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Apex Automate develop new sachet inserting system

Posted by Julian Goodwin    Posted in Apex Automate    Posted on February 20, 2012        

Apex Automate, based in Paris-France, have developed a new sachet inserting system for automated lines. Based on their proven and succesful friction feeder, the new MDS machine is capable of inserting up to 150 cycles per minute.

Apex MDS sachet inserter

Key advantages:

  • Small, compact machine, easy to install
  • Maximum sachet thickness, 20mm
  • Good tolerance in product thickness variation
  • Easy to change from one sachet variation to another
  • Up to 150 cycles per minute

Click here to download a specification sheet (pdf 275kb).

Penn supply custom Apex inserter to Robert McBride

Posted by Miles Goodwin    Posted in Apex Automate    Posted on November 11, 2008        

Apex custom inserter

Not all applications are standard – and yet Apex Automate specialise in producing customised solutions with standard machines.

This was the challange asked by Robert McBride, the UK’s leading supplier of private label household and personal care products for Europe’s largest and successful retailers.

The requirement was to automatically insert a newly designed dosing scoop, folded flat, into the top of a carton after powder filling but before closing. However, this required a vertical exit of 1800mm long complete with a high autonomy magazine of 2500mm. The machine was installed on a mezzanine above the vertical carton filling machine.

The system is fully integrated into the control of the filling machine and operates upto 100 cycles per minute on three carton sizes.