Kappa Herzberger, specializing in high speed packaging machinery for the beverage and food industries, is the largest company in the Kappa Packaging Group with over 100 subsidiaries and turnover of over 3 billion Euro. At drinktec, the company announced its merger with Smurfit-Stone, creating a global packaging powerhouse.

Kappa Herzberger’s product line includes wrap-around and full case packers, multipackers, tray packers and wrappers.

“We have completely redesigned our machines,” says Michael Heise, manager for automation technology for Kappa Herzberger. “Using ELAU technology as the basis for the mechanical design process has given our Gen3 machines their high flexibility and strong performance.”

The company has adopted ELAU’s PacDrive programming structure uniformly across its product line, and through the use of these modular software building blocks has consequently reduced engineering time by 50%.

The mechatronic designs that Kappa Herzberger has developed with the ELAU technology have realized 75% higher cycle rates, 35% less commissioning time, and 60% faster format changeovers.