Berks Plant Design
& Maintenance, Inc.

New, Used, Rebuilt, and Reconditioned Machinery

(610) 916-0666

Custom/Retrofitted Machinery

Berks Plant Design and Maintenance, Inc. offers complete custom built and retrofitted machinery.  These services range from custom designed units built from the ground up for the most unusual applications, retrofits to modify an existing machine or core to perform a given application, to complete controls replacements and upgrades.  These services are always inclusive of full customer specified factory acceptance testing as well as full warranties.

Custom / Retrofitted Machinery — Samples

Custom Built Clean Room installed and integrated to Fogg 36/10 Filler Capper Monoblock -
Berks Plant Design and Maintenance designs and builds custom clean rooms manufactured from Stainless steel and lexan.  Customers may specify any access doors that they would like to have in place.  Air exchange times and HEPA filtration specifications are included in the specification of the system.  These rooms have also been utilized to contain and isolate explosion proof environments utilizing negative pressure ventilation systems.  These rooms are manufactured at our facility, are completely assembled to guarantee quality and ease of onsite assembly, then broken down for shipment and final assembly.
 

Rebuilt, redesigned and retrofitted US Bottlers 30 head capper.
This unit was disassembled, completely redesigned, assembled, and tested.  This was a standard mechanical chuck capper, which we converted to an overcapper for a very difficult application.  This unit was converted to a vacuum pick system, supplied turnkey with new manufactured sorting system, chute work, bottle handling change parts, and a completely rewire and reprogramming of the control system.

Custom Built Bottle in Box Capper
Originating as a one-time custom build, Berks Plant Design and Maintenance, Inc. now offers custom built Bottle in Box cappers as per customers applications.  Units are available to changeover from single bottle in box, to double bottle in box, and even triple bottle in box with very large variations in height.  These units utilize a custom designed case singulation and timing system, and a single capping chuck to reach down inside the corrugated carton to place and torque the cap.  Speeds range from 35 cpm on single cases, 20 cpm on double bottle in box, to 17 on three bottles in one box.  Cap szies run have ranged from 28mm to 63mm.