In February WMWrappingMachinery SA installed an FC 1000E SpeedmasterPlus thermoforming machin ein the"clean room" of the French company Cartolux-Thiers, part of the Top Clean Packaging group. This is the first of this model in France, which is the largest vacuum and pressure forming form-cut-stack machine, with steel rule cut, in production, and can run forming moulds with a maximum sizeof up to 1,060x 750mm.
The machine forming press has a clamping forceof600kN and with platen strokes of160mm. A servo-driven plug movement is fitted to the upper platen and it is equipped with a digital control to monitor the clamping force. The Product is cut from the sheet on a second in-line press, which has a clamping forceof1,050kN, this too is equipped with a digital control to monitor the clamping force. Both platens are equipped with"X-Y" adjustment and heated plates for the cutting knives. The stacking operation uses a 3-axis robot, which in addition to allowing A-B-C stacking, enables the machine to handle products with complex shapes, such as those produced by this particular French customer, who works in the field of medical packaging and in packaging for electronic products such as computer screens.The formings are deposited on an adjustable inclined conveyor belt and the operator can choose whether to receive them stacked or one by one, when required by the very tight quality control procedure for medical packaging, which requires individual inspection. The machine has a heating oven with upper and lower heaters and it’s equipped with a sensor to read the actual (real) sheet temperature.The machine is controlled through a B & R computer with a touch screen monitor, which uses absolute encoders, temperature, pressure and water-flow sensors, to adjust and maintain all the parameters to keep the thermoforming process constant. In addition, there is a facility to help the machine operator to choose the best production cycle.
26-Jun-15 
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