The VC 30 uses a vacuum arm to pick auto-bottom type display and shelf cartons from the 1-meter carton magazine, erect the carton, and convey it to the optional TaskMate Robotic Loading System.

All this is incorporated in a very small footprint, thanks to the integration of the blister thermoforming and carton packaging phases in an compact line.

Yaskawa Motoman introduces the new delta-style, low-profile Motoman® MPP3S “short” robot. The MPP3S provides superior performance for high-speed packaging, cartoning and kitting applications.

Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul, MN used to use a traditional hot-melt adhesive tank system to seal its beer cartons, which was prone to charring, plugs and material degradation

Packaging lines must be fined-tuned, efficient and free of hold-ups, break-downs and stoppages. New innovations in cartoning machinery not only offer speed, but they bulk up on versatility and pack new methods for an ever growing market.

A range of soups from the traditional Unox brand is now available in aseptic carton packs for the first time. Unilever’s Unox-brand soups, in SIG Combibloc’s combibloc Standard 1,000 ml carton packs, are now available in the Netherlands. They represent an innovation on the Dutch soup market, where most ready-to-eat soups have previously been available only in food metal cans and pouches.

Tank-free design significantly reduces char, nozzle plugging and maintenance.