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Bagging, pouching, form/fill/seal

Reports on machinery that forms, fills, and seals flexible materials, including paper/plastic film/foil materials, and fabricate them into a bag, pouch, or sachet, fills them with product, and seals/closes the pack.

Sterile packaging maker to convert pouches in certified cleanroom

ISO Class 8 cleanroom expected to be operational by second quarter, with pouches produced at same facility....

Small-footprint vf/f/s machine

The Hawk Evolution™ makes a bag up to 12-in W x 18-in. L; makes pillow, flat-bottom, and gusseted bags, for food and medical device applications. Offers small footprint, uptime efficiency, reduced maintenance, easy troubleshooting, and a "Total Systems Care"...

Recyclable stand-up pouch

PTI adds machine for stick-pack production

New equipment forms, crimps, fills, and seals up to 600 stick packs/min across 10 lanes, for production of OTC pharmaceutical packs....

Video: Live from Pack Expo: OEE consulting service for flow wrapping lines

Video: Live from Pack Expo: Automatic weigh scale with bagger and printer

Giving sight to packaging lines

Machine modifications and facility-wide organization help the Lighthouse for the Blind's visually impaired employees fulfill orders for government and corporate customers....

Video: Bag sealer offers fast response, low energy usage and consistent seals

Tabletop automatic wrapper

Modular-designed pouch machines

New BMS series include the 5.5 Triplex with new controls and servo-driven technology for producing flat zipper pouches with a 185-mm width at 150 ppm; 1.4 concept machine produces flat pouches in bandoleer strings at 70/min; 2600 L STU...

Pharma Tech constructs dedicated clean room

Clean room in Royston, GA, is equipped with new pouch machine with state-of-the-art sealing technology....

Video: Blister and pouch in-line printing

Easy to validate, quick set up and operation, Griffin-Rutger's TruFlex offers tool-less changeover and "on the fly" adjustments....

Band sealer expands lifeline for Haitian kids

Nonprofit Meds & Food for Kids in Haiti installs new packaging equipment that doubles its output of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food for the country’s starving children....

Video: Blow/Fill/Seal machine for aseptic liquid processing

Weiler Engineering, Inc. manufactures ASEP-TECH Model 628, Advanced Aseptic Liquid Processing Blow/Fill/Seal machines under the ASEP-TECH Brand....

Medical pouch sealer/cutter

• CeraTek 12-MPK/2 and 24-MPK/2 allow medical device manufacturers to combine medical pouch sealing and cutting in one step following sterilization • systems are CE-compliant, clean room, washdown-compatible, and ISO 11607-compliant • 12-MPK/2 offers a 12-in.-long seal die and accommodates...

Video: Medical device bagger designed specifically for validation*

Watch this video of a medical device bagger from Advanced Poly designed specifically for validation of seal and dwell time, including temperature and pressure. Designed specifically to lower the cost of medical device packaging....

Filler/conveyors

• bulk bag filler (shown) increases the number of bags that can be filled hourly, while reducing operator fatigue and maintaining fill accuracy • flexible screw conveyors transfer powders and other materials from storage to process, between processes, and from...

Forming shoulders, collars, and forming sets

• made for all form/fill/seal machines, web forming collars are available in round, rectangular, and adjustable styles • low-friction, checkered stainless-steel shoulders and hard cold-formed edges are designed for durability • options include gas flushing, fill tubes, chutes, spreaders, sealed...

Combination foam-in-place (FIP) system

The IntelliPack SmartShot™ Hybrid combination foam-in-place (FIP) system for product protection from Pregis Corp. offers both hand-held and bag options in one machine....

New vf/f/s stick-pack machine boosts business opportunities

Growing acceptance of stick packs in the U.S. leads contract manufacturer/packager Contract Pharmacal Corp. to purchase a new 10-lane stick-pack machine....

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