Market Overview – KESTREL Vision

Proud to service growing markets

The packaging market has seen a steady growth for many years. However, like many others, it faces a number of challanges. The Kestrel Vision group is there to help the customer cope with challenges such as improving productivity, realising sustainability objectives, improving quality, reducing weight (specifically in glass packaging), increasing safety, reducing reliance on human resources and coping with the rapid market developments.

These have led to packaging digitalization acceleration fueling above average machine vision market growth in the F&B, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors. For example, track and trace technology is the answerfor custonmers now looking for causes, diagnoses and data analysis (data collection, display and analysis being a must-have). Furthermore, there is an emerging market for full automatization (A.I.).

Proud to service growing markets

Beverage and Food

The food and beverage industry is under constant pressure to adapt and evolve to meet consumer demand. This means increased production, lower prices, and improved quality and variety, all while maintaining a commitment to sustainability.

Optimizing production in this context is about more than simply finding a supplier. It’s about finding a partner. A partner who understands these big picture challenges.

The Kestrel Vision companies that serve this sector are: Tiama, Pressco, Filtec, Vimec, Somex and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

Pharmaceuticals

Kestrel Vision supplies systems that help pharmaceutical packaging manufacturers achieve operational excellence, improve quality and meet all industry standards and regulations.

With thousands of installations worldwide, we are thhe partner of choice for innovative inspection solutions, support and expertise to ensure success from the start through and beyond the filling stage.

The Kestrel Vision companies that serve this sector are: Tiama, Vimec and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

Cosmetics

With decades of experience in delivery of complex projects within the cosmetics industry, the Kestrel Group provides vision inspection that enhance the productivity and energy efficiency of a broad range of packaging processes, from the smallest plant to the largest consumer brands.

Safe, smart and sustainable projects and operations. Safe because the highest industry standards are met and risk is constantly reduced. And sustainable because we know that efficiencies make the difference – environmentally and operationally.

The Kestrel Vision companies that serve this sector are Tiama and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

The market by materials/production steps

Beverage and Food

Optimizing production in this context is about more than simply finding a supplier. It’s about finding a partner. A partner who understands these big picture challenges.

The Kestrel Vision companies that serve this sector are: Tiama, Pressco, Filtec, Vimec, Somex and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

Pharmaceuticals

Kestrel Vision supplies systems that help pharmaceutical packaging manufacturers achieve operational excellence, improve quality and meet all industry standards and regulations.

The Kestrel Vision companies that serve this sector are: Tiama, Vimec and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

Cosmetics

The Kestrel Vision companies that serve this sector are Tiama and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

The market by materials/
production steps

Metal

The companies in the Kestrel Vision group have been refining the inspection of metal containers and their components for over 25 years and continually evolved the optical configurations and lighting setups to facilitate accurate and reliable inspections that ensure product quality and reduce spoilage.

Experience has led to the design of modules dedicated for specific installation locations to allow full process integration. Examples include light testers, necker/flanger machines and a variety of conveyor-based applications. A wide variety of solutions are offered for coated steel and aluminum cans to ensure only the top-quality canned foods and beverages reach the consumer. The integrated and modular solutions inspect cans for dirt, grease and residue; dents, damages and cracks; correct seams and closure and the correct pressure, amongst many others.

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer metal monitoring/inspection solutions are: Pressco and Filtec.

Metal

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer metal monitoring/inspection solutions are: Pressco and Filtec.

Glass

Glass is known the world over as being not only the safest for packaging beverages, food and pharmaceuticals but being harmless to the environment and health. Having said that, imperfections in glass containers can easily result in damaged and wasted products and, worse still, can be dangerous.

The Kestrel Vision companies are world leaders who provide inspection and quality control solutions for the international glass packaging industry. They are dedicated to designing, building and validating superior visual inspection systems for hollow glass. Furthermore, the data generated by the inspection systems enable the customer to raise product- and process-quality to the highest level. Combining quality control and automatic machine adjustment, this leads to an increase in overall productivity through reduction of wastage, improvement of glass, weight reduction and optimisation of the production processes. This also means a reduction of emissions due to the better pack-to-melt ratio: Our “clear view of tomorrow”.

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer glass monitoring/inspection solutions are: Tiama, Filtec, Vimec, Somex and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

Glass

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer glass monitoring/inspection solutions are: Tiama, Filtec, Vimec, Somex and the joint venture GlassFORM.ai.

PET

Plastic containers and their components have changed rapidly over the years, and the Kestrel Vision companies have continually kept pace by refining and expanding their inspection capabilities for closures, bottles and preforms. Leveraging specially-designed optics and lighting technology they offer dedicated inspection modules that facilitate full part inspection.

In addition, experience has led to the creation of flexible modules that can accommodate a variety of installation locations to allow full process integration. Based on the customers’ application requirements integration into blowmolders and injection molding machines, as well as a variety of conveyor applications are provided.

Innovations generated by the tireless R&D, as well as from input form the customers have led to some of the finest Glass & PET container testing instruments. Cost effective solutions, efficiency and reliability at the forefront of the designs, which are viewed by brand leaders in the Glass & PET container industry as a benchmark for their quality systems.

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer PET monitoring/inspection solutions are: Pressco, Filtec and Somex.

PET

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer PET monitoring/inspection solutions are: Pressco, Filtec and Somex.

Filling

Fill level inspection is an essential type of quality control inspection. A container’s “Fill Level” is the desired height of the liquid during a filling operation. The amount of fill varies based on the size and type of container and the type of product inside the container.

Closely monitoring filler performance keeps high-speed line operations smooth and in line with quality assurance (QA) standards. FILTEC Fill Level systems can identify underperforming or broken valves within seconds. Real-time warnings prevent wasted product, container damages, and line failures.”

Experience and Know-how of specialized optics, combined with powerful application-specific software, provide unmatched accuracy for fill level inspection and to detect mis-applied closures. As evidence of the industry-best performance of the Kestrel Vision companies, their solutions are installed at the world’s leading beverage brands.

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer filling inspection solutions are: Pressco and Filtec.

Filling

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer filling inspection solutions are: Pressco and Filtec.

Labelling

Not only information but a key element in marketing is the labelling of products. It’s well known that a brands image and values are communicated on packaging – often the labelling. In addition, as we move to shorter print runs and made-to-order labels, the importance of labelling quality accuracy has increased tremendously.

The Kestrel Vision companies’ label inspection solutions use state-of-the art vision technology to inspect the placement and condition of glue-on and shrink sleeve labels on bottles.

The advanced imaging capabilities, combined with the intelligent data platforms, offer a powerful inspection solution that ensures only containers with perfect labels make it to the point-of-sale.

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer labelling inspection solutions are: Pressco and Filtec.

Labelling

The Kestrel Vision companies’ label inspection solutions use state-of-the art vision technology to inspect the placement and condition of glue-on and shrink sleeve labels on bottles.

The advanced imaging capabilities, combined with the intelligent data platforms, offer a powerful inspection solution that ensures only containers with perfect labels make it to the point-of-sale.

The Kestrel Vision companies that offer labelling inspection solutions are: Pressco and Filtec.

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215 Chemin du Grand Revoyet
69230 Saint-Genis-Laval
France

info@kestrel-group.com

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FIND US

Headquarters Lyon
215 Chemin du Grand Revoyet
69230 Saint-Genis-Laval
France

info@kestrel-group.com