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News Release from: Sigpack Systems | Subject: Nestle packaging
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 March 2005
Bosch gives life time support to Nestle
packaging
Since 1993 Bosch Packaging Technology, Sigpack Systems and Sigpack Services have been responsible for the filling and cartoning element of Nestle Cappuccino products and their life cycle management
The packaging of the Nestle instant Cappuccino products is demanding Since 1993 Bosch Packaging Technology, Sigpack Systems and Sigpack Services have been responsible for the filling and cartoning element of the project and its life cycle management
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 28 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Nestle plant at Dalston, UK, which employs 210 people, has been producing for the global market since the 1960s.
Its current focus is on the production and packaging of instant Cappuccino products.
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The reliability and efficiency of the equipment used is tested to its limits by the three shifts per day, seven days per week comprising production, packaging and despatch operations.
For its packaging requirements, Nestle turned to Sigpack Systems and Bosch Packaging Technology for their reliable, robust and efficient machines.
The companies provide customers with close co-operation covering the entire equipment lifecycle.
Nestle needs maximum flexibility along with high output in order to match the diverse requirements of the many markets its serves.
Thus, one packaging line can be faced with the task of filling up to nine different sizes of packages and then boxing them with a whole range of different numbers of packages per box.
Short changeover times for the filler and the cartoner provide the fundamental building blocks necessary for efficiency.
For primary packaging, Nestle produces the "perfect pouch" by using Sigpack Systems flat pouch machine.
The attractive stick pack is both economical and environmentally sound, delivering up to 40% savings in primary packaging materials compared with 4-sided sealed pouches.
This technology also allows the packaging volume to be maximised which also results in cost savings in secondary packaging and logistics.
Nestle turned to Bosch Packaging Technology for cartoning because of its expertise and flexibility in this area.
The package style produced in Dalston is a carton with 8 or 10 pouches.
For this task, Nestle elected to use the Bosch CBT 4110, a robust intermittent motion cartoner.
The design of the cartoner was adapted for the gentle and reliable handling of pouches which are directly fed from the upstream machine, while being positively controlled at all times.
Similarly the product insertion section of the cartoner has an infeed pusher adapted to pouches.
This pays off in daily operation, where the cartoner can reach an efficiency of 97%.
A good cappuccino always needs some chocolate on top.
Therefore a cylindrical chocolate shaker is automatically fed to the cartoner and placed into the open carton, just before closing the carton.
When opening the carton, the chocolate shaker lies on top of the pouches.
Bosch packaging equipment is the first choice when it comes to ease of maintenance.
As part of its maintenance rationale, the whole production site at Dalston uses Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley equipment as standard.
Hence, the CBT 4110 was also equipped with an Allen-Bradley control system.
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