Packers for years have been grappling with the problem of narrow mouth opening of preformed flat bottom pouches or three-dimensional pouches on the filling lines. The vacuum cups of conventional Pick, Fill & Seal (PFS) machines clamp open a pouch by holding its two-side gussets thus resulting in a very narrow opening. This leads to rather sluggish filling of these pouches without being able to have full mouth opening. The impeded filling speed of conventional PFS machines has not been able to do justice to the state-of-the-art 3D/flat bottom pouches that are touted to take flexible packaging to a whole new level of functional and aesthetic excellence.
India’s largest fully integrated multinational flexible packaging materials and solution company Uflex Limited with this problem statement at hand, has engineered the Multi Lane Automatic Linear Pick – Fill & Seal machine. According to Uflex, the vacuum cups of this machine unlike the conventional PFS machines clamp open a pouch by holding its 4 Ps or the panels thereby opening up the mouth as wide as it gets. Compared to rotary PFS machine, the speed of filling and sealing 3D/flat bottom pouches of the newly engineered Multi Lane Automatic Linear Pick – Fill & Seal Machine is more than doubled.
Expressing delight at the launch of the Four Lane Automatic Linear Pick – Fill & Seal Machine, UFLEX LPFS-4T, Ashok Chaturvedi, chairman and managing director, Uflex Limited said, “The flexible packaging industry has evolved rather rapidly and now one can see the most innovative packaging solutions on the retail shelf. Flat Bottom Pouches or the 3D are one of the most brilliant and efficient examples of modern day packaging. Owing to the unavailability of a suitable filling machine, the magic of these brilliant 3D pouches was somewhat restrained. I am glad that my Engineering Team at Uflex has created a machine that can ensure wider mouth openings of flat bottom pouches ensuring easy filling at much higher speeds and output rates. This in turn will surely give boost to the sale of flat bottom pouches. Having a stellar pouch without an appropriate filling machine is just like having a great car without tyres. Being the fully integrated flexible packaging materials and solution company that Uflex is, we always ensure that path breaking packaging designs are complimented with the associated packing/filling machines too. This is a Uflex Promise”
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Some advantages of the Multi Lane Automatic Linear Pick – Fill & Seal Machine are:
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Higher filling output rate (pouches/minute) of 3D/flat bottom pouches owing to wider mouth opening and the machine being multi-lane
Since the mouth of the pouch is opened to the hilt, bigger sized products can be inserted, filled and sealed inside the 3D pouches
The same machine can be used to fill Doy Pack/Stand Up Pouches; 3 Side Seal Pouches and Normal Zipper pouches as well
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Some features of the Multi Lane Automatic Linear Pick – Fill & Seal Machine are:
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Fully Automatic Linear Pick Fill Seal Machine is a continuous machine designed for the efficient packaging of various products like Tea, Sugar, Salt, Granular products etc.
The Machine is PLC controlled with Touch screen HMI, making it operator friendly
Five Servo integrated to achieve high performance
Versatile machine where the pouch sizes can be changed easily
Accurate Pick and Place Mechanism for exact position of the pouch
Unique filling System
Compact design with small foot print
Easy operation
Low maintenance
Various Optional attachments can be provided like nitrogen flushing etc. as per customers’ requirement.
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