Challenge
- An efficient and fully automated tobacco packaging process
- Ensure a hygienic process
Solution
- Combine the existing tobacco weigh filler with a fully automated XL case erector, bagmaker inserter and bag folder
Result
- Only one operator is required instead of two
- Fully automated process, without manual intervention
- A storage area to store preassembled boxes with bags is no longer needed
- Perfectly placed bags (no more air between bag & box)
British American Tobacco (UK)
British American Tobacco is one of the world’s leading tobacco groups, with more than 300 quality brands sold in 180 markets around the world.
The subsidiary company BAT Corby (UK) expands tobacco for export purposes to other BAT Operating Companies and third-parties.
They had already invested in a tobacco weigh filler, and now needed to automate their packaging process completely, from case erecting to case closing, to pack expanded tobacco in telescopic C48 / C96 cartons.