A first for engineers at the Weckerle Machinery division of the Weckerle group: their machine for filling and compacting make-up powder, The MPL - Multi Color Powder Line - is running successfully in the group’s plant in Eislingen, and several more machines are already being assembled.

It is quite a revolution for this German manufacturer primarily specialized in the manufacture of machines for the production lipstick. But it is also a true revolutionary machine compared to current filling techniques used for make-up powders.

Firstly, the MPL is fully shrouded to ensure a controlled atmosphere. It is above all extremely flexible and accepts format changes and the possibilities of filling and pressing multi-coloured powders. It is clean (no more powder waste) with a clever system for dispatching powders of different colours via eight air-tight tanks stowed on either side of the machine and “dusting” stations for the feeder cups before the filling and pressing stages.

Weckerle claims a capacity of 2200 pieces per hour, depending of course on the size of the pans, with a single operator.