Two different high-speed automated bagging systems will be demonstrated at Stand 400 at this year’s Intralogistex event, by Yorkshire Packaging Systems (YPS). While different, the two systems both ensure fully recyclable and 50%+ recycled content reduced material use for improved sustainability and a resultant snug finished pack, improving aesthetics and reducing transit damage.
Offering pack versatility, these two systems can both handle a wide range of orders while reducing material waste and packaging costs, and minimising pack void, which in turn maximises efficiency in last-mile logistics.
Debuted at the show, the new Autobagger system’s flexible design intelligently selects the most efficient bag size for each order.
This modular system combines conveyors driven by an intelligent interface with a specifiable number of automated baggers, each of which can be equipped with a different mailing bag. It can handle single or multi-item orders and send them to the optimum bagger and bag, which could be defined by size and/or bag material, either poly or paper.
In this way, the same system can accommodate orders with different mailing requirements with no need to stop or make changes in between – widely differing orders can be catered for with the same configuration.
An Autobagger system can achieve throughput of an impressive 2,000 items per hour, from a system incorporating 4 bagging machines, although other configurations are possible.
As a modular system, it is adaptable and scalable. Each system is tailored for the user’s operation, with throughput, complexity and even available space all considered. It can be designed with any number of baggers, from a minimum of two upwards, and the exact layout is also specifiable. It’s a future-proof system that can also be altered or expanded as needed.
The system is designed to avoid costly stoppages too. Should one bagger be paused for material reloading or for maintenance, the rest of the system can continue to operate. The system will recognise which bagger is currently out of action and route the packages to the other baggers in the system.
Pack labelling is fully integrated. Shipping information is applied as the pack is filled and sealed, using high-speed inline thermal printing technology.
Also on show at stand 400, will be the Flexo 700 ECOM horizontal bagger. This single-unit machine forms the mailing bag from film as the order progresses through it.
Minimal material use is achieved as the machine adapts each bag formed to the individual product’s length as standard and can also adapt bag width each time, courtesy of an optional module.
Its advanced product detection system, featuring a special multipack configuration, ensures that the bag created is always correct. The enhanced seal-cut-seal system ensures strong, reliable seals and robust pack separation.
An easy-to-use system, it features an intuitive HMI for assured control of the system. It offers extremely fast format changeovers on a wide variety of products without the need for any tools, thus reducing machine downtime.
As a supplier of materials as well as machinery, the YPS Team can also advise on material selection for bagging operations, including improved sustainable options.
All of the materials YPS supply are fully recyclable. They stock poly bags with a minimum of 50% recycled content and films with an industry-leading 98%+ of recycled content, all of which are exempt from the UK Government’s Plastic Packaging Tax. They also stock paper for mail fulfilment operations, to provide even further choice.
YPS can be found at stand 400 during the Intralogistex event at the NEC, held on 25th and 26th March.
