COUNTDOWN BEGINS TO THE UK’S LEADING
PROCESSING & PACKAGING MACHINERY EVENT
The PPMA Show to celebrate its 30th
anniversary at the NEC Birmingham 25-27
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Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year,
the PPMA Show will return to the NEC
Birmingham from 25-27 September 2018
to showcase the latest innovations in smart
manufacturing, processing technology and
packaging machinery, aimed to increase
production line efficiencies and enhance
business performance and profitability. Commenting on the forthcoming show,
Dr. Andrew Mint, Chief Executive Officer,
PPMA Group of Associations said, “Our 30th
anniversary show comes at a time when UK
manufacturing is enjoying its longest period
of expansion since 1968 and these positive
signs will undoubtedly boost confidence
throughout our sector.
New to the show this year will be the
Enterprise Zone, which will offer visitors
a focal point for learning, networking,
discovery and live debate. Against this future optimism, the PPMA
Show 2018 looks set to be one of the biggest
and best to date, where visitors can benefit
from an unsurpassed skill set of experience,
expertise and industry knowledge and
witness the latest processing and packaging
technologies in real-time demonstrations.”
Presenting the biggest and most
comprehensive line-up of production
technologies and solutions for the food and
beverage, pharmaceutical, toiletries and
FMCG sectors, visitors to the show will see
350 exhibitors representing 1,500 brands, all
under one roof.
PACKAGING
About the PPMA Show
The PPMA Show is the
UK’s leading production
line event for processing
and packaging machinery.
Taking place at the NEC,
Birmingham from 25-27
September 2018, the
exhibition showcases
the latest innovations
in processing and
packaging machinery and
is attended by thousands
of manufacturers of food,
pharmaceuticals, toiletries
and FMCG, contract packers
and more.
www.ppmashow.co.uk
The PPMA Show and PPMA
Group Industry Awards are
organised by the Processing
and Packaging Machinery
Association (PPMA).
Leading players already confirmed include
Schneider Electric, Ishida Europe, Bosch,
UNATTENDED PRODUCTION
FOR RUTLAND
Rutland Plastics, is a private
company based in Oakham
Rutland with a 66000 ft sq
factory and a turnover in
excess of £10 million, operating
moulding machines ranging
from 150 tonne to 1700 tonne.
Looking to achieve unattended
production on a Krauss Maffei
KM150, Rutland Plastics selected
UPM Conveyors to provide a
turnkey solution requiring 8 belt
conveyors to allow automatic
product divert for QC inspection;
ferrous/non-ferrous metal
detection; product cooling;
parts separation and box filling
with a capacity of 8 full; 8 empty
and 1 filling.
Product divert is achieved with a
small reversing conveyor located
onto a swan neck conveyor in
the well of the machine and
at any stage in production
an operator can energise to
reverse and transfer a shot to an
integral sample drawer for QC
inspection.
PACKAGING
Metal detection is based on
UPM inserting a search coil
under the inclined section of
the Swan Neck in the well of
the machine and on detecting
a foreign body will energise an
audible / visual alarm and stop
the belt conveyor so an operator
can check and remove the
contamination.
This does not affect the
moulding machine cycle
as product continues to be
produced and accumulated on
the conveyor until the operator
has reset to start again.
The central control is a PLC
controlling all aspects of the
system interfacing with the
variable speed drives on each
conveyor and connecting to the
weigh scale.
Rutland expressed their total
satisfaction with the UPM
project team who installed and
commissioned the system which
is operating 24/7 trouble free.
www.upmconveyors.co.uk
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