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UK machinery manufacturers Endoline and Quin revealed yesterday that they had installed five of their Versapack case erecting and packing systems in the last year, and hope sales will more than double this year following Total.

The Versapack has been created by combining Quin’s RTheta Casepacker with Endoline’s 220 series of case erectors. It runs at 20 cases and 100 picks per minute, on a particularly compact footprint of 1,800x1,750mm.

Endoline managing director Tony Hacker said the Versapack combined the functions of a case erector and packing system “into one very fast machine”.

“We believe it’s the smallest, fastest product of this type of machine in the world,” he added.

Quin Systems managing director Mike Webb said typical payback on the system was 12 months, because of the speed of the machine and because an operator was only needed to refill the hopper with new flat cases.

The rest of the process runs automatically.

Applications including roll-wrapped biscuits, flow-wrapped wet-wipes and cartoned ready meals are all suitable for the Versapack system, according to Hacker, although he said the firms were not aiming the machine at fresh food products.

Hacker said the firms had started to market the Versapack in the UK and had a distribution network established across Europe. Enquiries had also come from Australia.

“It’s most definitely an exportable product, but UK manufactured,” said Hacker.

Endoline is on stands 4250 and 4251, while Quin is on stand 5221.