More and more, manufacturers within the industry are realizing the benefits of providing perfect boxes to their customers… improved client trust and retention, fewer instances of damaged product due to defective boxes, increased volume, and a higher price per box. We noticed this change as it was happening years ago and started quickly working on new technology to meet the required need to innovate the old standard.
Well, a young, dynamic company named ClearVision Technologies, Inc. out of Vancouver, Canada, started by a group of talented entrepeneurs, beat everyone to the punch. With a devote focus to solve the industry’s issue by creating the best camera inspection technology, and to do it first, they were recognized by the very strongest companies as the solution that could actually guarantee a perfect box for its customers. Their expertise built from years of research and 
working one on one with customers to discover an innovative vision inspection solution, produced thousands of real examples showing exactly how they could now do this. After successful installation at one of the largest integrators, the product went to market. As a result, it wasn’t hard for others to realize the decision to invest in ClearVision™.
Valco Melton quickly recognized that ClearVision™ had become the corrugated industry standard. As the leading adhesive dispensing company in the industry for almost 40 years, we wanted to make sure that the camera inspection experts joined our team. The synergies of the two companies were perfect, and so ClearVision™ was added to Valco Melton’s umbrella of solutions for adhesive dispensing and vision inspection.
With the added knowledge and experience from Valco Melton’s adhesive application division, ClearVision™ has continued to show the industry how it can also find peace in The Perfect Box™. To date, more than 284 box plants worldwide have discovered the gains and additional cost benefits with ClearVision™ box inspection and bundle ejection systems:
- Detection systems only spray bad boxes.
- Operators cannot be relied upon to remove bad boxes.
- Research shows fewer than 10% of sprayed boxes are removed.
- You cannot promise your customers 100% quality unless you are certain of removing non-conforming product.
To learn more about how ClearVision’s patented camera technology is changing the way box makers do business, and how you too can take advantage of this opportunity to deliver more value to your customers click here.
Despite a wide range of opinions and options in regards to manufacturing in the corrugated industry, the most successful box makers worldwide all seem to agree on one thing; that is, to provide customers with anything less than defect-free boxes 1
00% of the time is unacceptable. It used to be that manufacturers had to expect a certain margin of error, running machines slowly, and spending time manually checking each bundle as best they could to ensure each customer was going to keep coming back. With new vision technology innovations out in the market and successfully guaranteeing The Perfect Box™, bad box excuses are now just excuses. Customers have found that there are companies with camera inspection technology on their production lines that can actually produce a complete and perfect bundle at extremely high speeds without the need for operator intervention. This means less waste, higher production rates, and a guarantee that boxes once delivered won’t cause manufacturing problems for the end user.
Do you want to hear more? Let me know: esource@valcomelton.com
This just in! Another exciting happening has just recently been released to the public by Valco Melton. You are hearing it here first!
I am excited to officially announce that Valco Melton, a world leading designer and international marketer of adhesive application equipment and quality assurance (QA) systems is pleased to announce the acquisition of ClearVision Technologies, Inc. of Vancouver, Canada.
ClearVision Technologies, Inc. has become the market leader in the development and engineering of vision-based inspection products for corrugated box manufacturing. Since 2004, ClearVision Technologies has extensively pioneered intelligent camera technologies for packaging markets and has developed a top-tier suite of solutions that have been leading the industry in bringing QA capabilities to new heights. ClearVision™ will now become a brand name of quality assurance (QA) solutions by Valco Melton.
The acquisition will complement the Valco Melton family of products, combining ClearVision Technologies’ expertise in vision systems with Valco Melton’s world-wide coverage for service and support. This acquisition is another example of Valco Melton’s continued commitment towards being the world leader in adhesive dispensing and QA systems. To learn more about our organization and vision for the future, we invite you to please contact us by visiting here.
Valco Melton will display an impressive line of coating and converting technologies at the upcoming ICE Europe show in Munich, Germany, November 8-10. As the world’s leading event in conversion industries such as paper, film, foil, and nonwovens, ICE Europe is the ideal place to come and see leading companies like Valco Melton, display their latest, top-notch coating and converting equipment.
At this show, several notable products will be featured, including Valco Melton’s FlexCoat™ Head with standard slot and FlexCoat™ head with rotating bar technology. These two applicators offer extreme flexibility by supporting multiple adhesive application needs while reducing spare parts inventory and improving production efficiency.
Also on display will be one of Valco Melton’s latest Coating Cassettes. Designed to provide high precision adhesive application, these cassettes can process a great range of materials including textiles, papers, foams, and foil. Finally, Valco Melton will feature one of their state of the art drum melters. These easy to install melters are user friendly and offer maximum reliability with minimal downtime.
Discover more by visiting Valco Melton at Hall B5, Stand 1016. We look forward to seeing you there! If you'd like to make an appointment now to visit with one of our expert sales engineers while at the show, you can easily do that today:
What I've found through my research is that few companies can boast the knowledge and expertise that Valco Melton has acquired by working on special engineered projects with market leading companies in the coating and converting industries over the past number of years. When speaking with one of our Label, Coating & Converting Division Sales Experts, Bob Taylor, he explained that our sales & engineering groups have a skilled understanding of our customer’s requirements 
and can offer expert guidance on hot melt and cold glue adhesive coating on numerous substrates including paper, foil, film, foam, and release liner to the Label and converting industries. From standard coating equipment to “turn-key” engineered solutions that can integrate into customers' existing equipment or solve a specific problem, Valco Melton systems are proven to perform to the desired exact specifications.
Our Engineered Products Group designs and manufactures complete stations to be incorporated into both existing production lines including retro-fittings into most label presses or new OEM supplied lines. These stations often include web control, tension control devices, nip roll configurations and integration into existing control systems as required.
Our ability to customise and design solutions to customer requirements combined with our standard fluid handling systems, including melt tank options from 10–600kg capacity and new high output drum unloaders and customized control systems, provides the perfect solution for single sourcing the customer’s complete adhesive application requirements.
Valco Melton slot-die coating systems can be configured to apply coatings with zero scrap caused by unglued web following reel changeover or production stops. Their unique re-circulating systems can be presented as an option to improve temperature stability for accuracy to existing Gravure coating systems.
Our systems also coat at the highest precision with a wide range of adhesives such as PSA, UV hot melt, heat-seal adhesives, barrier adhesives or water based acrylic emulsions.
And last, but certainly not least, our adhesive applicators feature diverse configuration options to meet and exceed each user’s specific needs with customised coating widths, removable blade-sets for bi-directional coating and fast width / pattern changes along with manual or motorised width regulation and options for integrated motorised bar for ultra-thin, streak free adhesive coatings are all available.
Valco Melton supports its customers from over 70 countries worldwide through a network of direct sales and distributorships. It has been a leader in providing the most innovative gluing application and quality inspection systems since 1952. For questions, or to watch more about this now, visit us here: http://info.valcomelton.com/about-coating-and-converting-gluing-solutions?&t=89654
-Laura Amend
