The packaging automation and machinery manufacturer ELITER Packaging Machinery has recently debuted their new generation wrap-around sleever - a machine that can wrap various kinds of containers such as trays, tubs, pots, cups, etc. with cardboard sleeves. The Wrap-Around Sleever is alternatively called the wrap-around cartoning machine or the sleeving machine.

The Unprecedented Sleeving Machine for the Food Industry

The food industry is going through an epoch featured by concerns about environmental impact as well as the ever-increasing consumer market where people are finding themselves strapped for time. The former comes with a revolution in terms of printing and paper materials used for the packaging of their products: replacing carton boxes with cardboard or paperboard sleeve for less paper consumption, for example, multipacks are now wrapped simply by pieces of sleeves rather than shrinking plastic or a carton box, while the latter is remarked by the upsurging market of ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook meals. The decision of developing a corresponding packaging machine to follow this trend, and the answer from ELITER Packaging Machinery is a full-servo driven, cutting-edge and unprecedented wrap-around sleever.

The development of ELITER Packaging Machinery's sleever machine was carried out with concerns around the compulsory standards and requirements in the food industry, as well as the excellence in performance, ergonomic and safe structure, accessibility for cleaning, and maintenance. Named ESTRENA Sleever, the machine draws on the sleevers made by the world's leading packaging machine manufacturers and seeks to be the counterpart to wrap-around sleevers made by well-known companies such as T.Freemantle, Schuy, DM Pack, Lead Packaging, and so forth.

Packaging Automation for Wrap-Around Applications

Apart from the ready meals which are usually loaded in plastics trays one by one, the ESTRENA Wrap-Around Sleever is able to run as well as multipacks such as yogurt cups, canned tuna, snacks, dessert pots, given that an infeed and grouping system is incorporated. In the context of a packaging line, the wrap-around sleever can be connected to thermoformers, tray sealers, filling and sealing machines, to receive packages of meals, yogurts, etc., completed with primary packaging.  The containers to be wrapped by cardboard sleeves are received and timed through the main infeed conveyor into the sleever machine, then sleeves are placed on the package, slid and wrapped around the containers, after which the closure is made in the inferior part with hot-melt glue.


Features of ESTRENA Wrap-Around Sleever

• Left-in and right-out machines or vice versa are available
• Powered sleeve hopper for a large number of sleeve blanks and auto feed
• Sleeve magazine with auxiliary pneumatic agitation for sleeve pick-up
• Focke Meler B4 hot melt jetting system
• SIEMENS Control Platform
• Robust stainless-steel construction for food-grade use
• Speed up to 120 PPM according to container size and format
• Ergonomic safety guards with hall switches for operator safety

About ELITER Packaging Machinery

ÉLITER Packaging Machinery - a HUANENG Company Family business in the packaging automation and machinery sector for three generations. Manufacturer and global supplier of cartoner, film overwrapper, and wrap-around sleever.

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