Through Smiline division, SMI designs and manufactures conveyor belts to move loose products or bundles inside bottling and packaging lines. Smiline product range is employed especially in the food and beverage industry and includes the following product types:

» air conveyors, to carry empty containers from the blow moulder to the filling machine;
» chain conveyors, to carry loose or packed products towards packaging machines or palletizers;
» medium and high speed multilane dividers, lining up loose products or bundles into one or more rows and conveying them to packaging machines or palletizers.

Smiline conveyors are very competitive on the market, thanks to their innovative design and manufacturing solutions: wear and tear resistant high quality materials, dramatic reduction of energy costs, quick changeover operations, easy management of the packaging line.

Smiline multilane dividers achieve outputs until 600 containers per minute (depending on the model and the container) and can be divided into two categories: DV models, with one infeed row and more than one outlet row, and the GDV, with one or more rows both at the infeed and at the outlet.

Moreover, SMILine automation and control systems provide real-time data and information about the operation and performance of the machines in use; this involves a constant improvement of the production processes, the reduction of the down-times and the excellent exploitation of the company resources.  
SMILine engineers can create complete lines for a wide range of applications, from 5,000 to 90,000 containers per hour.

According to the client’s production needs, SMI can also take care of designing complete solutions, through the accurate study of the project feasibility, of the countless interactions among the different machines and of all the aspects connected with logistics and costs (TCO - Total Cost of Operation). Furthermore, tri-dimensional graphic simulations of the systems proposed are realized through the “Virtual Factory”.