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Compared with traditional mechanical packaging machines, servo-controlled machines offer 3 distinct advantages.

Today, machinery construction designers and manufacturers are facing special challenges that include rapid format changes, versatility, security, flexibility and availability. Much of this is driven by changing tastes of the consumer, and to the need to combine different packaging production processes on the same machine to maximize investments. These goals are easy to achieve with the right servo drives and motion control systems.

Today’s machines need a compact footprint. Servos can provide a much higher torque-to-volume ratio than other technologies. Servos are also available in a wide variety of sizes, making the processes around machines easier and faster. Servo drives and electronic here motion controllers like the enable very simple format changeovers. Electronically synchronized servo drives ensure an optimized dynamic response in every phase of production and provide very consistent results.

There are 3 distinct advantages to to servo-driven systems:

1. Ease of Programming

Motion control programming in 3 steps

1. Graphically configure the drive.
2. Select the motion functions using technology objects.
3. Programming with PLC open and proven machine libraries.

2. Proven application configurations

The technology makes it possible to download ready-to-apply function configurations, for tooling that includes cross-cutting, gearing, flying saw, jog path, load sharing, positioning, rotary knife, splice control, synchronicity and more.

3. Improved Safety

Implementing safety in a conventional machine can be cumbersome and costly. With integration of safety technology, the safety functions are directly integrated into a servo drive with no need for additional hardware. Functional safety can be expanded for use with different applications in full compliance with standards.

Because the architecture is based on high-speed industrial Ethernet networks  special or detailed diagnostics of all components can be implemented within a network. Drives can be commissioned and fully diagnosed without requiring any additional software.

ORICS has the right servo-driven system for your needs. Let’s talk about your project, click here.

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Turn To Form, Fill & Seal Technology For Single Dose Medication Packaging.

Growing demand for single dose pharmaceutical packaging, particularly for aseptically filled liquid medications, is creating an opportunity for form-fill-seal (FFS) technology suppliers like ORICS Industries.

Used for the aseptic packaging of ophthalmic products, respiratory (inhaled) medications, biologics and vaccines and other injectable drugs, FFS technology enables continuous, automated forming, filling and sealing of unit-dose liquid packs.

Package formats include ampoules, vials and bottles, and product sterility can be assured throughout the process. Benefits of FFS, versus glass packaging, include reduced waste and breakage and the elimination of product preservatives, which patients may be allergic to.

The FFS-30 is an inline, intermittent motion sealing system that forms real steroids trays, cups and pouches in real time from roll stock film.

By forming trays online, this system has the ability to save the user tens of thousands of dollars by eliminating the costs associated with purchasing and shipping pre-formed trays.

What’s more, with a simple tooling change, this flexible system is capable of creating multiple tray/pouch sizes and configurations.

Film may be flexible, semi-rigid, or rigid.

Final package may be ambient, vacuumed, gas flushed to create a gas/air filled package or vacuum gas flushed to create a true Modified Atmosphere (M.A.P.) package.

FS offers cost savings over conventional aseptic processing in glass. Traditional  filling and packaging requires many steps and individual machines for filling, stoppering and capping. In contrast, FFS requires one piece of automated machinery, and takes place in six seconds or less.

When used to manufacture products intended for subsequent sterilization, these machines may be installed within an environment that would normally be considered appropriate for the manufacture and filling of terminally sterilized products. If the machines are to be used for the aseptic filling of sterile products they are usually provided with a localized environment at the point of fill with Grade A air.

New Features At PackExpo 2019

The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies has added new features to this years PackExpo show, offering more on-floor experiences and education to maximize time spent at the show.

The improvements include:

Robotics Zone, showcasing some of the latest technologies in robotics where you can witness their capabilities and see them in action.

The Forum, offering free, 45-minute learning sessions on the latest industry trends, including hands-on activities, small group discussions and Q&A each day of the show.

Technology Excellence Awards. recognizing exhibitors’ innovative epicsteroids technology that has not yet been shown at a PACK EXPO and Healthcare Packaging EXPO in the previous calendar year.

CarrerLink Live, PMMI’s online dianabolos job board, is going live for the first time at PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO in 2019. CareerLink LIVE @ PACK EXPO is an opportunity for PMMI, CPA, IoPP members and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies to meet with students and veterans pursuing careers in packaging and processing during one-on-one informational interviews.

To keep track of all the new additions as well as old favorites, attendees can use My Show Planner to check the schedule of booth activities, add itinerary sessions and plan routes around the show floor. Get more info here.

Of course, ORICS Industries will again be exhibiting at PackExpo this year and to help you save time and organize your schedule we taking requests for pre-scheduled appointments using the simple form below. Please indicate date and time you would like to meet: September 23—25, 2019, between 9:00am and 6:00pm PST.

For many brands, horizontal form-fill-seal (FFS) equipment represents a significant investment. FFS machines can be the most expensive machine on the packaging line. To maximize return on the investment, companies re-purpose machines for packaging a range of products. This makes quick tooling changes an attractive feature.

Over the last few years, ORICS Industries has worked to ease changeover in our FFS-30 for changing package sizes. We understand that our customers have been looking for ways to make it more efficient.

The ease of changeover can depend upon how easy it is to get tools in and out. Tools are often heavy and require a lot of muscle to remove and replace. This can result in injury risks, such as strained backs, broken fingers, etc. The risk of damage to tools is also heightened.

Changeover varies in complexity. The change may simply be to the packaging material, maintaining the same packaging footprint. Or, an entirely new package size or style may be needed. The amount of tooling changes depends on the degree of packaging change.

Tooling that can be changed includes forming dies, sealing platens, and cutting knives. There are control issues that may need to be changed to accommodate different packages, such as changing temperature, pressure, and index length. And there are peripheral issues associated with things like lot coders and in-line printers to changeover.

Should You Change?

Many companies that employ FFS machinery do so because they want better productivity and lower costs. Higher volumes may justify a dedicated packaging line, thus obviating the need for routine changeover. A daily production on FFS could be more than 100,000 packages, depending on the product being manufactured. Thus, the goal is often not to change out tooling.”

There may be other reasons for foregoing changeover. Validation of FFS is directly tied into forming tooling, loading, printing, sealing, and cutting. This process, when properly done, can take up to a week or more per tooling set. Once this activity is successfully completed, manufacturers would not want to upset the apple cart by making changes. This is also reinforced by the fact that FFS runs are generally three shifts for many weeks, sometimes months.

A partial if not complete validation would be required every time tooling is changed out. Depending upon the actual situation, the cost of the re-validation could exceed the potential cost savings of ‘quick-change’ tooling.

Packaging With E-Commerce In Mind

Traditionally, product manufacturers have packaged goods that consumers would directly unstock from shelves in a brick and mortar retail environment. In many cases, the e-commerce sales of the same products would result in products being packed for the merchant, unpacked and stored or stocked, and then re-packed and shipped to the customer, resulting in higher costs half of the work is unpackaging a product to repack it for e-commerce.

With so much extra handling of packages, damage rates rise and returns work to raise costs and drive profits down. The industry must take a new look at the true cost of returns due to breakage and void in shipping,

The challenges presented by e-commerce delivery are forcing brands to consider multiple packaging versions, depending on the route the product will take to the consumer. Reducing the number of packing and unpacking steps between the source and the end-user is key to managing costs and maintaining margins.

ORICS Industries would like to help your company navigate the complicated landscape of strategizing your ‘packaging for point of sale’ process. Our experts engineers can help bring fresh perspectives to the automation of packaging for multiple shipment and delivery requirements. Call us Today at (718) 461 8613 and let’s talk about your challenges.

Yogurt cup Filling and sealing packaging machine.

Yogurt is one of the in demand product types in the fermented foods industry, so it is worth examining some of the issues associated with producing this product. ORICS Industries has many years experience and expertise in helping yogurt companies deal with industry specific issues.

Top 3 Issues For Yogurt Packaging

A grainy texture during fermentation

Fermentation time decreases when higher temperatures are set which means manufacturers can break, cool and package it faster. To some degree, it can be detrimental to the consistency or texture of the finished yogurt. Yogurt set at higher incubation temperatures can incubate to a grainy texture.

Faster acid production from the culture as it metabolizes lactose and ferments it into lactic acid can shock the inherent dairy proteins in the yogurt. Incubating yogurt at a high temperature may reach the break pH in a shorter amount of time. But the faster acid production from the lactic acid bacteria can shock the dairy proteins and make the finished texture grainy in the incubation vat or in the cup, if it is set in the cup.

Setting the yogurt at a lower set temperature will produce acid at a slower rate, with less probability of shocking the dairy proteins.

 Yogurt is too tart

Yogurt that is too tart is counter to any marketing objectives. How does this yogurt become too tart? Manufactures sometimes disregard anticipating at what pH the yogurt should be broken and cooled. Manufacturers often need to break the yogurt at a higher pH in order for it not to go below the desired pH by the time the yogurt is packaged in the retail cup, cased, stacked and cooled in the cooler.

The solution to this problem is to simply raise the break pH to allow less of a pH drift downward by the time the yogurt has cooled, been mixed with any added fruit and sugar, and it is finally cooled down in the finished retail package.

A grainy appearance

A grainy appearance is often cause by starch selection. Many starches can have a grainy texture if they are not fully cooked out and swollen. Starch exists as tiny “granules” that swell and enlarge in size, which develop viscosity as they tie up or bind the available moisture in the dairy product. Milk contains 87% water, and plain sweetened yogurt in fact would have about 76% available water, depending upon the fat level and the total solids level.

Under cooking the starch can result in a grainy texture in the finished yogurt. The yogurt will have a coarse look to it. It may appear dull and not have a shiny look to it as well.

Choose another starch or increase the cook-out temperature of the starch by pasteurizing the yogurt at a higher temperature. If the starch is part of a stabilization system, it may be necessary to work with your supplier to change the starch portion in the yogurt stabilizer if you feel a smoother starch is necessary.

Cultured dairy products are complex and require strict attention to detail in order to have the best-quality product your dairy can produce and put in front of the consumer.

ORICS has designed many machines and systems to help yogurt manufacturers deliver consistent, quality results in the product quality, taste, texture and shelf-life.

ORICS automated yogurt cup filling sealing machine, full packaging solution for yogurt cup.

All ORICS Machines are engineered and fabricated in our Facility at 240 Smith Street Farmingdale, NY.

Tel: 718-461-8613

diced sliced tomatoes packaging machine, This turnkey ORICS S-30 system is designed to minimize the number of human operators required for the packaging of diced tomatoes in 4 lb trays. Everything from the dicing of tomatoes to the placement in trays is fully automated, reducing the number of Operators from nearly a dozen to just 2 or 3. Featuring a Denester, Elevator Conveyor, Scale, Scale Interface, Heatseal and Outfeed, this system parallels the processing conveyors that utilize a screw infeed, an elevator conveyor, a dicer and washing/draining/transport system. This system represents a complete packaging system from start to finish and is just one example of how ORICS can increase your bottom line and streamline your applications.

Like all ORICS products, the S-30 is manufactured in the United States at our Farmingdale, NY facility. For more information call 718-461-8613
Orics cups and trays filling and sealing machines.

Orics vegetable tray filling and sealing machine

  Watch Orics SLTS Tray Sealer Fresh Produce.

Watch Orics S-30 tray Sealer Fresh Produce.

Orics will Get you the most out of your fresh produce with  packaging solutions and proven controlled atmosphere packaging technology.

Fresh Produce Packaging by Orics Industries

Fresh produce is more susceptible to disease organisms because of increase in the respiration rate after harvesting. The respiration of fresh fruits and vegetables can be reduced by many preservation techniques. Modified atmospheres (MA), i.e., elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide and reduced levels of oxygen and ethylene, can be useful supplements to provide optimum temperature and relative humidity in maintaining the quality of fresh fruits and vegetables after harvest.

Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) technology is largely used for minimally processed fruits and vegetables including fresh, “ready-to-use” vegetables.                                                        Extensive research has been done in this research area for many decades. Oxygen, CO₂, and N₂, are most often used in MAP. The recommended percentage of O₂ in a modified atmosphere for fruits and vegetables for both safety and quality falls between 1 and 5%. Although other gases such as nitrous and nitric oxides, sulphur dioxide, ethylene, chlorine, as well as ozone and propylene oxide have also been investigated, they have not been applied commercially due to safety, regulatory, and cost considerations. Successful control of both product respiration and ethylene production and perception by MAP can result in a fruit or vegetable product of high organoleptic quality; however, control of these processes is dependent on temperature control.

orics vegetables tray sealing

orics fresh produce packaging

Orics full production line for Lasagna or Orics Lasagna tray packaging line, Product assembly to final packaging on the Orics ILTS-1200. Orics fully integrates with scales and other third party suppliers to create complete lines, lasagna tray sealing and packaging.

The series ILTS 1200 line can pack prepared dishes consisting of lasagna and cannelloni with a single production line. Designed and built with the maximum care to the cleaning and hygiene of every part,  with the following approximate hourly production, referring to the lasagna product:  1200, 1800, 2400 trays/hour with the “linear” type line installation. The number and arrangement of the dispensers depends on the recipe to specify the number of layers of pasta and sequence for dosing the liquid ingredients.

The Orics ILTS Modified Atmosphere Packaging (M.A.P.) Equipment is available in many configurations to meet a variety of production requirements. Orics Machinery is made in the USA. Visit our website at www.orics.com.
Orics cups and trays filling and sealing machines. Orics lasagna packaging line machines.
240 Smith Street, Farmingdale, NY 11735
718-461-8613

Orics SLTS-850

Watch Orics ILTS Complete Lasagna Tray packaging Machine.

1000 CMTS-LP

Lassi Filling Machine

Production of lassi has been confined, to a large extent, to the households and local stores, mainly because of non-availability of a standardized technique for the manufacture of uniform quality lassi and its limited shelf life. In 1972 the technology was standardized and regular production of lassi started. but still not until 1991 that shelf life was able to be extended enough to market world wide.
In 1991, Ori Cohen C.E.O and president of Orics Industries came up with the technology that was able to extend shelf life in most packaged food.
Like Yogurt or salads like salsa or Hummus, lassi is usually packed in cups or tubs with film or foil seal and over cap or not.
Orics offers wide range of machines that can fill and seal cups and tubs, from table top manual machines that can fill and seal 3-8 cups per minutes, like the M-10 and the VGF-100.
a rotary automatic filling sealing machine that can fill and seal from 30 cups per minute on a one up machine {MR-35) or 70 cups per minute on the R-50 two up machine.
linear machines like the S-30 or S-50 or the PB-1000 can handle any where from 30 cups per minute to 1000 CPM.
to learn more about Orics fillers and sealers food packaging equipment please visit our equipment page or the video page.
lassi filling machine is one of our specialties.

Watch Orics R-50 Rotary Lassi Cup Filling and sealing Machine.

Orics Dairy & Deli