STARPAK PRODUCT RANGE

• Green Star Technology
• StarView Technology
• New Type Sealbar

With worldwide awareness on a need for a “Green Friendly” approach to life, Starpak has decided to take a proactive role in reducing our carbon footprint. Understanding the impact our industry has on the environment, we have invested in research and technologies that have considerably reduced our direct effect on the environment.

Not only are we committed to full compliance with relevant environmental legislation, and raising the awareness of employees with regards to green issues (and how they can help), but we have specifically developed our technological approach to the way we build our machines by introducing the Green Star Technology to our machines.

Besides the fact that we monitor our transport and travel; focus on minimising waste (reducing packaging and recycling) & ensure efficient use of precious resources, we have developed ways of drastically reducing the energy consumption of our machinery and as a result we have managed to save our customers around 40% of their energy bill.

In any business, downtime is one of the most expensive costs that a business can face. When it comes to break downs, your location can play a vital role to the response time of our service team, especially if your location is on the other side of the continent. Even for local customers there can always be reasons that response times can be delayed. Whatever the reason, valuable time and resources can be wasted.

We saw the opportunity to develop a system that allows us to respond to our customers immediately, no matter where they are in the country or the world for that matter. With our machines in remote locations and the with the communication & languages barriers we face especially in Africa, the StarView support module from Starpak became a necessity in the production process. With this technoloy we are able to respond to customers immediately without the need to travel, eliminating costs and more im portantly downtime.

Our StarView technology uses the latest hardware and software in downtime management control which allows us to problem solve as if we were onsite. With all support modules in place we can respond to PLC as well as mechanica l faults within minutes .

Probably the most important feature of the shrink-wrapping system. Maintained & used properly it can increase the efficiency of your machine.

Those that have worked with it know that if it is not inserted correctly with correct spacing, it can end up giving you a lot of grief. The average sealbar* has a lifespan of about 500 000 cycles.

Careful consideration must be taken with spacing, insulation, calibration & if you don’t have a spare sealbar you can wait anything up to 3 hours before you are running properly again.

At Levy & Smith / Starpak, we identified the need to simplify the way we maintain our sealbars. As a result we have come up with a way that not only saves you from the hassle of realigning or recalibrating, but from the time you shut the machine down to the time you are running again is now only 8 minutes…

This is it! The main section of the unit is permanently mounted into the machine with the correct settings. This does not need to be altered ever again.

Only the insert is removed, serviced and re-inserted. If you have a spare the process is even quicker! Research has shown that the average sealbar* using this new technology can achieve upwards of 2 million cycles. (* Average sealbar used in an aerosol plant, with temperature at 160 degrees at about 20 packs per minute)

Lets recap why the new sealbar technology will work for you:

1. No more realigning or recalibrating. Just one initial installation.
2. Downtime is decreased by 96% which means increase for your efficiencies.
3. Maintenance costs are decreased by 80%. Less downtime means less maintenance costs.
4. You can increase your cycle usage by up to four fold by using the new system.