Machinery Innovation

We have more than 40 years of machinery and automation expertise combined with consumer insights, research and know-how to deliver machinery innovations that meet our customers’ needs. From versatility and smaller footprint size to robotics and servo motors, it translates into time, cost and space savings for customers.

One Tech 2 Combo

In the past, to meet wide ranging needs, manufacturers needed multiple machines for beverage packaging, which required many operators–usually one for each machine. Finding floor space for multiple machines was difficult and costly.

Runs multiple configurations, packaging and containers 

Our One Tech 2 Combo system minimizes these issues. The One Tech 2 Combo, capable of running both secondary and tertiary packaging, focuses on versatility for low speed needs–up to 900 bottles a minute–with the ability to package glass, plastic and dairy chug bottles and cans in various sizes.

The Combo can range configurations from four to 20 packs in fully enclosed, basket, sleeve, or wrap style cartons–or straight into a case pack or tray. With this flexibility, delivering specific packaging to meet target market segments and distribution needs is simpler.

Saves floor space

The One Tech 2 Combo combines secondary and tertiary packaging, saving floor space and conveyors. Flexibility in packaging types means that only one machine is required where once there were five or six. Fewer machines means fewer operators, saving money and allowing manufacturers to use those operators in other areas.

Allows for line efficiency

We designed the One Tech 2 Combo to create a continuous motion packaging process with product handling, using a plunger mechanism. This creates less stress on bottles, making it feasible to reduce their weight and thickness without compromising efficiency.

This integration of all functions and reduction of uncontrolled conveyor junctions leads to a gain in line efficiency, which translates into reduced total costs. With today’s tight market conditions of high competition and cost pressures, being able to improve efficiencies is an advantage to any company.

 

Duodozen 1250 Carousel infeed

Machinery that offers flexibility, in the past, has created large infeeds. For example, the typical Duodozen® 1250 machine requires a 20 meters (65 feet) long infeed, making it difficult for any production facility that uses forklifts to move materials around.

And having such a large infeed area can create room for mistakes, whether they originate from conveyors not functioning at the correct speeds, incorrect line pressure, or product falling over.

Eliminates need for conveyors, saving floor space and time

The latest design innovation in machinery is our carousel infeed, integrated into the Duodozen 1250 machines. This reduces the need for conveyors, thereby reducing costs and space requirements and increasing production efficiency.

The carousel infeed uses robotics and servo motors to precisely select product into the required configuration. And the need for costly conveyors is gone, as are time-consuming changeovers that require different parts. All that is required now is changing parts to the arms of the carousel. At the simple push of a button, the new infeed system is capable of selecting the new configuration with ease.