The Wrigley Company has transformed the packaging of its Hubba Bubba bubble gum into a “slick, high-speed operation” with automated machines from Schubert.
Four TLM-F44 packaging systems are packing rolls of bubble gum tape into plastic dispenser shells. The “neatly-coiled” 180cm rolls of bubble gum are loaded onto product carriers where a series of four-axis robots pick and place the rolls to ensure correct insertion into the dispenser shells during filling.
Simultaneously, half-opened plastic shells are fed from the other side of the system and placed into product carriers by robots fitted with special gripper tools.
Both infeed conveyors meet and the rolls are pushed into the shells and sent for labelling. Defective components are identified by a vision system and removed before they reach the packaging operation.