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It’s only when you reflect back over the year that you realise just how

busy it’s been. 2014 has been a bumper year for us supplying machinery

into many leading global manufacturing companies spanning across a

wide range of industries including food, drink, pharma, cosmetics &

toiletries, household & chemical industries.

Our machinery partners have developed and produced new designs and

improvements with great success throughout the year to meet our

customers’ continuing requests.

Many of these were seen for the first time, being launched at the Interpack exhibition in

Dusseldorf, Germany earlier in the year. However, for those who didn’t get to see these, they

are summarised within this annual newsletter.

It’s been an incredible year for Monolab; whilst they are a

recognised name throughout Europe’s pharmaceutical,

household, cosmetics & toiletries manufacturers, in the UK until

now they have been little known.

That has all changed with their affiliation with Springvale, this year

seeing the 1st machine delivered and installed into the UK.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MONOLAB – WE LOOK FORWARD TO

CONTINUED SUCCESS IN 2015….

Whilst selecting your festive treats this year, you’ll

find it difficult to miss these very attractive shaped

cartons. United Biscuits this year gave the Victoria

brand of biscuits a new packaging format from the

traditional tubs into re-closable hinged cartons.

Langen, successfully winning the bid, installed

horizontal cartoners to pack these.

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Mespack, along with Langen’s collation and

cartoning expertise, together offer manufacturers a

full turnkey solution.

Langen’s recently launched MARIN™ hygienic

intermittent motion cartoner is especially suitable

behind a single sachet, stickpack or pouch making

machine reducing the need for changeovers and

increasing process efficiency. Using a bomb-bay

feed for sticks, it is capable of handling up to 800

sticks per minute.

With stick infeed it is fully aligned with the needs of

stick manufacturers and its compact footprint

makes fitting it in with existing equipment easier.

MESPACK Packaging Machinery of

Barcelona this year launched their

MS600 compact stickpack machine to

complement their existing machine

portfolio, which includes horizontal and

vertical form, fill, seal machines for

sachets, pouches and stickpacks.

Features include: 600mm reel width,

available in 4 – 6 lanes, open tube

frame, hygienic design, integrated

electrical cabinet, free access to

operating side of machine, PLC

controlled auto lubrication, 12” Allen-

Bradley colour touch screen, servo

driven main film drive system,

pneumatically expandable reel shaft,

full servo technology (on request), ATEX

compliance (on request) and can be

supplied with augers, volumetric

systems and flowmeters making it ideal

for liquids and free or non-free flowing

products reaching an output of up to 75

strokes a minute.




The Compact 5 cartoner features a combined tuck in

and hot melt closure, with a tamper – evident seal

and up to five filling stations, enabling several

components to be inserted into each box. This in

turn makes it possible for several operators to

handle the filling.

This machine design also incorporates a fully

automated leaflet inserter for user information and

an HP cartridge printing system plus, particularly

important for pharmaceutical packaging, all current

reputable systems (PCE, Antares, Lateus, OCS, Optel,

etc) for serialization and track and trace can be

integrated seamlessly.

The compact design is available in standard or

pharmaceutical versions. Robustness and flexibility

makes these machines suited to anybody needing to

pack very small to medium sized production runs.

This year UET presented their latest

design the Compact 5, seen as a

future proof cartoning machine,

which enables customers to handle

a wide range of box sizes without

incurring any costs for size part

replacement and run boxes with

different closing features, which

until now have not been possible to

pack on 1 machine.

UET stretched the boundaries this year building a machine that could accommodate

“trial sized” cartons, selling not one but two to a premium cosmetics manufacturer.

The specially adapted Compact 3, still with a fully adjustable starwheel, patented by

UET, can run cartons within the range indicated;

Width 25-120 mm, Depth 18-46 mm, Height 31-78 mm

The Compact 3 featuring tooling for either tuck-in cartons or hot melt cartons has a

single loading station enabling operators to manually load the tester pots, spatulas,

brushes, leaflet.

Perfect for the today’s consumers needs of “try before you buy”.




Mespack, famous for their horizontal f-f-s

machines, are proud to announce the

development of the ML series of full servo drive

technology intermittent motion 4 side seal

multilane sachet machines.

Available in 2 models ML 1000 – ML 1200, range

from 4 – 10 lanes.

The ML series incorporates the newest motion

technology with integrated PLC functions which

sequences 7 brushless motors.

The ML Series includes ACMS (Auger Cleaning Management System), a new concept which

allows the auger to be lowered automatically to operator level for easy cleaning.

Particularly suited for a multitude of products, granules, powder and liquids and is widely

used in pharma, food, home & personal care sectors.

2014 has seen Langen Packaging Group respond to increased customer

demand for assured hygiene standards by redesigning its entire range of

cartoning machines.

This has been done by defining, applying and implementing 7 key principles:

> Solid components only > Fewer flat and horizontal surfaces

> Minimum contacts > Modular assemblies > No hidden dust traps

> Easy to clean materials > Simplified design

Langen’s product range benefits customers, reducing likelihood of bacterial build-up, easier

cleaning to reach higher hygiene standards, improved operational efficiency and better

ergonomic design for operators and high safety levels, fully compliant with all regulatory

requirements. It is also based on a modular structure enabling simple and comparatively low

cost system enhancements.







2014 has been a good year for weigh filling/capping specialist Pack’R in the UK & Ireland with

plenty of orders from three of their key market sectors:

- Edible Oil into Ring style bottle in box containers, metal cans and buckets

- Industrial Cleaning Chemicals into 5, 10 & 20 litre containers

- Drinks Concentrates into a wide range of plastic & glass containers

Pack’R has some unique features that make their equipment highly suitable for a wide range of

applications:

- Pressurised product hopper allows accurate control throughout the batch and the ability to

fill a wide range of product viscosities

- Patented “clean in place” system for very quick product changes, producing a minimal

amount of effluent in the process

- Brushless motor rotary capping solution, also available for ATEX applications.

For more than 40 years, FEIGE FILLING has been building automatic systems for liquid products primarily

into 200 litre drums. There are more than 100 installations in the UK some more than 30 years old.

Feige has developed an innovative factory and design system known as FEIGE FACTORY DESIGN.

If you would like to look at your new drum filling line long before it is installed in your production facility

FEIGE FACTORY DESIGN shows you how. With an accurate, photo-realistic visualisation, you can see

your future equipment before it is ordered. To make this possible, the planned equipment is adapted to

the intended environment. Features inside the filling room e.g. an old system comprising subsequent

extensions and conversions, pillars, doors etc, are recorded by means of a 3D laser scan and taken into

consideration.

This new procedure saves you time and costs. Planning is

clearly simplified and accelerated. Tedious drawing work or

on-site actions have become superfluous. The accurate and

realistic pre-visualisation ensures there are no unexpected

problems during installation, saving time and money.




The subject of product re-working is not as glamourous as the packing of new products. However, it

is a fact of production that waste product is created and it is not acceptable or financial viable to

simply dump the packs.

Leu-Tronic is a German company with a unique “knife less” system to open and separate a wide

range of products with a 98% recovery rate. Products suitable for re-working include:

- Tea & coffee bags - Sachets of sugar, coffee, creamer etc - Pillow packs of snack products

- Flow wraps of biscuits, chocolate etc., - Coffee pods

Some products can be re-worked in-line so the product is

immediately returned into the production process so there is

no double handling of waste product and no cleaning required

between different flavoured products. Other companies

collect their waste products and process them in a bulk system

either for sale as animal feed or for re-processing.

Leu-Tronic has a solution for both options.

And bringing our machinery news features to an end, a great

Health & Safety notice seen in a manufacturing facility…..




Finally, to end this newsletter we leave you in the knowledge that between the Springvale team

we have now 100 years of experience in the world of packaging machinery, with extensive

knowledge in cartoning, form, fill & seal applications, blister packaging, liquid filling and

product recovery.

We can quickly determine from your needs the most appropriate machinery solution and give

advice accordingly.

We look forward to working with many of you in the New Year and, to our customers, we thank

you for your custom and look forward to continued relations in the New Year

The office reopens January 5th, 2015.

We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

from all of the Springvale team


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