The World Brush Expo has visitors from all over the world, so it’s the ideal place to present some very innovative and original machines to the industry. For the customers from the oral care industry, these were the highlights:

HEPTA-FM/R is a conventional toothbrush manufacturing machine, but it has a special tufting unit that will use plastic anchor plates instead of metal ones. This way, it is possible to make completely recyclable brushes, and by choosing the materials carefully, to make brushes that are completely made of one type of plastic.

PTt 2.0 for the production of anchorless toothbrushes had a complete upgrade with a new fibrebox, a faster filling tool and new tufting shuttles that will allow an output of up to 40 brushes per minute.

Hepta-2-FM is a high-output toothbrush machine with two filling tools that each run at 1200 tufts per minute. It can be completely automated and gives the highest ratio of brushes per square meter of any machine available on the market.

IDM for the production of interdental and mascara brushes is now available with a special spreading system for the filaments that give a much more consistent brush head, even when working with thinly spread very fine filaments. The output is up to 100 high-quality brushes per minute.

AVT-E by V-Air is a very simple and compact toothbrush machine for anchorless toothbrushes, with a very high output for its size. The machine can be automated, and will manufacture electrical toothbrush heads of high quality at a very high speed.

FRM by V-Air is a high-precision cutting- and endrounding machine for toothbrush filaments. It produces the pucks of endrounded filament that are used in the AVT machines.

Made by ILLIG: the HSU-35 is a compact and modular packaging machine for full-carton blisters. The HSU-650 makes full-carton blisters, and is fast enough to process the products coming from several tufting machines. For both machines, Boucherie builds automatic infeed systems to boost the efficiency even more.