10 years' success in the Middle Kingdom - Sick

Langenpac mainly produces packaging
machines for cakes and biscuits
(e.g. cheese sticks), dry food, tissues,
and industrial non-food products such
as film spools, batteries and lamps.
“These are all mass-produced articles
that require high throughput capacities
during packaging and cartoning”, says
Pieter van Summeren, Manager of Electrical
Engineering at Langepac. “And
we are particularly strong here.”
SICK sensors ensure rapid and intelligent
system solutions
The tasks that Langenpac machines
handle differ in complexity. The vertical
SICK insight 2/2004
Safe sensors on high-speed packaging machines in the Netherlands Applications 15
Monitoring gap-free feed of sales packaging with the WT 12-2 photoelectric proximity switch
SICK is standard
Whether cheese sticks or contact lenses
– into the box with them
High-speed packaging machines and cartoning equipment are staples
for Dutch producer Langenpac. Capacities of 450 and more boxes per
minute require reliably functioning sensors. Thus safety systems, barcode
readers and photoelectric switches from SICK (e.g. the W 12-2)
have become standards at Langenpac.
cartoning machine for cheese sticks
fills sales trays at high speed. Type
WT 12-2 photoelectric proximity switches,
mechanically robust sensors with a
rapid switching frequency of 1.5 KHz,
monitor the continuous flow of sales
packaging. A special high-speed packaging
machine for 200 boxes per
minute was constructed for a producer
of tissues. The requirements of a contact
lens producer were complex: apart
from the pure packing function, this also
involved coding and sorting according
to lens strength, sell-by date and
batch number. “SICK scanners are
first-class here”, confirms Pieter van
Summeren. Finally, a really futuristic
cartoning machine for food products
was developed with the Canadian company
Langen. The machine is characterised
by a high speed and a wide
range of formats. In addition to a variety
of detection functions, safety technology
here reliably protects machine
operators.
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You can obtain further product information
on the Internet at:
www.sick.de/insight/en
More about the customer:
www.langenpac.com