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News Release from: Paramount Packaging Systems Limited | Subject: Cannon Avent Fuji flow wrappers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 May 2006
Baby Feeding Containers Get Flow Wrap
Treatment
Three Fuji flow wrappers, adapted to provide closely wrapped collations of plastic cups that can nevertheless be stacked, have been installed by Cannon Avent, Glemsford, Suffolk (UK).
Three Fuji flow wrappers, adapted to provide closely wrapped collations of plastic cups that can nevertheless be stacked, have been installed by Cannon Avent, Glemsford, Suffolk (UK) The machines are handling Cannon Avent's new Via range of baby feeding containers
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Via cups are supplied as sterile products, particularly for once-only use outside the home, yet which can be re-sterilised and re-used, if required.
Production takes place within a cleanroom where the moulded product from injection moulding machines is transferred automatically in to the in-feed of the two Fuji FW3710B flow-wrappers, in nested collations of varying numbers.
Supplied by UK agent Paramount Packaging Systems, the flow-wrappers are equipped with automatic reel splicing equipment to allow continuous running, with operators only required to enter the cleanroom to reload reels of film in to the splicers.
The machines are fitted with gas flushing facilities to maintain sterility and they employ box motion sealing jaws that move with the laminate films employed, so providing the extra dwell time required for secure hermetic seals.
However, the sealing system also incorporates a new mechanism, designed in collaboration between Cannon Avent, Paramount and Fuji, which allows the front edge of the pack to be drawn back deep inside the leading cup.
Cannon Avent's industrial engineer, Andrew Lees, said: "The ability to create this pack form was critical for the product and Paramount was the only machine manufacturer that was prepared to develop a system around our ideas.
The stainless steel machines also give us the high quality seals we require, as well as being easy to clean.".
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