Conditions for successful Easter business

Con­fec­tionery man­u­fac­tur­ers with a sea­son­al assort­ment such those offered East­er or Christ­mas are depen­dent on a pack­ag­ing machine that can pack large quan­ti­ties of dif­fer­ent prod­ucts reli­ably and in a vari­ety of ways. An MCH by Thee­garten-Pactec meets all these require­ments, mak­ing it unnec­es­sary to invest in sev­er­al machines. The pre­mi­um sup­pli­er’s con­tin­u­ous­ly oper­at­ing two-head machine packs the prod­ucts gen­tly and enables fast switch­ing between dif­fer­ent for­mats, wrap­ping types and pack­ag­ing materials.

East­er is approach­ing and with it there is an increas­ing end-con­sumer demand for sweets espe­cial­ly choco­late eggs in var­i­ous shapes and pack­ag­ing vari­ants. East­er bas­kets are expect­ed to be rich­ly filled for young and old, after all. An MCH by Thee­garten-Pactec offers man­u­fac­tur­ers of sea­son­al prod­ucts both high per­for­mance and the flex­i­bil­i­ty to respond quick­ly to sea­son­al mar­ket demands. Up to 1,200 prod­ucts can be foil-wrapped per minute or wrapped in a dou­ble twist wrap­per. Assum­ing 15 East­er eggs or choco­late balls per pack, con­fec­tionery man­u­fac­tur­ers can pro­duce the fill­ing quan­ti­ty for more than 35,000 packs per shift. Thanks to the option­al dou­ble pack­ag­ing mate­r­i­al feed­er, waxed paper, cel­lo­phane, plas­tic and alu­mini­um foil can be com­bined to cre­ate very indi­vid­ual and high-qual­i­ty solu­tions. Polypropy­lene films are sta­bi­lized by means of an air blast device, so even with this sen­si­tive mate­r­i­al the result meets the high stan­dards applied by Thee­garten-Pactec’s customers.

Quickly ready for new packaging tasks

The mod­u­lar design of the MCH makes it pos­si­ble to process dif­fer­ent prod­ucts and fold­ing types on one machine. This saves cus­tomers of the Dres­den-based pack­ag­ing spe­cial­ist invest­ing in sev­er­al machines and also in more floor space, espe­cial­ly in times of scarce and expen­sive prop­er­ty for com­mer­cial rent­ing. The changeover time between the dif­fer­ent fold­ing types and/or prod­uct for­mats is between two and six hours. This depends main­ly on which fold­ing types fol­low each oth­er and whether the prod­uct for­mat is to be changed at the same time. Inno­va­tion dri­ver Thee­garten-Pactec thus offers the advan­tage of short down­times com­bined with high flexibility.

Gentle treatment of soft-melting products

Sen­si­tive prod­ucts also ben­e­fit from the fact that Thee­garten-Pactec is able to dis­pense with one head due to the spe­cial design prin­ci­ple. This ensures per­fect pro­tec­tion for the con­fec­tionery as com­pared to machines with more prod­uct trans­fers. With MCH, the con­fec­tionery falls gen­tly into the coun­ter­forms of the feed­ing plate so that the sur­face is not scratched. In addi­tion, the pack­ag­ing mate­r­i­al is moved out of the sep­a­ra­tion ring direct­ly after prod­uct removal. The fact that the two-head machine works con­tin­u­ous­ly also con­tributes to this gen­tle treat­ment of the con­fec­tionery. Two addi­tion­al sort­ing sys­tems inte­grat­ed into the machine ensure a con­vinc­ing end result. On the one hand, they sep­a­rate out prod­ucts that are not dimen­sion­al­ly sta­ble, as well as sug­ar icing and prod­uct splin­ters, before the pack­ag­ing process. On the oth­er hand, they remove spliced, defec­tive and unwound prod­ucts at the end.

A machine with many advantages

In addi­tion to all these machine-relat­ed advan­tages, there is anoth­er: the ful­ly auto­mat­ic oper­a­tion of the MCH means that a sin­gle oper­a­tor is able to take care of sev­er­al machines. Ulti­mate­ly, the invest­ment in a pack­ag­ing machine made by the Dres­den fam­i­ly busi­ness pays off sev­er­al times over: it is flex­i­ble, high-per­for­mance, gen­tle on the prod­uct and very economical.