Packaging and Labeling - Packaging Machines

Packaging Machines

A choice of packaging machinery includes: technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility (change-over, materials, etc.), energy usage, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency, productivity, ergonomics, return on investment, etc.

Packaging machinery can be:

  1. purchased as standard, off-the-shelf
  2. purchased custom-made or custom-tailored to specific operations
  3. manufactured or modified by in-house engineers and maintenance staff

Efforts at packaging line automation increasingly use programmable logic controllers and robotics.

Packaging machines may be of the following general types:

  • Accumulating and Collating Machines
  • Blister packs, skin packs and Vacuum Packaging Machines
  • Bottle caps equipment, Over-Capping, Lidding, Closing, Seaming and Sealing Machines
  • Box, Case and Tray Forming, Packing, Unpacking, Closing and Sealing Machines
  • Cartoning machines
  • Cleaning, Sterilizing, Cooling and Drying Machines
  • Coding, Printing, Marking, Stamping, and Imprinting Machines
  • Converting Machines
  • Conveyor belts, Accumulating and Related Machines
  • Feeding, Orienting, Placing and Related Machines
  • Filling Machines: Handling dry, powered, solid, liquid, gas, or viscous products
  • Inspecting: visual, sound, metal detecting, etc.
  • Label dispenser
  • Orienting, Unscrambling Machines
  • Package Filling and Closing Machines
  • Palletizing, Depalletizing, Unit load assembly
  • Product Identification: labeling, marking, etc.
  • Sealing Machines: Heat sealer
  • Slitting Machines:
  • Weighing Machines: Check weigher, multihead weigher
  • Wrapping machines: Stretch wrapping, Shrink wrap, Banding
  • Form, Fill and Seal Machines
  • Other specialty machinery: slitters, perforating, laser cutters, parts attachment, etc.
  • Process Machinery (Product Preparation): Chopper, Crusher, Cutter, Molder, Peeler, etc.
  • Process Machinery (Special Product): Coating, Enrobing, Seasoning
  • Process Machinery (Product Cooking, Heating, and Cooling): Aseptic

  • Bakery goods shrinkwrapped by shrink film, heat sealer and heat tunnel on roller conveyer

  • High speed conveyor with bar code scanner for sorting transport packages

  • Label printer applicator applying a label to adjacent panels of a corrugated box.

  • Robotics used to palletize bread

  • Automatic stretch wrapping machine

  • Equipment used for making molded pulp components and molding packaging from straw

  • A semi-automatic Rotary Arm Stretch Wrapper

  • Equipment for thermoforming packages at NASA

  • Automated labeling line for wine bottles

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