 



T: 01865 891466 F: 01865 891292 





T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


Colwall Conveyor Systems Ltd 

Walsall, West Midlands WS2 7NL 

T: 01922 405355 

E: sales@colwallconveyors.co.uk 

www.colwallconveyors.co.uk 



T: 01767 316422 




T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 





T: 01908 327200 





T: 01634 272345 



Interroll Ltd 



T: 01536 312770 


Karmelle Ltd 



T: 01484 533356 





T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 




T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 

E: sales@scmhandling.com www.scmhandling.com 

Transnorm 

Unit 300B, Ashchurch Business Centre, 

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire GL20 8TD 

T: +44 (0)1684 291100 F: +44 (0)1684 291550 

E: sales@transnorm.co.uk www.transnorm.co.uk 


Macmerry Industrial Estate, E 


T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 



CONVEYORS (AIR) 





T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 


CONVEYORS – MOTORISED DRUMS 

Interroll Ltd 



T: 01536 312770 


CONVEYORS – PALLET 



T: 01283 210333 F: 01283 210444 






T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


Interroll Ltd 



T: 01536 312770 





T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 




T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 0845 265 7570 


CONVEYORS – POWERED ROLLER 



T: 01283 210333 F: 01283 210444 






T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


Interroll Ltd 



T: 01536 312770 




T: 0845 265 7570 


COUNTING MACHINERY 

Cremer Speciaalmachines BV 

Heereweg 5, 2161 AB Lisse, The Netherlands 

T: +31 252 419038 F: +31 252 418718 

E: sales@cremer.com 

www.cremer.com 



T: 01684 310000 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


COUNTING/PACKAGING 

HARDWARE COMPONENTS 



T: 01684 891 400 F: 01684 891 401 





T: 01427 617677 

F: 01427 810443 





T: 0121 505 9970 



Riley 




T: 01332 275850 F: 01332 275855 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


CRIMPING EQUIPMENT 


dh industries 



T: +44 (0)1268 410 666 - F: +44 (0)1268 410 777 


DEBLISTERING MACHINES 

Sepha Ltd 




T: 028 9048 4848 F: 028 9048 0890 


DEPALLETISERS 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 




T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 





T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 





T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 




T: 0121 505 9970 



Novopac (UK) Ltd 

5 Sandwich Road, Worthing, 

West Sussex BN11 5NT 

T: 01903 249113 

E: novopac.uk@gmail.com www.novopacuk.ltd.uk 




T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


ELEVATORS 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 






T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 





T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 


Riley 




T: 01332 275850 F: 01332 275855 


Schmersal Ltd 







T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 


END OF LINE BAGGING MACHINES 



T: 01684 891 400 F: 01684 891 401 




T: 0121 505 9970 



FFS HORIZONTAL 

(FLOWWRAPPERS) 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 


T: +44 1427 611 969 




T: 01753 546777 





T: 01634 272345 



Ilapak Ltd 

Uxbridge, Middlesex 

UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 



T: 0115 875 9846 




T: 0845 265 7570 


ILPRA UK 

Swindon, Wilts. SN3 4AG 

T: 01793 832020 

E: reception.uk@ilpra.com 

www.ilpra.co.uk




91 



T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 




T: 01235 537222 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Paramount 

Packaging Systems 

T: 01252 815252 

E: fuji@paramount-packaging.co.uk 

www.paramount-packaging.co.uk 





www.pfmuk.com 

FFS THERMO 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


FFS VERTICAL 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 


T: +44 1427 611 969 




T: 01753 546777 





T: 0161 209 4810 





T: 01634 272345 






T: 01427 617677 

F: 01427 810443 



Gainsborough Industrial Controls Ltd 

Alpha Works, Sandars Road, Heapham Road 

Industrial Estate, Gainsborough DN21 1RZ 

T: 01427 611885 

E: sales@gic.uk.net www.gic.uk.net 

Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 




T: 01773 717007 







www.pfmuk.com 




T: 01296 310490 F: 01296 483440 





Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 



FILLING: ASEPTIC 




T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


FILLING: BAG/SACK 




T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 


A.T. Sack Fillers 

12 Biggin Lane, Ramsey, Cambs PE26 1NB 

T: 01487 711114 E: enquiries@atsackfillers.co.uk 

www.atsackfillers.co.uk 


T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 



Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 




T: 01773 717007 





T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 





Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 



FILLING: CAPSULE 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 


Evolution BPS 

T: 01721 724296 

E: sales@evolutionbps.co.uk 

www.evolutionbps.co.uk 

FILLING: COSMETIC EQUIPMENT 




T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 


Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 




T: 01462 895245 F: 01462 895683 





T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 





T: 02476 470074 



FILLING: DRUM & IBC 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 


Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Karmelle Ltd 



T: 01484 533356 




DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 





T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 




Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 



FILLING: GRANULES 




T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 





T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 




T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 





Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 



FILLING: LIQUID 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 





T: 01274 731222 F: 01274 308953 



AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 




Cap Coder Ltd 



T: 01865 891466 F: 01865 891292 


Karmelle Ltd 



T: 01484 533356 





T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 




T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 




DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 




T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 






T: 01282 440040 F: 01282 440041 



T: 01235 537222 





T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


FILLING: MOLTEN 



T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 


FILLING: PASTE 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 





T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 




T: 0121 505 9970 



Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 



T: 01235 537222 


Evolution BPS 

T: 01721 724296 





DT2 0LL 

T: 01935 483900 

E: info.npu@netzsch.com www.netzsch.com





T: 01462 895245 F: 01462 895683 






T: 01282 440040 F: 01282 440041 


FILLING: PHARMACEUTICAL 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 





T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 


Cap Coder Ltd 



T: 01865 891466 F: 01865 891292 




T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 01462 895245 F: 01462 895683 





T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 




T: 0115 875 9846 





T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


FILLING: POWDER 




T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 




T: 01634 272345 





T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 






T: 01296 310490 F: 01296 483440 





Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 




FILLING: SOLIDS 

MPE UK LIMITED 

7 Loader Advertise: Close, Kings Christine Worthy, Hampshire Valdes SO23 7TF T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 

T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 

T: +44 1663 732 700 

Holmach Ltd 


E: mark@mpe-uk.com 



www.mpe-uk.com 


T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 




T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 


MULTI-FILL Inc. T: +1 801 280 1570 

multifill multifil 

E: sales@multi-fill.com 

www.multi-fill.com 



T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 



FILLING: WEIGH 




T: 01767 691100 F: 01767 681406 




T: 01634 272345 



Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 




T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 01494 471580 F: 01494 533487 



T: 01235 537222 





T: 01597 824918 F: 01597 822553 




Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 



HEAT SEALERS 



T: 01753 546777 




T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 






T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 


Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire SK23 7DQ 



T: 01268 885885 F: 01268 885860 



RM Sealers Ltd 

Valley Farm, Dagnall, Herts HP4 1QR 

T: 01442 843387 

E: enquiries@rmsealers.co.uk 

www.rmsealers.co.uk 




T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


HANDLE APPLICATORS 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 

HOT FOIL PRINTERS 

Allen Coding 




T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 




T: 020 8655 4999 



HOT MELT APPLICATION 

EQUIPMENT 

W H Leary, Robatech 

Basildon, Essex, SS15 6SW 

T: 01268 490035 

E: post@whleary.co.uk 

www.whleary.co.uk 



T: 01268 885885 F: 01268 885860 



INDUCTION CAP SEALING 

Enercon Industries Ltd 

62-64 Edison Road, Aylesbury, 

Bucks HP19 8UX 

T: +44(0)1296 330542 F: +44(0)1296 432098 

E: info@enerconind.co.uk www.enerconind.co.uk 

INK JET CODERS 




T: 01858 461014 F: 01858 436900 





T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 




T: 020 8655 4999 









T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


INK JET PRINTERS 

Allen Coding 




T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 





T: 01858 461014 F: 01858 436900 





T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 



T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 






T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


INSPECTION SYSTEMS 

Acrovision 


T: 0845 337 0250 






T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 





T: 01908 682740 



Evolution BPS 

T: 01721 724296 



Fortress Technology (Europe) Ltd 

Phantom House, Beaumont Road, 

Banbury, Oxon, OX16 1RH 

T: 01295 256266 F: 01295 255987 

E: info@fortresstechnology.co.uk 






M.D.S. Ltd Metal Detection Services 

St. Martins Studios, Greenbank Road, 

Sale, Cheshire M33 5PN 

T: Sales 0161 286 8755 T: 0161 286 8750 

E: sales@mds.org.uk www.mds.org.uk 




T: 01296 610 140 F: 01296 610 175 





T: 01590 679333 






T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 

E: sales@sealpac-uk.com www.sealpac-uk.com




93 




T: 01952 677911 F: 01952 677945 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 




T: 01634 272345 






T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


L-BAR SEALERS MANUAL/AUTO 



T: 01753 546777 



LABEL INSPECTION 




T: 01844 213177 


LABEL PRINTERS 




T: 01844 213177 


Allen Coding 




T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 





T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 




T: 01908 682740 





T: 0161 655 4846 



11 Whittle Parkway, Berkshire, SL1 6DQ 

T: 01628 668836 

E: info@QuickLabel.co.uk www.QuickLabel.co.uk 




T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


LABELLERS 




T: 01274 731222 F: 01274 308953 






T: 01844 213177 


Allen Coding 




T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 


ALTech UK Labelling Technologies Ltd 

Central Park, Bridgend, South Wales CF31 3RT 

T: 0800 612 6205 

E: sales@altech-uk.com 

www.altech-uk.com 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 

Evolution BPS 

T: 01721 724296 



HERMA UK Limited 

The Hollands Centre, 

Hollands Road, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8PR 

T: 01440 763366 F: 01440 706834 

E: sales@herma.co.uk www.herma.co.uk 



T: 0161 655 4846 



Karmelle Ltd 



T: 01484 533356 





T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 



T: 01904 692333 

T: 01255 553822 

E: sales@premierlabellers.co.uk 

www.premierlabellers.co.uk 



T: 02476 470074 






T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


Sessions UK 

1 Redeness Street, York, YO31 7UU 

T: 01904 610613 

E: enquiry@sessionsuk.com 

www.sessionsuk.com 

Sovereign Labelling Systems 

Brightlingsea, Essex CO7 0SF 

T: 01206 304182 

E: sovereign@sovereignlabellingsystems.co.uk 

www.sovereignlabellingsystems.co.uk 




T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


LABELLING SOFTWARE 




T: 01844 213177 


LANE DIVIDER/COMBINER 



T: 01283 210333 F: 01283 210444 






T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 


LASER CODERS 

Allen Coding 




T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 





T: 01858 461014 F: 01858 436900 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


LEAK TESTING 




T: 0121 607 7700 F: 0121 607 7666 





Sepha Ltd 




T: 028 9048 4848 F: 028 9048 0890 


LINEAR VIBRATORS 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 



Riley 




T: 01332 275850 F: 01332 275855 


LINERLESS LABELLERS 

T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


METAL DETECTION 



T: +44(0)1582 433227 



Fortress Technology (Europe) Ltd 

Phantom House, Beaumont Road, 

Banbury, Oxon, OX16 1RH 

T: 01295 256266 F: 01295 255987 

E: info@fortresstechnology.co.uk 



Peter Buckley 

T: +44 (0)7482 983183 



M.D.S. Ltd Metal Detection Services 

St. Martins Studios, Greenbank Road, 

Sale, Cheshire M33 5PN 

T: Sales 0161 286 8755 T: 0161 286 8750 

E: sales@mds.org.uk www.mds.org.uk 

Mettler-Toledo Safeline 

Montford Street, Salford, M50 2XD, UK 

T: 0161 848 8636 

E: safeline.info@mt.com 

www.mt.com/metaldetection 

MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE 

PACKAGING 

Air Products PLC 

2 Millennium Gate, Westmere Drive, 

Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 6AP 

T: 0800 389 0202 

E: apukinfo@airproducts.com 

www.airproducts-freshthinking.com 



T: 01753 546777 






T: 01427 617677 

F: 01427 810443 



Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 


ILPRA UK 


T: 01793 832020 


www.ilpra.co.uk 




T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 






www.pfmuk.com 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


MULTIHEAD WEIGHERS 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 


T: +44 1427 611 969 




T: 01908 682740 






T: 01858 461014 F: 01858 436900 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 




T: 01908 682740 





T: 01634 272345 


www.foodmc.co.uk



Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 



T 



T: 0121 607 7700 F: 0121 607 7666 




T: 01494 471580 F: 01494 533487 






www.pfmuk.com 

Yamato 

Leeds, LS12 6HH 

T: 0113 322 1546 

E: sales1@yamatoscale.co.uk 

www.yamatoscale.co.uk 

MULTIPLE PACKAGING 

EQUIPMENT 

AMP Rose 

Gainsborough, 


T: +44 1427 611 969 





T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 




T: 0121 505 9970 



PALLET SHRINK WRAPPING 

MACHINERY 



T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 


PALLET STRAPPING 

MACHINERY 



T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 





T: 0845 265 7570 


PALLET STRETCH HOODING 

MACHINERY 



T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 



PALLET STRETCH WRAPPING 

MACHINERY 



T: 01234 825050 E 





T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 





T: 0845 265 7570 


PALLETISING 

Alvey Group 

T: 01355 574859 

07921 773545 

E: rwoods@alvey.be 

www.alvey.be 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 




T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 




T: 0161 209 4810 



Evolution BPS 

T: 01721 724296 




T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 




Peter Buckley 

T: +44 (0)7482 983183 






T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 




T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01296 610 140 F: 01296 610 175 






T: 01903 249113 


Ocme UK Ltd 



T: 01635 298171 F: 01635 297936 




T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 



T: 01454 328660 F: 01454 326871 



SOCO SYSTEM 



Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 





T: 01924 441355 F: 01924 440686 


PICK & PLACE MACHINES 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 





CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 


Cap Coder Ltd 



T: 01865 891466 F: 01865 891292 





T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 




T: 01767 316422 





T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 




T: 01206 304182 





T: +44 (0)113 3505694 



POUCH FILL & SEAL MACHINES 



T: 01684 891 400 F: 01684 891 401 




T: 01634 272345 






T: 01427 617677 

F: 01427 810443 



Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 


ILPRA UK 


T: 01793 832020 





T: 01773 717007 






T: 01282 440040 F: 01282 440041 





T: 01296 310490 F: 01296 483440 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


PRINT & APPLY LABELLING 




T: 01844 213177 


Allen Coding 




T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 


Cobalt Systems Ltd 

Cobalt House, Arden Square, 

Electra Way, Crewe, CW1 6HA 

T: 01270 539800 

E: sales@cobaltis.co.uk www.cobaltis.co.uk 

HERMA UK Limited 

The Hollands Centre, 

Hollands Road, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 8PR 

T: 01440 763366 F: 01440 706834 

E: sales@herma.co.uk www.herma.co.uk 



T: 0845 265 7570 



T: 0115 875 9846 



T: 01454 328660 F: 01454 326871 





T: 0161 655 4846 


www.ilsystems.co.uk




95 

Karmelle Ltd 



T: 01484 533356 




T: 0121 505 9970 



Kawasaki Robotics 

Warrington, WA5 7ZB 

T: 01925 713000 

E: info@kawasakirobotuk.com 

www.kawasakirobot.co.uk 

Yaskawa UK Ltd 

2 Johnson Park, 

Wildmere Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 3JU 

T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 

E: admin.uk@yaskawa.eu.com www.yaskawa.eu.com 

Sessions UK 

1 Redeness Street, York, YO31 7UU 

T: 01904 610613 

E: enquiry@sessionsuk.com 

www.sessionsuk.com 


T: 01904 692333 



T: 01206 304182 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 





T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


PRODUCT RECOVERY 



T: 0121 505 9970 



READY MEALS PACKING LINES 



T: 01275 836131 





T: 0121 505 9970 







T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 


MULTI-FILL Inc. T: +1 801 280 1570 

multifill multifil 

E: sales@multi-fill.com 

www.multi-fill.com 



T: 01494 471580 F: 01494 533487 


Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 01282 440040 F: 01282 440041 





T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


READY MEALS SLEEVING 

RESEALABLE PACKAGING 

Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 


RFID TRACK AND 

TRACE SOFTWARE 




T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


RINSERS AIR/& OR PRODUCT 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 

Holmach Ltd 



T: 01780 749097 F: 01780 749098 


ROBOTIC HANDLING SYSTEMS 

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 1DQ 

T: 01296 314300 www.aarobotics.co.uk 

E: trich@aylesbury-automation.co.uk 

ABB Ltd 

Auriga House, Precedent Drive, 

Rooksley, Milton Keynes, MK13 8PQ 

T: 01908 350300 F: 01908 350301 

E: michelle.jocelyn@gb.abb.com 

www.abb.com/robotics 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 








CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 





T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 




T: 01767 316422 



FANUC UK Ltd 


T: 02476 639669 




T: 01908 327200 






T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 




T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 01462 895245 F: 01462 895683 





T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 0118 977 1077 


RNA AUTOMATION LTD 

Hayward Ind. Park, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham B35 7BT 

T: 0121 749 2566 F: 0121 749 6217 

E: sales@rnaautomation.com 

www.rnaautomation.com 




T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 




T: 01206 304182 




T: +44 (0)113 3505694 






T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 


ROBOT INTEGRATORS 







T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 




T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 0845 265 7570 


ROBOTIC PALLETISERS 

ABB Ltd 



T: 01908 350300 F: 01908 350301 









T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


FANUC UK Ltd 


T: 02476 639669 



T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 





T: 01925 713000 






T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 





T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 




T: 0121 505 9970 



Ocme UK Ltd 



T: 01635 298171 F: 01635 297936 




T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 



T: 01454 328660 F: 01454 326871 





Austria. T: +43 3112 38580-0 





T: 01275 836131 





Peter Buckley 

T: +44 (0)7482 983183 







T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 

E: sales@marchesini.co.uk www.marchesini.com





ROBOTS – CARTESIAN 

SANDWICH PACKING MACHINES 

Wildmere Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 3JU KUKA Robotics UK Ltd 


T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 



E: admin.uk@yaskawa.eu.com www.yaskawa.eu.com T: 0121 505 9970 

T: 0121 505 9970 






Woodkirk Advertise: Freight Terminal, Christine Quarry Lane, Valdes T 020 8773 8111 E chris.valdes@ppma.co.uk 


ROBOTS – COLLABORATIVE 

T: 01924 441355 F: 01924 440686 

SEAL TESTING 


ROBOTS 

ABB Ltd 



T: 01908 350300 F: 01908 350301 



Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 1DQ 

T: 01296 314300 www.aarobotics.co.uk 

E: trich@aylesbury-automation.co.uk 

ABB Ltd 



T: 01908 350300 F: 01908 350301 



CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 





T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 


FANUC UK Ltd 


T: 02476 639669 




T: 01925 713000 





T: 0121 505 9970 



Mitsubishi Electric 

Hertfordshire, AL10 8XB 

T: 01707 276100 

E: automation@meuk.mee.com 

www.mitsubishielectric.co.uk 



T: 0845 265 7570 


TM Robotics (Europe) Ltd 

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1JG 

T: 01707 290370 

E: sales@tmrobotics.co.uk www.tmrobotics.co.uk 




T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 


ROBOTS – ARTICULATED ARM 

ABB Ltd 



T: 01908 350300 F: 01908 350301 



FANUC UK Ltd 


T: 02476 639669 



Peter Buckley 

T: +44 (0)7482 983183 





T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 




T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 


ROBOTS – DELTA STYLE 

ABB Ltd 



T: 01908 350300 F: 01908 350301 



CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 


FANUC UK Ltd 


T: 02476 639669 





T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 


SACHET MACHINES 



T: 01634 272345 






T: 01427 617677 

F: 01427 810443 



Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 






Mediseal GmbH 



T: 01753 754865 




T: 02476 470074 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


SAFETY GUARDING 


T: 01480 408500 


Schmersal Ltd 







T: 0121 607 7700 F: 0121 607 7666 





T: 01256 892194 





T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


SENSORS FOR AUTOMATION 


T: 01480 408500 


SERIALISATION 




T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


SHRINK HOODING 



T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 



SHRINK SLEEVING 




T: 01274 731222 F: 01274 308953 






T: 01924 441355 F: 01924 440686 


SHRINK TUNNELS 



T: 01753 546777 






T: 01903 249113 




T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01924 441355 F: 01924 440686 


SHRINK WRAPPING 



T: 01234 825050 




T: 01753 546777 




AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 

Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 





T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 


Marden Edwards Shrinkwrap 

2 Nimrod Way, East Dorest Trade Park, 

Wimborne, BH21 7SH 

T: 01202 861200 

E: info@meshrinkwrap.com 

www.meshrinkwrap.com 




T: 01903 249113 




T: 01268 885885 F: 01268 885860 





T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 





T: 01924 441355 F: 01924 440686 


SKIN PACKAGING 

ILPRA UK 


T: 01793 832020 






T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 


Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


SLEEVE FEEDERS 

T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 




SLEEVING MACHINES 

CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 

E: cama3@camagroup.com www.camagroup.com




97 



T: 01206 304182 



SPECIAL PURPOSE MACHINES 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 



CME Ltd 


T: 01460 269500 







T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 




T: 01579 383788 



SPIRAL CONVEYORS 



T: 01283 210333 F: 01283 210444 






T: 01452 728753 F: 01452 725686 





T: +44 (0) 1 582 425 777 F: +44 (0) 1 582 425 776 




T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01823 431838 F: 01823 430806 


STACKING 




T: 01256 892194 




T: 0121 505 9970 



STICK PACK MACHINES 





Mediseal GmbH 



T: 01753 754865 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


STITCHERS 


T: +44 (0) 844 372 2877 



STRAPPING 



T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 





T: 01268 885885 F: 01268 885860 





T: 0845 265 7570 


STRETCH HOODING 

BEUMER Group UK Limited 

Bardon Hill, Leicestershire, LE67 1UE 

T: 01530 441297 

E: sales@beumergroup.com 

www.beumergroup.com 



T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 





T: 0845 265 7570 


STRETCH WRAPPERS 



T: 01234 825050 




T: 01256 394 400 F: 01256 394 410 





T: 01268 885885 F: 01268 885860 





T: 0845 265 7570 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


STRIP PACKERS 




T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


TAMPER EVIDENT SLEEVING 




T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


TEA BAGGING MACHINES 

Ilapak Ltd 


UB8 2YF 

T: 020 8797 2000 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


THERMAL PRINTERS 




T: 01844 213177 


Allen Coding 




T: 01438 347770 F: 01438 347771 





T: 01858 461014 F: 01858 436900 


T: 01444 239970 F: 01444 246609 




T: 01634 272345 





T: 0161 655 4846 





T: 020 8655 4999 






T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


THERMAL VISION INSPECTION 

THERMOFORMING 

Anchor Plastics Machinery 

St Albans, AL3 7HR 

T: 01895 824301 

E: info@anchor-pm.co.uk 

www.anchor-pm.co.uk 

ILPRA UK 


T: 01793 832020 




Bytronic 

T: +44 (0)1564 793174 







Mediseal GmbH 



T: 01753 754865 


Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


TORQUE TESTING 



T: 0121 505 9970 



TRACK & TRACE 




T: 01264 324222 F: 01264 324333 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


TRAY DENESTING SYSTEMS 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 






T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 




T: 02476 470074 



Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 






T: 01924 494047 F: 01924 480949 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


TRAY ERECTING/PACKING 




T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 




T: 01275 836131 





T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01462 895245 F: 01462 895683 






T: 01903 249113 




T: 0845 265 7570 



T: 01454 328660 F: 01454 326871 




T: +44 (0)113 3505694 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 

E: sales@marchesini.co.uk www.marchesini.com



TRAY SEALERS 

ILPRA UK 


T: 01793 832020 






T: 0121 607 7700 F: 0121 607 7666 





T: 01785 812512 F: 01785 819512 


MPE UK LIMITED 

Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire SK23 7DQ 

T: +44 1663 732 700 

E: mark@mpe-uk.com 

www.mpe-uk.com 

Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 





T: 0845 302 3056 F: 0845 302 3057 


TUB/CUP FILLING & 

CLOSING MACHINES 



T: 01634 272345 



ILPRA UK 


T: 01793 832020 





T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 



Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 



T: 01235 537222 





T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


TUBE FILLING 

Adelphi Group 



T: 01444 472300 




T: 01462 895245 F: 01462 895683 





T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 



UNSCRAMBLERS 

AVE UK LTD 


T: 01252 733200 


www.aveuk.net 

E 





T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 







T: 01962 620898 F: +49 (0)791/506-6500 





T: 02476 470074 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 


VACUUM CONVEYING EQUIPMENT 



T: 0161 209 4810 









T: 0121 505 9970 






piab 



T: 01509 857010 F: 01509 857011 


VACUUM CUPS 



T: 0121 505 9970 



piab 



T: 01509 857010 F: 01509 857011 



T: 0161 482 4004 



VACUUM LIFTING 

JOULIN (UK) 

T: 0191 265 9151 

E: joulinuk@joulin.com 

www.joulin.com 




T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 



T: 0161 482 4004 



VACUUM PACKING SYSTEMS 



T: 01753 546777 





T: 0121 505 9970 



Reiser UK Ltd 



T: 01908 585300 F: 01908 585400 


VACUUM PUMPS 




piab 



T: 01509 857010 F: 01509 857011 


VACUUM TRANSFER SYSTEMS 



T: 0161 209 4810 







piab 



T: 01509 857010 F: 01509 857011 


VERIFICATION 




T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


VIBRATORY BOWL FEEDERS 




T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 





T: 0121 505 9970 



Riley 




T: 01332 275850 F: 01332 275855 


VIBRATORY CONVEYOR SYSTEMS 



T: 0121 505 9970 




VIBRATORY WEIGHERS 



T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 01494 471580 F: 01494 533487 


VISION COMPONENTS 

Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0TT 

T: +44 (0) 20 7193 4408 

E: alastair.slater@alliedvision.com www.alliedvision.com 

Alrad Imaging 

Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2NS 

T: 01635 30345 

E: sales@alrad.co.uk www.alrad.co.uk 

Alrad Imaging is a trading division of Alrad Instruments Ltd. 

IDS 

PO Box 6917, Basingstoke, 

RG24 4TU, UK 

T: 0118 970 1704 M: 07979 193707 

E: s.hearn@ids-imaging.com www.ids-imaging.com 

IMPERX, Inc. 

Florida, 33487, USA 

T: (+1)-561-989-0006 

E: sales@imperx.com 

www.imperx.com 

Petersfield, Hampshire GU32 3QF 

T: 01730 233332 

E: sales@multipix.com www.multipix.com 



T: 01590 679333 



T: 01252 780000 

F: 01252 780001 

E: info@stemmer-imaging.co.uk 

www.stemmer-imaging.co.uk 

VISION –END OF LINE INSPECTION 



T: 0121 505 9970 



Olmec-UK Ltd 

Barton-Upon-Humber 

DN18 5RL 

T: 01652 631960 

E: sales@olmec-uk.com www.olmec-uk.com 



T: 01590 679333 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


VISION – HIGH SPEED IMAGING 


Bytronic 

T: +44 (0)1564 793174 






T: 01525 216201 F: 01525 216200 




T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 0121 749 2566 F: 0121 749 6217 



IMPERX, Inc. 


T: (+1)-561-989-0006 


www.imperx.com




99 



T: 0121 505 9970 




T: 01730 233332 




T: 01590 679333 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


VISION INSPECTION 

Acrovision 


T: 0845 337 0250 



Alrad Imaging 


T: 01635 30345 






T: 01296 314300 F: 01296 482424 



VISION – LINE SCAN TECHNOLOGY 

Alrad Imaging 


T: 01635 30345 





T: 0121 505 9970 





T: 01590 679333 



VISION SYSTEMS 

Acrovision 


T: 0845 337 0250 





T: 01908 682740 



IMPERX, Inc. 


T: (+1)-561-989-0006 


www.imperx.com 



T: 0121 505 9970 



T: 01252 780000 

F: 01252 780001 



VISION SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR 


Bytronic 

T: +44 (0)1564 793174 





T: 0121 505 9970 




T: 01730 233332 


Olmec-UK Ltd 


DN18 5RL 

T: 01652 631960 




T: 0121 749 2566 F: 0121 749 6217 





T: 01590 679333 






T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


WELDING 



T: 0121 505 9970 






T: 01295 272755 F: 01295 267127 


WRAP AROUND PACKERS 

CAMA 3 Ltd 




T: 01793 831111 F: 01793 831481 





T: 0121 713 6900 F: 0121 713 6935 





T: 01903 249113 





T: 01296 310490 F: 01296 483440 





T: 01908 682740 









T: 0121 505 9970 




T: 01730 233332 


Olmec-UK Ltd 


DN18 5RL 

T: 01652 631960 




T: 01590 679333 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 




T: 01684 310000 



T: 01252 780000 

F: 01252 780001 




T: 01480 408500 



T: 01730 233332 




T: 01590 679333 



SICK (UK) LTD 



T: 01727 831121 F: 01727 856767 


T: 01252 780000 

F: 01252 780001 






T: 01875 611 111 F: 01875 613 310 


VISION SYSTEMS –3D 

IDS 

PO Box 6917, Basingstoke, 

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