Recently, Seelen A/S launched a new horizontal hood stretch machine; the EasyOn, which is a patented solution developed specifically to pack long, homogeneous loads, such as gypsum wallboards, insulation and wooden floors. The EasyOn pushes the products through the foil, allowing products to be packed that up till now had to be shrink packed or stretch wrapped, as they were ill-suited for stretch hood packaging due to their large circumference.
COMBINED SHRINK HOODING MACHINE IMC
Two-real combined hooding and shrinking machine. It automatically forms tubular film hoods and places them over palletised products. The machine may put hoods on pallets with different heights, and is able to work with two film sizes. Automatic selection of one reel or the other allows processing of pallets with widely different base dimensions, even in random sequence, with optimum results in terms of packaging appearance and cost-effectiveness. Extremely simple and reliable, its compact size makes it easy to install in existing handling lines. Complete with four gas burners producing a flameless flow of hot air, individually controlled by a flame control system with safety solenoid valve, guaranteeing perfect combustion and preventing the emission of unburnt gases into the environment. The special distribution of the combustion air inside the burner ensures excellent stability, and thus perfect shrinking, in a single work-station. The machine conforms to current regulations.
TECHNICAL DATA:
Hourly production rate: 50 pallets
Film used: Thermoshrink polyethylene-thickness: 80-200 micron
Rated power: 5,5 Kw
Electrics: 400 V THREE- PHASE 50Hz
Air pressure: 6 bar
Air consumption per cycle: 50 NI
Machine weight : 2000 Kg
Gas used : natural Gas/Lpg
Gas pressure: 40 Mbar
Oven Thermal Potential: 320 Kw max
Gas consumption per cycle: 0,15 m3
The data and dimensions of the standard model refer to a pack with the following dimensions F=800, L=1200, H=1200, T=610.
It’s a stretch cold extension machine with extensible film as far as a tubular coil, a model with one coil. The cover fitting is suitable for every type of product because there are not flames or warm air. This plant links the thermoretractiles qualities concerning the pallets seal, the protection against some atmospheric agents (water and dust) and the practical use of the extensible film. This machine is available in four models, according to the customers needs.
The pallet stretch hooding machine enables the protection and stabilisation of palletized loads by the application of an elastic hood on 5 sides.
The hood is manufactured from a polyethylene tubular film with a gusset. It is cut to the length corresponding to the measured height of the pallet.
The hood is mechanically stretched to then be released over the load.
This method of hood application is particularly important because it does not use any heat source (the hood is not shrunk) and at a clearly lower operating cost than that of shrink wrapping.
Möllers automatic transverse stretch hooders use the security potential of the stretch film in the most effective way: The tubular film hood is radially stretched to the drawn width, with the resultant retractive force the film is tightened around the pallet load during positioning. Through the development of the patented High-Expander and Ultrastretch technologies Möllers was able to significantly improve the transverse stretch hood process.
With the highly extensible films used here considerably higher tensile strengths have been achieved, which significantly improve the load integrity and the bond between load and pallet compared to the stretch films originally used. Further advantages of the modern stretch process are the suitability of a single tubular film width for all usual pallet formats and the reduced film consumption of up to 30 %.
