AUTOPACK Group is vowing to deliver its largest-ever showcase at next month’s PPMA Show in Birmingham, with 25 machines spread across two stands.
The group will also be unveiling its new weighing and inspection division, Autoweigh, at the event.
Packaging machinery solutions across food, beverage, snacks, dairy, pet care, pharmaceutical, personal & home care, nutraceuticals, agriculture, and quarrying will be on show.
Group MD Wayne Kedward said, “The PPMA Show is the perfect platform to demonstrate the breadth of our flexible and rigid packaging machinery solutions, as well as launching our new Autoweigh division. Visitors will be able to see a complete working packaging line alongside individual machinery. With the addition of Autoweigh we can now offer UK made handling, weighing and inspection solutions for traditionally difficult to handle products which are easily integrated into full turnkey packaging lines for our customers.”
For Autopack’s flexible packaging solutions, Technosys’ coffee solution – the A300 quad seal with degassing valve – will be featured alongside an A200 VFFS machine with an Autoweigh linear weigher, supplying sachets into the EX1 compact x-ray machine. The EX1 forms part of the German inspection manufacturer Sesotecs portfolio and is latest brand to sign a distributorship with the Autopack Group.
Stand A12 will focus on the sack filling range with the new AP500 from APM, part of Autopack’s flexible packaging division. The auger-fed gross weigher system can fill 10 to 50kg of powder or granular products into open-top sacks and is adaptable for a variety of industries. Alongside the AP500 will be the AP400 valve sack packing machine together with the AP600, which is an automatic open mouth sack placer. The latest bulk bag discharger will also be featured at the show.
Autopack’s Spanish division will be demonstrating its versatility in pre-made doypacks and pouches with the MH25 set up for sports nutrition powders and the MH200 Spouted Pouch machine, running fully recyclable spouted pouches for shampoo refills.
The line-up for rigid containers will show a full turnkey liquid line in operation. Unscrambling containers, air rinsing, filling and capping will be the focus. Separately, the stand will also feature a Van Rijn bucket filling and lidding system and a range of semi-automatic depositors.
Jonathon Stewart, UK sales director, added, “This year’s stand has been planned to show the full value the Autopack Group can bring to a project. The machinery on display gives us the opportunity to talk through real packaging applications and explain how the right combination of equipment can improve efficiency, accuracy and long-term reliability.”
