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Food manufacturing and packaging

Are food safety and efficiency key requirements that you need to meet? Our perfect mix of electric and pneumatic automation meets those requirements, offering reliable, high-quality automation solutions for factory and process automation. The right ingredients for your production systems, enabling economical production of top-quality food products. Our products, solutions and selected services are available globally, wherever your production locations are.

"In the food industry, food safety is crucial. But issues such as flexibility, viability for the future and sustainability also play an increasingly important role. We offer you smart solutions to meet these requirements.

In my experience, automation in the food sector works best when you bring in an expert partner early on in the process who has the right automation solutions for the food industry and expertise in planning. That's when you can rely on Festo."

ECONO-PAK Multi-Carrier-System

In practice

Carefully packaged

The servo-controlled horizontal cartoner HK-S from ECONO-PAK gently and efficiently places scratch-sensitive tubes of shoe polish into cardboard boxes. The freely configurable and flexible Multi-Carrier-System (MCS) from Festo perfectly synchronizes the conveyors for the product and the cardboard box and ensures reliable packaging with high throughput.

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Bosch Packaging Festo Motion Terminal

In practice

Exactly the right dose

Coffee, sugar, pharmaceuticals—nowadays, virtually everything is packed in small, low-cost sachets. The new, flexible flat pouch machine Sigpack VPF from Bosch Packaging Technology ensures correct packaging and a precise mixing ratio. The world's first freely scalable sachet machine uses the new flexibility provided by the digital pneumatics of the Festo Motion Terminal.

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SF102 filling and sealing system for Doypack® pouches with screw cap

In practice

Standing strong

The Doypack® brand has been synonymous with practical stand-up pouches for over 50 years. The patent is held by French company Thimonnier, which is increasingly moving towards mechatronics and ultimately Industry 4.0 for the development of its filling and packaging machines. Pneumatic and electric automation technology from Festo provides a solid foundation for this development.

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Unilever Heppenheim ice cream suspended

In practice

Maximum pleasure, minimum consumption

Energy-saving measures are a cornerstone of the corporate philosophy of global firm Unilever. The company is now significantly reducing its compressed air consumption on a machine producing Magnum ice creams by using the new energy efficiency module MSE6-E2M.

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Cama side loader CL

In practice

Make some room!

With the “Breakthrough Generation of Machines” from Italian packaging machine manufacturer Cama, manufacturers of consumer packaged goods and pharmaceuticals are experiencing a completely new feeling of space in their factories.The new machines from Cama take up one third less space—thanks to the valve manifold concept CPX/MPA.

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Transnova Ruf packaging machine

In practice

Picking, packing, and palletizing

“Our design-to-order concept sets us apart from the majority of packaging machine manufacturers,” says Michael Ruf, deputy general manager of Transnova Ruf. In addition to cutting-edge robotic and control technology, the company is using pneumatic automation technology from Festo, and especially proportional technology on valve manifolds.

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