News

Over the last two years the Soudronic Group has developed the Soudronic Food Safety Standard in collaboration with an accredited Swiss laboratory. This unique standard is intended for the “basic hygiene” production section, where there is no direct contact with …

New, more robust, silicone-free design. Customer benefits Retrofitting

Body Blank Height changeover time is becoming increasingly important. With the new Easy Setup Feeder Magazine, a fast BBH changeover without the use of any tools brings more efficiency for canmakers. Advantages Retrofitting

New, economic suction cup for destacker of AFB 200/600 and SOUCAN 100 – 760 With this new development Soudronic launches an economic suction cup for the destacker that features an increased life time for low and medium range machines at …

The CT-3 Cone Tester is used for testing the conical expansion of the can bodies at the leading and trailing ends. Model name CT-3 Cone Tester Sheet thickness 0.14 – 0.50 mm Can-body diameter 45 – 330 mm Can-body height …

Fluctuating ambient temperatures affect lacquer viscosity and have a negative effect on the coating quality. By controlling the temperature of the lacquering gun (cooling and heating), the lacquer temperature can be precisely regulated (+/-1°C) regardless of the ambient temperature. Using …

The UNITOOL setting positions have a direct influence on the welding quality. Therefore, these positions must be set very precisely when changing formats and tools In order to achieve even greater efficiency when changing formats and tools, the tool height, …

Maintenance is much easier with the roller head service kit. In the Roller Head Service Kit, the customer has all required tools and spare parts at hand for the roller head maintenance. Efficient refinishing and alignment of the roller heads …

Wire break safety device for DSA with stand-alone wire chopper More space and flexibility in line layout design. The drum with the copper wire shreds can be positioned according to layout requirements thanks to the new option. The wire chopper …

Automatic filter cleaning during production guarantees a continuous and uninterrupted powder seam coating and increases the efficiency of the production plant. The installation of a bypass system in the FDC recycling unit enables continuous filter cleaning during production, thereby preventing …

Thanks to the new Calibrating Force Monitor, all welding-related influences can be detected. Soudronic engineers have reached another major milestone that will boost production reliability in welding technology. So far cold welds caused by overlap errors could not be detected. …

Reliable, safe and clean: the welding roller dressing unit VS-30 leaves nothing to be desired. A perfect roller head quality is the basis for a safe and efficient welding function. Therefore, it is a fundamental condition that the groove geometry …

Motor-driven regulation of wire width for the wire profiling unit. Constant wire width – measured and corrected in real time Tedious measuring and manual correction no longer necessary. Meeting requirements despite ever-increasing quality standards As machines become faster and faster, …

An easier format change is hard to imagine. Feeder settings Quick reproducible format settings are the key to high-efficiency machines. Easy and time-saving In order to ensure trouble-free sheet separation, the feeder settings must be reproduced very precisely. With the …

Soudronic now offers the diagnostics functionality of the Adaptive Rounding System (ARS) as an individual feature under the name Soudronic Rounding Measuring Device (SRM). Cost pressure is forcing canmakers to increase line efficiency. The demands made of machine operators are …

The new feature allows rapid diagnostics without the need for auxiliary equipment on the UNICONTROL screen. Diagnosis of CAN bus problems is usually difficult without the help of an experienced specialist because the necessary measuring instruments are not available. The …

As the demand for greater all-round can quality increases, the packaging industry needs more effective production monitoring. One area of the manufacturing process crucial to quality is seam coating control. Fortunately, it is now a simple task to make vital …

New version of the standard tool The latest generation of our standard tool is configurable for various requirements. In its simplest form, it is ideal for cost-effective sample production but can easily be modified for more exacting requirements. Retrofitting is …

The new option allows for faster, more precise adjustment of the flexer unit. Flexing precuts the rounding and is thus an important part of the rounding process. By drawing on empirical values obtained over many years in tough production environments …

Corrosion-resistant burner tubes can be used to prevent corrosion caused by lacquer condensate, humidity, and oxidization as a result of thermal stress. Using corrosion-resistant materials eliminates material oxidization inside the burner tube, guaranteeing a continuous burner function and reducing the …

The tandem OSS was developed with a view to improving weld seam quality. Having two OSS units increases the thickness of the lacquer layer and protects the weld seam effectively against corrosion. Certain market regions and segments require increased protection …

Plastic parts, such as inductor housings, are subject to influences that are difficult to simulate in laboratory tests. In particular, the sheer number of different solvents makes it virtually impossible to assess what happens when they condense. The Soudronic development …

The COMBO welding arm offers maximum flexibility and is compatible with different roller head designs. It is now also available for high-speed welders. The welding arm and the interchangeable front section are perfectly coordinated and verified and optimized using finite …

High welding speeds call for special measures to prevent tin build-up in the wire guide pulleys. With conventional wire systems (excluding UNIWIRE technology), the copper wire is no longer actively cooled once it has passed through the lower welding roller. …

New electric monitoring of the gas flow rate immediately recognizes malfunctions and enables effective quality control. Applying nitrogen to the weld seam prevents the formation of an oxide layer that would lead to inferior lacquer adhesion. If the gas flow …

Automatic monitoring detects low lacquer levels immediately and enables operators to replace or refill the bottle in good time, guaranteeing continuous production, free of unnecessary disruptions. Detection sensors on PRC-T and PRC-TS outside seam lacquering systems permit hassle-free monitoring of …

The new ANL-LST is a logical development of the outside seam lacquering unit that has proven its worth for so many years now. Its outstanding qualities are the relatively low acquisition and running cost, maximum flexibility, first-class ergonomics and ease …

Our seam-cooling units are now simpler, more efficient and save energy. And thanks to optimized aerodynamics, there is no longer any need to cool the air used for the application.

A detailed damage analysis showed that the most common cause of damage is wear and tear of the sealing components. New food-grade lubricants are now used to comply with increasingly strict safety and quality requirements. Improvements to the sealing components …

Phthalate-free plastic components are making the world a safer place for us all. Phthalate esters are used primarily as plasticizers in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) products and other synthetics. The addition of phthalates makes plastics, which are often brittle, more flexible …

The maintenance-free chain requires no lubrication. In the past, some customers have preferred a belt conveyor because, unlike the chain conveyor, it needed no active lubrication. However, the belt conveyor had two disadvantages: it was not possible to use the …

The new compact design of the lacquer application and reject conveyor (LARC) with its ergonomic lacquer drip pan and practical worktops is extremely user-friendly. The drawer-like arrangement of the lacquer tanks for the outside (OSS) and internal (LAS) spray systems …

Sooner or later, depending on its quality and viscosity, lacquer may separate in the tank. This can severely reduce the quality of the seam coating. An agitator helps to prevent separation and guarantees consistent lacquer quality. The agitator comprises a …

A method for scoring can bodies when standard scoring (V-scoring) reaches its limits. In cut-scoring the cold deformation of the material is much lower. The remaining ductility is therefore much higher than in V-scoring, which is preferable for necking and …

New innovative, wear-free swivel bearing for bearing transport, flexer and rounding rolls. The swivel bearings turn through only a small angle. The cut blanks conveyed by the transport rolls exert a considerable impact force. As a result of the high …

UNIWIRE takes speed into a new dimension. Perfectly even gaps between can bodies on the welding plane are no longer wishful thinking. Fluctuations in the gaps between cans generate different forces at the leading and trailing end of the can …

Powder spray head: retaining lip adjustment made easy User-friendly, simple, individual and reproducible height adjustment of retaining lips without changing the spray width. In contrast to the previous version, where the height of the retaining lips was not adjustable, the …

Soudronic offers conversion kits for all widely sold welder types. Every day, canmakers are confronted with the problem of processing sheet metal in different yield strengths, plain or lithoed, for different brands and in mixed batches (from the beginning and …

Contact-free lacquer application stands for undemanding setting. Thanks to the low application pressure the OSS environment remains clean. OSS is the new high performance alternative solution. Low pressure application meets high-speed: The use of the OSS permits the contact-free application …

The wire-break safety device on the DSA prevents welding machines from making emergency stops. Advantages

Reducing noise pollution at work is an increasingly important issue. Better acoustics improve productivity. Noise-induced hearing impairments are one of the most common recognized occupational diseases. In many countries, noise protection and occupational safety legislation requires machine owners to ensure …

With the ZM520 digital body blank measuring unit, operators can now measure body blank cuts simply and precisely. Designed for everyday use on the factory floor, the rugged units measure the length, width and angle of body blank cuts as …

Combine tried and tested FBB with the latest SOUCAN technology to slash energy costs and optimize running. Simply optimizing current conduction can cut your energy costs by as much as 30%! Reduced thermal radiation in the rounding zone provides huge …

UNI-Q is a new approach designed to generate uniform quality and performance standards that meet or exceed customers’ expectations. We can achieve this by integrating quality-related functions and processes all the way down the production line. UNI-Q monitors and assesses …

The hot burst tester simulates procedures in the autoclave. It enables the quality of the sealing to be tested under very realistic conditions. Following tests can be simulated:

A new alternative to the well-proven gas curing systems. The Soudronic induction curing system – a future-oriented solution for a successful can production – is one of the new developments available. It represents an alternative to the well-proven gas curing …