Fltècnics Packs an Aggressive Chemical Product Into Flexible Sachet at High Speed

Jun 17, 2021 | Daniel Olle

A leading multi-national manufacturer of chemical products recently approached FLTècnics, a ProMach product brand, offering Horizontal Form, Fill & Seal machine, coding, complete CIP and counting system with automatic packaging into carton box to pack different kind of liquid chemical products into 3 side seals sachet The customer’s current system was experiencing low production speed and product filling splashing with consequent sealing contamination and finished sachets with leakage. FLTecnics solution, using FL 1.4B FLT2 high speed machine and special filling system, offer them the complete solution to produce pouches with no-leakage up to 180 pouches/minute.

Customer Challenge

Chemical products are very aggressive to be constantly filled in flexible packaging at high speed, for this reason, FLTècnics has developed and customized the machine for filling and sealing the sachets in optimal conditions and high-quality sealing, as well as ensuring the counting of the sachets and packing them in carton boxes automatically.

The FLTècnics solutions

FLTècnics has supplied to one of the most important Chemical Companies a complete solution for a HFFS rollstock machine model FL 1.4B FLT2 in duplex version, for filling different types of Chemical liquid products into 3 side seals sachet at 160 sachets/minute for 20 ml volume:

  • Product: 20 ml Chemical products low density.
  • Speed: 80 cycles/minute (160 sachets/minute)
  • Sachet style: 3 side seals
  • Filling system: Flow meter with complete CIP system, and volume adjustment in real time.

Results

  • High accuracy dosing < 1%
  • Customized & Viable solution
  • Efficiency
  • Product’s safety
  • Finished sachet with free leakage.

Characteristics of this equipment

  • 3-year warranty on mechanical parts.
  • 1-year warranty on pneumatical & electrical components.
  • Expanding reel shaft
  • Easy and fast change over: Motorized bottom and vertical sealing bars & film feed unit and scissors (between 20 - 30 minutes)
  • PLC and HMI with interactive touch screen including recipes screen and more.
  • Servo motorized film feed unit.
  • Machine frame made in stainless steel AISI 304.
  • Sanitary design in compliance with chemical & pharma requirements.
  • All parts in contact with the product made in stainless steel AISI-316L.
  • Tear notch for easy opening.
  • Central lubrication system.
  • Flow meter with FULL CIP.
  • Special filling nozzles with anti-splash system.
  • Customised sachets’ exit with counting system and automatic packaging into carton box.

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