400 FOR PERINI OPEN HOUSE
To coincide with Tissue World Nice, Fabio Perini and KPL Packaging,
together with W+D, the new Körber group member, organized an Open House in Lucca.
More than 300 visitors attended two sessions, one for Italian customers on the
Friday before the show, the other a week later.
Several new KPL Packaging machines linked to Fabio Perini Converting lines were
on display in four lines due to be shipped to customers the following week. They
included:
High speed line for tissue rolls (toilet/kitchen towel) consisting of the Casmatic
A5T wrapper and the Casmatic S35 bundler . This line represents the latest in
KPL Packaging’s high technology.
The Casmatic A5T is the top wrapper in the KPL Packaging portfolio. It combines
high-speed product flexibility with automatic changeover. More than 50 different
pack configurations can be produced, with an average changeover time of 10 minutes
(with one operator). The Casmatic S35 gives high productivity and product flexibility;
producing bundles from small to big sizes, with packs or also naked rolls directly
fed by the log-saw.
The line shown produced kitchen towel rolls. Customers showed great interesting
in the new S35, which can reach speeds of 35 bundles/min. During the demonstration,
the visitors had the opportunity to see the potential of this machine. It ran
at 40 bundles/min. This speed achieved thanks to the innovative cut/seal unit
consisting of four couples of cut/seal bars that move around two rings.
During the open house a complete changeover was shown on both Casmatic A5T and
Casmatic S35, to prove their high flexibility, with very impressive results.
Also on display was a medium-speed line for tissue rolls (toilet/kitchen towel)
with the Casmatic T100 wrapper .This is a new wrapper capable of reaching the
flexibility and changeover performances of a Casmatic A5T, but it is recommended
for medium productivity and is available at lower cost.
The key element here is KPL Packaging’s innovative wrapping cycle, the
Tumbler, that is really simple. It consists of one group that wraps the film
around the product with a 180°'b0 rotation. This group needs no elevator
or overhead flight unit. The result is a simple unit, easy to adjust when the
product dimension changes.
The machine is able to produce a wide range of pack configurations: toilet rolls
in horizontal and vertical position, and kitchen towel rolls in horizontal position.
During the Open House a complete changeover was carried out on this machine too.
The
third line on display was a line for industrial rolls
with a CMB 202 dedicated to the primary wrapping of ‘big’ kitchen
towel rolls produced by Fabio Perini with its coreless
line (the rolls were without cores). The CMB202 is a
well-proven and successful machine. It was designed to
bundle hygienic and kitchen roll packs but its versatility
makes it possible to bundle or wrap a wide range of products,
including industrial rolls, with very few adjustments.
Thanks to its modular design, just by adding the right
infeed unit, CMB 202 offers wide flexibility. At the
Open House CMB 202 was displayed for a primary wrapping
of six industrial rolls using a pre-printed film (the
machine can be equipped with a print registration unit
in order to center the printed film around the product).
Finally, a complete line for napkins was on display: the KPL Packaging wrapper
CMF 100. The great versatility of this new wrapper allows the user to wrap different
types of products such as napkins, towels, facial tissue etc. The wrapper is
easy to operate: the use of servomotors and step-by-step motors for the main
CMF 100 functions also facilitates size change operations since there are no
manual adjustments to modify the machine phases. Every phase is memorized inside
the operator panel. It is sufficient to recall it according to the format, thus
assuring a high precision and repeatability of the regulations.
The machine was shown with optional groups such as film perforator and labeler
in order to add to the pack the open-close functionality usually requested by
the napkin market.TW
