Cutting and wrapping range extended

Theegarten-Pactec has extended the range of applications for its cutting and wrapping machines. Acting on a customer request, the company modified the cutting section of its continuous motion high performance machines. The result is a stand alone rope cutter known as RC1 or Rope Cutter 1. The machine is capable of cutting products off a mass rope at high speed and transferring the single products to downstream steps in the production process such as sugar coating machines or machines that pack them in jars.

Theegarten-Pactec’s core competence lies in wrapping small confectionery items, which would include cutting soft caramels from a mass rope before wrapping them individually in a wide variety of styles. A special case arose following a request made by a longstanding customer, a major global player in the confectionery industry. It wanted the individual products to be cut off the mass rope at high speed but not subsequently wrapped. In this case, the products were to go to another supplier to be packaged in bulk in plastic jars.

Theegarten-Pactec modified the cutting section of the FPW5 modular forming, cutting and wrapping machine to create the RC1 and now offers a new machine for high speed cutting from a mass rope.

The RC1 is typically used for cutting products off a mass rope for subsequent packaging in bulk, either in plastic jars or – with the use of form fill seal machines – in bags. Products can also be sugar coated. The machine’s equipment includes a rope monitoring sensor, a powdering unit, servo driven pairs of forming rollers at the infeed featuring mechanical height adjustment, and the rope cutter, which is also servo-driven.