Ceepackaging

Technology

The best not necessarily good

One customer wants the price to be as low as possible. Another wants the maximum that cutting edge technology has to offer. And in-between these two extremes, there’s the entire range of possible variants to be found among the prospective customers in the market. For many customers value for money is the golden mean, i.e. the optimum of performance and price – which in turn can be interpreted very differently depending on the packaging task.

R&D teams at Optima get detailed information on customer needs from sales or through specific surveys. Universally valid criteria such as output, versatility and machine reliability are already a central consideration and developers have an excellent knowledge of the requirements in the market. In the end, it is the creative technical solutions, practical intelligence and experience that are essential, since these will help to create new and better solutions in completely different segments.
The present issue of O-com represents a cross-section and evidence of this. Innovation is the key word on almost every page. This much we can say for now: The nonwovens division has developed a new packaging machine with stacker for feminine hygiene products that again increases the cutting-edge output and yet can be offered at a lower price than the previous top-of-the-range model – key word integrative engineering. Kugler uses robots in the packaging process in an innovative manner to reduce labor costs and at the same time minimize the incidence of faults with complex tasks.

Also for the cosmetic industry, PPS has developed a high-speed solution for folding boxes with cardboard liner. Here, the seemingly simpler intermittent mode of operation beats continuous operation. Optima has already been the market leader in the field of high-performance and high-speed production and packaging of coffee portion packs, so-called pads and pods. Now there is also a production and packaging machine that is tailored to the needs of newcomers, i.e. small companies that want to have a share in this growing market: Quality at low investment costs. Amotek and Autocon complete the picture with their products; tissue roll packaging almost without format changeover times and an industrial image processing system that is geared up to the coming generation of the gigabit Ethernet.