Packaging flexibility is a key enabler of consumer marketing strategies. These include smaller, low calorie portion packages and user friendly cartoning solutions that help retailers make their shelf space more productive.

Cavanna (Booth E-7528) has recognized the evolving needs of the packaging industry and has engineered customized solutions in the form of robotic top load cartoning and fully automated flow wrapping lines.

The need for flexible robotic packaging solutions is growing. Increasingly, short runs and short life cycles have become the norm for companies to keep pace with the consumer's buying habits. To maintain a healthy balance sheet with the impact of high fuel costs, labor and inflation, corporate management is asking for new, creative, competitive and flexible answers.

Instead of merely adding on robots to a mechanical cartoner, Cavanna's G35 is a streamlined cluster of 3 robot modules fed by servo collating belts. A single PacDrive™ automation controller from ELAU performs all aspects of control, including sophisticated robot kinematics.

The resulting machine is capable of packing up to 600 ppm. Yet compared to a conventional design, the G35 uses up to 50% less valuable floor space. Product infeed, carton forming, filling and closing are fully integrated functions in the same machine frame and same software program—for precisely synchronized, gentle, high speed product handling.

This tightly integrated control inherently simplifies line integration. The touch screen HMI and extensive diagnostics make it easy for a single operator to manage and maintain. Push-button changeovers feature automated tooling module changes.