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Conveyor Addresses Private-Label, Startup Production Applications

Machinery maker equips its newer lite-F filling machines with conveyor for pharmaceutical and cosmetic filling.

Groninger benefits from Rexroth’s VarioFlow plus, which is engineered to be a cost-effective conveyor solution.
Groninger benefits from Rexroth’s VarioFlow plus, which is engineered to be a cost-effective conveyor solution.

Automation systems that provide lower-cost, compact packaging solutions for smaller-scale and startup companies—and help increase throughput and flexibility—represent a win-win for both packaging machine builders and their end-user customers.

Benefiting from those precise benefits is Groninger, which is based in Germany with operations in North America. Groninger supplies custom filling and packaging machines to the global pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.

The company provides fully automated high-speed production systems for filling, closing, and handling vials, syringes, and bottles for pharmaceutical and healthcare products, as well as filling, sealing and handling machines for cosmetics such as perfumes, lotions, haircare products, and makeup.

Groninger recently launched the lite-F filling machine, targeting the growing ranks of private-label and startup companies in the cosmetics industry.

A key to the efficiency and flexibility of the lite-F system is its VarioFlow plus conveyor supplied by Bosch Rexroth.

Targets entry-level packagers
Groninger sought to expand its machine portfolio to fill the gap between manual tabletop units and fully automated high-speed production lines.

“We recognized the need for smaller, versatile filling and closing machines to give growing private-label and start-up companies the chance to automate their production with a minimal investment,” says Lothar Burger, Managing Director of Groninger USA.

The first model in the Groninger lite line is the lite-F, a two-headed filling unit that can fill up to 2,700 units/hr and process containers up to 500 mL and/or 16 oz. It processes both glass and plastic containers and works within a compact 460-cm long x 100-cm wide footprint.

It is designed to fill liquids—from water-based products to thicker viscosities such as creams—in a single machine. The machine can replace manual filling systems typically used by smaller private-label companies, enabling them to significantly increase throughput and expand their customer base.

Demo puts VarioFlow plus to work

The lite series represent the first Groninger machines to be designed and manufactured at the company’s Charlotte, NC, headquarters. (The photos for this story are shown at the Charlotte plant.) Groninger’s customers will benefit from the cost-effective systems via increased productivity delivered by using a combination of manual processes and automation.

During the process, workers place empty containers onto one side of a moving conveyor, with containers conveyed to a filling head. The containers are filled one at a time, then indexed by the conveyor to a discharge point.

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