• Foodmach aims to accommodate more SKUs by giving you the control you need to achieve high speeds no matter what.
    Foodmach aims to accommodate more SKUs by giving you the control you need to achieve high speeds no matter what.
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Customers are demanding a wider range of packaging styles, shapes and sizes. A single FMCG packaging line is expected to be able to accommodate more SKUs than ever before, at faster speeds with less waste. But how?

Foodmach aims to solve this issue — giving you the control you need to achieve high speeds no matter what.

This year, Foodmach's extra-large stand at APPEX features 75sqm of new MULTI SKU Robomatrix High-Speed Palletising, capable of palletising multiple products to multiple locations simultaneously.

When installed at its customer Nuttelex's site, this model will handle two lines simultaneously with 15 SKUs between them. The system is designed to be modular and, due to Foodmach’s pattern programming software Robowizard, completely flexible.

On-stand demonstrations at APPEX will include Foodmach’s line control software suite for Industry 4.0-enabled, sustainable manufacturing; integrated coding and labelling with Markem-Imaje; and pallet stretch wrapping with Robopac.

All of Foodmach’s agency lines are represented by its team, who will be on hand to answer questions about integration at your facility.

Best-of-breed brands include Robopac for pallet wrapping; Markem-Imaje for Coding and Labelling; P.E. Labellers for container labelling; GEA Vipoll, Mengibar and INDEX 6 fillers; ThermoFisher and miho inspection; SOMIC, OCME, Dimac and Prasmatic case packers; and cobot palletising from Roblox; in addition to Foodmach’s in-house ranges of palletisers, depalletisers, case packers and conveying systems.

Foodmach’s technologies are available individually or as part of its turnkey engineered packaging line offer, Line as a Machine.

Visit Foodmach at Stand D050. APPEX is taking place on 12-15 March at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Free registration is open now.

 

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