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Kraken Automation is a global, value resource for turnkey,
innovative packaging and process automation solutions for a
wide array of food and industry applications. In addition,
Kraken provides a comprehensive range of engineering services
under one roof:
- Customer Consulting
- Project Management
- Design Engineering Services
- Packaging Machinery Mfg
- Integration
- Installation
- Commissioning
- Training
- Parts & Service
| Specializing in Innovative, Fully Automated
Product Feed & Delivery Systems (Material Handling) |
- Optimizing product flow/feed
systems and timing between baggers, freezers, fillers, cooling
tunnels and ovens to flow wrappers, cartoners, case packers,
robotic pick and place as well as palletizing systems to
name a few.
- Product infeed, conveyance and transfer systems between
baggers/pouchers and cartoners. (Bag-in-Box).
- Product accumulation & refeed
systems. Incorporating intelligent technology that will
synchronize between upstream product feeds and downstream
intended destination targets such as cartoners, wrappers
and case packers for example. (For single or multi-component
product insertion requirements)
- Universal intelligent product
feeder systems: (Remove all orphan products from your packaging
equation by having accumulated product feed always available) NEW!
- Product flow/trafficking,
laning, diverting, conveyance, stacking, de-stacking, collation,
sorting, counting, timing, gapping, metal detection, product
settling, detection reject, check- weighing, orientation
etc.
| Kraken Packaging Machinery Equipment |
Kraken General Packaging Machinery:
Case Packing/Carton
Handling Systems
Conveying Systems
- FlexMove flexible chain, table-top conveyors
- End & center
drive, belt conveyor systems with narrow nose pulleys for
positive product transition between conveying system
- Gravity
roller
- Eagle belt conveyors
- Smart-belt, roller infeed conveying
systems
- Air tables
- Elevator serpentine & accumulation
conveyors & belt systems
| Other Packaging Equipment Supported &
Integrated |
- Cartoners: (Intermittent
and continuous motion) (Adco, Jones, Klockner, Langen, Triangle,
Rovema, Bradman Lake
- Baggers: Bosch,
Triangle, Hayssen, Tisma, Rovema
- Pouchers: Klockner-Bartellt, Bosch, Laudenberg
- Flow
wrappers: Bosch
Sigpack, Doboy, Tevopharm, Campbell
- Robotics: ABB, Fanuc
| Raw Ingredients Process System Solutions |
- Bulk material and batching
handling systems/solutions incorporating:
Cooking or extrusion systems, forming and cutting, product
drying, liquid additive preparation, baking or forming (puffing),
enrobing. Product analysis and sorting and final conditioning/
preparation
| Systems Integration & Support Engineering
Services |
- Turnkey Greenfield
plant installations
- Turnkey, total In-plant Packaging and Process
Automation systems/solutions
- New equipment line integration
services & upgrades.
- Plant relocates
Engineering services
- Plant automation engineering consulting
services. (Onsite or offsite)
- CAD drawing services resource
- Automation PLC programming
- Control
panel design and build services
| Packaging Machinery & Line Upgrades/Asset
Reutilization & Relocates |
Upgrades
- Kraken
Automation has extensive experience in industry packaging machinery
upgrades or relocates. We specialize in cartoners produced
by many leading manufacturers, pouchers, baggers, flow-wrappers,
scales and metal detectors as well as specific line upgrade
requirements.
Key advantages of our services
- Process optimization,
reduced down-time, production efficiency, lowest cost per case
and open information access.
Food
- (canned, pouches,
bag, chubs, bottles, tubs, trays etc). (Food retail, warehousing,
distribution & co-packing)
- Bakery products- (bagels,
bread, muffins, pie, crackers, cookies etc)
- Cereal/Breakfast
Meals
- Poultry/Meat
- Frozen Foods, Multi-meals, Snacks
- Confectionery,
Condiments, Sauces, ( Rice, Pasta, Seasoning, Mashed/Sliced
Potato- Pouched/Bagged products)
- Dairy, Tea/Coffee/Chocolate
mix etc.
Beverage
- Breweries, Wine/Water Distillery, Dairy,
Soda pop, Juices Industries
Personal & Household Consumable
Products
Pharmaceutical Industry
Distribution/Warehousing Logistics
Industry |
Bill Grant, President of Kraken Automation gives his insights to
some of the issues around plant-floor automation as it relates
to packaging.
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more
High speed, top load case packing
system
Your answer to high speed case packing in a small footprint,
(up to 25 CPM / 300 PPM
Chub pack producers we have the throughput
solution to your current case packing bottle-neck challenges!
This system will run any Chub product; meat/vegetables/sauces/dressings/
cookie-dough etc. Our system, is also custom designed to handle
a variety of product formats and case sizes.
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High Speed Drop Load Case Packing
in a Small Footprint (4’ X 12’) including infeed
and Lane Diverter, 130 BPM / 20 CPM) Kraken KCP130-20
This high speed, small footprint, 2
axis Drop Load Case Packing system comes complete
with product laning diverter & infeed
collation/ accumulation as well as drop gate.
With an integrated
case orientation and case management system allows for increased
loading flexibility. Our system is ideal for handling bottles,
jugs, tubs, cans, cartons, cartridges etc. Excellent competitive
price-performance positioning within a new class of industry
small footprint packaging.
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Semi-automatic high speed case packing system with product infeed,
upender, and indexing system with single or dual manual pack
station (160 PPM)
This system has multi-benefits associated with manual case packing
requirements.
Products can be reoriented/upended to their edge,
indexed in a variety of precision pack count configurations (6,
12, 16 18, 24 & 36).
Products can then be packed easily and
accurately by operators into their ship cases.
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Kraken Accumulator Indexer, Transfer System, KAIT-120, (120
PPM)
The Kraken KAIT-120 is a cost effective product feed system
that incorporates the use of unique motion control technology
for handling random fed product from baggers, pouchers or wrappers.
This is achieved by intelligently feeding products such as
bags/pouches via an intelligent, high-grip roller infeed and
product buffering zone.
This intelligence utilizes product sensing
coupled with a motion controlled roller infeed to mate and place
products on target, into travelling cartoner infeed buckets for
example.
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| Integrated Technology Partners |
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ABB |
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Allen Bradley |
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Bosch |
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Festo |
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Emerson Axima |
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GE Fanuc |
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Parker |
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Mitsubishi |
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Modicon |
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Omron |
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Siemens |
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Wonderware |
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