Feb 15 2012 --- With the continuing growth of the Halewood International brands, the company were in need of a new high speed modular labelling machine that could apply both wet glue and self adhesive labels to ROPP Closure Sparkling Wine and Cork and Wire Champagne style bottles in a variety of sizes including 75cl, 1 Litre and 1.5 Litre.

While the majority of the existing filling line was retained, the old labeller was not able to cater for the exacting requirements needed to dress these iconic brands and after careful evaluation of the labelling machine market, Halewood International again opted for a Makro Labeller. In this instance, the modular labeller is equipped with three stations and comes equipped with Plug and Play removable labelling stations for both wet glue and self-adhesive label dress.

The newly installed machine will be dressing Halewood's Chaumet Sparkling Wine, Bucks Fizz, Lambrini Bubbly and standard Lambrini products with front, back and shoulder labels at speeds up to 14,000 B.P.H.

Richard Portman, managing director of Makro Labelling UK said, "This further acquisition by Halewood International is the largest and fastest machine we have installed in the UK to-date. It includes a number of patented Makro features including the Makro 'Magic Star' multiple format handling starwheel system and Universal scroll, that save a huge amount of time and money for customers where the same items can be used for up to three bottle sizes. In this case we have built the machine to handle five different bottle formats with ten label dress variants, which need only a single scroll and two sets of 'magic star' starwheels to handle the lot. The modular nature of the machine offers the customer the best of both worlds of wet glue and self-adhesive bottle dress, which essentially means that production and engineering can cope with anything that a marketing department will demand in the future."

The contract also called for the newly appointed Makro UK Field Service Team to handle all the mechanical and electrical installation, commissioning and training for the Halewood International production and maintenance personnel.