Bagging Pouching and Wrapping Playbook

Discover best practices & tips for the successful implementation of bagging, pouching & wrapping equipment for your needs.

Flexible packaging has come a long way since its first introduction to the consumer market, and so has the equipment that handles these types of packages. From F/F/S systems, flow wrappers and filling equipment, these systems are becoming smarter and more sophisticated to keep up with rising demand for all things flexible.

In this newly updated Playbook, our editors share best practices, tips & insights for the successful implementation of various types of flexible pack equipment. Discover:

· Best practices for determining bagging & flow-wrapping equipment purchase needs

· Special considerations for F/F/S equipment

· How to find the right supplier

· A roadmap for a successful F/F/S factory acceptance test

· And more!

Click here to access the free e-book.

Three OSARO robotic bagging systems will take on the responsibility of readying eyewear orders for shipment to Zenni's U.S. customers.

D2C Zenni Optical Eyes E-Comm Fulfillment Automation with Robot/Bagger Combo

Three robotic bagging systems are to be deployed at Zenni’s Northern California customer fulfillment center. The job description calls for visual acuity, precision, dexterity, and tireless work ethic. Robots have that market practically cornered.

Coffee Bagging System

WeighPack launches a coffee bagging system designed for premade box gusset bags. It can also be used for packaging powder or granule products where a box gusset bag is required.

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Bagging Pouching and Wrapping Playbook

Discover best practices & tips for the successful implementation of bagging, pouching & wrapping equipment for your needs.

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PAC Machinery to Exhibit at EXPO PACK México

PAC Machinery (PAC) will showcase its Rollbag R785 automatic bagger at Booth 2236.

Standout Innovations from PACK EXPO East

From compact and modular cartoners to entry-level pouch baggers, these PACK EXPO East innovations cater provide flexibility.

Transit Packaging “Sets the Table” for Your Next BBQ

Transit Packaging “Sets the Table” for Your Next BBQ

Whether it’s spending time in a pool or in a lake, summer BBQs are in full swing. However, everything you need for an outdoor gathering must first make a full transit packaging journey.

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Modular, Flexible Automatic Pouch Bagger

The AP-140 Auto Pouch bagger is designed to be a modular and flexible automatic vertical form fill seal (vf/f/s) machine with a clean and simple design.

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Mid Level Production Pre-Made Pouch Bagger

Plan It Packaging Systems’ RotoBagger is capable of packaging between 30 - 50 bags per minute and comes equipped with horizontal bag magazine for easy pouch loading and automatic servo changeover for different bag widths.

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Rotary Vertical Form/Fill/Seal Bagger

The new Inspira from Ishida delivers up to 250 bags per minute, and uses an intuitive HMI.

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Live at PACK EXPO East: New Sanitary Design Box Motion Flow Wrapper

The wrapper provides a high quality, tight seal, for difficult to seal films, while allowing for the machine to be disassembled for thorough sanitation and maintenance.

Sealed Air's Meat Packaging Automation Improves Predictability

New innovations in vision-based product identification, robotic bagging, vacuum, shrink, quality inspection, and more show how automation can help reduce labor needs and improve throughput, quality, and safety.

Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800

Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800

See how easily the Cognex In-Sight 2800 can automate error detection. Powered by deep learning, it can solve a wide range of inspection applications quickly and easily — no programming experience required.

PACK EXPO Innovations Report: Sustainable Packaging

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the sustainable packaging category.

Customized Option for Horizontal Automatic Bagger

PAC Machinery offers a customized air expeller option for its Magnum horizontal automatic bagger suitable for compressing, bagging, and sealing a variety of items.

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Unique Blow-Fill-Seal Solution for In-House Blown PET Cups

Serac presented at PACK EXPO Las Vegas a Blow-Fill-Seal solution for yoghurts and desserts in PET/rPET jars. This solution, which combines an SBL linear blow-molding machine and a linear dosing machine, has been named CupBox.

The Fusion L-bar series automatic wrapper for e-commerce applications operates at medium speed.

Conflex Shrink Wrap Applications for E-commerce

The company showcased Clysar confidential film for e-commerce on its L-bar series wrapper at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

HY7 CW has a compact and hygienic design to meet international standards.

SACMI Cut and Wrap Machine for Double Twist Style

The company’s next-generation machine allows enhanced brand recognition and maximizes the use of electronics.

Voice of customer interviews in the frozen/individual quick freezing (IQF), fresh produce, and cheese industries were conducted in order to develop the Hayssen ISB system, focusing on pain points and preferred features.

BW Flexible Systems’ Hayssen VFFS Machine For Intelligent Sanitary Bagging

This next-generation design of vertical form fill seal machines was developed through customer interviews for intelligent, sanitary bagging.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.