Packaging equipment is a complex of mechanisms and machines designed for primary or group packaging of various products. Most common in consumer goods and goods sold through network retail.
Packaging equipment is used in most end processes of industrial production from the food industry to the pharmaceutical. The main purpose is to automate the most labor-intensive production processes: dosing, packaging and corking of products; formation and sealing of packages from polymer and other films; forming a box, packing products into a box and gluing a cardboard box, wrapping and shrinking the film, laying products in group packaging (corrugated boxes, shrink blocks, bags) on a transport pallet, wrapping the loaded pallet with stretch film. In conjunction with the packaging equipment, equipment is used to automatically apply information to the packaging in the form of a label (labeling equipment), laser or drip marking (marking equipment), equipment for moving products across the production site between the individual stages of packaging - conveyors and conveyors (conveyor equipment) .
Packaging equipment is usually qualified by the type of packaging material (cardboard, barrier films, shrink films, blister, etc.) or the packaging form (three-seam bag, sachet, bottle, can, doy-pack, etc.)
Categories
- By the method of action: horizontal, vertical and horizontal-vertical.
- By application: food industry and non-food industry
- By degree of automation: automatic, semi-automatic, manual
Views
- shrink: based on the principle of reducing the surface area (shrinkage) of the material used - the film. At the same time, the films are divided by type: polyethylene, polyethene (POF) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Shrink machines are chamber type with an “L” -shaped film sealer, automatic sleeve heat-shrink machines, and automatic sleeve machines with heat tunnels.
- thermoforming: the principle of operation is thermoforming from polymer films of a container for the product, followed by sealing the upper part of the filled vessel with a covering film
- labeling: applying (gluing) the label to the surface . In this case, the basis of the machine - the applicator - equipment for applying one type of label on the product. There is the possibility of printing information on the label in real time - printer applicator.
- as a separate view, the application of a self-adhesive label should also be highlighted
- there are also sleeve type labeling machines that install a sleeve of thermoplastic material on the product and then heat shrink the plastic sleeve on the product, thereby making high-quality compression. This principle is more economical, since it is not necessary to use a special substrate as for a self-adhesive label.
- capping / liquid filling
- for filling and capping creams in tubes
- Blow - Fill - Seal (blowing - filling - sealing) equipment
- vacuum
- wrapping
- blister
- Packaging (wrapping) in stretch film - usually used for transport packaging on a pallet or for long loads.
- palletizers
- auxiliary: leading, outlet conveyors
- strapping