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Packaging Trends

Focus on outer packaging

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Multipacks become more important. The insertion into the multipack machine is, however, only solved to an insufficient degree, especially when machines from different manufacturers are involved. On the other hand, performance is successfully increased. Machines in which the carton has to be set up manually become rarer. The industry looks for ways to accelerate the turnover of goods and at the same time to make it safer. Stacks of pallets, but also individual shipment units are shrink-wrapped with plastic.

Packaging at a faster pace

In every area, it is being attempted to increase the working speeds of the machines. For example, there is an increase in performance in tube-filling and sealing machines. In 1966, Maschinenfabrik Ganzhorn + Stirn (Germany), promotes a new revolving machine that processes 3,600 tubes per hour. In the second half of the sixties, speeds of over 50,000 bottles per hour can be achieved in beverage filling. The technology of the so-called “Bodymaker” has brought substantial progress in the processing of fine tin at the beginning of the sixties.

Measuring and checking

The higher the performance of the machinery is and the more areas are automated, the more important it is becoming to build checking into the packaging process, by means of scales. What is needed are checking scales that can keep up with the speed of automatic filling machinery. Thanks to the advances in weighing technology, it is also possible to build filling plants that are controlled by fully automatic scales.