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Alliance has added operation and maintenance videos on the Modular LOADMASTER load former to the Skills Builder online training platform. This training is free to Alliance customers. Operation topics include manual setup and auto setup and operation. Maintenance topics include calibration, setup, and operation. To view the videos, visit https://www.alliancellc.com/copy-of-loadmaster4calib-ops and enter your email and password. To view Alliance's training videos, visit www.alliancellc.com/training. About the mLM4 The Alliance Modular LOADMASTER allows for higher throughput by including additional modules to decrease incremental process times vs a single lift LOADMASTER. It allows an operator to build stacked unit loads from individual bundles of material without the need to lift each bundle. The operator receives incoming bundles on a transfer table and slides them onto a stripper plate to form a tier pattern. As each tier is completed, the operator cycles the stripper plate to place the tier on the stack, and the stack is incrementally lowered into the floor pit. When the desired tier count is reached, the completed unit discharges automatically. The Modular LOADMASTER can be equipped with modules that increase bundle throughput, nest unit exit time and automate bottom sheet placement. With a fully optioned Modular LOADMASTER, load forming station throughput can be increased by as much as double vs a single lift LOADMASTER while allowing the operator to manage all aspects of the system from the upgraded operating station.

Accurate and efficient feeding of corrugated to a flexo folder gluer or rotary die cutter is a key component of maintaining productivity on the box line. Alliance’s line of prefeeders includes innovative features to ensure maximum reliability, ease of use, and continuous operation to increase productivity. Alliance offers models designed to match the size, speed, and printing capabilities of your flexo folder gluer or rotary die cutter finishing machine. They are designed for fully automatic operation with high reliability, while reducing the potential for material jamming. A wide range of optional features ensures that Alliance prefeeders can handle any of the material calipers and flutes required in today’s corrugated production environment. Alliance Prefeeders FeedMAX™ Block Push Bottom Feeder Jumbo Bottom Feeder High-speed Top Feeder with prehopper option Inverting Top Feeder and mini ITF Top Feeder and Jumbo Top Feeder Feedmax Block Push Bottom Feeder The FeedMAX BPBF receives a stack of corrugated material, lifts it, divides it into measured blocks, then feeds sheets off the bottom of the block under a vertical stop onto the downstream extendo section in a continuous shingled stream for delivery into the finishing machine hopper. Features Automatic warp compensation adapts to variation in board quality, reducing downtime. Block priming leads to less jams, reducing operator intervention. Automatic stack centering provides more consistent alignment. The AutoSet option prepares the machine for specific orders, allowing for faster setup. A tilted shingle gate provides for more reliable shingling with reduced maintenance, while the 2-belt extendo improves shingling reliability. The FeedMAX accepts 72-inch high stacks, and 90-inch tall stacks are optional. Download the brochure here. Jumbo Bottom Feeder The JBF is designed to handle very large sized blank sheets of corrugated material up to 100 inches by 215 inches. It receives a stack of material, lifts it up, divides it into measured blocks, and then feeds sheets off the bottom of the block onto the extendo in a continuous shingled stream for delivery into the finishing machine hopper. Design features include automatic stack centering, 84-inch adjustable block pusher, variable height shingle gate with hold-down roller, and more. High-speed Top Feeder The Alliance HSTF is specifically optimized for high-speed operation with various types of corrugated board. The unique two-chamber inverter assembly provides positive control of bundles while rotating in one direction. The lift assembly is optimized for tall stack operation. Options include a Prehopper, a wide-belt extendo, plastic-belt chain lift assembly, deluxe waste sheet removal system, and a backup control station. Download the brochure here. Inverting Top Feeder The ITF is an electric, automatic prefeeder for top-printing converting machines capable of feeding stacks of small board sizes. The lead stack is conveyed to a side-shifting centering conveyor, centered, then onto the lifting forks. The stack is inverted and fed into the prehopper where it is accumulated and squared. The material exits in a continuous shingle, which flows down the extendo into the finishing machine hopper. Features Accommodates incoming stacks up to 79 inches tall Variable height shingle gate with prehopper tampers Automatic stack centering Deluxe waste removal system Small footprint Jumbo Top Feeder The JTF handles very large sized blank sheets of corrugated material, up to 100 inches by 200 inches. It receives a stack of material, lifts it up, divides it into measured blocks, inverts each block, then feeds sheets off the bottom of the block onto the extendo in a continuous shingled stream for delivery into the finishing machine hopper. Features include automatic stack centering, incoming stack heights up to 72 inches tall, Powered waste sheet gate assembly, and more. Coming soon! Digital Prefeeder For information about our European offerings, click here. Alliance equipment is backed by our technical support and parts teams, available 24/7. Contact us. About Alliance For more than 40 years, Alliance Machine Systems International has designed and manufactured more than 14,000 machines for the corrugated industry, with installations worldwide. Alliance offers material handling systems to improve productivity, from prefeeders to robotic loadformers. www.alliancellc.com

The April 2021 issue of International Paper Board magazine includes a focus on specialty folder gluers that includes two product lines offered by Alliance Machine Systems Europe BV for the Eurozone corrugated market. "The Tanabe JD BoxR serves the mainstream European market, while the Alliance jumbo J&L Mark5 XT accommodates large format boxes. Both lines include modular designs for maximum flexibility, able to handle a wide range of box styles and sizes. ... The Tanabe JD BoxR folder gluer sizes range from 1250 to 2800 mm and it features state-of-the-art controls and interfaces by JD Engineers. For larger boxes, the Alliance J&L Mark5 XT can accommodate jumbo boxes up to 5300 mm." The Tanabe JD BoxR now is available with a new integrated gluing, tear taping, and dispensing unit called the JD e-com. Featured Products Tanabe JD BoxR - The TANABE JD BoxR is flexible and has a wide range of accessories to allow production of the most challenging box designs including: double feeder, straightener, inlet-feeder, control systems, special application widths, factory network communications, accessible gluing channels and new technological developments. Mark5 XT - The Alliance jumbo Mark5™ XT specialty folder gluer handles boxes up to 210 inches. Applications include pallet wraps and jumbo boxes. It also is designed for specialty boxes such as lock bottoms, trays, displays, tubes, and tear tape applications.

Meet Mack Rubash, an Alliance Sales Applications Engineer in the U.S. Education: Bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Eastern Washington University What is your role at Alliance? I am a “Swiss army knife” who serves as an applications engineer and liaison between Alliance’s sales and design engineering teams. I have to know as much as I can about our systems to be able to relay that to our customers. How do you and the AE team help customers? “We do a lot of consulting with our customers on our equipment and with our salespeople. We do spatial floorplan layouts, designing the form, fit, and function of Alliance machines in a box plant. While we’re not designing the machine specifically, we’re designing the system interface as a whole and detailing how that application will work for our customer.”

Alliance featured in AICC's BoxScore Automation isn't just for big integrated corrugated plants. The January/February 2021 Big Associate issue of Box Score magazine features a column by Alliance Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Richard Wilkinson. "Whether you are running a high-speed flexo folder gluer at 800 boxes per minute or a 30-year-old, 50-inch flexo plodding along at 4,500 boxes per hour, Alliance has the right automatic loadforming technology for your application." Read the article.

The Feb. 15 issue of Board Converting News features Alliance's annual supplier report by President Mark Duchesne. "Alliance is committed continuing to find ways to improve the efficiency of our machines, thereby increasing box plant throughput. We plan to introduce more process-improving solutions in 2021." Read the article below.

Alliance Machine Systems is featured in the Materials Handling section of the the February issue of International Paperboard magazine. "Covering the full range of finishing equipment, they offer a wide variety of models, types, and sizes of pre-feeders with special features engineered to maximise converting equipment productivity. Making rotary die-cut lines run up to 40,000 sqm per hr has become the standard, for example. Products include the electric specialty block feeder with high-speed top feeder option. Alliance draws on the expertise of its global engineering team to create enhancements today that are designed to meet tomorrow’s production requirements." Featured Products ePALL palletizer - The ePALL is a high-performance palletising system that can be optimized for flexibility and speed on a given product mix. RaptorPAL - The RAPTOR PAL automatically builds patterned units from bundles. Individual incoming bundles are grabbed by the Robot’s end-of-arm tool and positioned on the tier building conveyor.

The Alliance bundler doubler rotator squares, rotates, and stacks bundles, increasing efficiency and accuracy. Alliance's new BDR2 features improved reliability, easier operation and maintenance, and better integration with Alliance Raptor automated loadformers. It also helps improve operator productivity and safety at the Alliance LOADMASTER by reducing repetitive motion. A new controls system allows absolute positioning on lift, rotation, and gripper. Incremental encoders on roller drives improve bundle tracking. A flat belt on crowned idler rollers reduces slipping and improves tracking, and a cantilevered lift with V-grove cam-followers reduces load by 200 pounds.

Alliance is pleased to introduce its enhanced specialty folder gluer, the J&L Mark5 XT with extra tamping capacity and diagnostics. Enhancements Extended tamping capability in the compression module now accommodates boxes up to 65 inches long on 115- to 130-inch machines and 85 inches long on 150- to 210-inch machines. Relocated pressure regulators, integrated machine status lights, improved side travel on compression module, and redesigned front fold hooks for faster setups all add to higher operator efficiency. Machine service prompts alert the operator when quarterly, bi-annual, and annual preventive maintenance are due. Drive health and status information available at the operator consoles allow a proactive approach for the maintenance department. Production monitoring feature allows real-time production information to be viewed on the HMI and can be automatically exported to email. Download the flyer or watch sample video for details.

Service doesn't end when our customers buy a machine. Alliance's preventive maintenance programs can help keep your machines running at peak performance. Audit safety, mechanical & electrical functions Perform preventive maintenance Evaluate spare parts inventory Identify potential problem areas Discount on parts identified by the audit Perform repairs as needed Evaluate equipment documentation Receive updates on machine enhancements Evaluate & assist on claims Contact us for a quote at support@alliancellc.com or (509) 535-0356, option 4.

Alliance Machine Systems International has issued an update to its procedures for maintaining raised plastic belt conveyors. Machine models containing these conveyors include Raptor loadformers, RaptorPAL, UltraPAL, Plastic Belt Conveyors, UltraBREAK, and Bundle Breaker III. These procedures cover tensioning, replacing damaged links, changing the belts, and troubleshooting belt issues. These procedures do not apply to plastic belt conveyors that rest directly on the floor. A copy of these updates and videos of selected procedures can be found on the Alliance website at https://www.alliancellc.com/maintenance-conveyor-belt. Contact Technical Services for the password. If you need assistance or have questions, please contact Alliance Technical Services at support@alliancellc.com or (509) 535-0356, option 3. Bulletin #: SVB-162

Alliance Machine Systems International LLC has been included on a list of leading manufacturers in the Spokane, Washington, area, published recently by the Journal of Business. Alliance ranks 13th on the list with more than 200 employees. Top 15 Kaiser Aluminum Washington LLC, aluminum - 950 Huntwood Industries, kitchen cabinets - 734 Jubilant HollisterStier LLC, pharmaceuticals - 708 Travis Pattern & Foundry Inc., metal foundry - 443 Wagstaff Inc., aluminum - 380 Key Tronic Corp., plastic injection molds - 292 The Spokesman-Review, media - 249 Cascade Windows, vinyl windows - 238 Servatron Inc., electronics - 235 Collins Aerospace, aircraft brakes - 226 CPM Development Corp., asphalt and other materials - 225 Accra-Fab Inc., sheet metal fabrication - 221 Alliance Machine Systems International LLC, corrugated box machines - 219 Stone Group of Companies, real estate and construction - 182 Hotstart Inc., thermal management systems - 160 / Spokane Industries, steel castings - 160 Visit www.spokanejournal.com for more information.