Calendar
Come and see
ABB’s newest
solutions at the
following events:
October 31–
November 3
PackExpo, Chicago
October 24–26
Qatar Customer
Event, Doha
November 22–25
Emballage, Paris
The cat’s whiskers
Mars Inc. orders
April 4–8
eight robots to pack Hannover Messe,
cat food in Poland
Hanover
The compact IRB
4600 has the longest
vertical reach of its
class.
Food giant Mars is one of the biggest
and fastest developing food companies
in Poland. It has a large plant in Sochac-
zew, about 50 kilometers west of War-
saw, where it processes more than 20
dif ferent brands of food products for
people and pets. For their latest robot-
ics installation, in which packs of Kitekat
cat food are placed into cartons, the
company turned to production logistics
company FlexLink.
FlexLink designed a solution involving
eight IRB 4600 robots with the convey-
er tracking option. “The robots pick from
a fixed position, and place the sachets
onto the moving infeeder of a flow wrap-
ping machine,” explains Mats Halen, local
manager at ABB.
“We have a good relationship with
Flexlink in Poland,” says Halen. “We are
looking into other projects together.”
For more information about Mars in
Poland, please visit www.mars.pl – for
information about FlexLink, check out
www.flexlink.com.
March 22–25
AusPack, Sydney
May 12–18
InterPack,
Dusseldorf
time when the environment is on everybody’s mind, we
also offer you a robot to support this. Thanks to its low
ht and compact design, it’s energy efficient- and that
es it more environmentally friendly.
has a long experience and deep knowledge of robots
heir industrial applications. This has been put to use
gning the IRB 4600 to put it on the very front end of robot
nology. The service of our worldwide organization ensures
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