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Pat's Picks Podcast: Day Three Observations at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

Bag-in-Box for Pet Foods, a resealable aluminum can, a P&G mono-material refill pouch, more trayless ground beef, and a new way of splicing one roll of film to another—this and more in the Day Three Pat Reynolds Pack Expo podcast.

Side-Load Bagger Orients Product

Swifty Bagger Side Load machine orients products in pre-made pouches.

This trayless format for ground meat has proven popular in Europe, and now Harpak-ULMA is testing it in the U.S.

Time To Try Trayless Meat in the U.S.?

At the Harpak-ULMA PACK EXPO Las Vegas booth, a key emphasis was on trayless ground meat backflushed with a mix of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

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Integrated Line Illustrates Unified Upstream, Downstream System

Robotics and automation play pivotal role in providing flexibility for a full packaging line from Quest, a ProMach product brand, that includes bagging, case packing, and palletizing.

Flow Wrapper

Formost Fuji’s hygienic flow wrapping system is designed to package ground meat without the use of a foam tray.

Matrix Mercury Ffs West Pack 2021

Vf/f/s Bagger

Matrix’s Mercury high-speed vf/f/s bagger is capable of filling up to 140 flexible packaging bags/min.

Wood chips aren't exactly a free-flowing product, and caused frequent jams in legacy equipment. The new stand-up pouch baggers handles the chips well.

Bagger, Combination Weigher Improve BBQ Wood Chip Production by 118%

With labor being tight and unreliable, improved automation was the answer for this popular BBQ wood chip brand. But it took a special combination of bagger and weigher to withstand the hot Texas heat, and stand up to a less-than-free-flowing product.

The Honey Almond bar hits shelves in a paper-based flow wrap packaged on Syntegon’s HRM horizontal form-fill-seal machine.

Mars Wrigley Develops, Tests Paper-based Packaging for Balisto Chocolate Bar

As brands eye fast-approaching, self-imposed sustainability deadlines, watch for interesting pilot projects to roll out. This European paper-based flow pack from Mars Wrigley's Balisto brand of snacks was developed with Syntegon.

Fw3410 Bsb Vx Ii Wrapper

Horizontal Flow Wrapper

Formost Fuji introduces the VX II horizontal flow wrap machine for flexible packaging.

Edl Wrapped Window

Panel Wrappers

EDL Packaging’s panel wrappers are large format shrink-wrapping machines designed to seal manufactured windows with LDPE film.

This x-ray inspection system now helps ensure that no foreign bodies make their way into the final packaged product.

QC Boost Through X-ray Inspection

This high-quality pet product company cares deeply about what’s in the packages it ships, so management made x-ray inspection part of a recent plant expansion.

Alexia’s Organic Sweet Potato Fries and Organic Yukon Select Puffs will feature a special seal, identifying the plant-based packaging.

Bio-based Potato Starches Replace Bag’s LLDPE Sealant Layer

In the new lamination, 16% of the complete structure, a sealant layer formerly composed of LLDPE, has been replaced with plant-based material that in fact is a byproduct of the French fries the company produces.

Delta Bagger Triangle 1

Vf/f/s Bagger

Triangle Package Machinery’s new Delta vf/f/s bagger is easy to operate, offers quick and easy changeovers of forming tubes, film rolls, and sealing jaws, and features IO Link enabled sensors.

Sharp Max Pro 24

Continuous Bagging System

Pregis’ Sharp Packaging Systems MAX-PRO 24 continuous bagging system handles a wide range of products and bag sizes making it suitable for fulfillment operations with a broad e-commerce offering.

HF/F/S Machine Offers Automatic Changeover, 140 pouches/min

The CMR II from Cloud, part of its CMR line of continuous-motion hf/f/s machines, completes changeover in just 15 minutes and requires just one tooling post for all bag sizes.

Snack Food Companies Meet Increased Demand with New Baggers

Campbell Soup Company’s Snyder’s brand and World Food Products share how they increased capacity during the pandemic to meet the need for more products and smaller-size packages using tna baggers.

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Bag-in-Bag VF/F/S is Really Two Machines in One Enclosure

While both machines operate independently, and bag lengths, temperatures and speeds are independent of one another, they operate hand-in-glove with the top machine cutting off sealed bags into the top of the forming tube of the second machine.

Paxiom X Pdius Elite 1700 Vertical Form Fill Seal

XPdius Elite Vertical Bagger for Big Bag Formats

This vf/f/s takes on large-format bags at speeds up to 3,000 per hour.

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Low Piece-Count Combination Scale Solves Reject Reintroduction Problem

Reject reintroduction process via a rotating reject ring at the bucket level, not below it, allows for aggressive feeding of low piece count bagging.

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Shrink Wrap Side Sealers Handle Variable Pack Sizes

That was the Clamco 6800CS automatic side sealer, a highly efficient all-electric side sealer that combines a hot-knife end seal with an adjustable seal and trim knife.

Standard features on the Triangle X-Series include Rockwell Automation / Allen Bradley ControlLogix, AB Kinetics Servo Drives, and AB PowerFlex AC Drives.

Improve Production, Reduce Packaging Costs with New Bagger for Liquid Fill Applications

Syntegon Pack 202 Horizontal Flow Wrapper

Flow Wrapper Is Easy to Operate, Clean, and Maintain

Reduces downtime and maximizes overall equipment effectiveness