Wrap-around labelling with seal of jars

ALTECH (Bareggio near Milan, Italy) has recently delivered an interesting new labelling system for a customer in Northern Europe - a manufacturer of preserves packaged in glass jars.

The customer’s requirement was to equip their packaging line with a new labeller which would be able to apply wrap-around labels to the body of the jar, synchronised with a second upper label, folded like a guarantee seal. All of this without reducing the performance of the packaging lines, able to churn out 150 jars per minute.

The labeller designed by ALTECH for this application, starting out from the standard model of the ALline range, was in this case equipped with an innovative device which allows the body label to be synchronised with the seal label, also on an in-line labeller, at high speed: the electronically controlled system can rotate the jar while it is moving on the conveyor belt, allowing the user to select on the touchscreen interface how much the jar must be rotated with respect to the seal position, in order to be able to centre the relative position between the two labels. By storing the parameters in a recipe, it is also possible to easily process labels of different dimensions, or jars of different diameters, by carrying out a simple and repeatable format change.

The new application technique designed for this customer by ALTECH confirms its bent for innovation, also allowing the company to add a new solution to its range which that will pique the interest of the market, particularly because these solutions were previously available only on sophisticated rotary labellers, which come at a much higher cost.