Cardboard box handling
Brewery in Thailand uses Fipa grabs
Fipa offers grippers with replaceable HNBR soft contact pads for gentle handling of delicate parts. The Beerthai brewery successfully uses the 100 series grippers for gripping thin cardboard webs.
Beerthai is a business unit of ThaiBev, the largest brewery group in Thailand. In its packaging line, robots pick up thin partitions and insert them into bottle cartons. The grippers previously used left marks on the thin cardboard boxes. A more satisfactory solution was sought. FIPA recommended the GR04.100H gripper with replaceable HNBR soft contact pads.
Proven in the plastics industry
Normally, HNBR grippers are mainly used in the plastics industry to remove workpieces from injection molding machines without scratching them. In such applications, high temperature resistance up to 160 degrees Celsius, freedom from LABS and silicone and gentle handling are essential.
Thanks to the soft pads, the HNBR grippers were also convincing in non-industry applications. During a test, the grippers did not leave any pressure marks on the thin cardboard. Beerthai approved the gripper for productive use.
The grippers are now proving their worth in the highly dynamic system, which operates with a cycle time of seven seconds. Eight cartons are packed per minute. Further packaging lines with Fipa grippers as end-of-arm tooling on the robot are being planned. as
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