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Customer: British American Tobacco (Sweden)
Date: April 2005
Container: 66mm Diameter tin-plate
Output Requirement: 4000 containers/hour
Machine Type: FCS-Auto 4 head system with independent foil drive system and carriage mounted sealing heads with ceramic cutters and internal induction coils. Pre-sealing accumulation and servo driven flighted in-feed belt. Relco P800 induction generators, Mitsubishi Fx series PLC, colour touch screen HMI, Mitsubishi servo drive and control equipment, SMC pneumatics
 
Sadly this machine was so fast in build and shipment that it escaped our factory before we could get any photos of the finished article.
Technical Challenges: Machine had to be built to cut and seal foil to print register marking in order to form a ‘label’ effect on the seal. Peelable hermetic seal to be applied to a tin-plate can. Sealing machine had to be integrated into a Flex-Link conveyor system and the entire unit had to be made capable of jacking up and wheeling from line to line. Complete machine had to be taken from design phase to commissioning within 12 weeks, this was successfully completed and product was in the marketplace on schedule for commercial launch.
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