Freshness Indicator Tag Production System

challenge

A customer required a system to make freshness indicator tags. The challenge was to design and build a solution that was able to continuously and ultrasonically weld together polypropylene webs, while simultaneously forming, filling, and sealing a pair of liquid pouches. The seal in the web pouches was required to be both hermetical and frangible.

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solution

This system constructs freshness indicator tags. The tags are produced in a continuous web, while being simultaneously filled with two special fluids. The solution came in the form of a machine that integrated common web-handling elements with ultrasonic welding technology. The tags were spaced three across on the web. Some welding technology had to be developed solely for this project, including developing a revolutionary new way of ultrasonically creating a continuous frangible weld. In addition to the web-handling and ultrasonic welding, sophisticated fluid distribution was integrated into the machine.

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outcomes and benefits

The machine made 30 tags per second or 1,800 per minute. The integration effort successfully brought together web-handling, fluid distribution, frangible welding, and dry hermetic welding technologies.

Assembly System is "Certified Fresh"

Industry

Food & Beverage

Technical Capabilities

Assembly Solutions Dispense Applications Plastics Processing Welding Applications

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