SACMI Packaging & Chocolate to exhibit its flagship flow-wrapping machines alongside a complete range of chocolate and packaging products: solutions that deliver performance and versatility, with extensive configurability and fast format changeovers. Also on show: rigid packaging technologies, with complete product development services and advanced AI-powered control
SACMI is set to play a pivotal role at
Pack Expo International 2024, the key international packaging trade fair to be held from 3 to 6 November 2024 at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois.
Packaging & Chocolate: leading the way in primary packaging
SACMI Packaging & Chocolate will be showcasing its key primary packaging solutions, with several machines on display alongside the complete range of chocolate processing and packaging systems, all designed to deliver versatility, performance and continuous innovation.
- JT Advance: high-speed Flow-Wrapping Machine
In Chicago, visitors will have a great opportunity to see the JT Advance (marketed under the OPM brand), the company’s flagship high-speed flow-wrapping machine. Able to process up to 150 meters of film per minute, JT Advance provides outstanding configurability, reduces operating costs and simplifies maintenance.
Designed to maximize efficiency, it also lets users replace reels during production without having to reduce speed. Moreover, tool-free locking/unlocking systems allow rapid adjustments, shortening changeover times.
Hygienic design lessens residue build-up, simplifying management and maintenance while safeguarding product quality.
- HPS 20 – Electronic control, user-friendliness, outstanding versatility
Alongside the JT Advance, visitors to Pack Expo will also see the HPS 20, the SACMI-designed horizontal flowpack machine that combines efficiency, application versatility and optimized running and maintenance costs. Ideal for medium-speed lines – with a capacity of up to 20 meters per minute – the HPS 20 features fully electronic control, outstanding configurability to match the specific product being manufactured, plus excellent user-friendliness and easy integration on automatic packaging lines.
- A comprehensive range
SACMI Packaging & Chocolate will also illustrate its complete range of solutions for the chocolate (preparation and modelling) and packaging (food and non-food world) sectors: a range bristling with cutting-edge technologies that combine high performance, ease of use and optimized operating costs.
Rigid packaging: advanced, digital, sustainable
As the world’s leading technology provider in the closures sector, SACMI will be showing visitors the latest developments in the range in terms of sustainability, performance and process control.
- The 26/22 mm transition, tethered opportunities.
Through its sophisticated Lab, SACMI offers extensive product development services, with ready-to-use solutions certified by major global brand owners who work with the company daily. SACMI stands ready to help customers transition to new high-efficiency standards such as 26/22 mm necks-caps that optimize both performance and the consumption experience, with virgin resin savings as high as 30%. Available for all applications – water, CSD, hot filling – and in both tethered and non-tethered versions, this family of solutions is designed to simplify the industry’s ‘green transition’ by combining environment-friendliness, high performance and the quality of the consumption experience.
- AI-powered technologies and digital control
SACMI integrates these solutions with winning technologies that combine the best productivity on the market with the latest digital controls, thus optimizing the process, reducing downtime and streamlining machine operation.
By integrating CCM (continuous compression molding) cap production technology and IPS (injection preform system) PET preform production technology, SACMI builds market-leading performance and gives users the chance to take advantage of pioneering digital tools that ensure they always get the most out of SACMI machines by simplifying their management and enhancing process control.
Dedicated Computer Vision systems are available for every stage of cap and preform production: once again, producers benefit from unique features such as the option of incorporating the process control vision system (PVS156) directly on the IPS press or, on next-gen CCM presses, the latest release of the Smart Pack 2 digital control suite which delivers continuous monitoring of production parameters, thus boosting the reliability and consistency of the process while reducing the risk of errors.
The result of all these features? An overall increase in efficiency that SACMI customers can further enhance with new AI-powered on-machine digital assistants (Classy AI for automatic defect classification and the chatbot-like Gilda AI virtual assistant) that make plants easier to control and provide operators with assistance during management and maintenance.
And that’s not all: new in-Cloud operating data sharing services result in personalized assistance, optimized maintenance and proactive problem solving. Further opportunities, then, designed to complement the comprehensive on-site assistance services, with dedicated teams available 24/7, coordinated for the United States by the SACMI USA headquarters.
Visit the SACMI stand at Pack Expo, 3-6 November 2024, McCormick Place, Chicago, South Hall, stand n° 2843