Bradman Lake Mexican hat trick scores with multinational client.(Frozen Food Packaging Trends)

Bradman Lake scored a hat trick recently with a large multinational food group when it placed another order for top load cartoning machinery, just 12 months after having two other Bradman Lake machines installed in its Mexican plant.

The line ordered incorporates two of Bradman Lake's workhorses--the HS2/60 Double Head Lock Style Carton Former and the Compact 3 Lugless Flap Carton Lid Closer. Both machines combine vision, innovation and practicality.

The HS2/60 Former can accept a large carton size range with quick size changeover parts and can form ample cartons to meet the high-speed requirements of top load packing lines. Additional developments in recent years have now rendered it capable of lock forming both paperboard and micro-fluted corrugated boards.

The Compact 3 Lugless 3 Flap Lid Closer has been popular among food processors since it was introduced by Bradman Lake in 1993. Ensuring flap squareness, consistent sealing and oversized product handling, it can close up to 120 cartons per minute. Flexibility is the thing, as the machine can be configured in both straight lines and right angles to suit any production line layout requirement.

Bradman Lake reports that it also concluded a multi million dollar order to supply a completely integrated, multi leg, packaging system to another major food manufacturing companies in North America. The name was not released due to contractual obligations.

The system involved accepting wrapped bars from the out-feeds of the customer's existing flow wrappers and automatically transferring them to Bradinan Lake Robotic Top Loaders onto Bradman Lake SL 903 continuous motion, fully automatic cartoners, and finally to Bradman Lake's fully automatic, robotic AX Case Packers.

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Bradman Lake, a unit of Langley Holdings PLC, produces integrated cartoning, wrapping and end-of-line packaging systems for many of the world's leading food and confectionary companies from locations in the UK (East Anglia and Bristol) and the USA (Charlotte, North Carolina). It also has a sales office in Russia.

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