Friedheim International’s newest exclusive UK and Ireland agency is that of Pfankuch Maschinen GmbH, and with more than 27 years of experience, a company known world wide for dependable automation, and for its innovative design and precision manufacturing of machines for print finishing and paper converting. Besides standard applications, the company can provide custom engineered fully automated processing lines to meet extreme client demands and create greater value throughout a customer’s production process.
Flexibility through modularity
One particularly important feature of Pfankuch machines is the modular design that enables users to easily respond to "real world" production issues. Adding capacity, balancing line throughput and reacting to evolving market demands can easily be accomplished at any time. Single machine components can also be changed over or upgraded when required.
Also, as a result of the modular design of the various machines, they can also incorporate solutions for scoring, folding, bar code reading and controlling, bundling, inkjet printing, gluing and labelling.
In more detail, Pfankuch Maschinen offers the following range of products:
- Friction, rotary, shuttle, vacuum and special feeders
- High speed feeding systems for paper and related products
- High speed feeding systems with barcode controls
- Batch counting machines with fully accurate product controls
- High speed feeding and batching of value print such as stamps and money
- High speed collating and nesting machines with up to 36 stations
- Bandoleer feeding and application machines
- High speed hole punching machines
- Batch banding machines
- Autoloaders
In addition to the above, Pfankuch Maschinen has extensive experience in the packaging sector, and this knowledge has helped the company to re-define packaging processes in industries as diverse as print finishing, greetings cards, pre-paid telephone cards, food processing, beverages, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
Pfankuch’s key product in this sector is the modular VP machine system, which can be used in an enormous variety of applications. The system is particularly ideal for wrapping paper products into transparent clear Polypropylene and PLA film for precise packaging of flat products up to 25 mm thickness.
Due to the flexibility the system provides, it is now possible to arrange the modular elements to meet the requirements of almost any production process. Furthermore, any later modification that is needed to cater for changes in the production criteria can easily be carried out. An ideal concept!
Pfankuch Maschinen’s Two Roll Packaging system ensures tight seamless packs without overlapping seals and fin seals. Even without shrinking, the presentation is a clean snug package of extreme gloss and scratch free clarity.
This design format is especially suited to the processing and packaging of telephone cards, greetings cards, decorative labels, gift wrap paper, fashion magazines, delicately designed direct mail items, food packaging coupons and many more products that need better presentation than the average packaging machines can produce.
Pfankuch collating and wrapping lines can produce in excess of 300 packs per minute, while still creating packages of outstanding quality. With the addition of a range of different feeder heads, this adds the unique automation of robot feeding of all products that can be wrapped on Pfankuch machines. All system functions are computer controlled and insure flawless production and the lowest possible down times.
In addition to the VP machine system, Pfankuch Maschinen can also supply highly flexible shrink packaging systems for producing superbly finished packages.