Bee-hive pack can cut production and palletising costs

The "Bee-hive Pack" is a newly developed packaging solution for heat-shrink film bundles which offers the following benefits:

The bottle arrangement in parallel "staggered" rows creates the well-known honeycomb layout, which enhances the structural and mechanical performances of the each single container packed;

The improved "top load" value provided to each single container by the "Bee-hive Pack" allows, when palletising, to avoid the insertion of cardboard pads in between the pallet layers, ensuring huge savings in the packaging material procurement; the new "Bee-hive Pack" is very stable and compact, since packaged containers are "lodged into one another and empty spaces in between are miminised, contrary to what happens in usual rectangle-shaped pack collations where bottles are arranged side-by-side in parallel rows. This feature enables, with certain palletisation schemes, to place a higher number of packs on each pallet layer

The Bee-Hive Pack collation is produced by Smiflexi shrinkwrappers of the LSK/SK series and by Smiflexi wrap-around casepackers of the WP series, all equipped with a dedicated device arranging containers (bottles or cans) in staggered rows in alternate motion and keeping them in that layout all along the whole packing process.

Combining this packaging solution with the large pallet display trays (made by Smiflexi packers in XL version) is recommended since the honeycomb formation allows the insertion of 120 containers (1.5 litres - ? 90 mm) into 2 maxi trays of ? pallet size, instead of the 96 containers usually arranged on a pallet layer when using a standard rectangular pack collation.