Sterile baby feed cups all wrapped up
Two Fuji flow-wrappers, specially adapted to provide closely wrapped collations of plastic cups while remaining stackable, have been installed by Cannon Avent to handle its Via range of baby feeding containers. The Via cups are supplied as a sterile product, particularly for one-time use outside the home, but can be resterilised and reused if required. Production takes place within a cleanroom, where the moulded product is transferred automatically from the injection moulding machines to the infeed of the two Fuji FW3710B flow-wrappers, in nested collations. Supplied by UK agent Paramount Packaging Systems, the flow-wrappers use automatic reel splicing equipment to allow continuous running, with operators required to enter the cleanroom only to reload reels of film. The machines are fitted with gas flushing facilities to maintain sterility and employ box motion sealing jaws that move with the laminate films to provide the extra dwell time required for secure hermetic seals. A new mechanism for the sealing system allows the front edge of the pack to be drawn back deep inside the leading cup, so ensuring sterility.
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