The future of beverage packaging remains to be full of innovation and adaptability. With sustainability a motivating consumer demand, and legislation becoming stricter in guidelines, more sustainable products are forecasted to enter the market.

The Orbi-Trak TC-6 speedup kit for Meridian XR machines is designed to allow beverage and food manufacturers to run a variety of canned product configurations at a reported surge speed of 345 cartons per minute.

While automation may bring to mind thoughts of faster machines and fewer people on the line, it’s about much, much more.

StackAlign™ stacking and sleeving multipacker system takes individual products from an infeed conveyor, counts and stacks them, placing them onto fixed pedestals on a servo-controlled indexing conveyor.

Rotary tower automatic (RTC) stretch wrapper with conveyance is fully automatic and attaches the stretch film at the cycle start, cutting it at the end.