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Customer: Worldwide Dispensers / DS Smith Plastics
Date: January 2006
Container: 14mm Ø Wine box valve
 
Output Requirement: 100 units/minute
Machine Type: Punch&Seal foil cutting and sealing heads built for integration into OEM assembly machinery. Heads sit over rotary indexing table carrying product, when product is delivered under the heads the foil disc is cut and driven directly onto the component where it is induction sealed in place. Utilising Relco P800 induction generators and patented ceramic cutting & sealing tooling.
Technical Challenges: Accurately cutting and locating a 14mm diameter foil disc onto a small sealing land area at high speed. Providing a foil seal which can easily be removed by the customer but which is sufficiently secure. Designing the system in such a way as it can easily be mounted onto third party handling equipment and controlled by the main machine PLC. Providing a means of monitoring the quality and integrity of each foil seal made.
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