New Solutions for Packaging Extrusions

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New Solutions for Packaging Extrusions
NINTH INTERNATIONAL ALUMINUM EXTRUSION
TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR AND EXPOSITION

• By Tommy Gallimberti, Autel
• Division of ATC Company

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The cost of packaging extrusions

• Almost as much as the cost to extrude
• Shipping damage
• Ergonomic issues
• repetitive motion injuries
• stooping
• bending over

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These issues are often overlooked in the search
for ways to improve the extrusion process but
they are critical if you want to deliver a
quality product to the customer at a competitive
price.
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New ideas for packaging extrusions

• automatically put a single sleeve around each
  profile
• collect the individually packaged profiles
  together to form a blister package
• auto apply protective film to critical surfaces
  of profiles
• automatically insert wood or plastic battens
  while forming the main bundle

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Improving traditional packing machines

• Paper stretcher device
• Package tightening system
• Improvements to the spiral wrapping machine
• Design for 2 rolls of polyethylene film
• Adjustment for film tension
• Fast locking-unlocking for quick roll change
• Variable line speed to optimize film overlap
• Maximum speed gt 42 meters/min (140 ft/min)

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Downstream enhancement 1

• Special automatic bundle maker
• Located downstream of wrapping machine
• Bundle dimensions selectable by operator
• Further downstream options
• Bundle auto-wrapped with stretch film
• Side unloading for application of cartons
• Auto-application of wood or plastic battens

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Downstream enhancement 2

• Bundle wrapper with auto insertion of wood or
  polystyrene battens
• Top and/or bottom of bundle
• At up to ten places along bundle
• Nylon wrap eliminates the need for a strapping
  machine

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Bagging or Blister machine

• Bags individual profiles or groups
• Placed between two sheets of film and
  individually sealed on both sides
• High speed 6 seconds per cycle
• Uses less than 40 of the plastic materials
• Superior protection of profiles
• 2-color packing with logo
• Combine with infrared tunnel to provide shrink
  wrap

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Peelable protective film

• Traditional machines were slow and difficult to
  adjust
• Speed increased to 40 to 60 meters/min (140 to
  200 ft/min)
• Film cutting system by encoder to avoid stopping
  the profile
• Automatic learning of position and dimensions
• Film coils auto-positioned by motors

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Gain a competitive advantage by using advanced
packaging technology.The FUTURE of packaging
for aluminum profiles.
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Thank you for your attention !!For more
information contactwww.autel.netorwww.alkenned
y.com