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New distributors of Traktech in Europe and Latin America

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Traktech closes commercial agreements for the distribution of its equipment for the empty bottles handling with four new companies in Costa Rica, France, Sweden, and Venezuela.

Those agreements will allow, in the one hand, to continue to strengthen the European market, and on the other hand, the expansion into new markets in Latin America.

ADV Packaging in France

ADV Packaging is an independent French provider that buys and supply a big diversity of turnkey industrial solutions for the most various sectors, among which stand out pharma, alcoholic drinks (beers, wines, sparkling, champagne, etc.), and non-alcoholic (potable water and carbonated, sodas, isotonic drinks, juice, etc.), fruits and vegetable processing, dairy and cheeses, cosmetics, etc.

The deal inspires to strengthen and amplify much more the French market, in which Traktech bet for its commercial growth. He has several years of business and his equipments have had excellent acceptance.

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Concept of accumulation of containers at the outlet of the AAF Rotary Unscrambler, automatic changeover.

Efficiency in a line production and the importance of accumulation in containers unscramblers

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A production line efficiency depends on many factors: from the correct container unscrambling and their glide or transport to the filler until the filling and final packaging.

Each of the processes that make up a production line has its particularities. Today we would like to talk about the “accumulation” or “buffer” of the unscrambler until the filler and its importance in packaging production line efficiency.

Each of our empty container unscramblers models, either the manual change or the AAF models of automatic format change, are equipped with an exit conveyor for the containers that normally feed a filler.

It is necessary to highlight from the beginning that an unscrambler is a random machine different from the others machines that make up a packaging line, like the fillers or cappers which are continual machines where all incoming containers come out in the same position and speed.

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Schematic of the system for cleaning empty containers by ionized air technology of empty container rinsers manufactured by Traktech.

An outline of the system for cleaning bottles with ionized air and F8 suction

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Cleaning the inside of containers has evolved. The traditional “container washers” are a thing of the past, now machines that clean with ionized air are used. This technology complies with the strictest quality standards and controls.

A two-phase system: Blowing and suction, with optimum results for all types of industries, ideal for food or pharmaceutical sectors, as they are the most demanding with regards to regulations.

Used to clean large or small containers, removing particles from inside the container (small pieces of glass or plastic), insects, or other foreign bodies, before filling.

Due to the ionization system, they can also clean electrostatically charged particles.

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Ionized air can rinser

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Success case: Installation of a model SG-20 ionized air rinser in a can production line.

Completion time: 4 months.

A manufacturer of stainless-steel cans for the solid food packaging sector, supplier to top global brands of powdered milk for child nutrition, needed to clean and eliminate all possible foreign bodies from their round metal containers of different capacities, to ensure proper and effective cleaning of the inside of the containers.

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Traktech celebrates 10 years since it was established

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Last December 2020, Traktech saw its tenth anniversary.

On 14 December 2010, Quim Torrella and Joan Arbós, founders of Traktech, officially started our company.

During these ten years, Traktech has evolved from being a small company to having a workforce of 26 and becoming a benchmark in the empty bottle handling sector, both in the national and international market.

More than 25 years of experience in packaging machinery of the company’s founding members, have made Traktech an innovative company and a technological partner with their potential and current clients. Improving bottle-handling processes such as depalletizing, unscrambling, and cleaning.

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Manipulación de envases de plástico

The best publications on container manipulation in 2020

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In 2020, we continued publishing on our blog contents about our know-how, experience, and the projects we undertake.

Therefore, for the beginning of this year, we wanted to evaluate them, discover the best publications by the number of visits received, and share them in this summary.

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Traktech SL stand at the packaging fair Fachpack celebrated in Nuremberg, Germany the last 2019 year.

Traktech will participate in 3 packaging trade shows in 2021

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Main packaging trade shows for 2021.

This year 2020 has been – really – atypical for everyone. In the industrial field has affected commercial trade shows in the organization, participation, and attendance.

The pandemic has forced most of the international appointments in the packaging sector and other related sectors to be canceled or delayed.

Moreover, as it is usual in the industrial sector, lots of firms are organizing their commercial activity by doing their commercial trade shows calendar for 2021.

If the situation allows it, Traktech has confirmed its commercial participation in the following commercial trade shows.

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Spices, condiments and herbs in a solid food company for packaging and distribution in the restaurant sector

Case of success: Beginning of filling production line for multiformat containers

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Case of success: Beginning of bottles filling production line for a complete filling, capping and labelling facility for glass, can and plastic containers.

Multinational company of the food solid sector: ingredients and flavourings, specialists in herbs, aromatic spices and condiments for the catering sector, has built a new factory in the United Kingdom in which they have installed two bottle packaging lines for filling, labelling and packing their products.

The client needed to handle containers at the beginning of the line made of different materials in a single line.

At the first stage implies handling a total amount of six containers: three glass containers, two plastic containers and one can, very different both in size and geometry and at a constant production rate of 170 containers per minute.

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PET containers filled with juices and smoothies from a fruit and vegetable processing plant.

Project: PET bottles filling line. Phase 1

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Case of success: PET bottles filling line for diverse formats and shapes.

A company in the fruits and vegetables processing sector without chemical treatment required to develop a PET bottles filling line.

This production line implied handling 8 different types of PET container formats regarding measurements and shapes, with productions from 2.800 to 8.000 bottles per hour (BPH).

The company was searching for a solution for handling empty containers at the beginning of the line, which allowed the supply of bottles to the filling machine with the minimum time of line standstill for changing the format.

The main challenge lied in the containers format and shape. The solution had to consider handling cylindrical, squared, hexagonal and triangular PET bottles.

Furthermore, the client was searching for a solution for handling empty containers which offered higher resistance, durability, and minimum maintenance.

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RINSER-PH: Containers cleaning for the Pharmaceutical Industry

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Containers cleaning in the Pharmaceutical Industry is a very demanding market with respect to regulations.

It implies ensuring maximum security of the whole drugs production chain that impacts in the security of the final consumers: the patient.

This guarantee has been the principal requirement that our R&D department has considered for the design of a special machine for cleaning the interior of the containers in drugs production lines.

It is a containers cleaning system that meets the highest international quality standards in the Pharma Industry: The Rotary Rinser R-PH.

Like all our machines for handling empty bottles, we have included other characteristics with the goal of adding more benefits towards the maximum productivity in the production lines.

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