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U.S. Sugar fills two 5-lb bags/sec with better than ±0.1% accuracy thanks to a state-of-the-art sugar-filling line powered by the latest in servo drive, PLC and networking technology.

In designing high-speed packaging lines, engineers eventually reach a point where they must sacrifice accuracy for speed. U.S. Sugar, with its two high-speed sugar bagging lines, found a way to keep both speed and accuracy.

Each of the two lines forms, fills and seals two-layer paper sacks on equipment from SIG Pack (Raleigh, NC). One line fills at a top speed of two 5-lb bags per second.

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