Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Tin-ties meet automation

This New York coffee producer needed to automate the application of tin-tie reclosures to its bags of ground and whole-bean coffee. An ingenious and affordable machine was the result.

January 5, 2018

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Barry-Wehmiller to enhance focus on flexible packaging and end-of-line integrated systems

The company's two new divisions, BW Flexible Systems and BW Integrated Systems, will debut Jan. 1.

November 14, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Butler Automatic expands sales team

The new team includes industry veterans focused on global sales and application support.

October 19, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

High speed plus flexible format changes in vf/f/s machine

Intermittent-motion vf/f/s machines make it relatively easy to change over to a new package format. Now MBP offers an intermittent-motion vf/f/s machine that’s also fast.

October 2, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Addressing a manufacturing capacity shortage

Combination scales, vf/f/s machines, baggers that fill pre-made bags, and digital thermal ink-jet coders are all part of an expansion at Loving Pets Products.

October 2, 2017

Form/fill/seal - horizontal

Douglas McGraw named President of Hayssen Flexible Systems

He brings years of leadership and growth experience to this role, as well as a passion for people.

September 22, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Bagging hops goes automatic

This Yakima broker used to buy hops pellets and bag them by hand. Now the firm takes in baled hops, mills its own pellets, and then packages the pellets with a combination scale and bagger.

September 5, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Morris Packaging adds capacity with new pouch machine

The company ordered a Hudson-Sharp 750SGBS Pouch Machine and B&B - MAF Side Gusseted Bag Machine SFB 8E –L as an expansion to its converting operations facility in Jefferson City, Missouri.

August 30, 2017

Form/fill/seal - horizontal

Relaunch for Swiss meat producer

Bigler’s quality meat products have been successfully relaunched under a common brand with the support of the firm’s flexible film supplier and its packaging equipment manufacturer. Paper-like lidding is a key.

July 31, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Digitized pneumatics boost OEE on pouch machine

Bosch Packaging Technology introduced a freely scalable pouching machine to food and pharma markets that features some remarkable pneumatics.

July 27, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Bagging line upgrade

New vf/f/s and combination weigh scale system helps baked snacks manufacturer improve weight control, avert product damage difficulties, and double packaging speeds.

July 7, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Medical thermoform-fill-seal machine introduced by Ossid

Ossid’s new 8000S thermoform-fill-seal machine offers a versatile, customizable packaging platform.

June 30, 2017

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Sealed paper packaging spreads wings

Bosch Packaging Technology and BillerudKorsnäs debuted their joint effort in sealed paper technology at PACK EXPO International 2016, but at interpack 2017 the two firms revealed significant advances aimed at sugar and flour producers, both large and small scale, to be the users of this technology.

June 22, 2017