PPMA SHOW approaches fast!

Jenton are going for it at this year's PPMA show.

On Stand A10 we'll have the new Jenton-Ariana Collator, the latest Jenton-Ariana seal tester and a line showing convergers, stackers and banders all working togther. We'll also have a pack testing station so that you can bring your packs and see if our testers are suitable for your products.

On stand A81 we'll be showcasing the latest selection of Banders and banded Products from ATS. Heat and Ultrasonic seal machines, plain and printed, paper and film materials will all be on show.

Please come and see us. Please bring your samples. If you need any assistance at the show please call 077 200 76690 and we'll come and find you!

Seal testers in demand

Another seal tester sold today! The JentonAriana seal testers are ideal for rejecting individual gas flushed packs (ie meat / bread / pasta) at the point of packaging - so the contents can be re packaged rather than being rejected later and thrown away. This is a very popular concept with the guys at WRAP!

In addition, the end customers have less problems with mouldy goods due to poor seals!

The Jenton seal testing system is very accurate, tests every pack and only rejects the bad ones. It also feeds back information on machine and seal performance - one less headache for the production manager (and the account manager for the supermarket who gets the call about leakers found in store...)

Call 01256 892194 and ask for info!

Supermarkets getting the banding message..

Finally....the concept that banding is THE way to package innovatively and sustainably is sinking in!!

We have two big supermarkets (we can't say which ones) looking at banding in film and/or paper for a variety of tasks.

Bands can repace outer cartons or hold packs onto a shelf ready tray so that shelves can be filled quickly and efficiently with minimum transit waste being generated (see photo).

we can now print digitally onto the banding material so each band is unique and bands can double up as labels - or even provide the whole package. With spring onions, for example, the band holds the onions together and acts as the label.

the Women's Institute can't grumble about that....

See Jenton's Banding Website for more information.

Jenton to exhibit at HVAC showcase

We've booked a stand at the Easyfairs HVAC exhibition in Brussels, Belgium on 23/24 September. This will allow us to showcase the UV disinfection equipment from Sanuvox in Canada and, of course, the Vibration Analysis equipment we make in C-Cubed (our main market for Pocket Vibra is for HVAC fans and pumps).

Sanuvox is the leading company in North America manufacturing UV sources for air disinfection and UV disinfection of AC coils, ducting and filters. Sanuvox's patented "Biowall" multi-lamp system allows high intensity UV to treat large airflows with minimum disturbance to existing ducting as all lamps are in line with the flow.

In trials at McGill University and published in 'The Lancet', Sanuvox air disinfection UV reduced "sick building syndrome" in offices by up to 40%!

At Jenton, the bulk of our 11 separate UV source patents are suited for air disinfection and we are very pleased with our partnership with such a significant UV player. Read all about it at JenAct website

C-Cubed are winners in South Africa

It's not just the Spanish who are pleased they went to South Africa!

Jenton Group's C-Cubed team have found their perfect partners in Pretora Based Alignment And Vibration Services AVSRSA website

This company, founded in 1991 are THE experts in Africa for all aspects of predictive maintenance on industrial machinery. In just 2 years Sue Opperman and her colleagues have become C-Cubed's best selling overseas distributors for the Pocket Vibra, Pocket Vibra-PRO and Pocket Balancer ranges.

Their website is excellent and their blog is even better with access to informative technical papers on all aspects of vibration analysis, balancing, alignment and data acquisition.

If you are anywhere near South Africa and want to learn about vibration analysis and predictive maintenance, call Sue on +27 12 661 7844. If not, of course, call C-Cubed on +44 1256 892194

Linked to Lincoln

Yesterday I visited a fabulous facility at Lincoln University's Holbeach Campus - the 'National Centre for Food manufacturing - Training and Research Centre' Lincoln Uni website Mike Dudbridge, the Principal lecturer theere has done a fantastic job in rasing funds to build a state-of-the-food-art research centre to latest food factory standards.

There are a number of official parners, such as Multivac, Baro, Ishida, PPMA etc. and there's even a whole food packaging line including multihead weigher, tray sealer, weigh price labelling and various inspection systems. Employees of food companies and other interested parties can sign up for degree courses in a number of relevant subjects for part time/full time/ distance learning and it's a really good resource.

I was up there to introduce Jenton's seal testing technology and UV disinfection systems and have left equipment there for evaluation and demonstration. Mike's ahead of the game with seal integrity research and I'd recommend contacting him for updates on his reseach and on the various technologies available

New Building!

We've got a new building!

we now have our 4th building in Whitchurch, hants. "Unit 13" is mainly for storage but it realeases space in our "Unit 6" which has been developed as a showroom for Jenton's packaging machines and Packaging automation and also contains our UV Curing workshop with loads of UV curing lamps, conveyors, UV radiometers and testing equipment.

Now we hope that potential customers can come down and really try out our UV kit before committing to purchase. We even have some competitors' UV curing equipment there for comparision.

Oh, and check out our new LED website, www.jentonuvled.com