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Cermex EvoPack

The increasing need of customization for added-value packs, new selling and shipping units, is forcing manufacturers to re-evaluate their current use of repacking activities, which generate important associated cost, quality and sustainability side effects.

Smaller and larger case counts can each help minimize these effects by managing, storing and shipping products in the adapted quantities with much more ease and flexibility, for the upcoming tasks of the distribution centers, the E-commerce order preparation and the remaining needs of repacking.

To answer these needs and to return to a fair and optimized level of repacking activities while still ensuring the traditional high production volumes of the standard formats, Sidel has designed Cermex EvoPack, a highly flexible Industry 4.0 case-packing platform for Food Home and Personal Care shaped containers in Wrap-Around blanks, trays & Shelf Ready Packaging.

At the secondary packaging level, Cermex EvoPack is the ideal answer in a single compact equipment solution.

Top three benefits

  • Capability to cope with high production volumes with a great footprint/speed ratio of up to 60 cases/minute in less than 30 m²
  • Ability to manage a high diversity of needs: Primary packaging from 100ml to 1L bottle and case counts of 2 to 24 containers or more, for secondary packaging
  • Fast and repeatable format changeovers with automatic motorized adjustments from 5 minutes to 15 minutes maximum
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Cermex EvoPack

Features

Large packaging size capability

Ability to manage a high diversity of needs:

  • Primary packaging from 100ml to 1L bottle, whatever the material
  • Secondary packaging:
    • Wrap-Around blanks, trays and cases with pre-cuts for Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP) functionalities and fast/easy opening solution at point of sales ,
    • case counts of 2 to 24+ containers (depending on product size)
  • Large tolerance on corrugated variations allowing a 5 mm deviation on blank dimension and/or blank improperly positioned
  • Small-sized cases with micro fluting (type “E” or “F”) for SRP purposes for instance

Competitiveness & Sustainability

Restore industrial margin and reach sustainability goals! On top of limiting repacking operations by using smaller case counts, Cermex EvoPack approach can replace some existing “shrink film + corrugated” secondary packaging solutions, not anymore accepted economically and sustainability wise.

  • Reducing packaging waste & cost,
  • Saving on extra manual repacking labor,
  • Use a 100% recyclable corrugated cardboard solution
  • Cutting on number of equipment, space and energy consumption compared to the “shrink film + corrugated” solution,
  • Avoiding scuffs and scratches from repacking.
  • Small case count cases allow easier product dispatch and order preparation for distribution centers before shipping to stores as well as being more stable when preparing rainbow pallets for stores
  • Cermex EvoPack can handle larger cases (x24 and more) to ship the same amount of products to repacking centers but with less secondary packaging used and wasted than with the previous standard formats

Bottle integrity & case quality

Protect your bottles at every steps of the process and secure the case squaring / sealing thus the palletizing operation and the overall pallet stability 

  • Bottle flow managed without or limited accumulation, to reduce contact and friction between products
  • Positive handling of cases during all transfers via intelligent shuttles
  • Patented case forming module performing an automatic positioning adjustment for each case produced.
  • Case squaring and closing guaranteed even with shaped bottles, thanks to compensating vacuumed systems during folding and sealing phases, which will fight the potential lack of homogeneous counter-pressure inside the case

Flexibility

Fast and repeatable format changeovers with automatic motorized adjustments: 

  • From 5 minutes (new case only) to 15 minutes (new bottle and case), to reduce machine downtime 
  • Scalable case magazine: 1 station for large cases, 2 stations for medium and 3 stations for small cases
  • Linear movers for automatic adjustment for the case handling part
  • Manual adjustment limited to 3 sets of change parts: 3D printed pusher for case forming, grippers for manipulator and light-weighted loading funnels

Performance overtime

Starting from a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) approach, we have designed Cermex EvoPack to be easy to operate and maintain, using the latest Industry 4.0 technologies: 

  • Access to Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Machine One Point Lesson (OPL), available on touchscreen PC-based HMI (on mobile device as option), for easier and faster trouble shooting and root cause analysis
  • Real-time digital dashboards for operators and maintenance teams, based on data monitoring for a condition based maintenance
    • Consumption monitoring
    • Motion control (servo axis) monitoring
    • Counters to provide operating and maintenance alerts
  • Original spare part ordering via straight-forward connection to Sidel Services Online (SSO) platform
  • Assistance possible by remote access (incl. video remote assistance)
  • Serialization by Track & Trace and aggregation functionalities (on request)

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