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28 MACHINERY UPDATE JULY/AUGUST 2018 www.mac<strong>hi</strong>neryupdate.co.uk<br />

Installation News<br />

Water tablets are flow wrapped<br />

in a timely and also safer fas<strong>hi</strong>on<br />

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Fuji’s new box motion<br />

Alpha 8 wrapper has<br />

just been installed into<br />

a water purification tablet<br />

supplier to meet the need for<br />

a larger pack size to overcome<br />

any issues <strong>with</strong> safety for<br />

young c<strong>hi</strong>ldren.<br />

The customer approached<br />

Fuji’s UK distributor<br />

Paramount Packaging as it<br />

was looking for alternative<br />

options to wrap its 3.25g<br />

and 11.9g water purification<br />

tablets. It wanted to continue<br />

to use paper and aluminium<br />

foil packaging but wanted<br />

them to be hermetically<br />

sealed and packed at speeds<br />

of 200 a minute. In operation,<br />

the Alpha 8 can produce up<br />

to 400 a minute.<br />

It also wanted the packs<br />

to be larger than normal, so<br />

they didn’t look like sweets<br />

to c<strong>hi</strong>ldren, w<strong>hi</strong>ch can be an<br />

issue for some flow wrappers<br />

but was overcome easily by<br />

Fuji’s advanced film tracking<br />

and tension control.<br />

FAST HERMETIC SEALS<br />

Paramount recommended<br />

its new Alpha 8 wrapper to<br />

ac<strong>hi</strong>eve the hermetic seals<br />

at the required speeds<br />

and also, fully automated<br />

product feeding <strong>with</strong> a<br />

vibratory bowl feeder.<br />

T<strong>hi</strong>s feeder orientates the<br />

tablets into a single-file line<br />

to ensure a continuous stream<br />

of product is fed onto the<br />

in-line belt feeder.<br />

In t<strong>hi</strong>s way, products that<br />

are touc<strong>hi</strong>ng or irregularly<br />

spaced are automatically<br />

synchronised in time <strong>with</strong> the<br />

operation of the jaws and fed<br />

onto the film.<br />

The system consists of two<br />

belts – a pre-feed and timing<br />

conveyor – w<strong>hi</strong>ch can be<br />

removed easily for cleaning.<br />

T 01252 815252<br />

W www.paramount-packaging.<br />

co.uk

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