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4. Case packing, cartoning
4.1 American corrugated cases
Until 1975, bottles, single cartons or cases, sachets (flour, sugar) or cans were always grouped together in corrugated cardboard boxes, delivered flat on pallets by the cardboard factory.
The end-user opened them and placed 6, 12 or 24 unit packs inside, assisted for high output by filling systems that pushed the unit packs into the cases. Then, on the conveyor belt, there were various closing systems, using either adhesive tapes (figures and ) or hot-melt adhesives (figure ) (and, more recently, staples).
Such systems are still commonly used for small production runs, from one to several cases per minute.
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Regulations
12-91 French law n° 911414 defining the Machinery Directive.
07-92 Decrees implementing this law :
92765 Scope of application,
92766 Marketing and control procedures,
92767 Technical rules.
01-95 All new palletizer-depalletizers sold and installed must comply with these decrees.
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Bibliography
In Engineering Techniques
Standardization
French Standards Association (AFNOR)
- Sécurité des machines d'emballage. Partie 4 : palettiseurs et dépalettiseurs. Indice de classement : H 94-001-4. (remplace : NF H 95-402 : 05-1981 et NF H 95-403 : 12-1982). - NF EN 415-4 - 12-97
- Management de projet. Recommandations pour l'analyse et la modélisation graphique d'actions...
Organizations
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)
Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), Packaging market
Packaging machinery suppliers
(non-exhaustive list)
Conveyors, complete lines
NTS (France)
NTS-LEGENDRE (Belgium)
POSIMAT, SA (Spain)
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