Hi Heiko:

Let me introduce myself.  I am a Plant Manager in Venezuela. I been working in the beverage/food industry in Venezuela for 20 years.
I have known from Kallfass since 1995 when I was working for Gatorade Plant in Valencia, Venezuela (Productos Quaker C.A) . In those days I purchased 2 Kallfass Sleeve Wrapper + traypacker for packaging Gatorade Botlles
During the operation I had the visit of Jens Kallfass in our plant. I was really proud of the excellent performance of both lines with Kallfass machines in the venezuelan Gatorade Plant.

In 2008, I attended  the Interpack and visited your Kallfass booth and I had the oportunity to say hello to Mr Jens Kallfass. I was surprissed for the outstanding evolution in your equipments.

About the project packaging machine I will review all the information you sent me and contact you in a couple of weeks.

Best Regards,

Plant Manager

A member of one of the world leading shrinkfilm manufacturers after visiting Kallfass agency in US is reporting  the following to his colleagues (extract):

Hi All,

I was able to spend some time with the people of Kallfass this week and I was able to check out the Universa,400 and 500 series.

From what I seen I was impressed,  hopefully below I will help explain the features and benefits of the machines.
The equipment is well designed and of extremely solid construction and isn't over engineered, in my opinion it is actually more user friendly than most equipment out there..........Another nice feature is the tunnel "hood", this top chamber is adjustable via 4 bolts, this allows for low profile as well as taller products .............

To recap some of the pros ( my opinion) and cons (not my opinion but what others may perceive)  to the equipment .

PRO'S

1.  Smaller footprint
2.  Faster speeds
3.  Easy set up.
4.  No plc.
5.  Spare Part consolidation
6.  User friendly touch screen
7.  Emergency heat mode
8.  Jam mode
9.  Windows based.
10.Flash card memory, easy reload, no laptops.
11.System Diagnoses problem and also tells you why.
12.Nearly all parts are  Allen wrench accessible.
13.All metric
14.No need fro additional infeeds

CON'S

1. All metric. ( for most large companies this wouldn’t be an issue)
2. End user only wants AB.
3. Not made in US

Kinnerton (Confectionery) Co. Ltd:  UNIVERSA 500 SERVO performance report

Dear Mr Kallfass,

I have made inquiries and can tell you that the UNIVERSA 500 has performed very well during its first season of wrapping advent calendars without any major problems, we improved on the savings  we declared we would achieve, in order to receive the capital approval to purchase the machine. The actual numbers wrapped on this machine will be forwarded to you tomorrow by Mr H Little, the engineer responsible for the machine.

                                         With the very best wishes.

Total amount of advents produced = 8,912,000, this is broken down into:

Advent one
(Kallfass UNIVERSA 500 SERVO) = 5,112,000

there were no major breakdowns on this machine.

Advent two
(Kallfass UNIVERSA 400) = 3,800,000.

 

HASBRO Ireland, after a visit at Kallfass in Nürtingen:

Heiko / Tino,
Many thanks for the time you gave to both David and I last week at your facility.
The demonstration of SB was very helpful and I look forward to getting my trial samples in the coming days.
I must complement you on your facility, operations and product quality; very impressive.
Best Regards,

 

Hasbro Ireland

Zimmer Switzerland Manufacturing GmbH

Dear Mr. Frei and Mr. Kallfass,

I kindly thank you for the excellent cooperation during the project Shrink Packaging Line. Your great support took us one step further regarding the final packaging of our products. The packaging line is working faultlessly and the staff enjoys working with it. Last but not least to mention is the high-quality instruction provided by your service technician Mr. René Burkhard.

The additional efforts made by Saropack and Kallfass (special machine modification) are not to be overlooked. We hope the positive impression will last for a long time, especially regarding the lines availability.

Again, thank you very much for the efforts.

Yours sincerely 

Zimmer Switzerland Manufacturing GmbH

LEGO System A/S after a visit at Kallfass in Nürtingen:

Hello Jens,

Thank you for a nice visit and FAT test, and yes, I enjoyed the visit .
Regarding the issues we discussed yeaterday, I have talked to my colleges about the CE-marking and color of main switches.
LEGO always use black main switches but since this machine will not operate in a LEGO facility the red ones a OK, and the same is the case with the CE-marking.
So no changes is necessary on the machine, before shipment!

Nice weekend to you.

 Kind regards