January’s machine of the month is a system designed to apply labels onto previously labelled beer bottles to provide additional information required for export markets. The labelling machines were produced for a well-known European brewery and installed on an existing packaging line, where the products were fed from rotary tables. The system manages the product flow to index and…
ALTech UK have recently installed two machine types designed specifically for vacuum skin trays; one, labelling in a traditional narrow edge leading C-wrap format and the other, creating a wide edge leading label sleeve in a D-wrap format. Due to the often variable shape and size of the product and flexibility in the trays, vacuum skin packs are typically…
December’s machine of the month is a system which applies wrap labels to plastic tube vials, designed to be inserted into the filling line of an important French pharmaceutical company. The drum feeder receives vials from the filler in a horizontal position and places each vial onto a roller conveyor to be labelled. The machine meets the demands of the…
November’s machine of the month is a high speed front of pack print and apply labelling system for a major food manufacturer. The machine has been installed on an existing slat conveyor, at the exit of the cartoning machine, where the trays containing glass jars travel in a single row. The head is able to apply the label onto…
ALTech UK have developed an innovative 3-roller labelling machine, on behalf of Staffordshire Brewery (also known as Leek Brewery), that can provide both full wraparound or front-back wraparound labelling in combination with a registered neck label, for their beer bottle contract requirements. This complex range of labelling formats is normally only achievable on vastly more expensive rotary labelling machines….
October’s machine of the month is a four head ALline labelling system produced for a large chemical company, able to apply 4 separate labels on the 4 flat faces of rectangular chemical jerry cans and drums at approximately 15 products p/min. An extremely heavy duty machine, containers are labelled in a single product pass via two pairs of adjacently…
PAL International, a market leader in high level disinfectant wipes, has donated a large supply of wet wipes to West Africa to help prevent the spread of Ebola in worst affected areas. The wet wipes are labelled by their ALbelt C belt conveyor wraparound labelling machine, an economical and highly robust system ideal for labelling cylindrical tubs. The full…
September’s machine of the month is an ALline E, labelling the front and rear face of an oval shaped bottle (mouthwash) for a large toiletries company, applying labels to 100 products p/min. The machine has two side belts fitted for spacing the products, a chain stabilisation system for alignment and then a top belt conveyor to steady the product…
August’s machine of the month features the ALcode P pallet labelling system. The labeller, installed at an important European food manufacturer’s plant, prints and applies A5 labels to pallets at the end of their packaging line. The system answers the common request to identify each pallet with a unique label, using an alphanumeric format and barcode in compliance with…
July’s machine of the month is a complete system for labelling plastic bottles of motor-oil, built for an important company operating in the petroleum field. The system is based on our ALline E model and provides product gapping, alignment and front-back labelling. At the end of the labelling cycle, the machine checks the label presence and provides automatic rejection…