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Packaging Solutions
Complete Plug&Pack System for
the Packaging Industry
Strubl’s solution provides for high flexibility environmental
friendliness with reduced costs
Whether they are DIY or office items, cosmetic products, sanitation or household items, millions of products
await processing and packaging every day. While blister packaging was often used in the past, the packaging industry relies more and more on complete packaging systems like the Plug&Pack System of Wendelstein-based
Strubl KG. This third-generation, family owned business produces a broad spectrum of foils and foil-related
products made from PE or PP. Strubl KG has developed special and complete Plug&Pack systems above all for
packaging challenges characterized by many different variations on small and mid-sized production runs.
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he Dresselhaus company, for example,
chose one of these solutions. Amongst other things,
Dresselhaus produces screws
and fasteners that are used in
agricultural machinery, the
capital goods industry, steel
construction, and the manufacture of automobiles and
commercial vehicles. Because
of the new appearance and
a higher level of environmental friendliness, Dresselhaus
sought an alternative to blister
packaging – and found that
alternative in Strubl’s Plug&
Pack system. The advantages:
Pre-made bags can be printed
online with variable article
date using the system’s quickchange magazine. This eliminates the need for additional
processing steps in the labeling process.
“The system is flexible,
simple to operate, virtually
maintenance free - and environmentally friendly.”
Dr. Christoph Strubl, Strubl KG
One of the Strubl KG Plug&Pack Pro
machines used at Dresselhaus.
Bags instead of blisters – attractive
presentation of Dresselhaus products
in bags from Strubl KG.
“In addition to the environmentally friendly mono-material packaging, fast format
changes, which really only
mean “bag changes”, cost savings, precision and flexibility
are additional advantages of
our Plug&Pack solution,” explains Dr. Christoph Strubl.
“Our customers get their bags
and machinery from a single
source – but in contrast to
other systems are in principle
not dependent on a single supplier.” And because of their
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modular design – Strubl uses
high-quality brand name components – individual component subassemblies can also be
exchanged quickly and without problems.
1 Bag magazine
Like Dresselhaus, Sanit, a
manufacturer of sanitation
products, and VBB Verpackungs GmbH, a company that
manually fills and processes
bags for Electrolux on a European-wide basis, both use a
technology known as thermal
transfer printing. This technology can produce a relatively large (up to 128 x 300 mm)
and high-quality print image.
“This allows our customers to
give a standard bag a high-
• First, the bags are fed to the
system
• After this, product data is
printed – the customer
chooses his or her printer
model.
2 Printing/Labeling station
• In the third step, the bag is
opened with air and filled
manually, using commercial
conveying systems, or by using manual and automated
machinery simultaneously.
• Bags are sealed using cutand-seal technology. A
multi-chamber sealing system makes it possible to also produce multi-packs. After filling, the bags are
checked using a weighing
system.
Functionline bags are suited
above all for functional catering and service packs, while
Zipline bags are resealable
bags with a pressure lock.
All product lines include bags
3 Filling station(s)
in a range of sizes from 50 x
50 mm to 400 x 800 mm and
all mono- or composite materials (e.g., aluminium/PET)
can be used and also printed
upon.
Despite the economic crisis,
an increased demand for
complete Plug&Pack solutions was evident at all German and European packaging
trade fairs. In sectors like
DIY, hardware, home im-
just like the Dresselhaus
company – have been able to
compete successfully with
this attractive way to present
their goods and products.
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4 Sealing
“The flexibility of our machines is important above
all to those companies that
depend on packaging to
promote their sales while
simultaneously having a
complex assortment of
products.”
Franz Strubl on the occasion of
Strubl’s presentation at Fachpack
2009 in Nuremberg
Three Product Lines for All Requirements.
quality external appearance
without having to purchase a
printed bag. In addition, many
different formats are possible
without having to first determine everything down to the
last detail,” explains Otto
Schuler, a product manager at
Strubl. The packaging process
consists of four steps:
Depending on the intended
use, the customer selects his
or her bag from three product
lines: Decoline bags have a
specially reinforced header
with Euro-slot for hanging,
decorative and high-quality
sales packaging – the visually
less attractive cardboard slider
variant is no longer necessary.
Reprint from TECHNOLOGY NEWS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 97 Year 2009
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provement, electrical, electronics, sanitation and heating,
office/hobby/handicrafts,
cosmetics, household goods,
closures and connectors, medical products, auto parts and
spare parts, numerous manufacturers of consumer and
durable goods have already
switched to this system and –
Strubl KG
Kunststoffverpackungen &
Verpackungssysteme
Richtweg 52
D-90530 Wendelstein
Tel. (+49) 9129 - 903 50
Fax (+49) 9129 - 903 549
[email protected]
www.strubl.de