Multipack Paperboard Ring Applicators
Sustainable Beverage Packaging
Preference for environmentally-friendly packaging is expanding, and paperboard is an increasingly popular alternative to plastics. With NEXClip applicators, you can make the sustainable switch by applying recyclable paperboard multipack clips as a replacement to plastic rings or snap-on handles.Achieve your green goals without compromising quality, safety, or simplicity.
Application solutions:
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- NEXClip MC-L and MC-S for loose products
- NEXClip MC-T for trayed product
- NEXClip MC-I integrated within tray packers
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- Douglas NEXClip machines are not tied to single supplier material contracts or blank designs
- Create 4, 6, and 8-packs of bottles or cans
- Applicator solutions for loose products, product in preloaded trays, and integrated with tray packing equipment
- 5-foot-wide main machine frames
- Integrated model fits within the standard width of tray packer or tray-shrink machine
- Proven PET and can infeed systems applying Douglas’ tray metering, product robotic pin metering, and selector bar metering technologies
- Single applicators for moderate speed lines
- Dual applicators for higher speeds and/or redundancy
- Improved material and applicator operating tolerances
- Reduced application pressure
- Low maintenance: No gantry mechanisms or related bearings, belts, or lubrication needs
- Tool-less simple changeover including pick heads, staging/prebreak platgorms, and application heads




- Optimized fit within existing lines
- Ease of access and ergonomics for operators and maintenance
- Single and dual applicators based on speeds required
- Standard Rockwell controls and commercial components – no separate robot controllers
- Fewer components, lube free. Robot(s) reduce need for belts, pulleys, chains, linear bearings, igus cable and hose tracks, and other components associated with gantry/Cartesian type mechanisms
- Maintenance is reduced, operation is simplified, and reliability is enhanced
- Quick-change applicator heads
- Magazine capacity up to 1000 blanks (each)
- Load blanks in one or both magazines while running to maximize production throughput


