Rotary Vertical Form/Fill/Seal Bagger

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

Matt ReynoldsEditor, Packaging World

Mar 22nd, 2022

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Ishida Weighing Packing Solutions for Snacks | Heat and Control

Ishida Weighing Packing Solutions for Snacks | Heat and Control

Ishida ACP-700 Series Snack Food Case Packer | Heat and Control

Ishida ACP-700 Series Snack Food Case Packer | Heat and Control

Take Advantage of Opportunities in the Air Fry Market - AirFry System | Heat and Control

Take Advantage of Opportunities in the Air Fry Market - AirFry System | Heat and Control

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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.

Live at PACK EXPO East: Flexible Packaging Machinery & Materials on the Brain

There was lots of interesting news on both the materials and machinery sides of the PACK EXPO East coin. We’ll look at a couple of pouchers and baggers and check out a commercialized monomaterial pouch for P&G’s Pantene Japan, done by Zacros.

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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.

Wrap It. Strap It. Secure It.

Wrap It. Strap It. Secure It.

While there has been an increased focus on automation investments across the supply chain – with an estimated $244 billion forecast in 2022 – an often-overlooked area is the importance of consumables of all types.

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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.

Goetze's Candy Company is the maker of Caramel Creams and Cow Tales.

The 60-Year Alliance Between Triangle Package Machinery and Goetze’s Candy Company

These family-owned and operated businesses have been working together on packaging Caramel Creams for generations. The secret to their long-term relationship comes down to a matter of trust.

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.

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.

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.

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.

More in Bagging & wrapping

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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Horizontal Flow Wrapper

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

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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.