Flow wrapping machine

Horizontal Flow Wrap Machine

Model No.: HFFS-350 / 450 / 600

QSpeed up to 200 bags per minute

Flow wrapping machine
Flow wrapping machine

Automatic packaging solution for chocolates, candies, masks, muffins, cookies

-Choice of automatic pillow bag packaging.

 

Max Speed

200 bpm

Bag Size

Min
80 x 45 mm (3.1 x 1.8″)
Max
500 x 300 mm (19.7 x 11.8″)

Features

  • 304 stainless steel frame
  • Date printer
  • Multi-Language HMI
  • Photoelectric eye
  • Runs most film material
  • Auto-Stop
Flow wrapping machine

Options

  • Various feeders for candy, chocolate bars, cards, or other solid products.
  • Hole punch (Euro slot or round)
  • Gas flush
  • Tear notch
  • Date Printer
  • Metal detectors
  • Checkweighers
  • Bag deflators
  • Chain Style bag

Horizontal Packing Machine

Film Material

  • The laminated film, laminated paper film, aluminum foil film

Optional Features

  • Hanging hole, euro slot, carry handle, degassing valve, tear notch, zipper, spout

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//Overview of the Horizontal Flow Wrap Machine:

The Horizontal Flow Wrap Machine is designed to efficiently package products that are uniform in size and shape by encasing them in a protective film. This type of packaging is particularly suitable for items like snack bars, candies, cookies, and other confectionery, as well as non-food items such as health and beauty products.

Principle of Operation

The Horizontal Flow Wrap Machine operates using a series of coordinated mechanisms that form, fill, and seal products within a continuous strip of film. This method ensures a high throughput and consistent package quality, which is essential for maintaining product integrity and shelf appeal.

Detailed Process Description

  1. Product Feeding: Products are manually or automatically placed on a conveyor belt that feeds them into the machine. Proper spacing is maintained to ensure that each product is individually packaged.
  2. Film Unwinding: A roll of film is unwound and guided through a forming collar which wraps the film around the products, creating a tube.
  3. Longitudinal Sealing: The edges of the film are then sealed longitudinally to form a continuous tube around the products.
  4. Cross Sealing and Cutting: The machine uses heated sealing jaws to make perpendicular seals at specified intervals, creating individual packages. Immediately following the cross-seal, a cutting mechanism separates the packages.
  5. Discharge: The finished packages are then discharged from the machine and are ready for further processing like boxing or cartoning.

Key Components

  • Feeder System: Ensures even and consistent feeding of products into the machine.
  • Forming Collar: Shapes the film into a tube around the products.
  • Sealing Units: Comprise of both longitudinal and transverse sealing mechanisms that ensure the film is securely sealed.
  • Cutting Unit: Cuts the film between the cross seals to separate individual packages.
  • Control Panel: Allows operators to set and adjust parameters such as speed, temperature, and sealing time to accommodate different products and films.

Benefits of Using the Horizontal Flow Wrap Machine

  • Increased Production Efficiency: High-speed packaging capabilities significantly increase production throughput.
  • Consistency and Reliability: Uniform packaging enhances product protection and shelf presence.
  • Flexibility: Capable of handling a variety of products and packaging materials, making it a versatile option for many industries.
  • Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces labor costs and minimizes waste by precisely using the amount of film required.

Applications

The machine’s versatility allows it to be used across various sectors, making it ideal for:

  • Food Industry: Packaging of snacks, bars, and bakery items.
  • Pharmaceuticals: Safe and hygienic packaging of medical supplies and drugs.
  • Consumer Goods: Packaging of small household items, cosmetics, and other personal care products.

Conclusion

The Horizontal Flow Wrap Machine is a crucial asset for manufacturers looking to streamline their packaging processes. With its high efficiency, reliability, and flexibility, it supports a wide range of industries in meeting their production demands while ensuring product quality and consumer satisfaction.

// FAQ

Q1. What should you tell the packaging machine manufacturer for making a suitable packaging solution?

First, inform the packaging machine manufacturer what product you want to pack: powder, granule, liquid, tea, solid products or other customize product.

Second, inform the packaging machine manufacturer of your packaging machine of the kind of package you want. There are a lot of different package types.
Premade pouches: Doypack, gusset bag, block bottom bag.
Pouches from roll stock: stick pack, pillow bag, 3 sides seal sachet, 4 sides seal sachet, gusset bag.

Thirdly, tell the packaging machine manufacturer about your daily production capacity and the budget of the project.

Finally, you should advise the packaging machine manufacturer of the installation of the machine. The company that makes packaging machines will give you a layout plan that fits your workplace.

Q2. How do you compare semi-automatic and fully automated packaging machines?

A semi-automatic packaging machine and a fully automated packing machine are easily distinguished by the amount of manual labor required throughout the mechanical production process.

Semi-automatic processes include actions like bag feeding, bag opening, and bottle opening, which need human involvement.

In contrast, if the job is confined to manipulating the touch panel or putting bulk materials into a silo location in a predefined amount, the packing machine is said to be completely automated.

In summary, the primary distinction between the two kinds of packaging machines is their automation degree. The more automated the machine, the more costly it will be.

It’s vital to remember that even a semi-automatic packaging machine may be run with just a little amount of manual effort.

Q3. Is it hard to operate a packing machine?

Spack Machine’s Packing Machine is well designed for easy use and does not need professional skill, all HMI of machines is in English, and most of the adjustments can be done by set by changing the setting on the touch screen, and we use modular design for the mechanical part.

Most first-time users can follow our guide document and video to use the machine and complete the product or bag size changeover easily.

Q4. What kinds of flexible packaging equipment do you provide?

Spack Machine offers a diverse selection of packing machines to meet your requirements.

Our Pouch Filling and Sealing Machines are loaded with prefabricated bags and then loaded and sealed with contents. These devices are easy to use and may be operated by personnel with little or no technical knowledge.

Their finished product exudes elegance.

Because these machines are simple to change for new bags, they are suitable for organizations that need a range of bag sizes as well as short-run production requirements.

In addition, we provide VFFS (Vertical Form Fill Seal) packaging machinery for your convenience. This machine forms bags vertically, fills them with items, and then closes them tightly around the contents.

These machines are cutting-edge and complex, with the ability to work at high rates while incurring the lowest possible operating expenses.

Their management and troubleshooting requirements are higher, however, and they are thus best suited to specialized lines with limited variation in product and bag types and fewer variables to handle.

Finally, we supply auxiliary packing equipment such as material conveyors, package conveyors, and weight checkers to complete the packaging process.

Q5. What should you do before installing the packing machine in your factory?

Ensure that all machine size specifications and layout requirements are met with your workshop.

Arrange a forklift for equipment for installation when the machine arrives.

Additionally, please talk with the packaging machine supplier about the power supply in your workplace, and make sure they make the machines can run perfectly under it.

Q6. What is the cost of packing machinery?

This question does not have a simple or straightforward answer. Each customer’s packing needs necessitate a unique solution.

As a result, it is impossible to construct a “standard price” model.

For example, what you want to package, how long it takes, how many bags there need to be, and how quickly you need them delivered all contribute to the cost of a machine.

The more complicated, specialized, or high-speed the packing process, the more expensive it is.

Q7. What are packing machine fillers and dosers? Do I need one for my company?

Integral filling or dosing equipment precisely measures the exact quantities of product in the packing machine before distributing it into the bags.

Most of the time, fillers are situated above or to the side of the packaging machine.

Depending on your unique needs, different fillers will be recommended for you. The following are a few of the most often encountered:

  • Volumetric cups are a cost-effective means of filling free-flowing objects with precise volumetric measurements.
  • Liquid pumps are normally powered by a piston engine and are used to precisely measure the quantity of liquid product to be deposited in bags.
  • While multi-head scales are often used to weigh solid objects. Weigh buckets are used to weigh the commodities before they are packed in bags using this very exact equipment.
  • Auger fillers are often used in the production of powdered products. A lengthy screw-like device is used to measure the contents of bags in this machine.

Spack Machine also provides other customize feeders for special shape products, such as Robotic hands, Card feeders, Vibratory tray feeders, etc.

Q8. How are roll stock film and premade bags different?

Having a clear idea of the kind of packaging you need helps the equipment maker in making a recommendation for the best machine.

Flexible packaging may be classified into two broad categories:

Packing material (typically plastic) wrapped around a hollow core is known as roll stock film. Pre-printed pictures are common. Roll stock refers to a roll of printed or laminated film.

You may manufacture pouches on your own, or with the aid of a co-packer, utilizing roll stock. These include granola bars, pre-packaged snacks like pretzels, potato chips, tortilla chips, and other single-serving snacks.

One end of a form-fill-seal machine is used to feed a huge roll of film into the machine, where it is molded and filled before being sealed shut. In terms of cost per bag, roll stock film is frequently more cost-effective and can be processed at high rates.

Prior to delivery to packaging facilities, these bags are molded to their final bag form at preproduction facilities. To fill and seal the bags, they are fed through a pouch fill and seal machine.

While premade bags provide an unmatched look, they can cost more per impression than bags manufactured from roll stock film.

Premade bag packing is a kind of packaging in which the bag is prepared ahead of time and then filled with the goods to be packed.

Q9. How can I find the most reliable packaging machine manufacturer in China?

Manufacturers should be able to provide you with all of your packing equipment, including additional packaging supplies.

If you have specific packaging needs, your packaging machine manufacturer must provide the best solution.

Your packing machine manufacturer should be able to give you a low machine price as well as outstanding installation and repair parts services.

There should be no confusion about the packaging needs of your goods between you and the company that manufactures your packing machinery.

Additionally, your packing machine maker should offer services such as export package data, shipping space procurement, installation, testing, and replacement components.

These are the things that you should look into when you are trying to look for a credible packaging machine manufacturer.

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