Article | REF: AG6522 V1

Liquid foods

Author: Pierre MILLET

Publication date: July 10, 2010

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3. Container transfer

Container transfer essentially concerns the way in which bottles and cans move from one packaging machine to another.

There are two different principles:

  • the packing block and free conveying on intermediate ground or air conveyors;

  • the combination of the two systems, which has become widespread, especially with form fill and seal processes and continuous control in container packaging.

3.1 Packaging block

The idea of a block pack is not new. They have existed for a long time in the form of monobloc filling/capping units, sometimes with a small labeler, incorporated into low-speed units of the order of 500 bottles per hour, as was the case...

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