Booth #2531
What's new in packaging and processing automation?
Discover innovative approaches to packaging and automation at EATS (formerly Process Expo) in Chicago, IL. This show is a great opportunity to reconnect with industry peers and we’re thrilled to be returning again this year. We have plenty of exciting features planned for you in our booth.
Flexibility has consistently been a focus as we strive to build productive, cost-efficient, lasting packaging solutions. Come experience the many faces of flexibility in packaging in our booth and discover how they can help you adapt to change and scale your production.
Get a sneak peek of the machinery and related innovations we’re bringing to E.A.T.S. We’ll have thermoforming and flow wrapping solutions on display in Booth #2531.
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Thermoforming Solutions
Thermoforming solutions are truly flexible and great for all types of food and medical applications.
Your packaging can adapt to changing markets and trends with various package formats and sizes available on the same machine, including vacuum, MAP (modified atmosphere packaging), and skin. You also have the option of running flexible and/or semi-rigid films. Our thermoforming solutions also help you reduce downtime with simple tool-free, single-person changeovers that take 10 minutes or less.
Allen Bradley controls are available on our standard and skin thermoformers, and come standard on our TFS 500 through TFS 700 models. These controls may be more familiar to trained technicians and ensure more readily available parts.
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Flow Wrapping Solutions
Our flow wrap solutions have broad applications and plenty of built-in flexibility, giving you the ability to quickly adapt to different product sizes and package with or without a carrier tray.
Flow wrappers are also dual-purpose machines, which can be designed to run several different film types like polypropylene, laminate, and polyolefin shrink. Flexible machine components also allow you to change your seal rollers, cross seal jaws, and folding boxes to create the ideal package to meet your end customer’s needs.
These machines also help you reduce downtime with simple tool-free changeovers that take 5 to 10 minutes or less and can be completed by a single person.
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Flow Vac FV 55 SD
This machine forms a vacuum pack from a single shrink and barrier film.
Tray Sealing Solutions
Our G. Mondini® tray sealing and forming machines – such as our Trave with integrated Platformer technology – provide powerful performance and flexibility across various applications, from snack packs to fresh or frozen prepared meals, meat and cheese, and beyond. Our tray sealers are manufactured with the most advanced capabilities for denesting, conveyance, filling, sealing, and secondary case packing, along with full product-to-pallet automation integration, standard, and their equipment options include 100% Allen Bradley-integrated controls architecture.
Top producers are always looking for more efficient, innovative ways to develop and implement high-speed, high-performance packaging lines that can adapt to changing consumer trends and meet their packaging demands. At Harpak-ULMA, we meet those needs by offering our customers a robust line of automatic, high-output tray sealing and forming machine solutions.
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Weighing, Batching, and Loading Solutions
Harpak-ULMA multihead weighers combine cutting-edge technology with user-friendly features to deliver unparalleled efficiency in weighing applications across all food and industries. Engineered for performance and precision, our food weighing systems support a near-limitless variety of products across the food and non-food sectors. With our flexible and reliable solutions, you can achieve accurate portioning, reduce waste, and streamline your production.
Benefits at a Glance
– Precise Portioning: Discover accurate weighing, down to the gram, that minimizes product giveaway and ensures consistent portion control.
– Optimized Throughput: Handle multiple product types at high speed without compromising on quality.
– Versatile Applications: From fragile produce to frozen meats, our multihead weighers are designed to handle a wide variety of products.
– Seamless Integration, Speedy ROI: Easily integrate into existing production lines with quick uptimes and full scalability. Harmoniously connects with all Harpak-ULMA equipment!
– Designed for Uptime: Intelligent design for quick changeovers and easy maintenance keeps your production line running smoothly, all combined with our 24 hour, live customer service.
Flexi-Line Distribution System
Automating manual packaging production has never been easier. The Flexi-Line is a modular weighing and packing solution tailored for producers of all sizes, aiming to improve efficiency and scalability. No matter the final product, the Flexi-Line solution integrates seamlessly with all our packaging equipment (and to any packaging environment for that matter).
Key Benefits:
- – Lightning-fast ROI
- – Quick-changing configurations for minimal downtime
- – Small footprint design that automates your production
- – Completely customizable to suit different production scales
- – Ideal for dry, frozen, fresh, and sticky products; we challenge you to find what it’s not good with!
Performance Specs at a Glance:
- Speed: Up to 55 PPM (dry/frozen), 45 (hot/chilled), 40 PPM (sticky/marinated)
- Weigher configuration (Vibratory or Screw Feeding): MHW 10-14, MHW 30-10, and MHW 30-14
Flexi-Line maximizes production efficiency and is perfect for businesses looking to scale automation. It’s a smart investment, designed to reduce manual labor, increase productivity, and offer rapid payback. The solution’s mobility and customization features make it suitable for producers looking to quickly switch between product lines.
Vibratory Feeding Weighers (MHW VF)
Multihead Weighers with Vibratory Feeding deliver superior speed and efficiency for dry, free-flowing products such as snacks, nuts, or cereals. With vibration-based technology, it ensures smooth product handling and distribution across the weighing heads, making it perfect for high-speed processing environments.
Key Benefits: Consistent product flow for dry items, minimizing clogs or product misalignment. Designed for high-throughput operations while maintaining accuracy.
Product Applications: Snacks, cereals, nuts, grains, fruit, frozen, and more!
Product to Pallet Automation
We provide primary and secondary packaging automation equipment as well as advancements in robotic automation that are paving the way to new levels of scalability and cost containment for producers of every size and industry. Robotics can now handle depalletizing, de-casing, infeed handling, raw food handling, primary packaging, secondary packaging, mixing (combo packs), and palletizing. Tertiary automation, palletizing, and tote/basket management systems are options we can help with as well.
Speed to market, standardization, cost, and reusability are all concerns when deciding whether to use automation and how much of your line to automate. Harpak-ULMA helps with every aspect of your production, from start to finish.
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Flexibility for your packaging line means...
Adapting to changing trends
The world of packaging moves fast. Trends like sustainable packaging, increased snacking, and clean label products all require shifts in your packaging strategy. Adapt to these changes and go to market quicker with flexible machines that can produce several sizes and packaging formats with a variety of films.
Reducing production downtime
We know time is valuable on the production floor. That's why decreasing downtime with simpler changeovers on machines, advanced training using augmented reality, and excellent customer service are a priority for us. Less downtime means more flexibility to scale your production.
Remaining user friendly
Flexibility doesn't just apply to your machinery and run times. It applies to your operators, too. Simplifying your machine design with streamlined training solutions helps your team develop skills faster and reduce error. That's why Harpak-ULMA offers Allen Bradley controls on a growing number of machines and provides advanced online training solutions.
Have questions before the show?
We’re excited to reconnect in person at Process Expo, but we’re also happy to be a resource for you year-round. If you have a packaging need or question, don’t hesitate to reach out. We’ll connect you with our packaging experts and deliver the guidance and insight you deserve.
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