The new packaging lines at BIC’s plant in Greece are a bit of a hybrid for Alloyd. In essence, each line combines Alloyd’s 20-station blister packaging machine with a 12 ½-kW radio-frequency (RF) sealing station from Alloyd subsidiary, Callanan that replaces the heat-seal station. The blister machine itself provides for automatic feeding of both blisters and insert cards, while the product loading is done by hand.
The machine’s operation is described by Mike Osber, a BIC shaver packaging engineer: “We’re basically using just four of the automatic stations on the machine. At station one, the machine inserts the back blister into the nesting tray,” he says. After another station loads what BIC calls the body card, the machine cycles through the manual loading stations where the shavers themselves are inserted.
