May’s machine of the month is an ALfeed flat carton labelling system recently installed within Nairns Oatcakes; a well known nutritional biscuit producer based in Scotland. The machine is designed to feed, label and restack flat cartons and sleeves and is used by Nairns to prepare their products for export markets, such as the US and UAE which have…
April’s machine of the month is a low cost solution for labelling pails, designed for Sun Chemical and based on ALTech’s ALbelt E labelling system. Having already purchased a fully automatic ALline machine which operates inline, the customer also required a lower cost, more simplistic application solution for a single head manual filling line. On the customer’s fully automatic…
ALTech UK have recently installed an ALwrap labelling system into Field Honey Farms, a medium sized honey producer based in Dorset. The ALwrap is an entry level low cost, highly robust and versatile semi-automatic desktop wraparound labeller configured here to label cylindrical glass jars. The installation of this machine into Field Honey Farms has optimised their production process and…
February’s machine of the month is an innovative and low cost sandwich and snack labelling machine recently installed within Deli Central; a small/medium sized sandwich producer located in Shropshire. The solution is based on our proven ALbelt system, adapted to incorporate a bespoke conveyor belt arrangement that enables a variety of bakery products to be labelled off a single…
January’s machine of the month is a system designed to apply labels onto previously labelled beer bottles to provide additional information required for export markets. The labelling machines were produced for a well-known European brewery and installed on an existing packaging line, where the products were fed from rotary tables. The system manages the product flow to index and…
ALTech UK have recently installed two machine types designed specifically for vacuum skin trays; one, labelling in a traditional narrow edge leading C-wrap format and the other, creating a wide edge leading label sleeve in a D-wrap format. Due to the often variable shape and size of the product and flexibility in the trays, vacuum skin packs are typically…
December’s machine of the month is a system which applies wrap labels to plastic tube vials, designed to be inserted into the filling line of an important French pharmaceutical company. The drum feeder receives vials from the filler in a horizontal position and places each vial onto a roller conveyor to be labelled. The machine meets the demands of the…
November’s machine of the month is a high speed front of pack print and apply labelling system for a major food manufacturer. The machine has been installed on an existing slat conveyor, at the exit of the cartoning machine, where the trays containing glass jars travel in a single row. The head is able to apply the label onto…
ALTech UK have developed an innovative 3-roller labelling machine, on behalf of Staffordshire Brewery (also known as Leek Brewery), that can provide both full wraparound or front-back wraparound labelling in combination with a registered neck label, for their beer bottle contract requirements. This complex range of labelling formats is normally only achievable on vastly more expensive rotary labelling machines….
October’s machine of the month is a four head ALline labelling system produced for a large chemical company, able to apply 4 separate labels on the 4 flat faces of rectangular chemical jerry cans and drums at approximately 15 products p/min. An extremely heavy duty machine, containers are labelled in a single product pass via two pairs of adjacently…