Please stop by and say hello at stand D20 in hall 3 at the K-show, to see our live demonstrations, meet with our experts, and discuss your applications and needs.

We will be running two complete bag making lines, producing coreless rolls of trash bags. We look forward to meeting with you, and showing you our equipment in operation:

• Euroline BWU1100 with folding device and tape Banderol™ unit TU220
• Trash bag line QB1100X2 with folding device TW475 and tape Banderol™ unit TU220T

Both lines will produce trash bags from 25µm recycled plastics.

Our Service team will also be present, showing several retrofit kits suitable for updating your machines.

QB1100X2 bag machine
You will be able to see the new and improved state-of-the-art sealing and perforating machine – the QBX2.

This machine features our unique, tensionless sealing system, in which we apply sealing heat and pressure from both sides of the web.

Improvements to the web handling and cooling systems, as well as the seal bar alignment mechanisms, enable the QB to run reliably at higher line speeds than previous models.

Talk with us about the QBX2 at the K-show. We have been supplying world-class bag machines for 40+ years and have a wealth of experience to share.

TW475 coreless winder
We have been world-leaders in coreless winding, for a wide variety of applications, since FAS was first founded.

In our industry, line speeds are rising and, in some cases, bag counts (per roll) are dropping. This is a very challenging situation for you, our extrusion/conversion customers. But, why accept a slower line speed? Debottleneck your process with the TW475 coreless winder.

The TW475 is a very interesting evolution of our technology, which enables our customers to produce many coreless rolls per minute. Our proprietary turret design in this winder uses four winding spindles for optimal web tension control, translating into reliable film converting; the highest quality rolls at the lowest scrap rates.

Seeing this machine in operation will demonstrate how it can fit into your operations and add to your productivity. We will be happy to discuss this with you.

TU220 Tape Unit
We will also be demonstrating our TU220 Tape Banderol™ unit at the K-show. This is our most reliable, user-friendly roll wrapping system yet.

The unit wraps each finished roll with a pre-printed paper label. This enables you to present a uniform roll to your downstream packing process, no matter how automated it may be.

Additionally, your customers can present the labelled, wrapped roll as a final presentation, with no additional packaging. This reduces costs and helps our environment.

New controls systems
Perhaps the most innovative and impactful technology on display at our stand will be our new controls platform.

We have upgraded our controls for all equipment, offering new state-of-the-art features and advantages to you.

The benefits include:

•  Internet connectivity for real-time troubleshooting, updating, and repairs
  •    Full-colour touch screen, with multi-language capability, for ultimate accuracy and ease of use
  •    Offline remote machine monitoring – see what the equipment is doing in real-time on your smart phone!
  •    Recipe storage for fast and accurate job changes
  •    Built-in troubleshooting tips
•  Statistical reporting feature, showing the productivity (uptime vs downtime, etc.) for each piece of equipment
•  Fault log to identify when and where problems occurred

We look forward to demonstrating the features of the new controls to you while the machines are in operation at the K-show.

Please stop by at our stand to talk with us about how we can help you become a more productive and profitable film converter.

Do you have any questions about our newsletter, please feel free to please contact Joakim Sjödin, Sales Manager, by phone on +46 72 090 89 30 or email here.

Will you be visiting the K show in Düsseldorf this October?
If you do please be sure to schedule a visit to the FAS Converting Machinery booth in Hall 3 booth D20.

At this show, we will be spotlighting two bag-making lines targeted at a wide range of production needs and budgets.

Euroline 2.0
Many of you have seen our very popular Euroline demonstrated at shows and exhibitions in various markets. At the k-19 fair, we are proud to introduce our new and improved Euroline 2.0.

This line will be making trash bags on coreless rolls out of 100% recycled film. At a rate of 100m/min or 9 rolls per minute.

• New features of the Euroline 2.0 include:
• New Omron control platform with internet connectivity
• Newly designed unwind stand with pneumatic roll loading and end of roll signaling
• New and improved Banderoll™ tape unit for roll closures
• Print registration is now available
• Core capability is now available

Premium line
We will also be running one of our Premium Lines which includes our

• Jumbo unwind
• QB1100 bag machine
• Tw475 turret winder

Totally new design Banderoll™ system for roll taping at up to 25 roll per minute

This line will also be processing 100% recycled film. Stop in and find out about this film and what is in it and how FAS is uniquely positioned to help you convert these films effectively and profitably.

While you will see both of these lines running off-line, they can be run in line with your blown film extrusion systems as well.

Therefore, whether your budget guides you towards an industry leading state of the art solution, or our reliable “Tried and true” Euroline, we have the equipment for you and the experience and resources necessary to get these assets contributing to your company’s profitability quickly.

Visit with us at the show:

• Discuss your film converting challenges with our technical experts
• Talk to our sales and marketing team about the markets

If you cannot make it to the K show be sure to contact your FAS sales professional and arrange a plant visit, or bring your film to our Innovation Center in Sweden and see for your selves the clear advantages of our sealing, perforating, folding and winding technologies.

We all are too well aware of the negative publicity that our industry has been receiving lately.

Many are quick to say, “Someone should do something” “THEY should defend our industry” etc.

Here at FAS we do not want to simply defend old habits and past practices but we want join forces with you our customers, our fellow suppliers, our vendors and industry experts to become part of the solution. Lets work together to leave the planet better off than we found it.

• Talk to us about how you can efficiently and profitably convert recycled films into trash bags and other useful products. We have proprietary sealing technology that makes us uniquely positioned to help you with this technical challenge.
• Learn how trash bags themselves are a key part of cleaning up our environment.
• Let us show you how to reduce the amount of packaging you need for your finished products by up to 85%.
• We would like to tell you about our efforts, through alliances in our industry and beyond, to help clean up plastics waste in the oceans and elsewhere.
• We also want to hear your ideas

Start a conversation today, we are listening, and looking for new ways to help you provide a greener product, and contribute to a cleaner environment for all.

Do you have any questions about our newsletter, please feel free to contact Joakim Sjödin, Sales Manager, by phone on +46 72 090 89 30 or email here.

From time to time FAS and Peco invite industry experts to write about topics that we think would be of interest to you our readers. This month Eli Schloss, experienced system integrator for automated packaging solutions for many Film Converting applications, shares some thoughts about packaging automation.

The increased competition for Shelf Space, with the drive to create a unique product for each customer, has generated a condition that requires frequent equipment change-overs for manufacturers. While changing from product to product at the extruder/winder level is unavoidable, calibrating any automatic packaging system down the line is cumbersome and can typically take up to 30 minutes.

Historically the solution has been to add labor which performed the packaging operation at the end of each production line. Some recent changes to the job market are a contributing factor to introduce the benefits of automation:
• Retaining qualified employees
• Rise in minimum wage
• Repetitive hand motion (carpel tunnel)
• Increase in small batch requests, inserting more downtime to the process.

By introducing the fully “servo” adjustable packaging line, the integrated line is designed to accept the product roll from the winder and process it through the packaging, labeling, palletizing, and stretch wrapping stations.

By utilizing a combination of robotics and servo driven equipment, this line can be adjusted to another product in minutes, dramatically decreasing change-over downtime.

Automation provides manufactures the ability to offer customized solutions to clients while reducing cost and lost production time.

Updating to an automated package line offers multiple payback scenarios which include:
• A single operator can supervise up to 7 lines (dependent on the physical distance between lines)
• Increase in consistency of the final product
• Increased efficiency
• Ability to run the process at top speed
• Ability to track in line/employee performance

Eli Schloss, Corepac LLC
Tel: 732-668-7223. Email directly here

Eli Schloss is actively involved in the automating converting industry for the past ten years. With a background in system design, manufacturing, and installation; Corepac can assess and implement cost-saving automation for a wide verity of packaging needs.

If you have questions for the author, you can contact Eli directly.

If you have comments for FAS about our guest authors program, including suggestions for future topics you’d like covered, please contact us at Peter.hakansson@fasconverting.com

When North American consumers purchase trash bags they nearly always come in a box. The box sometimes acts as a dispenser for the bags while they last, but in all cases is an advertisement vehicle for the producers, and retailers of the bags.

In Europe however, in an effort to reduce packaging’s impact on the solid waste stream consumers have grown accustomed to, and in fact prefer purchasing their bags not in a box, but simply wrapped with a printed label. At FAS we call this label Banderoll™

85% less paper is used to label a roll as compared to putting that roll in a box.

Here is a photograph comparing a trash bag section in a major grocer in the USA on the right and in central Europe on the left. All Peco FAS winders, new and old can be outfitted with the ability to apply such a label for a roll that will look like the image in the middle.

You can assist your customers to develop a cost effective environmentally friendly alternative for packaging their trash bag rolls.

The push to reduce packaging is one we are all familiar with, and we at Peco FAS believe this will be in our future. Again tons of paper is saved, and not introduced into our solid waste stream.

Image on the left: Paper tape and a box. Image on the right: Our environmentally friendly alternative Banderoll™.

Example, a roll with paper tape Banderoll™ vs box:

Weight of Banderoll™: 3 gram
Weight of box: 21 gram
Difference: 85% less paper used!

Apart from the obvious paper savings, the other advantages to this method of roll presentation are:

Lower capital costs in your factory (much less equipment required to wrap a roll as compared to fabricating, erecting a box, inserting a roll into the box and gluing the box closed.

Less material handling pallets of folded card board boxes are replaced with rolls of paper

Easier product handling at the retail outlet.

More product will fit on the retail shelf. Rolls of bags that are banded, not boxed, take up less shelf space so more can be stocked at any given time, saving the retailer time and cost by less frequent restocking’s required.

Find out from your Peco FAS sales professional how you can outfit your coreless winders to present your rolls of bags finished with our Banderoll™ system, saving money for all, while protecting our environment.

Since joining FAS, one of the most important aspects of my role has been getting to know our customers and understanding their needs.
I have met many of you at exhibitions, in your plants, and during your visits to our Innovation Center here in Sweden. I look forward to meeting more of you in the month leading up to the K-2019 fair in Düsseldorf.

As a company, our challenge is straightforward:
We want to be a more valued supplier, your first choice for Film Converting solutions.

We have heard your ideas, comments and suggestions as to how we might achieve that.
Recently we hired a market research firm here in Sweden to contact a number of you and conduct an independent interview seeking your thoughts and comments about FAS Peco as a partner and supplier to your business.

The results are interesting.

You have told us many positive things about our company and equipment such as:

• Our equipment is robust and reliable
• Our equipment is easy to operate
• Our equipment is easy to maintain
• Spare parts support has been helpful and effective
• You find FAS a professional and pleasant company with which to do business
• You have found our sales and technical staff to be knowledgeable and helpful

More importantly, you also pointed out some areas where you would like to see us improve:

• Availability of technical service personnel.
• Some of you would like to see higher line speeds for certain applications.
• You have asked for internet connectivity for all FAS Peco equipment.
• In some cases, you asked for more flexibility in applying existing FAS technology (modules) to your Film Converting challenges
• Many of you would like to see more downstream automation (packaging, roll handling)
• You would like to see more news, both technical and marketing from us

1. FAS is in the process of recruiting additional technical service resources both in Europe and North America.
2. Our engineering department is looking at ways to increase line speeds on existing equipment.
3. All new equipment shipped from FAS is internet connectable. We are investigating the possibility of retrofitting this capability into existing equipment in the field.
4. We are working with consultants to develop downstream automation solutions for our equipment.
5. We are looking for ways to introduce new innovative solutions that will improve the performance of our existing portfolio. Visit our booth at K19 to learn more.
6. We will expand our communication to you; to include the introduction of technical bulletins to relevant staff in your plants, and a more modern and user friendly webpage.

Follow us on social media, and in our newsletter “FAS News”. Reach out to your sales representative and to our Service team, they are there for you! Schedule a visit to our Innovation Center with your raw materials and test out our equipment.

Finally,
FAS is committed to an increasing role as a positive contributor to the reduction of the negative impact that plastic waste has on our environment when not managed in a correct way.

We will continue to work with and support our customers and suppliers to reduce the environmental impact of products made on FAS Peco equipment. Read upcoming issues of FAS News for more on this topic.

Feel free to contact me directly at Stefan.berg@fasconverting.com with your comments and suggestions.

I look forward to hearing from you and meeting you personally in the future.

/Stefan Berg, CEO of FAS Peco

Do you have any questions about our newsletter, please feel free to please contact Joakim Sjödin, Sales Manager, by phone on +46 72 090 89 30 or email here.