Karmelle has designed a turnkey filling, capping and labelling line to allow cleaning goods producer Flos to increase volumes across a wide range of products.
Established in 1995 in Serres, Greece, Flos manufactures a range of cleaning products for domestic and professional use. The company invested in its first Karmelle filling, capping and labelling line several years ago, but it recently identified a need for new liquid packaging equipment to support planned production increases.
Keen to continue its partnership with Karmelle, it contacted the team for a solution. With a range of different products (including washing-up liquids and detergents) to fill, cap and label, the system had to be easy to adjust, be versatile and also operator-friendly.
Karmelle therefore designed a turnkey filling, capping and labelling line, selecting machines that would offer the production flexibility Flos required.
Manufactured onsite in West Yorkshire, the system featured a VIPF500 6 head volumetric filling machine, a cap tightening machine, a twin head labelling machine with wrap station, a rotary collection table, as well as connecting conveyors.
After shipping the line to Greece, Karmelle engineers spent a week at Flos’ facility, installing and commissioning the equipment, and providing staff training.
In operation:
- Empty containers are fed into the 6 head filling machine, which can dispense product in top, bottom and rising fill modes, depending on its properties
- Caps are hand-placed onto filled containers, which then pass into the KC1000A cap tightening machine to be screwed on. Interchangeable tightening discs make the system suitable for both smooth and ribbed closures
- Containers are then transported to the labelling machine, which dispenses front and back or wraparound labels, depending on the product
- Filled, capped and labelled containers exit the conveyor onto a rotary collection table, from which they can be packed into boxes.
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