Integrated system creates and fills carton containers onsite
Optima Packaging GmbH
The conventional transport of empty, pre-formed carton containers to a location for filling and further processing is costly and inefficient. The InlineCan system (photo) lets users produce, fill and close cartons for powders and bulk solids in one continuous process. Onsite production of the carton-cans provides cost-saving efficiencies and reduces warehousing and logistics requirements for the process. A warehouse that formerly stored 1,000 conventional pre-made cans can now store the raw materials needed to produce 30,000 InlineCans of identical size and storage capacity onsite, says the company. The user can choose from a wide variety of possible shapes, from rounded square to octagonal, ovals and combined round/square forms. Depending on the product, the appropriate dosing systems are integrated into the machines.— Optima Packaging GmbH, Schwaebisch Hall, Germany