They are small, fragile, made of shortcrust pastry. They can be covered and decorated with sugar, icing sugar, jam or chocolate and filled with cream or jam. They come out in different shapes and they are as beautiful as they are tasty: “prepared but not produced”, they take inspiration from the Italian bakery tradition and ancient methods of food processing that turn natural and carefully selected ingredients into aroma and taste.

They are the products of an Italian company that took its first steps as a family business and through the years has become one of the most famous brands in the field of dry pastry. It is a company that has been using a complete line of pillow-pack packaging machines for years and that today needs to increase its production to fulfill the needs of a developing market.

 

Requirement: 20.000 cookies/hour, no compromise

 

No compromise in terms of final quality of the product, which must preserve organoleptic and taste properties, delicacy of the dough, intactness of shapes and decorations that change from product to product.

When decorated and/or filled cookies come out of the processing line, they have to be placed into pocketed trays of different shapes and sizes before they reach the pillow-pack machine for the wrapping stage.

“When the client asked us for a packaging system capable to cope with its new, increased production output, they thought PFM would have offered a standard, already known technical solution. On the contrary, after considering the Customer’s needs, we surprised them with a PFM line composed of an automated robot cell, which could be integrated upstream with the processing line and downstream with one of our most performant pillow-pack machines”, says Andrea Fioravanti, Commercial Director of the Group.

 

The solution by PFM

The automated cell, composed of 3 Delta Robots and related product-vision system, detects the position of the cookies, pick them up from the feeding belt and piles them into trays, arriving from a 3-channel automatic tray denester.

The automated cell is able to work with trays that travel in the same direction as the cookies, as well as the opposite.

The filled trays reach the FALCON HS pillow-pack packaging machine that wraps them into the typical gusseted pillow-pack, easily achieving the production of 20.000 cookies per hour.

 

As part of the development strategy of the group, PFM has acquired the majority shares of the Piedmontese company ST2 ENGINEERING, renamed pfmtechlab.

The new division, based in Volvera, in the province of Turin, is entirely dedicated to mechanical design and the development of special solutions for handling and packaging food and non-food products.

“It is a professional partnership already in place for a long time” says Paolo Fioravanti, General Manager of PFM “the constant flow of requests from customers to have particular solutions with very strong customizations, led us to the conclusion of transforming a collaboration with an external company to an activity fully integrated in our industrial group. Thus pfmtechlab was born, the design, research and development center of the group that unites our engineers with an already proven team of excellent designers. The new company will carry out mechanical design, design and development of special groups and / or machines for R&D and prototyping, production of groups and special machines.”

That is a good start for all of us!

Wet Wipes Packaging Line PFM Scirocco with lid applicator Robot Stainless Steel, to produce up to 100-160 packs/min.

Products: wet wipes for personal hygiene care.
Packaging: flow pack with double label (re-closing label and tamper evident).
Production rate: 100 packs per minute with integrated robot. 160 packs per minute with robot placed at the end of line.
Advantages: one of the fastest and most compact lines in the world.

Line composed of:

  • Horizontal flowrap machine PFM Scirocco BA.
  • Automatic feeding system composed of 4 independent conveyors to feed the product directly into the wrapping film.
  • Double reel holder shaft complete with automatic reel splicer.
  • Servo driven film die cut unit to produce the pack opening.
  • 3 labelling machines: two units, one of which in stand-by, for the application of the package re-sealing label, the third for the application of the tamper evident seal label.
  • Integrated lid applicator robot for lid application.
  • Longitudinal fin seal unit composed of: three sets of separate tiltable pulling wheels, one set of preheating bars, trimming device with mechanical trim rewind and cold pulling wheels.
  • Siemens or Rockwell (Allen Bradley) electronic components.

The advantages for PFM’s popular solution for handling the lids of baby wipe packages include:

  • Lower cost.
  • Simplicity for the operator.
  • Takes less space than traditional gluing solutions because the lid applicator robot may be either integrated in the packaging line or placed at the end of line, over the work area and not next to it.
  • More hygienic because there is less handling.
  • Reliability.

Automatic Packaging Line with PFM Scirocco BB Wrapper to produce up to 160 packs of Wet Wipes/min.

Products: wet wipes for personal hygiene care.
Packaging: flow pack with double label (re-closing label and tamper evident).
Production rate: 160 packs per minute.
Advantages: one of the fastest lines in the world.

Line composed of:

Film preparation unit and PFM Scirocco High Speed horizontal packaging
machine with automatic in-line feeder equipped with calibrating conveyor.
The film preparation unit is arranged parallel to the packaging machine’s
longitudinal axis; it can also be installed at 90° (to the front or rear),
and is made up of:

  • Double reel holder shaft complete with automatic reel splicer.
  • Servo driven film die cut unit to produce the pack opening.
  • 3 labelling machines: two units, one of which in stand-by, for the application of the package re-sealing label, the third for the application of the tamper evident seal label.
  • Longitudinal fin seal unit composed of: three sets of separate tiltable pulling wheels, one set of preheating bars, trimming device with mechanical trimm rewind and cold pulling wheels.
  • Siemens or Rockwell (Allen Bradley) electronic components.

Perfectly integrated systems for wet wipes composed of a high speed converting machine and a PFM Mistral flowrapper.

PFM realizes with the world technology leaders in high speed converting machinery wet wipes and wet toilet tissue complete and perfectly integrated systems for wet wipes composed of a high speed converting machine and a packaging machine. The wet wipes Profit lines, which are easy to clean and to maintain and produce hermetically sealed gussetted pillow packs. The PFM MISTRAL flowrapper is equipped with the Long Dwell sealing system (PFM Patented) for hermetic seals.

Products: wet wipes for personal hygiene care.
Packaging: flow pack with single double label (re-closing label and
tamper evident).
Production rate: 80 packs per minute.
Advantages: perfect integration between the converting and the packaging units. Format Change is fast and easy, few minutes are requested.
The line is suitable to produce different sized pack of stacked wet wipes.
Aesthetics and output: the line produce up to 80 gusseted packs per minute, which are hermetically sealed thanks to the PFM Mistral Long Dwell sealing unit.

Line composed of:

Automatic feeding system. Stainless steel servo driven cut unit with double reel holder shaft, automatic reel splicer. The cut system works through a magnetic cylinder which is separately driven. Labelling system.
PFM Mistral flowrap machine which produce hermetically sealed gusseted packs thanks to the Long Dwell sealing system (PFM Patented).

Automatic Packaging Line with PFM Shamal Wrapper, to produce up to 100 packs of wet wipes/min.

Products: wet wipes for personal hygiene care.
Packaging: flow pack with re-closing label.
Production rate: 100 packs per minute.
Advantages: one of the most reliable lines in the world.

Line composed of:

Film preparation unit and PFM Shamal horizontal packaging machine with automatic
in-line feeder equipped with calibrating conveyor. The film preparation unit is
arranged parallel to the packaging machine’s longitudinal axis; it can also be installed
at 90° (to the front or rear), and is made up of:

  • Double reel holder shaft complete with automatic reel splicer.
  • Servo driven film die cut unit to produce the pack opening.
  • 2 labelling machines: one of which in stand-by, for the application of the package re-sealing label.
  • Longitudinal fin seal unit composed of: 2 sets of separate tiltable pulling wheels, one set of preheating bars, trimming device with mechanical trim rewind and cold pulling wheels.
  • Siemens or Rockwell (Allen Bradley) elettronic components.

PFM has a wide range of dedicated weighing and wrapping lines for the meat packaging sector:

  • fresh meat
  • meat in M.A.P
  • ready-to-cook or pre-cooked products,
  • sliced meats
  • cured meats
  • sausages and salami
  • offal
  • soft and fragile cuts of meat

 

We can develop custom-designed, innovative solutions for the meat industry in order to:

  • extend the product’s shelf-life;
  • keep the meat fresh and the colour unchanged;
  • solve any product’s weight-loss problem;
  • guarantee airtight sesals and aesthetically perfect packs;
  • enable the packing of the product in a tray.

 

PFM faces the packaging requirements of the different types of meat industry with dedicated flow pack machines, multihead weighers and lines, also with the use of M.A.P., which perfectly matches the needs of the sector:

  • The  PFM “Long Dwell” sealing systems guarantees airtight seals at high packaging speeds
  • Top hygiene: PFM flow wrappers and multighead weighers can be entirely sanitized and do not feature any inaccessible points.
  • The gas injection system guarantees negligible oxygen residue levels.
  • Large printable surface with centred printing and bar code, pleasantly presented packs, including open and reclose packs.

 

 

PFM Group is going to attend CFIA RENNES 9,10,11 June 2021 in Rennes (France). Hall 10 G38 H39.

Created in 1997 in Rennes, CFIA (Carrefour des Fournisseurs de l’Industrie Agroalimentaire) aims to bring together all French and international manufacturers in the food-processing sector.

22 – 25 october 2019, PARMA, ITALY.

CIBUS TEC is among the most innovative food technology exhibitions and a complete showcase of the best solutions – from ingredients to processing technologies, from packaging to logistics – for all segments of the food and beverage industry.

Join CIBUS TEC and experience the trends that will shape the future: more than 1,000 innovative suppliers present pioneering solutions and leading-edge production systems on 120,000 sqm of exhibitions space to 35,000 professionals of the food and beverage industry, coming from 108 countries.

 

Join us at our stand E32 in Hall 2 where we will exhibit:

  • An horizontal pillow-pack wrapper mod. SIRIO
  • An horizontal pillow-pack wrapper mod. SHAMAL
  • A vertical FFS wrapper mod. ZENITH completed with a clipping machine
  • A vertical FFS wrapper mod. POLAR
  • A vertical FFS wrapper mod. COMET completed with an automatic feeding system for mozzarella cheese mod. VDC
  • A stand up pouch horizontal machine mod. D400 DUPLEX
  • A MBP multihead weigher mod.14C2 on the ground

 

 

 

1-3 OCT 2019 – NEC, BIRMINGHAM, UK.

See the biggest and most comprehensive line-up of production technologies and solutions for the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, toiletries and FMCG sectors. With over 350 exhibitors representing 1,500 brands, all under one roof. Serving manufacturers within the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care and FMCG industries to contract packers and more, the Show offers visitors a chance to see new machinery in action, find inspiration, new ideas and solutions, gain access to potential new suppliers and evaluate and purchase the latest technology as well as talk face-to-face with the industry’s leading technical experts.
Organised by the Processing and Packaging Machinery Association (PPMA) which comprises the PPMA, British Automation & Robot Association (BARA) and the UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA).