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