ALTech have designed and built a tapered pot labelling solution for Yorkshire Provender, a major soup manufacturer specialising in soups made with local and fresh seasonal ingredients. Yorkshire Provender redesigned their packaging and label designs and required a labelling solution to increase manufacturing capacity and improve the quality of their finished product.
The solution is based on an ALline linear labelling system, designed to automatically apply two labels to the back and front of the plastic tapered pot, leaving as much space as possible around the labels for the soup to show through the container. Yorkshire Provender also use clear printed labels to provide a product window on the front of the pots which is cleverly shaped to suit the soup’s main ingredient.
Tapered containers with labels wrapped around the body are typically challenging for most labelling systems due to the required shape of the labels and the profile of the pot. The labels for this application are shaped to suit the tapered tub profile and produced as alternating back and front designs on a single label web. An ALritma XM high speed applicator head is used to apply the two labels in a single pass whilst the tub is rotating in the indexing module of the ALline machine to ensure the labels are applied accurately in relation to one another.
The ALritma XM also features a 400mm diameter label roll capability, therefore, increasing the run time between label roll changes. The roll is also locked to the progressive unwind system to ensure accurate label web control at all dispensing speeds and label sizes, thus ensuring accurate and consistent label application.
Standard within the control of the ALritma labelling head range is the ability to store away 40 sets of labelling parameters for quick product changeovers, automatic double product signal rejection, dimensional label position adjustment and shift register product management, meaning complete label setups can be recalled at the touch of a button.
The ALline machine is fully guarded to the latest EU safety regulations, with pantograph style and fully interlocked doors, minimising the floor space required to fully open them.
