Case Study - Food Packaging - Speed/Position Accuracy0 pages

CASE STUDY
Product category: Electric Actuators
Industry: Packaging

Problem:
Machine design required high-speed, with
precise staging and feed timing for accurate,
consistent package counts per carton.

Solution:
Two Tolomatic MXB belt-drive actuators—one
to position cartons, the other to move them to
a fill zone.

Results:
Space-saving, durable, cost-effective
solution with consistent position
repeatability.

Belt-drive actuators from Tolomatic deliver speed and
positioning accuracy for innovative packaging technology

Tolomatic MXB rodless electric
actuators meet demanding
requirements of carton staging
and feed system.

DES PLAINES, ILL.—Builders of
packaging machines continue to
develop new technologies that boost
product throughput and lower costs for
their customers. One such technology,
recently developed by Cloud Packaging
Equipment Co., is designed to
ensure both fast and accurate filling
of pouches and cartons. For speedy
and precise carton movement, the
carefully designed cartoning portion of
Cloud’s new system relies on a pair of
MXB belt-driven
actuators from
Tolomatic.

Cloud’s new Performa SP packaging
system is a horizontal form-fill-seal
(HFFS) pouch machine that makes
plastic bags out of a flat roll of plastic
film, then fills the bags with product
and seals them. The Performa SP
system is designed with state-of-the-art
technology and precise calibration to
process 4,500 pouches per minute with
the greatest efficiency possible.
Cloud has completed construction of
two of its Performa SP systems, which
are used to fill and package small
sugar pouches used in restaurants.
Currently, the company is in the
process of building two more of
the systems.
At the end of the Performa HFFS
process, a transfer wheel allows
an exact count as filled pouches are
dropped into cartons. Pouches follow
a carton as it indexes to complete the

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