Shrink Sleeve Label Printing and Application

There are different ways to apply a shrink sleeve onto a product, most notably by machine or hand.

Shrink sleeves applied by hand are done using a shrinking-specific hot air gun or heat tunnel.

Consolidated Label can manufacture single cut sleeves or provide sleeves on rolls for machine application. Mechanical application is generally preferred over hand application because it’s less labor intensive and quicker. Mechanical shrinking equipment like radiant heat tunnels, hot air tunnels, steam tunnels and hybrid tunnels (combines heat and steam) are some of the most popular methods for shrinking sleeves onto containers.

Consolidated Label uses a steam tunnel for internal quality checks and prototyping. We recommend that customers use a steam tunnel for their shrink sleeve applications because it uses less energy to run than other types of tunnels, produces better results and is easier to configure. Steam tunnels are becoming the label industry’s standard method of shrinking sleeves onto filled product containers because its relatively low temperatures (usually between 170-180 degrees) make it safe for filled products to pass through.

Steps of Shrink Sleeve Label Printing

1. The label design is mirrored and printed on the inside of the shrink sleeve material using a flexographic or digital printing press.

2. The printed material is checked for quality control by machine and human inspection.

3. The printed material is seamed together by machine using a small amount of a heated adhesive to create the sleeves for application.

4. The roll of sleeves goes through an air inspection machine to ensure the integrity of the seam.

5. The sleeves are wound up on a roll or cut into individual sleeves depending on the order.

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Industries Using Shrink Sleeves

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Almost every product industry can use shrink sleeves, however, Consolidated Label has found that certain industries benefit the most from shrink sleeves.

Food & Beverage – Shrink sleeves work well with food & beverage products (especially juices, energy drinks, alcoholic beverages) because the tamper evident protection seal keeps food & beverage products from being opened intentionally or unintentionally. The aesthetic design also can tempt consumers’ taste buds with vibrant colors and graphics.

Pharmaceutical & Nutraceutical – Product safety is an important factor when making custom labels for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. Shrink sleeves’ tamper evident protection seal, damage resistant material and structural design decreases the chances of a product being accidentally or purposefully opened. Complying with government regulations is easier with shrink sleeves because the graphics and text can be easily changed out while allowing the containers to be reused for the new shrink sleeve. 

Household Cleaning Products –Detergents, soaps and cleaning agents can benefit from shrink sleeve labels because its material can withstand moisture, friction and varying temperatures. In most cases,household cleaning products using shrink sleeves will look as new as the day they were bought regardless of how many times the product has or will be used.

What are shrink sleeves?

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With more choices available on store shelves, businesses need a way to differentiate their product from competitors and one way they’re doing that is through shrink sleeve labels. Shrink sleeve labels are a relatively new type of label that has been making a name for itself in the label industry for several reasons:

1. Its full body design allows for more creativity with graphics, color and impact.
2. The sleeve film is durable, abrasion resistant and waterproof.
3. Labels can be removed from bottles and containers allowing the bottle/container to be reused.

Although shrink sleeves tend to cost more than other types of labels, they can in some cases increase market share and improve the product’s shelf appeal. Shrink sleeves can also decrease container expenses because a generic, cost-effective container can be used since the product is completely covered with the sleeve. Shrink sleeve labels are used in a wide variety of industries and will continue to grow in popularity as companies see the benefits of shrink sleeve labels.

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Where There Is a Will There Is A Way

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                                                   – Mr. Zhang Kai, Vanta Packing Machinery Electrical Engineer

On September 15, 2013, the first programmable control system designers professional skill competition (hereinafter referred to as the "contest") the award ceremony was held in south China sea of professional skill appraisal center of Foshan city, Guangdong province. Vanta Packing Machinery’s electrical automation engineer Zhang Kai won the first prize in the contest worker group, at the same time he was awarded the "national technical experts" award "excellent operators" honorary title, our company also was awarded as the "best organization".

The competition was organized by the China federation of industrial machinery, China employment training technical instruction center, and China's machine building materials trade union national committee. The contest aims to speed up the cultivation of high-skilled talents, lead enterprise employees and vocational college student skills to the road of success. We sent the Zhang Kai engineer to attend the worker group contest.

Worker group contest content based in the “programmable control system designers national professional standard "technician (national occupational qualification level 2), added new knowledge, new technology, new equipment, new skills, and related content, it was composed by written test and practical operation, Zhang Kai engineers was very outstanding and won in the finals, this contest demonstrated Zhang Kai engineer’s solid professional foundation and excellent operation skills.

At the awards ceremony, the Chief Referee Yue XiuJiang, has a comment on this contest. First, the contest is a combination with actual production, it was good for contestants to cultivate the correct design idea; Second, through the form of theory combined with the actual contest, is conducive to the cultivation of the integrative ability for the competitors; Third, players shows itself in different degrees of accomplishment, from them we can see the future of the programmable control system.

Zhang Kai, said thanks to Vanta big family help so that he won so many awards. He is very thankful to all Vanta company leaders, and all the co-workers who work with him together to get this honor.

Vanta WeChat Code: Keep an eye on US!

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WeChat (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn; literally "micro message") is a mobile text and voice messaging communication service developed by Tencent in China, first released in January 2011. The app is available on Android, iPhone,BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and Symbian platforms. Languages supported include traditional/simplified Chinese, English, Indonesian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Malay, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Italian, Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi and Russian. 

WeChat provides multimedia communication with text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, photo/video sharing, location sharing, and contact information exchange. WeChat supports social networking via shared streaming content feeds and location-based social plug-ins ("Shake", "Look Around", and "Drift Bottle") to chat with and connect with local and international WeChat users.

Photos can be taken and embellished with artistic filters, captions, and placed into a personal photo journal for sharing with other users. User data is protected via an on-demand contact list backup and retrieval to/from the cloud. WeChat claims to provide a social networking platform that emphasizes user privacy and fast response performance.

Registration is completed through Facebook Connect, mobile phone SMS/VM, or Tencent QQ. The application was initially launched as Weixin in China in January 2011, with international language support in October 2011, and re-branded as WeChat in April 2012. It is being promoted in India via gaming site Ibibo, in which Tencent holds a stake. 

                                                                                    ---From Wikipedia

With the popularity of WeChat, Vanta now releasing official WECHAT code, please take out your phone and scan, let's  keep an eye to Vanta development.

Vanta Bag Robot palletizer datasheet

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Wish our motherland prosperous and strong!

Congratulations to our motherland for her 64^th birthday!

October 1st is the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and is celebrated as the National Holiday all over China.

On this day back in 1949, the Chinese people, under the leadership of Communist Party of China, declared victory in War of Liberation. A grand ceremony was held at Tian’anmen Square.

At the ceremony, Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central People’s Government, solemnly declared the founding of P.R.C. and raised the first national flag of China in person. 300,000 soldiers and people gathered at the square for the grand parade and celebration procession.

October 1st, 2013, marks the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

Since initiating market reforms in 1978, China has shifted from a centrally planned to a market based economy and experienced rapid economic and social development. GDP growth averaging about 10 percent a year has lifted more than 500 million people out of poverty. All Millennium Development Goals have been reached or are within reach.

With a population of 1.3 billion, China recently became the second largest economy and is increasingly playing an important and influential role in the global economy.

Better and better! Wish all the Chinese and people all over the world to have a better future!

Robot palletizer various gripper introduction

Robot palletizer can save a lot of human labor, helping people to realize many types of packing solutions. How does the robot to pick up many kinds of different articles? In the production, the robot will be equipped with different gripper to handle different articles.

The following is a brief introduction about robot grippers.

Bar-type gripper head

·         Picks up layers of pre-grouped new glass containers and positions them on the pallet

·         Inserts layer pads, trays and inverted trays via integrated suction grippers

Shutter head

·         Sets the pack without pressurewn on the pallet

·         It is especially suitable for sensitivepacks

Clamping gripper head

·         Gripping of complete layers with returnable packs from all four sides

·         Processes also full crates with optional hook system

Vacuum gripper head for cartons

·         Palletises cartons using suction cups

·         Picks up several cartons at a time depending on the layer pattern

·         Sets down the cartons either combined or individually in interlocked formation

Combined gripper head

·         Enables packing and palletising with just one gripper head

·         Picks up containers via packing cups from a conveyor and packs them into crates or cartons

·         Grips packs with an integral hook and composes them to the desired layer pattern

Gripper head for sacks

·         Picks up sacks and stacks them in any formation onto pallets

·         Sacks can either be picked up by a by vacuum gripper head with large suction cup or via a mechanical gripper

Combined gripper head with clamping function and layer pad inserter

·         Picks up muliti-packs in rows and palletises them

·         Equipped with automatically adjustable clamping segments

·         With its integrated suction grippers, it also processes layer pads

Clamping gripper head for barrels

·         Palletises barrels

·         Variably adjusts to different barrel sizes

Story of Mid Autumn Day

In remote antiquity, there were ten suns rising in the sky, which scorched all crops and drove people into dire poverty. A hero named Hou Yi was much worried about this, he as the Kunlun Mountain and, directing his superhuman strength to full extent, drew his extraordinary bow and shot down the nine superfluous suns one after another. He also ordered the last sun to rise and set according to time. For this reason, he was respected and loved by the people and lots of people of ideals and integrity came to him to learn martial arts from him. A person named Peng Meng lurked in them.

Hou Yi had a beautiful and kindhearted wife named Chang E. One day on his way to the Kunlun Mountain to call on friends, he ran upon the Empress of Heaven Wangmu who was passing by. Empress Wangmu presented to him a parcel of elixir, by taking which, it was said, one would ascend immediately to heaven and become a celestial being. Hou Yi, however, hated to part with his wife. So he gave the elixir to Chang E to treasure for the time being. Chang E hid the parcel in a treasure box at her dressing table when, unexpectedly, it was seen by Peng Meng.

One day when Hou Yi led his disciples to go hunting, Peng Meng took a sword in hand, rushed into the inner chamber and forced Chang E to hand over the elixir. Aware that she was unable to defeat Peng Meng, Chang E made a prompt decision at that critical moment. She turned round to open her treasure box, took up the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp. As soon as she swallowed the elixir her body floated off the ground, dashed out of the window and flew towards heaven. Peng Meng escaped.

When Hou Yi returned home at dark, he knew from the maidservants what had happened. Overcome with grief, Hou Yi looked up into the night sky and called out the name of his beloved wife when, to his surprise, he found that the moon was especially clear and bight and on it there was a swaying shadow that was exactly like his wife. He tried his best to chase after the moon. But as he ran, the moon retreated; as he withdrew, the moon came back. He could not get to the moon at all.

Thinking of his wife day and night, Hou Yi then had an incense table arranged in the back garden that Chang E loved. Putting on the table sweetmeats and fresh fruits Chang E enjoyed most, Hou Yi held at a distance a memorial ceremony for Chang E who was sentimentally attached to him in the palace of the moon.

When people heard of the story that Chang E had turned into a celestial being, they arranged the incense table in the moonlight one after another and prayed kindhearted Chang E for good fortune and peace. From then on the custom of worshiping the moon spread among the people.

People in different places follow various customs, but all show their love and longing for a better life. Today people will enjoy the full moon and eat moon cakes on that day.

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CBST 2013 Vanta meet you on booth WB 1B301

China International Beverage Industry Exhibition on Science & Technology (CBST), organized by China Beverage Industry Association—the most authoritative organization in the industry, has grown to be a highly influential professional exhibition of science and technology progress in China and in Asia. The CBST’s reputation has been greatly accelerated by its five-time successes within the last 10 years through professional high quality exhibitors, visitors and professional activities with strong cohesion.

CBST2013 is going to be held at Pavillion W1-W3 of Shanghai New International Expo Centre on 20th-22nd in November, 2013. It is estimated that the exhibiting area will cover 35,000 square meters with about 400 exhibitors and over 20,000 professional visitors.

A series of professional and influential activities will be organized during the exhibition aiming to draw high involvement and high traffic for the exhibition, ensuring the best benefits to the exhibitors. These activities include 2013 CBIA Member’s Congress, 2013 Symposium on Science and Technology of China International Beverage and 2013 Bev-Model.

Guangzhou Vanta Packing Machinery Co., Ltd will take part in the CBST and show our latest technology to customer from home and abroad. 

Remember to visit our booth at WB 1B301. SEE YOU!

10TH IFTECH EXHIBITION IN LAHORE PAKISTAN

On September 5-7th, 2013, Vanta Packing machinery took its first show on IFTECH Food + Bev Tech Pakistan and got great success!

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Iftech food + bev tec is the most prestigious B2B exhibition and a key food processing packaging business forum in Pakistan for the local industry & neighboring countries. The event has made forays into the event calendars of brand owners, processing packaging professionals, suppliers & manufacturers around the world as their focal meeting point in Pakistan. Since 2004, Iftech has been fostering buyer supplier relationships and has become a sourcing destination of latest local and international processing, filling & packaging solutions for Pakistan’s food & beverage industry. Various international & local food processing equipment manufacturers have displayed their products at Iftech which have paved the way for the advent of new technologies in the production value chain system of the industry.

On IFTECH, Vanta met representatives from Pepsi cola, Coca cola, Nestle and so on, and shared nice discuss about Vanta packing machinery.

We are looking forward to knowing more customers in Pakistan and offer more scientific solution.

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Sino-Pack 2013: An Overview on Vanta Robot

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Core Tip：During the exhibition robot-china.com collected brief information of the products which Guangzhou Vanta Packing Machinery Co., Ltd. showed here, including main parameters, as blows.

The 20th China International Exhibition on Packaging Machinery & Materials, known as "Sino-Pack 2013" was once again staged in Area A, China Import & Export Fair Complex, Guangzhou, PR China. China(Guangzhou)International Packaging Products Exhibition 2013 was held at the same time. Exhibition area reached 40,000 sq.m. with 500 exhibitors exhibiting. Sino-Pack has become the largest professional and international packaging trade fair in China. 

MJ 160 Robot

Application: Palletizing and depalletizing cardboards, plastic cartons and film bags for production line with 24000~32000BPH capacity.

Applicative Speed: 35-45 cartons / minute (production line with 24000~32000BPH capacity)

Technical Features:

- A robot designed for palletizing / depalletizing which is capable of accomplishing the robot programming easily with the combination of SANYO DENKI robot motion control system and the teach pendant. As a result, robot-operating becomes quite simple.

- Benefiting from less teaching positions, spot debugging gets easier, and spot efficiency improves greatly.

- The unique structure of the robot reduces energy consumption. In order to make the robot more stable and reliable, the high intensity material used in the arm and the important load bearing components are composed of alloy structural steel. Imported high precision components are used in crucial units including the reducers to guarantee the robot’s motion accuracy.

Vanta Packing -- High speed shrink wrapper / shrink wrapping machine

Vanta Shrink Wrapping Machine MMB60	Capacity(packs/min)	60
	Machine dimensions(mm)	12850*1650*2650
	Main Application	Film only

System Advantage:

1. Multi-pitch configuration

2. Modular structure

3. Flexibility

4. Perfect cases

5. Versatile packs

6. Motors directly connected to the drive shafts

7. “User-friendly” man-machine interface

8. Easy and low-cost maintenance;

9. Plastic dividing combs

10. Continuous motion pack formation

Bottle shape：

（1）Glass bottle, PET bottle and can etc. Diameter: Ø55~110mm

（2） Bottle height: H80~320mm（Notice：each bottle diameter and height difference±2mm, otherwise thought as another bottle size）

Pack size:

（1）    L210~450mm

（2）    W120~300mm

（3）    H80~330mm

For more information, please visit:

Website: www.vantapack.com

Email: info@vanta.cn

Attn: Jade Lam

Tel: 0086-20 66809333 ext. 878

Fax: 0086-20 61807333

Vanta Packing: The advantages of BOPP labeling machine

The advantages of BOPP labeling machine:

                                   
             

QUESTION: Compare with other labeling methods, what are characters & advantages of OPP labeling machine? What reason does label material on many drinking bottles have been changed to BOPP?

VANTA answer:

The advantages of OPP labeling machine, compare with other labeling methods as below:

1. BOPP material price is most cheap than other label material.

 If you compare label material price base on 1 square meters, self adhesive label is about 3 times of shrinkable sleeve label, and shrinkable sleeve is about 2 times of BOPP label material. Consequently, drinking leader Coca Cola, PEPSI have changed their labeling method of mass production drinking products from original SELF ADHESIVE LABEL or SHRINK SLEEVE become BOPP label, because they could save a lot of cost every day. But market price of these mass products are same as before, so gross profit is good than before.

 2. BOPP label material is environment-friendly & can be recycled easily material than other plastic label material.

 Many countries around the world have prohibited over application of PVC & other plastic material on food containers, or collect extra tax if local manufacturer still over application plastic material. BOPP material is easily recycled than other plastic materials, so many drinking product manufacturers follow this trend to do.

3. Design of high-precision the machine capacity can reach high speed.

                                

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What is a parallel robot?

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A parallel robot, also called a parallel manipulator, is a mechanism presenting very good performance in terms of stability, rigidity and accuracy to manipulate large loads. Parallel robots consist of three or more rotary or prismatic axes that function parallel to each other. They have been used in a number of applications such as flight simulators and astronomy, and they are growing in popularity in the machine-tool industry. Some examples of these types of robots are delta, hexapod and tricept robots.

Theoretical works by English and French geometricians that are related to parallel mechanisms, and in particular hexapods, date back many centuries. Homer described walking tripods in his epic work The Illiad. Aristotle envisioned such mechanisms that obeyed the will of others. The first parallel robot came only 17 years after the term "robot" was coined in 1921. Designed for automated spray painting, it is generally considered to be the first industrial parallel robot designed.

When it comes to robotics, an end effector is a rigid body at the end of a robotic arm. For each link of a robot, the connection degree is the number of rigid bodies attached to the link by a joint. In closed-loop kinematic chains, one of the links, but not the base, possesses a connection degree greater than or equal to three. Parallel robots are mechanisms where the end effector is connected to the base through several kinematic chains forming a closed loop.

Since the end effector of a parallel robot is supported in several places, this results in high structural stiffness. A number of legs connect the end effector to a base platform. Construction of a parallel robot is light. These features allow parallel robots to be capable of a wide range of motion. Their major drawback, however, is that they have a limited workspace because the legs can collide.

Used more frequently for industrial purposes is a robot known as a serial manipulator. It is constructed in such a way as to form the shape of an elbow, wrist and a shoulder. One of the major advantages of serial manipulators over parallel robots is their large workspace. Serial manipulators are the most common type of industrial robots.

Advances in robot kinematics, the study of the motion of robots, have led to applications in various fields, including surgery, manufacturing, locomotion and biomechanics. Robot kinematics can be divided into mobile robot kinematics, humanoid kinematics, parallel robot kinematics and serial manipulator kinematics. Analyses of the velocity, acceleration and position of all of the links are calculated without taking into consideration the forces that cause the motion.

Another application of parallel robots is in high speed, high-accuracy positioning. An example of this is in the assembly of printed circuit boards. A parallel robot can also function as a micro manipulator for serial manipulators by being mounted on the end effector.