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EF 400
Forming, filling and sealing
The EF 400 is a high-output FFS machine able to process a huge variety of pasty to liquid products, including multi-layer, and enabling cup design and labelling versatility, leading to significant savings on packaging materials.
The EF 400 is a high-output FFS machine able to process a huge variety of pasty to liquid products, including multi-layer, and enabling cup design and labelling versatility, leading to significant savings on packaging materials.
Versatility in every sense
The EF 400 provides the most versatile answer to industry needs in terms of cup forming, filling, and sealing, with excellent levels of productivity and potential for tailor-designed cups and filling styles.
Product changeover is quick and easy, and labelling techniques include straight or conical IML as well as in-mould sticker labels.
Cups can be designed cost-effectively with many labelling solutions and freedom of cup geometry. Not only a marketing tool, the label also strengthens the cup’s sidewall stability, enabling a thinner bottom web resulting in lower material costs.
EF400 Highlights
1.
Handles multi-layer PS or PP, PET materials.
2.
Output with or without label: 2 rows of 6 cups of fresh cheese up to 23,000 cups/h.
3.
Output for yoghurt pots: 4 rows of 6 cups up to 46,000 cups/h.
4.
Clean, ultra-clean or aseptic execution, according to specific needs.
5.
FDA, 3A and EHEDG-compliant equipment delivered on demand.
Products to be filled
With the form, fill and seal machine EF 400 you can fill all kind of liquid-to-pasty products - with or without particulates - such as yogurt, fruit juice, white cheese, desserts, pureas, etc.
Filling Solutions
With its' long term experience in filling liquid to pasty products into different kind of cups - in thermoformed as well as in pre-formed cups - Erca offers a large variety of different filling possibilities. The fillers are known for their outstanding filling accuracy, a factor which inevitably leads to minimal product loss and enhanced productivity. Covering a wide range of filling styles, countless customized and tailor-made design possibilities are available to satisfy specific requests.
- Technical Data
| TECHNICAL DATA EF 400 | |||
| Cup material width | 410 mm |
Draw off length |
300 mm |
| Usable width | 390 mm |
Forming depth |
100 mm |
| MATERIALS | |||
| PS, PET, PP and multilayers such as PS/PE, PS/PETG, PS/EVOH/PE, PP/EVOH/PP | |||
| TYPICAL OUTPUTS | |||
| Yoghurt cups 63 x 63 mm, with w.a. label, 4×6 – 30 c/min | 43,200 cups/h | ||
| Standard Equipment | |||
| Components | Controller and Servomotors ELAU, Pneum. FESTO, HMI 15’’ | ||
| Standard configuration | Bottom web reel Ø 1200 mm Lid reel Ø 400 mm Label reel Ø 600 mm ERCA chains with grippers and magnetic drive, labelling with tilting mold, pneumatic heating section on 6 pitches, exit conveyor with Intralox chains |
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| Options | |||
| Hygiene class | Clean*, Ultra-Clean*, Aseptic* | ||
| Labelling | Labelling with vacuum, labelling for conical cups, 2 label heights, automatic splicing | ||
| Chains | ERCA spiked chains, standard spiked chains, TSUBAKI chains | ||
| Fillers | up to 3 fillers | ||
| * Depending on customer specification | |||
