Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC

Advancements in robotics are making it easier to replicate the dexterity and vision once only available through human labor. Harpak-ULMA Packaging offers vision-assisted robots that can pick and place products precisely using improved grippers for delicate products. Applications for these robotics handling systems include infeed handling, raw food handling, primary packaging, secondary packaging, general material handling, and full-line and integrated solutions.

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Flow wrapping machines from Harpak-ULMA Packaging are designed to be versatile and cost-effective packaging equipment. Varieties include horizontal form fill and seal (HFFS), vertical form fill and seal (VFFS), horizontal bagging, pillow-pouch wrapping, stretch, seal and flow-pack. HFFS is suitable for primary packaging of individual products (whether flat or irregularly shaped) in the food products, medical, industrial and other consumer goods sectors. Well suited to high-volume production, and a producer of minimal waste, flow-wrapping enables packaging of large orders in very short time frames. Easy to change over from one packaging size to another with no tooling changes. Harpak-ULMA Packaging offers a full line of flow wrapping machines built to meet the customer’s packaging needs.

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Flow wrapping, also referred to as horizontal form/fill/seal (HFFS), is a versatile and cost-effective packaging technique for high-volume packaging operations. The process wraps a product in a clear or printed polyolefin, polypropylene or laminate film, forming a 3-sided seal package to produce a light and flexible package. Harpak-ULMA Packaging offers three broad types of flow wrapping: form-fill-seal, shrink wrap packaging, and stretch film packaging.

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Harpak-ULMA Packaging LLC offers equipment with thermoforming capabilities including skin pack, vacuum pack, modified atmosphere, A variety of sizes and designs to meet space requirements, sanitation, and hygienic standards. Equipment can be equipped with Allen Bradley parts and Rockwell Automation controls. Machines can produce multi-cavity packs, easy-open and reclosable systems, and use multiple films in one pack.

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Harpak-ULMA Packaging’s tray sealing packaging machines are used in the fresh foods and frozen meals markets. Tray sealing machines seal a rigid tray and heat seals a plastic film to trays flange. The seal is airtight, so that customers can take advantage of MAP technology to prolong the product’s shelf life by slowing down harmful bacteria that causes spoilage. Seal also functions as a simple dust cover for frozen products where no MAP requirements exist.

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Packaging infeeds and outfeeds are designed to manage sorting, orientating, allocating, positioning and inserting products in a quick and safe manner without damaging the product. Harpak-ULMA Packaging LLC designs automatic feeding systems that can be integrated into lines for applications such as accumulation and controlling infeed and outfeed of wrapped products. Line can be complemented with the ULMA D12H robot for loading and side cartoner system.

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Harpak-ULMA Packaging LLC offers a wide range of intermittent or continuous motion horizontal cartoning machines suitable to pack products into boxes with automatic side loading and closure of the lateral flaps by means of hot melt or tuck-in flap. Food products such as frozen pizzas, cakes, cereals, rice, and coffee packs can be loaded into the machine infeed manually by the operator or automatically by means of a mechanical or electronic synchronization unit. The synchronization unit picks the product from the production line and feeds the machine in feed tasks. Cartoning systems are designed for easy maintenance, centralized greasing and easy and quick changeover and comply with current CE standards. Special versions equipped with a low carton magazine are available.

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Harpak-ULMA Packaging LLC is a supplier of case formers, sealers and label applicators, offering a faster, more accurate and reliable approach to manual efforts, which often result in sloppy or poorly placed tape or labels. Manual labor at this stage often requires substantial space for workstations and materials storage, whereas automated equipment at the end of a packaging line can actually reduce required warehouse space.

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Harpak-ULMA Packaging LLC offers fully integrated lines, from product to pallet. Palletizing systems feature buffer systems that optimize the palletizing equipment, working with robots or mechanical palletizers. The criteria for selecting an optimum palletizing system depends on the needs of the project for each customer. Harpak-ULMA is capable of designing palletizing systems with robots or mechanical palletizing.

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Harpak-ULMA Packaging offers palletizing (robotic, mechanical, collaborative robot), automatic empty pallet destacking and feeding, slip sheet loading, stretch wrapping, and pallet conveying. Palletizing packaging is used to improve the transportation of products in bulk from producers to retail or storage/distribution centers. It provides protection during shipping and storage, allowing more inventory to be moved with easier handling. Shipping and storage environments can be harsh, so tertiary packaging is aimed at optimizing footprint and in-transit protection.

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Harpak-ULMA Packaging’s experts can assist customers in designing a package that is visually pleasing, displaying attractive, customer-focused branding that stands out in a crowd of competition with the aim of shortening time to production and market. Harpak-ULMA walks customers through options for size, shelf life requirements, seal and reseal capability, sustainable material considerations, recyclability and waste minimization and presents options ranging from tray sealing, thermoforming, flow wrapping to shrink and flow vac. Packaging design and development services also consider complete product to pallet automation options.

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