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.

Pallet filling machine with reliable bunghole location

For almost 20 years Feige has been fitting its liquid filling equipment for liquid and pasty products with patented camera system. For fully automatic filling the camera system automatically locates the bungholes of the containers on the pallet. Any type of container can automatically be filled – ranging from the 20 l can up to the 1000 l IBC. Many years of experience with different fields of application helped the Feige engineers to continuously develop the camera system which has always been adapted to the latest state-of-the-art in sensor and image processing technology.

This development of the patented camera system is incorporated in the innovative Feige pallet filler type 37. Thus, this machine is the first automatic pallet filler offering the proven “Plug & Fill” concept.

“Plug & Fill“ is the Feige concept to integrate all components of the electric and pneumatic control into the machine and to set the machine into operation directly after mains supply and compressed air have been connected. In this way, extensive installation and commissioning work on site can be omitted.

The positions of the filling openings – from 20 l to 1000 l IBC - are automatically located by a camera system and the pallet filler automatically fills the containers one after the other and approved for verification. Of course, the development of the previous Feige system recognises whether the containers are open or closed. And the camera system will not be influenced by dirt, labels or water stains on the container head. This makes the system most suited to several fields of application, even in hazardous area and will lead to remarkable increase in productivity. The camera system is also suited to remote maintenance. Feige is able to configure new container types or particular applications for the customer – worldwide and cost-effective.

Thus, the filling experts at Feige use a well-proven system with highest pixel resolution providing exact and safe positioning of tools during filling.

The innovative “Plug & Fill“ pallet filler type 37 offers a sophisticated, quick and safe matrix technology to fill most different types of containers. A fork lift truck places a pallet with the empty and open containers on a pit scale platform. After the START button is pressed the full image camera system identifies the coordinates of the filling openings. The three positioning systems (for x-, y- and z-axis of the filler) automatically position the filling unit to the calculated coordinates and filling is started. The operator will only be prompted to change the pallet. Thus, the system offers highest productivity in production.

The construction and the construction dimension of the automatic pallet filler even enable the filling of several layers and the filling of incomplete pallets.

As usual, the innovative Feige pallet filler is a gravimetric system where filling is controlled by the well-proven Feige weigh scale.