Sidel shapes the future of packaging at Pack Expo 2024

The largest trade show in the Americas for beverage, food, home care, personal care (FHPC) and pharma industries, Pack Expo International brings together thousands of manufacturers across the industry.

Sidel will use multimedia tools, lunch-and-learn sessions, and showcase its cutting-edge technology for beverages and FHPC in PET, can, glass, carton, pouches and other materials.

Innovation Stage – Unlocking sustainable aseptic production

On Monday, November 4, Jerome Tenaud, director of Equipment Sales Beverages for North America will share Sidel’s expertise in helping manufacturers to unlock sustainable aseptic production at the Innovation Stage, suite N-4560 in the North Hall from 4:00PM to 4:30PM.

“We will discuss the upcoming challenges faced by the aseptic industry and use our fifty years of experience to explore the answer – a dynamic manufacturing packaging line that guarantees product safety, and manages multiple SKUs while improving efficiency and sustainability,” comments Dan Olivier, vicepresident of Equipment Sales Americas at Sidel.

“We’ll examine how today’s consumer habits and market trends impact packaging requirements, and how manufacturers can adapt their production capabilities quickly and efficiently.”

Sidel will also highlight its cutting-edge Aseptic Combi Predis on the booth. An integrated blow-fill-cap solution for PET bottles, the Aseptic Combi Predis incorporates Sidel’s patented Predis dry preform sterilization. This solution ensures continuous production time and efficiency by eliminating conveying, empty-bottle handling, accumulation, and storage.

High-performance palletizing in action

At the show, Sidel will present its agile packing and palletizing equipment for primary packaging, including bottles, shaped containers, jars, tins, pots, cans, flexible packaging, and cartons, as well as secondary packaging: RSC, wrap-around, shelf-ready packaging, or film.

Through live demonstrations, visitors to the booth will witness the efficiency of the agile, compact palletizing unit, RoboAccess_Pal S, introduced to the market last year. Combining the best of robotics and cobotics, this high-performing, all-in-one solution delivers improved agility, operability, and compactness to FHPC markets.

Displayed in the booth, RoboAccess_Pal S is the perfect solution to replace manual operations. It delivers faster speeds of up to 12 cycles per minute and enables high case payloads of up to 25kg, while ensuring a fast return on investment, typically one to two years. This offering provides a new level of compactness with a footprint of less than 12m² for two stations with a significant pallet height of 1700mm.

To support manufacturers with their evolving needs, in 2023 Sidel also released the new Cermex ProSelex, a flexible collating system for complex unstable bottles. This gentle, streamlined, grouping device is designed to associate with any type of case packer and will deliver extreme efficiency, high availability, and greater operability.

Complete line solutions

Visitors will be able to discuss Sidel’s complete line solutions, a culmination of its decades of expertise and its comprehensive portfolio of services in every field of packaging solutions including line concept, engineering, line control and automation, packaging technologies and equipment.

Digital solutions

Explore Sidel’s Evo-ON – a unique cloud suite with built-in intelligence that is designed to optimize any aspect of the production line – with a dedicated Evo-ON expert. The Evo-ON smart apps utilize unused raw equipment data to refine the manufacturing process to achieve peak performance. The system collects, aggregates and analyses data 24/7 to offer real-time and proactive alerts, notifications and reports.

Addressing sustainability needs

With expertise in eco-friendly packaging alternatives from 100 percent recycled PET (rPET) and light-weighted primary packaging with tethered caps to optimized secondary and tertiary packaging alternatives, Sidel will show how it is ready to help customers meet the packaging market’s changing priorities.

Makro Labelling joins on booth

Makro Labelling, which joined the Sidel family in 2023, is an innovator and leader in modular labelling machines for the food, home, personal car, wine, and spirits markets and will join on booth S-2021.

Makro's machines can label up to five items per bottle in cold glue, hot glue, self-adhesive, and combination versions. The low and medium-speed modular labelling machines made by Makro complement Sidel’s leading higher-speed technologies and can be integrated into Sidel’s packaging lines.