Innovative packaging solutions for the confectionery industry

Loesch Verpackungstechnik GmbH from Altendorf, Franconia, will be headlining its claim to global leadership in the packaging machinery market at interpack in Düsseldorf. The systems provider is unveiling innovative and leading-edge complete solutions for the confectionery industry.

LoeschPack continues to set standards at the world’s leading trade fair for the industry with its refined, customer-centric service solutions. The centrepiece of this development is the technical centre inaugurated adjacent to the production facilities in 2014, where customers can test packaging machines and train their staff. “We create samples and carry out test runs with original materials – also in customer formats. The generated data is used to analyse the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of our customers’ highly specific projects,” says Andreas Graf, Managing Director of LoeschPack.

The successful machine design for two-stage packing of chocolate bars meets the current requirements of the market with many optimisations. In particular, the rising demands for complete systems, optimum hygiene and sustainability, simplest operation and format changeover, high flexibility, high output and OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency), and a compact, space-saving machine design have been implemented.

At interpack 2014, LoeschPack is unveiling the latest generation of the LTM-DUO two-stage fold wrapping machine in the corporate design, combined with a flexible display cartoner. From product feeding to display cartoning, we offer a complete solution from a single source. The exhibit packs 100 g flat bars in a vacuum-packed, sealed inner wrap made of aluminium foil from the reel. The outer wrap is formed from a carton processed as a flat, pre-cut blank. The carton folding is traditional with tuck-in flaps, and the seal is closed with hot-setting glue.

In addition to excellent performance of up to 200 bars/minute, the LTM-DUO features great product, size and packaging style flexibility, gentle handling of the product and the use of bio-polymer foil. The refined twin station machine with outstanding overall performance thus sets new standards for packing chocolate bars.

Together with its sister company Hastamat, LoeschPack is showing a line combination at interpack which packages Napolitains in individual wrapping followed by stand-up pouches with four-edge sealing.

The Napolitains are packaged in a full wrap made of OPP foil and sealed with adhesive points. The individual articles are transported on an ascending belt gantry to the CP-16-S32 combination weigher from Hastamat. There, the articles can be dosed precisely according to weight or counted to the exact number and then packaged in the downstream RM-270 vertical flow pack machine. This configuration provides an impressive demonstration of LoeschPack and Hastamat’s line competence under the umbrella of the Piepenbrock group. The LRM-S single-lane fold wrapping machine for bars in our corporate design and with an output of up to 600 products a minute will be shown for the first time at interpack 2014. The twin-lane LRM/2-S, the “Ferrari of packaging machines” with double the output, offers customers outstanding performance.

LoeschPack will also be presenting the modular, cutting-edge RPM-S roll wrapping system with product-related vibratory feeding at interpack 2014. The system is complemented by the associated WKM-2 display cartoning machine.

The RPM-S features excellent performance, tightly sealed roll wrapping and gentle product feeding. For round pieces of chocolate, up to 300 rolls can be packed per minute, for tablet-shaped lozenges up to 400 rolls/minute. The RPM-S can process one or two packaging materials. All the required folds are carried out on a wrapping head, which offers quick changeovers and guarantees top size flexibility. Various folding styles can be achieved depending on the chosen equipment, for example a traditional covering fold with five end folds and vacuum packing with fin seals. An application for moulded articles in packaging material with a covering fold and five end folds will be on display with a performance of 400 rolls/minute.

In Düsseldorf LoeschPack and Theegarten-Pactec will jointly be presenting a line combination for packing chocolate bars in flow wrap and cardboard. The chocolate bars are first tightly packed on a horizontal flow pack machine from Theegarten. The separate flow packs are then wrapped in a cardboard label on the LTM-K cartoning machine from LoeschPack.

LoeschPack will be also unveiling the modular, high-performance WKM-2 display cartoning system in hygienic design. The inline chewing gum line from LoeschPack for packing chewing gum sticks in flip-top packs will be on display for the first time at interpack 2014. At interpack LoeschPack will be completing its display with a wide-ranging presentation on all aspects of the subject of chewing gum. Technical animations, videos and a multitude of fascinating product samples will be shown.

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