RECOVERY OF WASTE PRODUCT

There are a number of reasons why faulty packages especially in the food and confectionery industry need to be unpacked. This may be necessary due to machine start-up waste, wrong coding, best-before-use date overdue, under-or overfilling etc. It would be too expensive to unpack such material manually or to completely throw away the product.

The German made PACK-SAVER range of Product Recovery Machines from LEU-TRONIC are designed to allow a clean separation of product from its packaging material. The PACK-SAVER does not work with knives, but using adjustable tear-off rails to open the packages. Due to the rail rotation and the special shape of the assorting chamber, an air-stream is produced which “blows” the empty wrapping material out of the machine. The product is then transported to a vibration sieving device, where an exhausting device separates small wrapper particles from the product, which then can be re-processed and used again.

Depending on product, a capacity of up to 400kg per hour can be achieved. Only one operator is needed to control a PACK-SAVER.

Typical products which are being recovered are;

coffee, tea, sugar, confectionery, chewing gum, chocolate bars, biscuits, crisps, detergent tablets etc.