Visitors to the European Coatings Show 2011 impressed by presentation of Feige innovations

Feige GmbH, Abfülltechnik, surprised fair trade visitors with a genuine innovation: Together with the sister company GmbH & Co. KG, Feige offers interested customers a new, interface-free production and packaging line from one source.

Already shortly after the trade fair opened its gates on 29 March 2011, many visitors surged towards the stand. Thanks to the layout of the trade fair, which for the first time extended over two storeys, and an exhibition surface of 100 m², the joint presence of the companies Feige and Sommer was visible from afar.

For the first time, the complete production system from raw material storage (solid materials and liquids), dosing of raw materials into mixers (optionally coaxial or 3-shaft mixers) up to filling the final product into the target containers (round, oval or rectangular) with calibrated accuracy, was presented at a trade fair stand.

Visitors to the stand were convinced by the consistent data transfer, the interface-free data handling right up to the individual machines as well as by the data recording in highly flexible databases that are necessary for such a process.

Visitors were impressed to find Feige and Sommer to be suppliers of high-tech solutions, who keep interfaces to the customer at a low level and are able to offer the corresponding implementation concept as a turn-key solution. This also confirms the trend towards turn-key systems.

Many interested customers came up with specific detailed questions regarding their concrete requirements, which the stand team from both companies, who were broadly positioned both in the commercial and in the technical sector, were immediately able to discuss and answer.

The demand for individual components in the sectors storage containers, mixers and smaller semi-automatic filling solutions was also very high.

The particular interest of international visitors was directed towards the world-wide service and distribution network, which implements customised mixing and filling desires on site, under compliance with regional laws and regulations.

In conclusion it can be said that with their range of products, Feige and Sommer are able to offer customers a wide range of individual semi-automatic solutions up to high-end and turn-key solutions in an absolutely competent and reliable manner. Customers were convinced that here they would find a solution for their process and filling planning.

Premiere on the ECS 2011

Sommer and Feige present turnkey-solution from one source
After more than one year of their young partnership the companies Sommer GmbH & Co. KG and Feige GmbH, Abfülltechnik present a good example for mutual projects. It's on the European Coatings Show 2011, hall 6, stand 230 where the companies do present a new and interface-free production and packaging line - a real innovation.
With this first mutual project the companies Sommer and Feige offer to their customers of the paint-, lacquer & adhesive industry a turn-key plant for storage, mixture and filling of liquid or pasty products. Here, the entire process technology originates interface-free from one source: starting with storing, proceeding with accurate filling according to W & M, further with labelling and finally get palletized onto the truck.
Whenever the Sommer and Feige engineers meet each other on customers' sites they always come to the same conclusion how big the demand is for complete production lines (Full-Liners) coming from one source.
If there is envisaged or intended a new investment in the area of production plants, the results thereof are supposed to work uncomplicatedly and as efficiently as possible.
This new turnkey-plant offers a good taylor-made solution which fully complies with customers' individual production requirements.
Raw-material processing: holistic solution from Messrs. Sommer
Messrs. Sommer benefits from their more than 100-years-experience in building process plants and covers the design, engineering and realisation of the entire raw-material processing.
This field is centrally controlled via the process logic control system VARIOBATCH:
Starting with storing and dosing of liquids and solids up to weighing-in of universally employable production mixers which are especially well suited for the production of medium- and high-viscous products.
Because of the variable employment of its high-performance mixing tools, the mixer is perfectly adapting to various production conditions. It has been designed as weighing device so that raw-material can be added well dosed and a total quantity balance of the finished product can be established.
Filling and packing: interface-free via Feige-filling machinery
After mixing of the product has been finished, it is advanced via a pumping system to the filling machine - interface-free. As from here on, Messrs. Feige benefits from their extensive know-how and presents on the ECS 2011 the new high-performance automatic pail filler Type 410, centrally operated via the Feige-Touch-Panel.
Several modules are put together and thus create an individual structure to suit customers' requirements. The filling line comprises a pail denester with floor-level-refill and continuous pail-infeed as well as a new filling station with high-accurate product flow control. Here, the products are dosed via a high-performance filler - accuracy according to W & M - all pail- and filling parameters entered centrally on the Feige-Touch-Panel and continuously fed in.
Moreover, Feige presents on the ECS 2011 as a real novelty a robot lid placer. It provides for a continous lid-supply and the central adjustment of the pail and lid parameters without format-sets, which makes packing of the products still faster and more efficient.
Both partners present on the ECS an example for collaboration of mutual projects as Full-Liner. Those visitors who feel attracted and want to get inspired may have a close and intensive look at this machine and get detailed information about forward-thinking technical achievements.
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Symbiosis of FEIGE and HAVER technology

New automatic pail filling maching for powder products
Again, the Haver Group's engineers have succeeded in combining two technologies into one system. Feige system components for automatic pail handling were successfully assembled with a Haver & Boecker 2-socket impeller packer into one automatic machine.
Pail sizes ranging from 5l to 20l can be filled with powder products fully automatically and with calibrated accuracy at a speed of 500 to 600 pails/h that is otherwise common for liquids.
The first order for this kind of technology was placed by a renowned German construction chemistry company. Both Feige Filling and Haver & Boecker are looking back on many years of good business relations with this customer. As it is implemented for the customer as a project from one source and for the supplier as a project within the group, this undertaking offers enormous advantages for both business partners.
Technically speaking, this automatic system consists of a pail denester with feed belt for feeding the pail pile close to the floor directly from the pallet. Using a special cycle sequence, the containers are positioned with millimetric accuracy via an indexing conveyor at the work stations filling, check weighing, membrane sealing, lid placing and lid pressing. The pails are then filled, sealed and subsequently labelled and palletised in automatic mode.
For this project, the 2-socket-impeller packer developed by Haver & Boecker was modified such that at the position where the filling unit is normally located it was possible to harmoniously integrate the Feige automatic pail filling maching. Empty containers are raised and pressed against the Haver impeller packer in a dust-tight manner. An integrated vibrating device gently compacts the product. During the following work steps, the pails are sealed with a film and then closed with a lid.
The concept offers a modular structure, allowing the subsequent customer request for film sealing certain products to be implemented. The automatic machine can also be equipped with other packers so that various powder products available on the market can be packed automatically, safely and with calibrated accuracy into plastic or metal pails. There are hardly any limits to the areas of application in the chemical and construction industry or even in food processing.
In 2007, the first symbiosis between Haver & Boecker and its subsidiary Feige was already successfully launched on the market with the development of LIFFS (Liquid In Form Fill Seal).
For the purpose of filling plastic bags with liquids, the filling unit and the product flow control running on the Feige weigh scales had been successfully integrated into the Haver FFS technology.
The co-operation potentials in solids and liquids filling demonstrate that the Haver & Boecker Technology Group has more and more developed into a turnkey provider, covering the entire range for filling solids and liquids into bags, pails, cans, tins, barrels or IBC.
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Feige Filling and Sommer offer turnkey solutions for the Paint and Lacquer Industry

In 2003 Feige joined the Haver & Boecker Technology Group. Gerhard Feige, the founder of company Feige, sold his shares to Haver & Boecker.
Since then business has continued to grow. Our market position has been further strengthened. Since 2009 the Haver & Boecker Techology Group holds a stake in Sommer Maschinen- & Anlagenbau.
We offer an all around concept including mixing and producing of colours as well as filling and packing to our customers.
The world-wide leading producers of vessels and mixers on the one hand and machines for the filling of liquid and pasty products on the other hand do not only offer turnkey solutions, but also the respective around the clock service concerning the After Sales activities.
Both companies are globally represented by either their subsidiaries or highly skilled local agents.
Feige and Sommer are always one step ahead when it comes to innovations and as trend-setters offer all possibilities:

• Customized solutions
• Revolutionarily fast
• Perfectly mixed
• Mobile
• Plug & Fill
• High-class robotics (RobotFiller)

Laboratory mixing units and manual filling systems are available for customer’s test runs.

During the last years and decades a number of joint customers already successfully realized their projects with Feige and Sommer. This interface now merged. Continuous developments guarantee a high efficiency of the entire process to our customer.
Feige and Sommer attach great importance to explosion-proof areas, focusing on ATEX conformity of the filling systems themselves as well as the peripheral equipment. All systems are subject to the strict quality management of the certification according to EN ISO 9001.

Not only the customized engineering, also the economic system of standard components, construction groups and control conceptions indicates Feige and Sommer as attractive partner for medium and large sized enterprises in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, petro-chemical industry, building material, paint and lacquer industry, food processing, construction materials industry, logistics and packing industry. A global network of subsidiaries and our agencies in France, Brazil, USA, Spain, Poland, China, India and Singapore focus their utmost attention on our customers, always guided by our head offices in Bad Oldesloe and Düsseldorf.

Liquidus made by Feige for automatic filling of liquid and pasty products in plastic bags

HAVER & BOECKER and FEIGE FILLING, the leading manufacturers of filling machines for bulk material and liquid and pasty products respectively, have succeeded in developing a fully automatic machine for now filling pasty products into plastic bags as well.

The "Liquidus" made by Feige sets the benchmark in automatic filling of liquid and pasty products in plastic bags.

Already last year, the semi automatic "BagFiller" has been launched in market. The positive experiences which have been made with this type of filler have lead to the development of the "Liquidus", in co-operation with the parent company Haver & Boecker. The "Liquidus" is an automatic filling machine which enables the filling via filling valve of up to 640 plastic bags/h (25 kg each) with pasty products.

This enormous output is feasible thanks to the well proven Feige product control providing high speed and clean filling appropriate for verification.

The scale software controls the product flow and thus the degree of opening of the filling valve. The instantaneous weight is continuously measured during filling and subtracted from the target weight (product flow). A control algorithm uses these values to achieve the exact fill weight.

When filling is completed, the remaining air in the bag is extracted to prevent the product from getting into contact with the surrounding air before the bag is closed.

The proven Haver & Boecker FFS machine is the component which produces and handles the bags. Through the co-operation with the parent company the filling process has been harmonised.

Due to the integrated design, comprising all components from bag production to bag out-feed in one equipment, the "Liquidus" can be set into operation with least installation work. Once the product line for supply and return and compressed air is connected and power supply is put on, the new bag filler can straight be used.

This filler reveals remarkably new possibilities for the filling technology as filling in plastic bags is an attractive alternative for the user referring to economic and environmental aspects.

Up to now the building industry has used pails to bring their products (ready-mixed plaster, paints, adhesives, etc.) to the customer on site. Bags, however, are much smaller when the product is used up and can easier be disposed of. Thus, the waste material is clearly less.

Compared to an empty pail, another environmental benefit is the easier transport of the empty bag roll from the packaging material manufacturer to the building material manufacturer. And the roll of empty bags requires much less shipping volume. Furthermore, the production of a bag needs less raw material. This is an aspect both the filling company and the consumer will benefit from as the prices go down.

This new way of packaging is certainly a milestone in environment protection, leading at the same time to reduced costs.

In short, the "Liquidus" made by Feige Filling revolutionises the fully automatic filling of liquid and pasty products.