Plastic-Free! Cardboard Tray Closing Machine

Rev Elephant – The ‘Elephant’ is a high speed, high productivity machine for closing cardboard trays with wings

Perfect for a plastic-free packaging solution, the NEW Rev Elephant is the fastest machine on the market, suitable for high productivity packaging lines both automated or manual loading. It changes format in less than 2 minutes whether it be the width or height of the tray, this is simple on the touch-screen panel. The cardboard container can be die-cut and printed as desired. Suitable for most fresh produce including apples, pears, kiwis, peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, avocados, tomatoes, cherries, strawberries (any product usually contained in trays)

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Specifications
Features

Plastic-Free and fully recyclable
Fast production
Excellent production continuity
Automatic machine for closing trays in cardboard (and more) with side wings, including asymmetrical shapes with hot glue.
It is the fastest machine on the market, perfect for high-productivity lines.
It changes format in less than 2 minutes. Equipped with 3 indexing knobs for the main variations of width and height of the tray; the rest are programmable from the touch-screen panel.
Suitable for all packaging lines, both automated and manual-loading.
Sustainable and eco-friendly mono material package.
Compact packing ensures no damage to the produce and the container is fully used, avoiding empty spaces inside the package.
Suitable for delicate products, in line or in bulk.
It works with trays in cardboard, both flat and corrugated (and, possibly, in other materials). The containers can be die-cut and printed as desired, in order to achieve the best customisation possible and the maximum visibility of the product.
It applies an adhesive label on the bottom or upper part of the tray (if equipped with an optional labeller).
Easily programmable with various recipes.

TECHNICAL FEATURES

4.3” touch-screen control panel
New intuitive R-Touch graphic interface with production statistics
Workable trays: no minimum limits; maximum length, width and height: 300x210x120
Hot-glue applicator branded Preo with 7” colour touch-screen control panel
Mechanically synchronised speed of the 3 chains
Single adjustment of the speed of the conveyor and belts
Interchangeable wing-overturning-guide unit, without utensils
Indexing knobs with synchronised movements for tray-size variations
Bypass function
Management by means of inverter of the tray-infeed conveyor (pre-existing too)
Special belts for suiting the tray and product irregularities
Indicative production: up to 120-340 trays/min. (according to the length)

OPTIONS

Tray-infeed conveyor
Outfeed buffer conveyor with side diverter (for automated lines only)
Outfeed buffer conveyor with package-recirculation system (for automated lines only)
Printer on entry for labelling on the bottom of the tray
Printer on exit for labelling on the upper part of the tray
Additional wing-guide kit
Easy Remote teleassistance
Integration into SCADA systems
4.0 interconnection