A.M.P-Rose: A prototype process for high efficiency, high throughput, secondary packaging of snacks

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A.M.P-Rose is one of the world's leading suppliers of processing and packaging machines forthe chocolate, confectionery, candy, biscuit and wafer industries. We supply new as well asused and rebuilt confectionery machines of many types. In recent years, we have transferredthese skills into manufacturing savoury snack packaging machines to meet the growingopportunity in this area.Snack foods such as crisps are typically sealed into packets straight after manufacture topreserve freshness. Different flavoured crisps will be manufactured and packaged on separatelines. It is then common practice to bring together a collation of packets for secondarypackaging in a larger bag.In a conventional collation packaging line, the packets are delivered from the individualbagging lines, through a number of sorting stages and onto individual belts from wherepackets are individually selected and suction-lifted into the collation line by robotic devices.Because this selection and lifting operation is slow, a number of robotic devices are needed.These are extremely expensive and require a large amount of floor space. Also on aconvetional line, changeover to a new product type or collation can result in significantdowntime because the machinery has to be manually adjusted.We have designed an novel collating packaging line, which uses a conveying system and newservo technology to feed individual packets to the wrapper for multipacking. The benefitsinclude:* higher throughput* automatic change-over* bale formatting* increased efficiency* lower capital costs