Designer of industrial solutions. Sleeve applicators and peripheral systems ; Orientation & reject unit, pick & place robots

PDC Europe is a family business based north of France since 1984. We have become a leading company in sleeve applicator manufacturing.

PDC Europe has installed over the years more than 3000 shrink and stretch sleeve applicators around the world answering decoration, tamper evidence and bundling applications. Our machines are specifically designed to answer the needs of food, drinks, pharma, cosmetics, homecare and industrials.. This success is due to an intensive innovation strategy, allowing us to provide custom made machines. Our production is 100% made in France.

At PDC Europe, our business model is the vertical integration, meaning we manage internally every step of your project: machine design & automation, part manufacturing, assembly, tuning, installation, maintenance.

We have now a large range of innovative solutions designed for your production lines. Based on our experience we now supply conveyors (Vector), Robots (PDC Robotics) and a brand new patented reject unit “SURE”.

We have also worked lately with a French Designer and have improved the esthetics of our machines, the access to all moving parts in order to simply trouble shooting, reduce maintenance time and costs.

Our applicators have more than 50% of the subassemblies based on standard design. This allows us to answer quickly and safely, on the other hand we can still adapt the key features to your expectations! Custom made machine with safe delivery and process.

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The sleeve is a plastic film whose two ends have been welded together to create a tube designed to partially or totally cover all types of containers. It is used as an alternative to labels and secondary packaging in cardboard and is currently the only solution for decorating containers with complex shapes. The "sleeve" is a great marketing tool that offers a real differentiation of your products from the competition

Advantages

The "sleeve" is compatible with all shapes and materials and does not require the use of glue.

  • It is not affected by humidity or temperature changes.
  • It is totally customizable (totally or partially printable, transparent, matte or glossy, smooth or textured)
  • It offers a 360° communication surface that no other label can match.
  • Shrink & stretch sleeves

 

There are 2 types of sleeves, the heat shrink sleeve and the stretch sleeve. Made from different materials, they both offer a wide range of possibilities and can be perfectly adapted to your needs.

PDC Europe specializes in sleeve application machines, both stretch and shrink. As far as the sleeves are concerned, there are two main ranges of machines, stretch and shrink. 

What is the stretch sleeve?

The stretch sleeve is made of PE plastic, high or low density. The stretch sleeve does not require glue or heat to hold the containers and is easily adapted to most materials (plastics, glass, metal, polystyrene,...). It can be applied to a wide range of products from 100ml to 200L.

Its main advantages: its high recyclability rate, the savings in materials and costs that it generates and the communication surface that it offers.

How is a stretch sleeve applied?

Stretch sleeve technology allows you to apply a sleeve to your product using arms that will stretch the plastic on the container. This form of production is very efficient and depending on one of the 4 stretch sleeve machines of PDC Europe, can provide you with many advantages. 

If you don't find what you are looking for in these two categories, PDC Europe even offers a "special applications" range, composed of three machines that will take care of the particular cases of production. 

What is a shrink sleeve?

The shrink sleeve can be applied on most types of materials (plastic, glass, metal, polystyrene,...) and adapts to all shapes, even the most complex ones.

How is a shrink sleeve applied?

The shrink sleeve is larger than the product - it is by heating that it will take the shape of the product. The extrusion technology has locked the sleeve into one configuration (dimensional and thickness). When the sleeve is heated, its tensions are released and it shrinks and thickens.