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Zalkin embraces green initiatives to address today’s environmental challenges!

Zalkin is dedicated to safeguarding our customers while minimizing secondary microplastics and conserving energy resources. Our goal is to promote sustainable and secure technology by curbing plastic pollution, upholding product integrity, and reducing energy consumption. Through ongoing innovation, we tailor our products to align with customer-driven environmental initiatives.

In addition to supporting our customers’ environmental endeavors, Zalkin is actively implementing strategies to reduce plastic waste and microplastics through customized developments with cap and packaging manufacturers. This effort includes enhancing our tethered caps and aluminum bottle capping capabilities, as well as eliminating microplastic particles from caps before they enter the capper.

Tethered Caps

Blue water bottle tethered cap.

Zalkin, a global leader in capping machinery, possesses significant expertise in tethered closures, tailored for the beverage sector. Collaborating closely with cap producers and beverage companies, Zalkin has successfully integrated tethered cap solutions onto more than 100 capping machines, whether refurbished or newly installed.

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Aluminum Bottles

This video highlights Zalkins ROPP Capabilities with aluminum caps on aluminum bottles.

Aluminum packaging helps mitigate environmental impacts by promoting the re-use of containers, recycling, and conserving resources compared to alternative packaging materials.

Zalkin’s proven roll-on capping heads are recognized throughout the wine, spirits and beer industries as best-in-class and they are known for their consistent, dependable performance. Like all Zalkin capping heads, roll-on sealing heads are compatible with Zalkin freestanding rotary cappers, monobloc rotary capping turrets and single head freestanding cappers.

Dedusting

The water industry has become increasingly sensitive to the possible transfer of plastic particles and contamination to products.

Zalkin’s cap dedusting system is easily integrated into your existing line, whether it includes a Zalkin capper or another brand, and offers peace of mind for customers that want to enhance product quality.  Our 3-step implementation includes audits, laboratory testing, and equipment for reducing contaminates to your products. 

Key Features:

  • Exposure time is 10 times greater than existing solutions
  • Dual action ionizing bars for internal and external areas of closure
  • Optimized management of flows for a maximal efficiency with double suction
France Dedusting

The dedusting system is effective for any application requiring dust removal.

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Zalkin Provides Capping Solutions for Customer Through an Innovative Integrated System

Oscar Roberto Aguirre, Maintenance Supervisor of Molding for Cardinal Health, gives a testimonial of Zalkin and P.E. Labellers efforts in providing capping and labeling solutions.

Zalkin and P.E. Labellers work together on an integrated capping and labeling system to provide the best solution for Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health distributes pharmaceuticals, manufactures, and distributes medical and laboratory products, and provide data solutions for healthcare facilities.

Cardinal Health makes their specimen jars in their Mexico facility and was looking for a way to cap a 56mm cap and label their 2 oz. and 4 oz.  jars in an efficient yet simple process. This led them to Zalkin and P.E. Labellers.

“We decided to go with Zalkin because of the technology that Zalkin is using. We did a market study, and it turns out that Zalkin has the latest technology for capping,” said Oscar Roberto Aguirre, Maintenance Supervisor of Molding for Cardinal Health.

Zalkin and P.E. Labellers are both ProMach brands, which allowed them to work seamlessly together to best assist the customer.

“One of the benefits of these two normally, different entities of a capping machine company and a labeling company working together is that with a common ownership of ProMach, they’re under one common corporate umbrella,” said Andy Monroe, Vice President of Business Development for Zalkin. “Which encourages and fosters cooperative relationships between those entities to where one company can facilitate commercial supply and integration of the other companies’ technology.”

They were looking for a completed system that could provide a sealed label and closure to their jars and with the help of P.E. Labellers, Zalkin was able to provide a solution for them.

The system has many different technologies which include a bottle unscrambler, a CAS-3/360 capping machine with both inspection and rejection systems, and a Modular CM 576 Series labeling machine.

Zalkin working with P.E. Labellers allowed for Cardinal Health to receive a complete system for their plant in Tijuana, Mexico.

With their plant being based in Mexico, it was essential to terminate any possible language barriers. With Zalkin, that was possible.

“Not only did Cardinal Health work with a Spanish speaking salesman, but they also had a native Spanish speaking project manager and electrical engineer working on their project,” said Monroe.

Zalkin and P.E. Labellers collaborated to host the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) at the Zalkin facility in Statham, GA. Where the Cardinal Health team tested both the capper and labeler in one visit before setting it up in their shop.

“The FAT has been a very lovely experience so far and the Zalkin team has been treating us well,” said Aguirre.

Customers being able to test equipment is an important and efficient part of the process. “Testing the equipment is super important because we were able to see all of the possible issues we could have had, and we were able to fix them before it is onsite,” said Aguirre.

Having a thorough and robust FAT allows the customer to have a vertical start-up once the equipment arrives at their facility.

Aguirre expressed his satisfaction at the end of the FAT. “I’m feeling satisfied and the management at Cardinal Health will be very happy once this project is finished,” said Aguirre.

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New tethered cap, are you ready for 2024?

Tethered caps has been an omnipresent topic in the packaging industry since the European Union adopted the Single Use Plastic (SUP) directive in 2019. This directive sets strict standards for beverages in single-use plastic bottles and by July 2024, beverages in plastic containers smaller than 3 liters will only be allowed to be sold in Europe if the cap remains attached “tethered” to the bottle. These industry changes call for multiple types of capping applications from machinery such as the articulating jaw from Fogg.

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Select the Right Capping Solution for Your Application

The design of cappers can be divided into two basic categories: in-line machines and rotary capping machines.

In this white paper Andy Monroe, VP of Business Development at Zalkin, explores how these two capping technologies differ in features, design, and their cap and bottle handling capabilities.  Also examined are the initial financial investment, future bottle format changes, operating features, and capper performance all of which to consider when evaluating the capping technology best suited for your application needs.

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