PACKFEEDER

ROTZINGER concludes agreement with PACKFEEDER - ROTZINGER Group AG, Switzerland, has taken over PACKFEEDER SLU, Spain - Tomàs MULET VALLÈS, founder of PACKFEEDER, continues supporting the business - ROTZINGER is committed to further develop the business in the long term Terrassa, Spain, January 1st, 2022. ROTZINGER Group AG has taken over PACKFEEDER SLU. The two companies have reached an agreement to this effect. PACKFEEDER, founded in 2002 by Tomàs MULET VALLÈS, employs 22 people. Its product portfolio is specialized in the manufacturing of unscrambling machines. The company retain its well-known name PACKFEEDER and remains in its recently relocated headquarters in Terrassa close to Barcelona.

n today’s packaging industry, there are a multitude of bottle shapes, geometries and finishes that adapt to the different needs. We have the bottle’s shapes that respond to ergonomic functions and needs, usually with indents, handles and other elements for easy grip and handling. And, forms due to reasons related to the product or the marketing strategy, which usually generate label positions and asymmetries of special bodies. For all this, sometimes it is not enough to have the bottles on the conveyor one after the other and it is also required that they are in a specific orientation. As we have said, there are many reasons why a bottle orienter can be needed, but the most commons are: - Organic or ergonomic asymmetries in the bottle. - The label has to be stuck in a specific non-centred position. - Bottles with handles or indents. - Bottles with off-centre necks and/or threaded caps that need a specific orientation to pass through the filler.

When we think about the initial head of a packaging line, almost all of us think of empty containers, without cover or label. It may seem even illogical for a packaging line to start with bottles that are already filled with the final product. But this does happen, and although it is not the most common it is more frequent than it seems, since there are not a few companies that have the filling and labelling or cartoning processes separated. This separation is classically known as primary packaging (filling) and secondary packaging (cartoning and equivalents). In both typologyes the first step is sorting the bottles, but this does not mean that the processes are the same. The equipment for unscrambling containers is not always prepared to work with filled bottles. Even if is the same format, the fact that the bottle is filled changes everything. In the case of Packfeeder, our equipments adapt to both options.

At Packfeeder we have always dedicated ourselves to unscrambling bottles and our long history supports the effectiveness and reliability of our equipment, but the way we do it has changed over time. To adapt to the continuous and frequent changes in the demands of our clients, we have been introducing and designing new technologies. At first, obsessed with offering ultra-simple solutions, all of our bottle unscramblers were mechanical, but since 2015 we also have a line of robotic unscramblers. For different needs, different technologies. The origin of our range of robotic bottle unscramblers responds to the growing need of certain industrial sectors for greater flexibility, versatility and functionality, in addition to how the industry has changed year after year. Faced with these new needs and at the request of our customers and partners, in 2015 Packfeeder reacted by developing the revolutionary range of pickFeeder robotic bottle unscramblers.

Our commitment to efficiency has taken us to design a new unscrambling system with robotic technology. Versatility has always been a challenge for us and now we believe that we have answered it. The new Pickfeeder bottle unscrambler is the most versatile and fastest on the market. Thanks to the combination of delta robots with an intelligent track system, it is the robotic bottle unscrambler with the most versatile change that exists at present. Can be configured up to four robots, providing a huge range of applications and possibilities. Also, has been optimized the performance of the intelligent systems that form it. The new Pickfeeder provides all the required advantages to optimize to the maximum the production in the lines. Above all, to be honest, what likes us the most and what we are more proud of is that the stoppages and adjustments for changing the format have finished.