Thermoforming machinery group Illig will launch its FSL 48 form-fill-seal line at this year’s Interpack show in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Specifically aimed at the food and dairy industry, the line incorporates an in-mould labelling station for decoration during the thermoforming process. Most conventional cup geometries can be formed on the line, says Illig. The FSL 48 can also be equipped to meet a variety of different hygiene requirements by the food industry through to hygiene class IV according to VDMA (hygienic filling machines). The thermoformer’s format area, 480mm x 320mm, is designed in such a way that, for example, 12 standard dairy packs can be manufactured at once, with a working speed of up to 30 cycles per minute.
The FSL 48 can run conventional materials including PS, PP, multilayer materials (e.g. PS/EVOH/PE), APET as well as foils made of PLA (polylactic acid). The IML unit integrated in the forming station works with printed blanks from the magazine. Numerous decoration options, such as one-, two- three-, four-, and five-sided (including bottom decoration, with integrated barcode) labelling are possible on the machine.
As contours do not affect the IML process on the machine, Illig says that a variety of different cup shapes can be labelled.
A multi-lane filler means that several flavours can be filled in one run using the same or different labels. Manual re-sorting of flavours is not required.