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Filling, Capping & Sealing

Currently, the system at the Geismar facility is comfortably filling approximately 80 drums per hour per filling machine.
Machine Case Study
| May 1, 2013

Bulk liquid storage specialist expands customer services

Drum filling upgrade and turnkey system automation helps cut handling and transportation costs.
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Machine Product Brief
| April 22, 2013

Filler uses twin filling bowls

Fogg Filler’s new filler combines two F6.2 filling bowls on one filler base with one capper; the twin bowls reduce waste rates by providing a combined maximum capacity of 340 gallons, which is also very helpful when maintaining temperatures and flavor changes.
Northstar’s new lip balm line relies on pucks to keep the slender containers upright during the filling and capping process.
Machine Case Study
| April 12, 2013

Automation and in-house digital printing drive this contract manufacturer

First came an automated line for lip balm, which was followed by last year’s installation of a liquid line for lotion and sanitizers. Growth—and Kisstixx—came as a result.
Machine Product Brief
| April 11, 2013

Container filling machine

Designed to allow operators to fill rigid containers made out of plastic, glass and/or fibers while operating at high speeds, WeighPack Systems’ SpinDexer container filling machine fills a voluminous product into a small-opening container, and comes equipped with a servo-driven rotary star wheel that allows for a more efficient filling process.
Machine Product Brief
| April 8, 2013

Drum filling system

Material Transfer’s Material Master stainless steel drum filling system allows filling of various size drums.
Machine Product Brief
| March 26, 2013

Sanitary box dumper

The all-new TIP-TITE Sanitary Box Dumper from Flexicon forms a dust-tight seal between the container and the equipment, tips the container, and discharges bulk material at controlled rates.
Machine Product Brief
| March 25, 2013

High-speed, hygienic tray sealing

Able to seal almost any shape or size tray, Ishida's latest generation of QX-1100 Flex tray sealers from Heat and Control are split dual-lane models that require 50% less floor space than two single lane machines, and deliver up to 15 cycles/min. with modified atmosphere packaging.
Machine Product Brief
| March 21, 2013

Product recovery system reduces material loss

National Bulk Equipment’s ProductSaver line of wet packaged product recovery systems ensure the controlled removal from the package of free-flowing--or flow-resistant--wet contents, and the complete separation of the contents from the packaging material, reclaiming packaged wet contents for proper handling, and recovering packaging material for recycling.
Machine Product Brief
| March 12, 2013

Bag-in-Box integrated filling-packaging unit for wine

Sacmi’s turnkey Bag-in-Box filling-packaging combination unit provides hygiene, precision filling, and a total absence of oxygen in contact with the product at both the filling and pouring stages to produce packages that contain always-fresh, ready-to-drink wine that is easily transported.
Oystar IWK FP 10 Filling Platform
Machine Product Brief
| March 12, 2013

Tube filling platform

Machine fills metal, plastic and laminate tubes with wide ranges of sizes and volumes.
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Machine Product Brief
| March 6, 2013

Tube filler

Norden’s next generation Nordenmatic tube filler, the NM 702, produces 80 tubes/min., and offers Hot-Air sealing, Design-A-Seal, Scoop Seal, multi-color filling, and its latest innovation “concentric filling.”
Machine Product Brief
| March 1, 2013

Pouch filling system

The new SUPer Dispense Pouch & Flx SpoutPro Filling System from AlliedFlex, which is available in semi- and fully-automatic models, fills the SUPer Dispense Pouch in a variety of fill volumes from 1.5 to 5 liters at 5-40 pouches/min.
Machine Product Brief
| February 28, 2013

Enclosure wash-down systems

Fogg Filler’s Enclosure Wash-Down System and Capper and Change Parts Wash-Down System help improve sanitation in the filling environments, while saving production time.
Macofar VF 12 aseptic liquid filler
Machine Product Brief
| February 26, 2013

Aseptic liquid filler

The Macofar VF 12 aseptic liquid filler from Romaco Group conforms to the rigorous requirements of the cGMP regulations for filling sterile pharmaceutical liquids or lyophilized products into vials.
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FFS 2500
Machine Product Brief
| February 25, 2013

Filling systems

Using specialty-engineered form fill seal (FFS) technology, the FFS 2500 from Haver Filling Systems, Inc. is designed to fill granulated and micro-granulated bulk materials at a rate faster than any other filling system on the market.
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