Ozersky Souvenir and CAMA: a successful story

The confectionery plant "Ozersky Souvenir" is one of the largest manufacturers of confectionery products in Russia. The enterprise, located in a non-polluted zone of the southeastern Moscow Region - the city of Ozery - during its almost 70-year-old history has managed to become the leader in the Russian market of nuts and dried fruits covered in chocolate. Ozersky Souvenir was the first in Russia who began to wrap nuts and dried fruits covered with glaze in colourful labels, transforming them into the successful present chocolates. The product portfolio includes now more than 100 different confectionery products for a very wide range of consumers.

All sweets are being produced on advanced equipment of European manufacture. Exclusive technologies are developed and applied at Ozersky, that along with special attention given to usage of natural raw materials, allow to create products of the highest quality with unique taste.

Ozersky turned to Cama Group, a leading supplier of advanced technology secondary packaging systems, to engineer its packaging lines to allow the company to meet the exceeding market demand. Cama’s outstanding robotic know-how made it the right choice for the project. “We were under a lot of pressure to deliver this project successfully in order to meet the rapidly growing demand for our product” says Aleksey A. Klecov, Ozersky Engineering Manager. “Cama was on our side and the line was delivered within budget, on time and with a successful vertical start-up”.

To meet the Ozersky needs the Cama packaging line is composed of four in line Triaflex Delta Robots, which by means of a “smart” vision system can pick loose, naked candies, covered in chocolate, coming randomly from production line and position them correctly on continuous motion conveyors in a pre-set pattern.

Products are selected, according to their dimensions and then placed on two external conveyors. The maximum infeed rate is 360 chocolates per minute (or 200 per lane). Subsequently, the products are wrapped and packaged.

Main advantages of the Cama robotic application:

The optimal, fastest and most gentle-handling solution has been studied, so as not to damage delicate products such as naked chocolates.

The easy handling of extremely irregular chocolates can guarantee insignificant waste of products.

The Cama Smart vision system can optimize management of the product by automatically selecting products, according to pre-established dimension and arrival speed.

Over the last few years, Cama pursued the development of its own Delta robot to enhance the existing range of integrated robotic solutions. This development led to the birth of Cama Triaflex series, Delta robots with carbon fibre arms, ideal for fast and smart product handling. Cama Multi Delta vision guided loading units represent another technological step forward to cater to customer needs.