As the years passed by, things kept getting better and better for the company, whose PET bottles come form Twinpak. He notes that his company's production and packaging was audited by the National Standards Foundation, resulting in a Manufacturing of Excellence Award. Product is received and automatically divided into parallel infeed lanes. For each case blank detected in the flight blocks, a metering devise releases a single pack pattern downstream to the loading section. A variable frequency drive unit automatically increases or decreases machine speed to match the accumulation of product on the infeed conveyor.
Loading takes place over three or four machines cycles for gentle handling of the product.
Adjustable plows close the top panel and minor flaps. Then, as each case is detected, glue guns apply hotmelt to the manufacturer's flaps. The recently installed DDC2 Laser is a programmable laser, which provides Aberfoyle Springs with such benefits as reduced operating costs, and a twin-line code with exceptional quality, notes Eccles. The DDC2 laser codes directly onto the product and, unlike more conventional lasers, uses a unique array of seven ceramic tube individually sealed CO2 lasers developed at Domino's laser plant in Irvine. It's worth noting that one of the historical drawbacks with laser coding is that not all substrates can be marked.