Packaging machinery chosen for distillery

Ocme, from Parma, Italy, has successfully installed OCME Altair and OCME Orion packaging machinery for the William Grant distillery in Scotland.

The distillery was founded in 1887 and is today run by the fifth generation of family and distils some of the world’s leading brands of Scotch whisky, including Glenfiddich, The Balvenie range and Grant’s.

OCME has installed an Orion HM2 in-line high-level palletiser and an Altair A60 wrap-around case packer with preformed partitions at the distillery. They will replace superseded machinery within the distillery.

The installed Orion HMN2 palletiser has two lane in-line, high-level infeed together with turning and layer forming manipulator systems. The maximum speed is up to 10 layers/minute and is suitable for unstable and fragile products such as the Grant’s glass bottle. This palletiser is suited to bundles, cartons, plastic crates and multipacks.

The Altair A60 wrap-around case packer can process 40 cases per minute and uses an electronic finger container format selection system and is equipped with a high-capacity, precision carton blanks feeder magazine. It is designed to pack a wide range of containers and to handle fragile items such as glass bottles, avoiding breakages or damage to product labels. The preformed partitions use a low-cost, preassembled solid-pressed cardboard, which protect the containers and their labels from damage.