Total Wrap-Around
A single tray in either square and round shape and of ready meal, pet meal, meal prep. Wrapped by a flat sleeve or by sleeve with rim or edge-lock to secure the package
Wrap-Around Sleever
All servo-driven and unprecendent carton sleeving machine for either single package or multipack.
Wrap-Around Sleever
Innovative sleeve wrapper, excellent-performance and unprecedented carton sleeving machinery from ÉLITER
Sleeve is an eco-friendly form of packaging that outstrips traditional rectangular six-sided carton boxes in terms of saving printing and paper materials. Packaging sleeve improves as well the branding-performance of the products thanks to its conspicuous appearance and easy-to-bespoke design.
From the perspective of sustainability, cardboard sleeve packaging reduces packaging waste and the use of plastics especially when it comes to multipack packaging in the dairy, drinks and beverage industry. A typical example is the replacement of plastic packaging by cardboard sleeve.
Wrap-Around Sleever by ELITER Packaging Machinery can automate your sleeve packaging process for either single container or multipack, applicable for containers such as trays, tubs, pots, cups, bottles, etc.
ESTRENA Sleever is an advanced sleeve wrapper, carton sleeve packer and carton sleeve wrapping machine with Multi-Axis servo driven system, design incorporated with joint-innovation by ELITER Packaging Machinery and SIEMENS to boost your sleeve packaging automation for ready meals, dairy cups, or whatever the products are.
From the perspective of sustainability, cardboard sleeve packaging reduces packaging waste and the use of plastics especially when it comes to multipack packaging in the dairy, drinks and beverage industry. A typical example is the replacement of plastic packaging by cardboard sleeve.
Wrap-Around Sleever by ELITER Packaging Machinery can automate your sleeve packaging process for either single container or multipack, applicable for containers such as trays, tubs, pots, cups, bottles, etc.
ESTRENA Sleever is an advanced sleeve wrapper, carton sleeve packer and carton sleeve wrapping machine with Multi-Axis servo driven system, design incorporated with joint-innovation by ELITER Packaging Machinery and SIEMENS to boost your sleeve packaging automation for ready meals, dairy cups, or whatever the products are.
Benefits and Features
- SINAMICS V90 Servo Conveter
- S7-1500 SINAMIC CONTROLLER
- SIMOTICS S-1FL6 Servo Motors
- Maximum speed of up to 150 PPM
- Robust SUS construction wtih all FCMs in compliance
- Aesthetic design with ergonomic incorporated
Wrap-Around Sleever is an advanced carton sleeve wrapping and packaging machine for wrap-around packaging, which is quite normal for products such as ready meals, dairy cups, dessert pots, drinks and beverages.
We introduce to a detailed level the packaging sleeve, products that use carton sleeve and wrap-around sleever here in this article.
Food processing giants all over the world have been attaching effor to reducing plastics used with their packaging. Packaging sleeve thus raises in such circumstance as an eco-friendly alternative to plastics for multipack packaging.
ÉLITER Packaging Machinery appreciates your effort to sustainability and seeks to boost your contribution with our intelligent sleeve packaging automation solutions.
Wrap-around sleever enables a tight carton sleeve packaging that trays of ready meals no longer need to be shrink-wrapped by plastics. This is the unique advantage of wrap-around sleever that applies flat sleeve blanks over packaging machines such as pre-glued cartoner or sleever.
Check here to find how wrap-aruond sleever allows the cardboard sleeve packaging as tight as possible to improve the sustainability with packaging.
Apart from the wrap-around sleever, there are several alternatives including sleeve wrap-around cartoning machine and pre-glued sleeving machine for sleeve packaging atuomation
If you are wondering what are the pros and cons of each one, this article is elaborated for your specially to take decision which one to opt for.
Wrap-Around Sleever
Cardboard Sleeve Packaging Machine
Cardboard Sleeve Packaging Machine
Wrap-Around Sleeve Packaging
From single-package to cluster & multipack
Flat sleeve blanks are placed, by the rotary feeder on the container or containers such as pots, tubs, trays, cups, etc., after which a series of components and guides on the sleever squares and folds the panels of the sleeve around the container(s). The glue unit jets hot melt glue on the flap and then the sleeve is sealed on the bottom.
Single Container
Sleeve wrap-around packaging for single contianer is quite common on ready meals (ready-to-go foods), microwave meals, prepared foods such as salad, pizza, and so forth. Our wrap-around sleever is capable of the sleeving packaging from a single tray to a cup.
Features
- Connection to upstream machinery
- Infeed system for collated input
- Adhesive application or interlock pattern
Multipack
Multipack of yogurt, economic packs of ready meals, multipack tin cans such as canned tuna... whatever in a single layer or multiple layers. Our engineering team can design a special infeed system for stack forming and arrange the input in your wanted form of multipack.
Features
- Customized infeed system
- From single layer multipack to multiple layers
- Cans, dairy cups, trays...
- Containers (trays, cups, pots...) manually fed or come from upstream machines such as tray sealer and thermoformers, are arranged in a timely collated manner by the infeed system
- The infeed system coordinates with central PLC and servo driven sections in the wrap-around sleever for the introduction of containers.
- Cardboard sleeves are placed in the magazine
- The sleeve erectors catche sleeves and place them on each container introduced
- No sleeve fed when no container introduced
- Unique and patented erector design with maximum performance
- Containers with sleeves on them are carried to the folding section of the machine
- The glue unit sprays hot melt glue on the sleeve
- A series of guides and components fold the sleeve and wrap the sleeve around the container
- After the sleeve is wrapped and sealed around the container one discharge is complete
- Outputs can be arranged to downstream machinery for case packing and so forth
Sleeve and Package Formats
Carton Sleeving for either single container or multipack
Products
Carton sleeve packer for products from single tray to multipack
Single Container:
Ready Meal, Dessert Pots, etc
Single container with cardboard sleeve is the most simple form of sleeve packaging.Such kind sleeve packaging is common on ready meals such as prepare-foods, microoven foods and dessert pots.
The sleeve makes the packaging simple enough and at the meanwhile enhance a conspicuous visual appeal compared with traditional carton box. The customer is also able to tear the packaging without too much effort which makes it easy and convenient to enjoy the meal.
Ready Meal, Dessert Pots, etc
Single container with cardboard sleeve is the most simple form of sleeve packaging.Such kind sleeve packaging is common on ready meals such as prepare-foods, microoven foods and dessert pots.
The sleeve makes the packaging simple enough and at the meanwhile enhance a conspicuous visual appeal compared with traditional carton box. The customer is also able to tear the packaging without too much effort which makes it easy and convenient to enjoy the meal.
Multipack Sleeve Packaging
Multipack sleeve packaging is also called sleeve cluster. It is common, as its name refers, for packaging where multiple containers are involved, for example, single layer with multipack rows, single layer with multiple rows and columns, and double layers...
Rather than carton box, sleeves when used for multipack products can save printing and packaging raw materials, apart from the fine appearance sleeves have. Suck packaging is used on multipack yogurt, dairy cups, multipack dessert pots, tuna cans, etc.
Multipack sleeve packaging is also called sleeve cluster. It is common, as its name refers, for packaging where multiple containers are involved, for example, single layer with multipack rows, single layer with multiple rows and columns, and double layers...
Rather than carton box, sleeves when used for multipack products can save printing and packaging raw materials, apart from the fine appearance sleeves have. Suck packaging is used on multipack yogurt, dairy cups, multipack dessert pots, tuna cans, etc.
About Wrap-Around Sleever
Packaging Machine for Carton Sleeving
Wrap-Around Sleever is a packaging machine for cardboard or paperboard sleeve packaging. Sleever can be connected to upstream machines such as thermoformer, filling machine, cup sealer, ect. The wrap-around sleever is available for the packaging sleeve of ready meals in trays, dessert pots, snack pots, pet meal in tray of tubs, yogurt cups, and many things else, either in single package or in forms of multipack.
The carton sleeve packaging refers to such kind of packaging form where containers such as cups of yogurt, trays of ready meals, dessert pots and so forth are wrapped or slid over by a printed cardboard or paperboard carton sleeve.
The carton sleeve packaging is simple yet provides excellent advertising performance and at meanwhile offers more sustainable packaging soltuion now that it involves fewer printing and paper materials than a traditional carton box.
The application of wrap-around sleever allows a tight cardboard sleeve packaging that ready meals no longer needs to be shrink-wrapped by any plastic film. In this way, plastic waste is reduced with the packaging.
In the case of a wrap-around sleever, the previously said containers can be received from upstream machines such as thermoformers, tray sealer, filling and sealing machines, etc., get them timed through an infeed system, place flat blank sleeves on the containers, slide, wrap and seal the sleeve in the inferior part of the package with hot melt glue. Wrap-Around Sleever can either be used in context of an automatic packaging line or by manual loading.
The carton sleeve packaging is simple yet provides excellent advertising performance and at meanwhile offers more sustainable packaging soltuion now that it involves fewer printing and paper materials than a traditional carton box.
The application of wrap-around sleever allows a tight cardboard sleeve packaging that ready meals no longer needs to be shrink-wrapped by any plastic film. In this way, plastic waste is reduced with the packaging.
In the case of a wrap-around sleever, the previously said containers can be received from upstream machines such as thermoformers, tray sealer, filling and sealing machines, etc., get them timed through an infeed system, place flat blank sleeves on the containers, slide, wrap and seal the sleeve in the inferior part of the package with hot melt glue. Wrap-Around Sleever can either be used in context of an automatic packaging line or by manual loading.
There are various kinds of packaging machines that work for the packaging automation for carton sleeve, among them there are basically:
- Pre-Glued Sleever: that is usually applied to the sleeve packaging of single packaging which is to be loaded into a pre-glued sleeve blank.
- End-Load Sleeve Cartoner: a somehow mediocre option designed based on an automatic cartoning machine
- Wrap-Around Sleever: a specifically designed automatic packaging machine to place, and overwrap paperboard and cardboard sleeves around miscellaneous containers and objects.
You can refer to our previous blog post to find details about each of them: In this blog, we are going to cover only details about the Carton Sleeving Machine and Wrap-Around Sleever and their differences, pros and cons.
Wrap-Around Sleever by ÉLITER Packaging Machinery is available, in a standard manner, for single packaging application such as trays of ready meals, individual dessert pots, pet meals, and so forth.
The multipack application requires a bespoke grouping and infeed system according to the formats of multipack, and sizes and shapes of single package. Check with our team for review case by case.
There are various packaging automation solutions for wrap-around carton sleeve packaging. The advantages of wrap-around sleever over others are that sleeves used on sleever come in a flat manner, the package formed is more tight than, for example, that done by a wrap-around sleeve cartoning machine, and more over, sleevers can run at a higher speed.
ESTRENA™ Wrap-Around Sleever is a carton sleeving machine basically for trays of prepared and ready meals, dessert pots, snack pots, pet meals in trays, tubs or pots, etc.,
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