Schubert technology for drinks manufacturer
Gerhard Schubert has supplied a 19m, highly flexible packaging line for the cartoning of sparkling wine bottles to a company in southern Europe.
The bottle packaging line executes all process steps, from recognising and orienting the bottles to packing them in cartons. The line can currently pack four different bottle formats into 14 different carton formats.
The modular construction of the company’s TLM lines enabled the development of a machine that can deal with all formats on one line – from top clips (a sleeve covering the bottle neck and top only) and baskets (four bottles in a carton with a handle at the top) to gift boxes.
The time needed for format changes is around 30 minutes.
Another advantage of the solution offered by Schubert is the fact that the bottles are picked up and placed separately into the transmodule and do not touch each other during transit, meaning there is no damage to labels.
The pick and place solution also enables the labelled bottles to be turned to face in the same direction. This is particularly important for gift boxes, as the labels need to be turned so that they can be seen through the window of the box.
