Sacmi is taking its new KUBE labellers to Enomaq, Spain’s largest trade fair for the wine-making and bottling industries because it has significant advantages to show.
Its top of the range KUBE K30 720 9T is specifically designed to label still and sparkling wine products with maximum flexibility, precision and low cost. It does so at up to 9000 bottles per hour and stands out with its fully stainless steel construction, fully modular structure and its labelling units mounted outside the carousel to make machine use and maintenance easier.
Of KUBE’s three headliner labelling stations, two are self-adhesive and the third a cold glue one.
KUBE ADH 40 features a 400 mm reel holder and easy reel insertion due to its vertical-load traction rollers. It also comes complete with paper break and reel end sensors plus electronic dual-drive paper traction. It is adjustable according to the product type being processed (via 4 adjustment axes: vertical, depth, application angle and parallelism) and has manual settings with position indicators (programmable robotised axis adjustment for each bottle type is optional).
The KUBE CG 3/3 cold glue labelling station is equipped instead with a fixed-magazine label loading system, micrometer-gauged glue distribution, and movement via a brushless motor. It features 2-axis adjustment (vertical, depth) according to format and also offers manual adjustment with position indicators and optional robotic axes adjustment.
A key feature of this solution is excellent flexibility. The carousel, with a diameter of 720 mm, can house a maximum of 5 stations - i.e. up to 5 separate applications for each single passage of the bottle through the machine. And customers can decide whether to have the machine provided with the labelling stations fixed (coupled to the carousel) or installed on modular carriages equipped with wheels and electromagnetic connectors to allow station interchange. It has an electronic-cam plate movement system on which motion can be programmed according to the type of application and a universal screw feeder, controlled by a brushless motor, for flexible, efficient handling of all bottle types (minimum diameter 60 mm, maximum 120 mm) without having to change the screw. Correct orientation of sparkling wine caps, on-glass relief branding or glass seams is ensured by Sacmi’s bottle positioning system, which operates using just one camera without having to multiply the number of sensors or replace them.
The labeller is managed by an electronic control system with an electrical panel on the machine and a touch-screen control unit. It has a user-friendly software and a remote control system that lets users monitor all the process parameters and identify any potential problems via a wide range of mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.
