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| Case-and-Tray-Packer Builder Meets the Needs of Varied Industries |
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Once Upon a Packer Builder: Field Service Engineers and Operator Interface Keep Customers Happy Ever After
Case and tray packers for the food, beverage, chemical and personal-care industries are the primary machines designed and built by Standard-Knapp, an employee-owned company located in Portland, Conn. However, its product line also includes an uncaser, multi-packer or bundler, slitter/sealer and product laner.
"There are many unique differences in each of the industries we serve," says Mario Mazzotta, customer relations and marketing manager. "The food and beverage industries are constantly increasing their demand for faster equipment, gentle product handling and high efficiencies. The chemical and personal care industries are developing many new bottle designs that are very attractive but difficult to handle in a standard case packer."
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| Standard-Knapp Introduces Innovative, User-Friendly Machine Operator Interface |
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Intuitive color touch screen has look and feel of a car dashboard
Standard-Knapp, a worldwide leader in manufacturing the ultimate packaging machinery, introduces the new smart Operator Interface. This graphically-driven interface can be customized to each Standard-Knapp machine, and utilizes color touch-screen technology to offer a new level of intuitive machine control. Through computer-aided fault recovery, it reduces Mean Time to Recover (MTR) and increases efficiency for challenging 24/7 applications in the food and beverage industries.
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| White Paper: With Innovative Bottle Packing Equipment, It's a Little Easier Being Green |
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The effort to be green – that is, reducing one's overall impact on the environment – has of late gained increasing popularity, particularly in the commercial arena. Many companies have effectively restructured their corporate headquarters, recycle their paper goods, and have reduced their use of all natural resources – not only because of legislation that requires it but because it makes good business sense. What’s more, increasing numbers of consumers are now carefully examining companies’ environmental records before deciding to do business with them. The bottling industry is no different; in truth, there is tremendous pressure on bottling companies to be environmentally friendly. The prime movers are unquestionably the beverage segment, led by the bottled water industry, with the carbonated market close on its heels.
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| Standard-Knapp Introduces Versatron™ APT Case Packer with Operator Interface Capability |
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Flexible case packer now available with an intuitive color touch screen with the look and feel of a car dashboard
Standard-Knapp, a worldwide leader in manufacturing the ultimate packaging machinery, introduces the Versatron Active Product Transport (APT) case packer with user-friendly Operator Interface capability. The Versatron APT is designed for high-speed packing of non-round containers and excels at packing reverse tapered, locking shape, trigger and unstable bottles, flasks and other containers that are traditionally difficult to handle. It is ideal for challenging packaging applications in a variety of industries such as spirits and wine, food, household chemical, personal care, and automotive.
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| White Paper: Advanced Case Packers Protect Bottles and Increase Efficiency at Jim Beam |
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When it comes to case packing machinery, few bottling operations are more demanding than at Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. The owner of the 211 year-old bourbon brand Jim Beam has grown dramatically over the past few years, from the seventh-largest to the fourth-largest spirits company in the world, by expanding its product portfolio through corporate acquisitions and introducing innovative new spirits and wine brands. With a steady stream of new brands, the case packing machinery at Jim Beam plants must handle glass bottles coming down the production line in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and textures. Standard-Knapp's 939 Versatron™ Case Packer line proved to have the advanced features required to handle the job.
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| White Paper: AriZona Beverages Reduces Changeover Time by 50% with New Tray Packer |
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A great brand needs great packaging, and great packaging needs great packaging equipment. Due to a number of economic and social factors, such as rising fuel prices and high labor costs, today's food and beverage manufacturers are placing more emphasis on the evaluation of manufacturing efficiencies as a solution to improve overall profitability. One company that has realized the direct bottom line benefits of efficient packaging equipment is AriZona Beverage Co. At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, AriZona researched a variety of different tray packers, interviewing technical experts about their capabilities and benchmarking their performance. They selected Standard-Knapp's Continuum 296T Tray Packer, a system that has since enabled AriZona to significantly increase case packing speeds.
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| White Paper: Tandem Servo Case Packers Handle a Variety of Bottle Shapes and Materials with Ease |
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Clement Pappas Company, Inc.–one of the largest private label bottlers and canners in the U.S.-needed to do something to keep up with rapidly increasing orders. This challenge was exacerbated by the extensive assortment of products—in a variety of sizes, materials, and shapes—Clement Pappas provides for its customers, resulting in a daunting task to find robust, flexible packaging machinery that would provide high line speeds and changeover versatility. The unique, versatile tandem servo case packing capabilities of Standard-Knapp's Versatron 939s proved to pack just the punch they were looking for.
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| White Paper: Six Factors to Consider When Selecting a Case Packer |
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There are many styles of case packers available including drop packers, rotary packers, wraparound packers, mechanical soft placement packers, robotic packers, side load packers, and bottom load packers. The need for a new packer may simply be to replace an aging, high maintenance machine, or it may be driven by new packages, higher line speeds, efficiency initiatives, or new packaging requirements. The following factors provide some basic considerations that can be used in the process of selecting a case packer...
Read More | October 2007 |
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| Standard-Knapp Eliminates Lane Jams and Reduces Downtime with Zero-Gap™ Infeed Technology |
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Yields 98% Packing Efficiency
Standard-Knapp, a worldwide leader in the manufacture of innovative packaging machinery, introduces its Zero-Gap infeed technology for balanced, jam-resistant case packing lanes. Designed for a variety of case packing applications in the soft drink, beer, wine, food, and household product industries, Zero-Gap is a more precise, efficient and low-maintenance alternative to conventional laning systems. Zero-Gap increases case packer machinery efficiency to 98% or greater and operates at speeds from 100 to 1600 bottles per minute.
Read More | PDF | February 2007 |
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| Standard-Knapp Protects Bottles and Labels with Advanced "Soft Placement" Pac-Assist™ |
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Zero-Impact Servo System Packs Without Damage
Standard-Knapp, a worldwide leader in the manufacture of innovative packaging machinery, offers its Pac-Assist “soft placement” module for secure, efficient case packing and tray packing. Compatible with several case packer models, the Pac-Assist “soft placement” module, with advanced motion control, gently lowers bottles into cases or trays without damage to the label, closure or container integrity. With its steady, precise placement, the Pac-Assist eliminates bottle-to-bottle scuffing and breakage, with or without partitions.
Read More | PDF | February 2007 |
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| Standard-Knapp Introduces Continuum™ Integrated Tray Packing and Shrink Wrapping System |
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Provides Quick Changeover, Offers Increased Efficiency and Flexibility
Standard-Knapp, a worldwide leader in the manufacture of innovative packaging machinery, introduces the Continuum™ integrated tray packing and shrink wrapping system. Ideal for packaging applications in the food and beverage industries, Standard-Knapp’s new tray packing and shrink wrapping system provides efficiency, flexibility, quick changeover and a low-maintenance design.
Read More | PDF | February 2007 |
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| Standard-Knapp Eliminates Packing Line Jams with Smart, Servo-Driven Bottle Laner |
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Sensors Direct Traffic for Bottle Packing
Standard-Knapp, a worldwide leader in the manufacture of innovative packaging machinery, introduces its advanced Bottle Laner for balanced, jam-free bottle packing lanes. Standard-Knapp’s Bottle Laner is engineered to handle a variety of bottles, as well as non-round and unstable containers, making it ideal for bottle packing applications in the food and beverage, household chemical, and personal care industries. Standard-Knapp’s Bottle Laner is designed to distribute bottles from a single-file line to multiple lanes, but can also redistribute two lanes into three or more for more efficient bottle packing. Powered by a servo drive and timing belt, the Bottle Laner actuates payout of a specific quantity of containers to the downstream lanes, ensuring the lines remain steadily supplied and balanced.
Read More | PDF | February 2007 |
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| New Case Packer Handles Difficult Shaped Containers With Ease |
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The Standard-Knapp Versatron 939s APT case packer is specifically designed to handle your "difficult shaped" containers. The APT has several features allowing it to pack reverse tapered bottles, flasks, unstable bottles, personal-care containers, locking shapes, trigger bottles and other non-round products.
Read More | December 2005 |
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| New High-Speed Case Packer Includes Many Features to "Make Packaging Easy" |
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Standard-Knapp has unveiled the Pakmore™, the company's latest technological advancement in continuous motion case packaging. Advantages of this new high-speed case packer include: smooth continuous motion; precise servo product grouping; soft placement of bottles into the case; and automated changeover. Low maintenance and high reliability are achieved through the positive, continuous operation from the infeed through placement of bottles into the case.
Read More | November 2004 |
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