SP3 Filling Hot Melt Adhesive at 130 °C into Drums and IBCs — Synthesia Española, Spain
| Customer | Synthesia Española |
| Country | Spain (Barcelona area) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Industry | Adhesives |
| Product | Hot melt adhesive, filled at around 130 °C |
| Containers | Drums and IBCs (totes), on pallet |
| Machine | SP3 |
| Functions | Automatic filling by net weight · nozzle cleaning in place (CIP) · drum labelling on a rotating table |
| Accuracy | ±0.1% |
| Ready for | Drum and IBC decapping/capping and sealing, to be added on the same tool head |
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The challenge
Synthesia needed to fill hot melt adhesive at around 130 °C into drums and IBCs, with no operator handling a product that hot, and with labelled drums leaving straight towards the outside of the building.
The solution
Workshop test
An SP3: a Cartesian machine whose tools move left–right and up–down, while a position-controlled conveyor moves the drums and IBCs back and forth under them. Machine vision locates each container. The tool head can carry up to four tools; here it carries the filling tool and a clean-in-place system, with room kept free to add decapping, capping and sealing later without changing the machine.
The line is U-shaped. Inside the U, a rotating table turns each drum almost a full circle in front of a labeller, and the containers then leave towards the outside.
The result
Hot adhesive filled by net weight to ±0.1% with no operator contact, and a line that can grow into full decapping, capping and sealing when the customer needs it.
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