Coffee pods: from the carton to the pallet

Many important contracts in 2013 for Senzani Brevetti (Faenza, RA), historic name in the field of technology for automatic packaging.

These include the delivery of a new line of packaging of coffee capsules to the U.S. branch of the Melitta Group, which specializes in the production of coffee in all its forms: loose, in pods or capsules, including associated professional machines.
The solution implemented by the Faenza based company consists of a bundling wrap around (DP60) and a vertical carton pallet, which make up an integrated system able to manage the entire process, the inclusion of the capsules in a box until the placing of RSC boxes on pallets ready to be sent to the final destination.
A key element of the line is the DP60 packaging machine that, in this specific application, manages a case complete with a base formed by 6 coffee capsules (2x3) on different layers. The peculiarity lies also in the fact that in order to minimize the size of the case, the capsules are alternately arranged inside one another (ground-based or inverted).
A Scara arm, the heart of the vertical pallet carton, then tackles the packing and palletizing operations in a limited space, thus concentrating the final packaging in one area of the works.

Focus on wrap around. The DP60, capable of treating up to 160 cartons per minute, is designed as a monoblock with a significantly reduced footprint (3100 x 2400 mm) and can handle flat blanks in sizes up to 700 x 700 mm. Versatile, able to pack many kinds of products such as capsules, processed cheese, packs of butter, chocolates and flow pack in various forms of final packaging (boxes, displays, trays with lid and clusters), suited to satisfying the most varied needs of companies
The DP60 is the latest DIPA (Display Packers) model, the most recent category of Senzani automatic machinery specially designed for forming, filling and sealing of trays and displays via two different technologies, form and fill or - as in this case – wrap around. It is totally electronic machinery, with brushless motors that help to reduce the changeover times (in addition to those due to standard maintenance), and able to handle irregular shaped products in a small footprint.