PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2019

LABELLING PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 01+02/19 www.petpla.net 32 Rotary labeller for flexible self-adhesive labelling Western style BBQ bottles Founded in the Netherlands in 1925, Remia is a leading manufacturer in the international food industry of margarine, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, salad dressings and sauces, and produces both for retail and in large containers for the catering industry. To ensure its American BBQ sauces range also stand out on the supermarket shelf, each 450ml PET bottle is equipped with self-adhesive labels in eye-catching designs. The labels, carrying names like Black Jack, Big Chief or Wild Bill should sit very precisely on the bot- tles to underline the high quality of the products. This is what Remia requested and why Hilko van der Linde, project manager at the com- pany, chose the Bavarian manufac- turer Gernep for labelling. The rotary labelling machine Soluta, distributed by the Dutch trad- ing partner De Koningh Coding & Labeling for Gernep, is claimed to be the ideal labelling solution for the requirements that Remia insists on for its products. Since its first installation in 2015, two more label- lers have been added to the factory in Den Dolder, and a fourth machine was recently commissioned by Gernep, another Soluta with three self-adhe- sive labelling dispensers for six differ- ent plastic bottle formats. The Soluta 12-784 3SK SD was followed by a Soluta 10-640 2SK SD and a Soluta 12-784 2SK SD, all three equipped with bottle-top servo- motors and a non-stop function for changing label rolls without downtime in current production. The three rotary machines label glass and plastic bot- tles in the range of 125ml to 1,000ml, including the BBQ sauces, with body, back and neck ring label. The performance of each machine is up to 15,000 bottles per hour. Hilko van der Linde quickly saw the advantages of self-adhesive labels: “The label should emphasise the ‘hard Western look’ of the bottles. With the Gernep Soluta, which uses the latest servo technology, we can accurately and flexibly position the labels on the bottles. Also neck ring labels are labelled very rapidly and above all, with absolute precision,” and he adds “Of course, the special advantages of the self-adhesive tech- nology compared to the conventional wet glue technology, which we have used for years, are no glue residues on the bottle, no cleaning times on the machine and format parts, small format part circumference and thus very short changeover times with format change. The non-stop func- tion on the self-adhesive dispensers also have great advantages here as regards downtime. Previously, the machine was changing labels, now we save a lot of time by the tandem func- tion on the label dispensers.” When “label roll empty” is signalled at one dispenser, it stops and the second dis- penser starts fully automatically, with no downtime in production. www.gernep.de The Gernep Soluta Last label test run before delivery in one of the three self- adhesive dispensers