Author: anotoki

A coffee bag packaging is a package that holds a coffee so it can be transported or kept it in a convenient condition.

Coffee bag packaging is an essential part of coffee industry. The coffee industry is very competitive, and there are many competitors. The competition is intense, and the quality of the product matters a lot.

The type of packaging that the coffee bag needs depends on its use. Some are used to store coffee, others are used for packaging it for sale, and others are used to transport it or serve it in restaurants.

There has been a lot of discussion about improving the quality of coffee bag packaging in the past years. There have been many recommendations on what should be done and which changes should be made for them to be able to compete with other products on the market.

PLASTIC COFFEE BAG

Plastic coffee bags are a great way to serve your customers. It keeps the coffee fresh and warm.

Coffee bag packaging has been around for a long time. It is made of polystyrene and has a plastic cover on top of it. Polystyrene makes the bags durable and lightweight. The plastic cover is made of a type of plastic called polypropylene. Polypropylene is a good plastic that doesn’t affect human health and the environment. This covers the coffee inside and keeps it from getting contaminated by air and moisture.

The packaging industry is also facing competition from other types of packaging such as paper bags, cardboard boxes, etc. To maintain their position in this market, companies have to develop new ways to package their products and keep them fresh for more extended periods. They do this by using the same material they use in their coffee bag packaging but with different colors or designs.

TYPES OF PLASTIC COFFEE BAGS

Valve on the Plastic Coffee Bag

The bag valve plays a vital role in keeping your coffee fresh and tasty. These bags are usually used for roasted coffee because roasted coffee releases carbon dioxide that spoils your coffee. So the valve in the bag’s packaging helps let the carbon dioxide out of the pack and prevents the outer air from entering.

These packages are designed to preserve your coffee flavor and enjoy the best of it.

Window on the Plastic Coffee Bag

The window on the coffee bag packages is designed to add a nice look to the package. In addition, there is a short transparent part that helps the customers see the product they will buy. And the bag of plastic keeps the coffee safe from water because it is water-resistant.

The window package gives a decent look that attracts the customers to buy it. It shows the product inside of the package. It is very helpful to check the product before buying.

Re-sealable Top of Plastic Coffee Bag

Re-sealable coffee bags are heat-sealed, airtight, and do not allow air to enter the bag. These bags are just like zipper bags. These re-sealable plastic bags are used to store the products. It gives protection to your product. In addition, re-sealable packaging is environmentally friendly.

PAPER COFFEE BAG

In the coffee industry, paper bags are the most common packaging material. They are used in many places such as cafés, restaurants, and offices. People have been using paper bags for decades, becoming more and more popular.

There’s a problem with paper bags: they only last for a short time before they become unusable. To avoid this, people often use them next to their drink so that it doesn’t get contaminated by the glass on the table. The problem with this is that these paper bags will naturally get dirty from the product on them, so even if you put your package next to your product, it’s still not safe to eat or drink from it.

One solution to this is using coffee bag packaging, which can be reused.

TYPES OF PAPER COFFEE BAGS

Valve on the Paper Coffee Bag

The paper packaging of coffee bags is unique in design. It does not allow air to enter and gives a drying store environment inside the package. These are eco-friendly. The valve on the bag helps save the coffee, but the paper material can’t protect the coffee from water because it is not water-resistant.

Window on the Paper Coffee Bag

If you want to showcase your product inside, a paper coffee bag with a window is better. The transparent windows allow customers to see the products inside. In addition, the window on the paper coffee bags enhances the packaging’s beauty.

Tin Tie Coffee Bag

The tin-tie coffee bag is designed to improve airtightness. There is a tie on the top of the bag, so you can easily open and close it to put coffee beans inside. In addition, this coffee pouch is waterproof and keeps the product dry. Most of them are made of Kraft paper, a popular material for coffee packaging.

CONCLUSION

The designs of paper coffee bags and plastic coffee bags are very similar. Bags with valves, windows, and tin-tie are the same designs. However, there are different characteristics between the two. Paper coffee bags have advantages when stored in a dry environment, while plastic coffee bags always have valves, which is an advantage when storing fresh food. Both are popular packages of coffee beans.

We need to consider whether this packaging is recyclable and is an environmentally friendly product. Most paper coffee bags are biodegradable, but many plastic coffee bags are not biodegradable. Sheet metal strips and valves do not decompose and must be removed before disposing of the bag.

It is necessary to check whether mass production is possible regarding production costs. In general, plastic coffee bags are more expensive to manufacture than paper coffee bags and both can be mass-produced. Apart from the difference between the two basic costs, the higher the production, the lower the cost.

We made a simple video to introduce our company’s new factory.

Originally, we prepared more content, but due to space limitations, we only used part of it, but we will provide you with the untrimmed part as a text draft for your reference:

Hello, welcome to our ECHO Company, Come with me on a tour of our factory today. I am now in the location of our brand new plant which is building and working in January 2022, with a total area of 98,000 square meters. Our company was founded in 2000, located in the center of the private economic zone of Ruian City, Zhejiang Province, the company to produce automatic bag packaging machine, is one of the most large-scale packaging machine enterprises in China!

Today we take you to learn how we make packaging machine into the industry leading, become the domestic leader.

Our factory has a total of eight floors, the first floor is our processing center, the second floor is the warehouse, the third floor is our assembly workshop, the fourth floor is our debugging workshop, the fifth floor is the exhibition hall, is still under renovation, the sixth floor is our office area.

First Floor

The first floor is dominated by a processing center, a reception hall, and a packing and delivery area.

Reception Hall

In front of the door is our exhibition hall, which mainly displays our products and accessories independently developed and patented by us. There is also a large exhibition hall, which shows the historical and cultural progress of our company. It is still under renovation, and you are welcome to visit our company after the epidemic.

Machining Center

Let go this way, Now we enter our processing workshop on the first floor. You can hear the loud noise caused by machines operation.

The total investment of processing equipment on this floor alone is more than 6.3 million USD! It can be said that our machining is one of the best in the rotary bag machine equipment, and it is also one of the largest parts processing bases in southern Zhejiang!

 You can hardly find anything like us in the Chinese market. Nearly 90% parts of the whole machine are produced by independent research and development, which is extremely rare in the packaging machine industry throughout the country. We don’t need to wait for logistics to process our own parts, which makes it more convenient for us to develop and trial-produce new models.

Only for our the processing center on the first floor has about 200 employees.

Our processing center has:

• 21 sets machining centers
• 64 sets wire cutting
• 32 sets CNC lathes
• 10 sets drilling centers

Gantry machining processing center has 4 sets. Gantry machining processing Center is from Taiwan, which can make the chassis one-time welding forming, after heat treatment processing to reduce the error to the minimum, Which makes our machines more stable and faster.

You will find that all our accessories have their own numbers on them, which makes our after-sales service more convenient. Not only the delivery cycle is fast, but also the quality is guaranteed. Currently affected by the Covid-19, if do not have such a large processing center of our own, many accessories need external processing, then the stability of the machine and the delivery date will be seriously affected, that is our delivery date can be met as soon as possible, the delivery time for standard model machine is 20 days.

Here is our Packing and delivery area, before shipping from our factory, the equipment will never be exposed to bad environment. Our this channel is enough for 4-5 containers to be loaded at the same time.

Second floor: Warehouse

Out of the elevator you could see here is full of goods. In our hand there are vacuum tube, the front are steel wire pipe and soft tube, the soft tube is used to discharge waste water when commissioning equipment.

Then is the main component on our equipment-turntable, it can be seen that we store is very large, even if the customer orders dozens of sets, also can quickly delivery.

There are measuring cups, they are customized according to the customer’s products, different specifications. Make the packaging more individual, professional, more targeted.

This side is the vacuum pump support, feeder turntable, packaging machine panel, etc.

It is also very spacious, so it also piled up some equipment waiting for shipment.

Go to the end of the road and then turn right, you will see our warehouse. Yes, the really warehouse, behind the fence isolation, hidden and rigorous, quiet and convenient. The whole warehouse has more than 10,000 square meters, with 5 elevators, one elevator can bearing 10 tons, two elevators can bearing 5 tons, the transport of outsourcing parts can be transported directly from the outside to the warehouse on the second floor, really very convenient.

There are 18 staff in our warehouse, including shelf staff, ingredient staff, ordering list personnel, packing personnel and two code staff, which are very complete, and the work process is also very orderly.

The warehouse has more than 600 shelves, we see the purchased parts shelves, this area is placed with parts that providing machining tools for the processing center. You see, a kind of drill bit and knife tools are filled with seven shelves. The kind of screw is filled with six shelves.

The shelves behind this row are all purchased accessories and electrical appliances, including Siemens, Omron and other international famous brands, as well as many other excellent domestic enterprises’ electronic equipment.

Our outsourcing parts have more than seven thousand kinds, and our homemade parts in use has more than eight thousand kinds, you could see the middle big row shelves are full of our homemade parts, they are all our own processing production accessories, we can see from the label, they according to different equipment and machine models, all homemade parts are classified neat, so that we can get the required accessories in production.

Here is our assembly parts shelf, which is the produced parts and then taken outside to assemble and then back to us for backup. These are the partners that we have worked with for many years, and we are very skilled.

This is our shelf specially prepared for after-sales service, we promise our customers that don’t worry after-sales service, so whenever there is any after-sales problems, we have prepared sufficient accessories for customers to replace in time.

This area is filled with large accessories that can not be placed on the shelves, which can be found according to the remark. very convenient and very clear at a glance.

To sum up, you could see that our warehouse is managed in five areas, such as outsourcing tool shelves, outsourced parts shelves, after-sales parts shelves and large parts areas and take up a large area of self-made parts shelves. It is very orderly, the office environment is fresh and bright, and the employees are in good order.

Because we believe that excellent warehouse management can better assist production and solve customers’ after-sales problems, which is an indispensable and crucial link for us. Do you agree?

Third Floor: Assembly Workshop

Here is our third floor assembly workshop, where small parts are spliced and assembled into our equipment! What a wonderful process! Now let’s come in and have a look.

The racks of the equipment are neatly arranged here. Do you see these holes in the racks? This should be the equipment that has just been assembled. Look at this side. The above devices have been installed almost.

After all the equipment is installed, the equipment can be sent to the commissioning group after a series of strict inspections by the factory!

Similarly, our assembly workshop also strictly implements 7s management, and we can see that the goods are placed in an orderly manner. A good working environment can bring people a comfortable mood, so that we can assemble better equipment!

Here we can see the details of our machine clearly and carefully.

Look, this is our integrated rack. Our materials are all solid, with 26mm main frame and 3mm stainless steel edge, which can make our equipment run more stably.

Then let’s take a look at the cam, the core structure of our equipment. We use the inner cam.With the inner cam, it can run according to the predetermined curve even when the packaging speed is accelerated, which is more stable.

Moreover, our cams are guaranteed for life, which does not mean that our cams are easy to break. On the contrary, the quality of our cams is very strong, so we have the confidence to guarantee the lifetime warranty, because it will not break at all.

Inside the frame, we have carried out a comprehensive plastic spraying, which can effectively prevent water and rust and facilitate daily maintenance and cleaning. This is also a guarantee for the packaging of liquid materials! And it can  extend the service life of the machine.

Let’s take a look at these almost assembled machines. They will be transported to the debugging workshop on the 4th floor. But before transported it has to go through professional inspection.

Each of our machine is equipped with specialized assemblers, inspectors and supervisors. Only through the concerted efforts of the three parties can qualified machine be produced, which is also the rigorous attitude advocated by our factory.

Here, we can clearly see that the machine is neatly placed here, and the scale and quantity of the machines are also very large, so you can rest assured of the strength of our factory.

Moreover, our workers here are very loyal and have worked for a long time. They are experienced and rigorous, and have contributed an indispensable part to the machine.

Fourth Floor: Debugging Workshop

The fourth floor is our debugging Area, which for adjusting machine after the assembly and connect to filling system according to customer’s need.

Here is a wide space for containing more than 300 sets machines. Our hot sale machines are normal rotary packing machine and vacuum packing machine. As you can see, every machine has its own folder. It records the model number, serial number, customization details and the name of Assembly person and acceptance person.

If any problem with machine, we can check corresponding accessories and person immediately.

We can see a transparent room with many shelves. This is our material room, which can store the materials and sample bags sent by customers. There is also a Refrigerator in it. Some materials are filled after freezing or at low temperature. In order to make the material closer to the state of production, we will freeze or keep it fresh.

Next to this room are the offices of our production managers and programmers. On the right side are all our machines. As you can see, most of them are vacuum machines. In China, vacuum food is very popular, with fresh taste and convenient to take, such as chicken legs, eggs, duck tongue, fish balls, dried tofu, pickles and so on. Of course, for different materials, our vacuum machine is equipped with different filling system, such as  egg feeder, dried bean feeder, annular feeder, and common scales.

Vacuum packing machine:

This is our newest and exclusive design vacuum model MRZK-200P. It is suitable for some products that need to be flattened, such as melon seeds, almonds, peanuts, etc. The effect of flattening is much more beautiful than stacking on the bag bottom. The actual speed depends on the specific material and the speed of the weighing and filling system.

It has 10 vacuum chambers. During the vacuuming process, the vacuum chamber will be horizontal and simulating manual flattening.

Now, let’s do an experiment. Put a glass of water on the machine.

You can see that the water in the cup doesn’t shake obviously, which shows that our machine runs quite stably. Why is our machine so stable?  Our machine use high quality materials, 26mm main frame and 3mm stainless steel Edging.

As for our processing technology of integrated cam, most of suppliers used the technology of two-half splicing, which has gaps. Our integrated CAM runs not only fast but also stable! And we promise the lifetime warranty of the cam.

As just introduced, 90% of the parts of our equipment are produced by our own processing center, with guaranteed quality, which is also the basis for th stable operation of our machine. Stability is above all else, which is what we pursue.

Besides the vacuum packing machine, we also have another hot sale model: rotary packing machine. It can combine with different filling system for different products, solid, granule, liquid, powder . And this machine can pack various of bag types, such as zipper pouch, side-spout pouch, side-seal pouch, stand-up pouch and some special shape pouch.

This is solid and granule packing line. The weihing system is scale. Generally, it combine with Z-type conveyor or inclined conveyor to lift product on the scale. It can pack candy, peanut, coffee bean, nuts, cooked food, pickles, puffed food, grain, seed, condiment, granulated sugar, chicken essence etc.

This is powder packing line, connect the auger filler and screw conveyor, which is suitable for Milk powder, Coffee powder, Food additives, Condiments, Tapioca powder, Coconut powder, Pesticide powder.

And this packing line is suitable for liquid and sauce. Like detergent, fruit juice, miller wine, soy sauce, vinegar, chilli sauce, tomato sauce, jam etc.

Some visitors ask about printing production date and expiration date. Sure, machine can do printing. There are ribbon printer, TTO, ink jet printer, laser printer, customers can choose according to customer’s needs. We usually put the coding on the second station. Before opening bag and filling, the bag is in a flat state, and the coding effect is better.

As you see, there is a tray. The countertop of the machine is washable. You can drain the sewage through this sink. For liquid products, the machine is equipped with a tray to prevent the liquid from contaminating the countertop.

I believe most of customer must concern about the installation problem during this special period. If you buy the machine, how to install it?

Previously, we could arrange for engineers to go abroad to debug the equipment at the customer’s factory. Now due to the covid-19, it is very difficult to go abroad. We can only provide videos for customers to guide installation and answer questions online. It is better for customers to send the products and bags to us to test the machine, which is more accurate. When the equipment arrives at the customer’s factory, it only needs a simple debugging after installation.

The fifth floor includes company’s meeting room, employee sports ground and new equipment R&D room.

The sixth floor is the office of sales personnel, financial personnel and administrative personnel. And parking area.

The seventh floor is our technology department, which is responsible for some drawings and parts design.

The roof is our chairman’s office.

We sincerely invite you to visit our new factory once you have opportunity to come China. And if you have any interest in our packing machine, just feel free to contact us for more machine details.

Automatic food packaging involves the use of automatic machinery for food material handling in the packaging process. Packaging food requires a safe and hygienic packaging environment. Efficiency and quality is also important when it comes to food packaging; hence, the need for automation in the food packaging process. Basically, automation is used in the food processing and packaging business because of the numerous advantages it offers. Automatic food packaging machinery is a good choice for your startup business because it can assist you in meeting and exceeding customer expectations. It can also efficiently perform a variety of operations in the exact requirements and ensure that the output is extremely professional in appearance. This will help elevate your new business to the next level in the eyes of your customers.

Automatic Food Packaging Machinery Options

Among so many considerations, the most important thing for your startup business may be the cost. So to get the most cost-effective options, we recommend choosing either the HFFS or VFFS packaging machine.

Horizontal form fill and seal machine (HFFS)

This horizontal form fill and seal machine is used majorly for solid products that can be introduced into a filling tube and from there placed into the formed film tube. The film is passed through a hollow former to make a tube.  Once a product is forced into this tube, the spinning fin seal rollers will seal it almost immediately.

The HFFS machine manufactures a pillow pouch; although it can be modified to produce gusseted bags to fit larger products. Furthermore, HFFS machines could be equipped with drilling gear to make holes in the upper seam for products hanging on racks.

Instead of first delivering a single folded web and later a sealed web into an HFFS machine, two webs can be supplied to all four sides once the product is introduced. With this technique, the packager can use webs made of two entirely different materials or webs made of the same material but with different designs.

Vertical form fill and seal machine (VFFS)

VFFS machines operate in three stages. The first makes pouches out of a web of flat heat seal component, fills them with the introduced products, and seals them all in a continuous process. These pouches can be used as the major package or inserted into cartons to provide an additional layer for safety during transportation and storage.

The bars that make up the cross-seals in most VFFS machines are made of a Nichrome wire that acts as a conductor for electric current to pass through and heat the bar to the required temperature. This temperature and the time duration must be carefully monitored. This is done to provide heat at an optimal temperature sufficient enough to heat up the plastic without burning it up. This is necessary to mitigate overheating, which could cause the film to wrinkle and subsequently burn through.

Similarities between the HFFS and VFFS machines

1. Both machines are good for the production of healthy food and can be used in the medicine industry
2. Both machines have operations that form the pouch shape.
3. Both machines are with functions of forming, filling and sealing; with the functions all in one machine.
4. Materials used in producing these machines are the same.

Differences between the HFFS and VFFS machines

HFFS	VFFS
Horizontal operation	Vertical operation
Requires more floor area	Requires less floor area
More expensive	Cheaper
Higher production speeds	Lower production speeds
Better finish and bag quality	Good finish and bag quality
Different types of filling system on a machine	Single type of filling system on a machine
Forms more complex bags	Forms simple bags
Ideal for solid food products	Ideal for granulated/powdered products

Factors to Consider When Choosing Automatic Food Packaging Machinery for Your Startup Business

Undoubtedly, automatic packaging machines are great. However, in selecting the best option for your startup business, there are certain factors you must put into consideration.

Type of product

The packaging machines you’ll need are largely determined by the kind of food product you intend to package. For example, a beverage company will use different packaging machinery as compared to the solid food industry.

Speed

Very high-speed machinery, as one might expect, can increase production rates while also increasing expenses. To fulfill your demand estimates, select a food packaging machine that can create the required output.

Budget

There are some high-end machines with advanced sensors that eliminate the need to bother about any aspect of the packaging process regardless of the volume of output.  There are also less expensive machines that can only perform certain parts of the process for you. Some might only be able to package few products.  Choose a packaging machine that is most cost-effective for you.

Energy use

When estimating the cost of packaging, some manufacturers overlook the cost of power. When you use a machine that consumes a lot of power, the electricity cost might constitute a significant portion of the packaging cost – it could even surpass the cost of the machine itself.

Size

Make sure the packaging machinery you’re getting fits within your production space by checking the dimensions carefully.

Maintenance

Regular maintenance of packaging machinery will result in not just repair expenses but also losses associated with production disruption. Therefore choose packaging machinery that would require less maintenance and exhibit excellent after-sales service.

Carbon footprint

Food companies are striving to go green by adopting production methods that are environmentally friendly. You can ensure that your packaging machine has the lowest carbon impact possible by reducing inefficient procedures and maximizing recycling, 

Conclusion

To determine which automatic food packaging machinery is best for you, you need to first consider the type of product you want to package. Thereafter, other considerations can follow as explained above. After you have determined what type of machine you need, you will need to contact manufacturers that can provide you with more enlightenment. Contact us today for more information about automatic food packaging machinery.

How Packaging Machinery Impacts Business Success

With the excellent support of packaging machines, the packaging industry is growing super-fast. Between 2018 and 2028 the global packaging market is set to widen by almost 3% per annum, attaining over $1.2 trillion.

The Asia-Pacific plastic packaging market is foreseen to expand with a CAGR of 3.2% during the estimated period of 2021-2026.

This has opened a big opportunity for all the packaging machine businesses around the world.

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover:

• 7 excellent benefits of packaging machines for your business
• Top 7 best kinds of packaging machines you should know
• How do packaging machines work
• How do you clean a packaging machine

So if you want a clever and lasting packaging processes’ solution for your product, this guide is for you.

The Importance of Packaging Machinery in businesses

Nowadays, Consumers love convenient stand-up pouches because of their cheaper and lighter weight than other packaging formats such as glass bottles, metal cans, etc.

Thus, most businesses race to create creative pouches designed to stimulate customers’ purchases.

The estimated growth of the Pouches market: source: Marketsandmarkets

The development of the packaging industry has motivated packaging businesses to have the best packaging standards to meet the needs of the market.

Unlike traditional processes, packaging machinery fully meets the production speed, customization, automation, and production costs for your business.

In fact, the packaging machine is asserting an important position and is a smart choice for helping businesses grow faster.

7 Amazing benefits of packaging machines for your business

Reduce labor costs

The packaging process needs a large number of workers to run, so businesses have to pay high expenses to hire them. 

In some cases, for example, your business may be improperly allocating costs and evaluating labor, which can affect the production quality and damage profits for your business.

According to BusinessInsider, investors are very worried about having to spend 60% of their company’s costs on no-labor costs while the company’s profit is still low.

Meanwhile, using packaging machines is much simpler, because the machines only need a few people to operate them and bring higher productivity.

For example, a person can pack three boxes in three minutes. Similar to that time, the packing machine can make 27 boxes.

Packaging machines need only a few operators. Businesses can thus take advantage of this benefit and reassign staff to more productive jobs.

Higher production speeds

Optimizing your manufacturing process can lead to improved production speeds.

Packing liquid or starch requires meticulous focus work. This easily causes employees to feel tired and lose motivation.

The daily repetition process can make your employees feel bored and distracted.

The packing machine can do so at much higher speeds without burnout, eliminating unnecessary manual rules.

Actively manage time

Most of today’s machines are trying to keep up with the latest trends to bring comfort and ease of use to users.

Some common machines still need to use manual switches and controllers. But in automatic machines, those are completely replaced by smart touch screens with friendly interfaces.

You can easily manipulate timings, save metrics and troubleshoot problems and much more.

Guaranteed safety

I used to have a conversation with workers in the packaging department; they said that when they first joined, they felt that their work was pretty simple and easy because they don’t have to put in too much effort.

However after a long time, their wrists are easy to hurt because of too much activity, standing for a long time will easily hurt their feet, and their eyes also have stress when focusing for too long. Sadly, they will still try to work for the salary.

You might think this is just normal. But a lot of businesses have to compensate large amounts of money for employees’ unexpected accidents. Besides, the business image will be affected.

Fortunately, all these problems can be solved by automatic machines which not only protect your employees’ health, but also limit the risk of unnecessary accidents.

Reduce material costs

Accurately measure the proportions needed for each product, helping you avoid wasting materials.

They also have environmental benefits.

For example, sophisticated packaging machines will only use a set amount of materials. This both helps you reduce scrap and prevents waste.

Increase quality

Satisfy an increased demand not only for quantity but also for quality.

Packaging machinery provide a high level of precision and a precise quality assurance for each product.

In the past, if your customer suddenly asked for an additional product quantity, or both new and old clients wanted same-day delivery, you may have a headache arranging overtime employees, or rescheduling the delivery time with your customers. You wouldn’t be able process it in time.

You know that if you force employees to work too quickly than they could do, the product is likely to have defects when it comes out.

Machines can run for more hours when there is an increase in demand while still ensuring both quality and quantity. Your customers will also be more satisfied and contribute to a great reputation for your business.

Remain Competitive

With today’s open economy, the opportunity to expand the scale of businesses and attract investment capitals is increasing.

Startup brands especially are growing like crazy.

This means that the competition is also getting big.

In fact, companies are investing progressively in automation.

Automation doesn’t mean it can keep you on top of businesses. But without automation, your business will operate at a limited productivity compared to the competition, which could make it difficult for your company to adapt to today’s changing marketplace.

7 kinds of packaging machines you should know

There are several packing machines available in the market with different styles and functions.

You can select the perfect machine for your business depending on your company’s industry.

Here are 7 popular packaging machines you’d love to know about.

Premade pouch packaging machine

Feature:

• Simple and easy to use
• Automatic control of a series of processes from loading, filling, sealing, and finished products.
• Convenient to clean
• Easy to link up with other downstream packaging equipment such as liquid filler, multi-head weigher, metal detector, check weigher, etc.

Bag style:

Industries & Solution:

• Liquid
• Granule
• Powder
• Solid

Automatic Vacuum packaging machine

Features:

• Have custom-made for large volume or bag packing
• Using high technology such as a micro-computer display and graphic tough panel
• Automatic control of a series of processes from loading, filling, sealing, and finished products.
• Made of stainless steel and meet the requirements of food production safety

Industries & Solution:

• Solid
• Granule

Bag style:

Piston Liquid filling machine

Features:

• Users can choose from 2 to 6 filling heads
• Frequency control, no bottle no filling
• Automatically alarms when the liquid in the cylinder is insufficient
• Easy-adjust filling volume by touching the screen and shaking the level

Bottle style:

Industries & Solution:

• Liquid
• Washing fluid
• Tomato sauce

Quad Seal bag packaging machine

Features:

• Automatic lubrication system
• The production line meets the requirements of food hygiene
• The simple design of the control system’s touch screen facilitates the use of operators
• Versatile in design, easy to link up with another downstream packaging

Bag style:

Industries & Solution:

• Liquid
• Granule
• Powder
• Solid

Vacuum Flatten packaging machine

Features:

• Strictly handles package seal, straightens the package seal, and keeps it clean
• Simple machine operation, simple operation interface, and easy to use
• Adopts 304 stainless steel or other conforming to food hygiene and safety
• Automatic control of a series of processes from packing, beating, shaping, and sealing

Bag style:

Industries & Solution:

• IQF Food
• Food
• Snack food
• Cheese
• Coffee
• Rice
• Solid
• Granule

Horizontal form fill & seal machine

Features:

• The length adjustment scope is extremely broad and suitable for packing many kinds of products.
• The horizontal sealing and film are synchronized, and the sealing is more reliable and artistic.
• The design with the humanoid uses the industry’s touch screen
• Uses the servo intelligent control, run with low noise, and make a comfortable environment

Industries & solution:

• IQF food with tray
• Biscuits
• Hamburger
• Instant noodles
• Articles for daily use
• Drug sundries

Vertical form fill & seal machine

Features:

• It can stock ten disposes of / use rollstock, simple to change variety
• Servo motor drawing film, positions accurately
• PLC computer system, the function is more stable, adjusting any parameters doesn’t require stopping the machine
• Independent temperature control system, suitable for various mixed film, PE film packing materials

Industries & solution:

• Liquid
• Powder
• Granule

How do automatic packaging machines work?

Each type of packaging machine will have a different operating program, and the working principle of the packaging machine is also different.

For instance, the quality of product packaging will depend on the correct temperature, speed, and stability of the machine system.

However, the usage of all these machines is extremely simple. You can see the detailed usage of some packaging machines here.

This is an example of a piston liquid filling machine.

The whole process does not require too many workers’ intervention, only one operator and three assistants can run the entire production line smoothly.

How do you clean a packaging machine?

You can prolong the life of your machines and maintain their efficiency if you know how to care for and check them daily.

Firstly, a simple guide to the parts of a machine will help you better understand the maintenance problems.

Next, you need to make sure that it would be better if someone in your company knows about the key points of mechanical maintenance.

The maintenance and repair of equipment staff usually include two main groups: Junior technicians and intermediate technicians.

Junior technicians are usually responsible for simple equipment repairs and daily maintenance.

Intermediate technicians, along with junior technicians likewise, need to ensure quarterly equipment maintenance and do more complex adjustment tasks.

In a nutshell, regular cleaning and maintenance of machines is the best way to save costs.

But you wouldn’t want to both manage human resources and auditing, elaborate business strategies and repair machinery all by yourself, right?

If so, the best way is to pick up a dedicated team of machinery experts who will help you more than you expect.

“The best quarter of operation since its inception” was the overall assessment of Dingdong’s fourth quarter results (ending December 31, 2021), as reported by Dingdong’s founder Changlin Liang on the evening of February 15.

The data showed that Dingdong Prepared Meal sales sold over RMB 900 million in the fourth quarter, amounting to over RMB 3 billion annualized, accounting for 14.9% of the overall GMV. And last year, the Prepared Meal series sold upwards of 100 million copies nationwide regionally. And the king of DingDong Prepared Meal sales, the crawfish in “boxing shrimp”, is doing well. Last year alone, DingDong users ate about 128,800,000 crayfish, which is the height of about 1,165 Mount Everest!

“Fate” – Prepared Meal go viral

The changes in the market environment and the normalization of epidemic prevention since the birth of COVID-19 have brought about new changes in people’s living habits and consumption behaviors. People are more and more accustomed to convenient shopping methods and diversified product forms. At the same time, they will pay more attention to the health and safety of diet and high-quality home life experience. Alibaba data show that during the Spring Festival in 2020, the sales volume of Prepared Meal in tmall soared by 1683% year-on-year.

Changes in media and channels have also facilitated the promotion of prefabricated dishes. New media such as live broadcast and short video can reach users efficiently and accurately. The proportion of e-commerce channels, private traffic channels and new o2o channels in Prepared Meal sales channels has increased rapidly, and a large number of cutting-edge brands choose to establish brands online to reduce the investment of offline costs.

According to DingDong, more than 70% of the users who buy Prepared Meal are 35 years old. The data of HEMA fresh also shows that 54% of the “post-95” consumers often buy ingredients to cook by themselves. Among them, Prepared Meal is one of their favorite commodities, and the purchase proportion has reached twice that of the “post-65”.

“The extremely strong consumption power of single groups has formed a trillion level consumption market, and this trend is irreversible.” The latest data show that China’s single population has reached 260 million, of which more than 70 million adults live alone, which also expands the market capacity of Prepared Meal.

Central kitchen – the core of Prepared Meal industry

The central kitchen is to distribute dishes by refrigerated truck, and all direct stores implement unified procurement and distribution. The central kitchen adopts a huge operation room. Special personnel are assigned to be responsible for all links such as purchasing, processing of food materials and spices. Semi-finished products and adjusted spices are transported to the branch store in a unified way within the specified time.

The central kitchen operation mode is a modern standardized, standardized, digital, industrialized, scientific and efficient modern catering operation mode. It is also a business form of modern catering. It is in line with the development trend of industrialization and modernization of the catering industry and provides a broad market space for the development of Prepared Meal industry. It can be said to be the most advanced mode of contemporary catering. It realizes the standardization, scale, intensification and informatization of food production through the unified procurement, processing and distribution of food raw materials and the automatic operation of equipment.

Premade pouch packaging machine — the key to improving efficiency

From the above description, it can be seen that the first two links in the production of central kitchen are highly manual, and only the last packaging link is highly mechanized, which is also the key to improve production efficiency and save costs among enterprises. Therefore, a packaging machine with high efficiency, stability and less defective rate is indispensable for enterprises.

The precise convex energy structure and uninterrupted refueling system make our machine more stable, and all models are suitable for the packaging of Prepared Meal. In addition to vacuum and non vacuum packaging, various types of packaging materials, packaging size and packaging speed… You can find the most suitable packaging machine for your products in echomachinery.

The packaging of Prepared Meal is mainly divided into six steps (vacuum packaging has eight steps): bag loading, printing production date, bag opening, filling (there are two or three times of filling according to the difference between materials), switching, cleaning and sealing.

The parts of our premade pour packaging machine and vacuum packaging machine in contact with materials or packaging bags are processed with 304 stainless steel or other materials that meet the requirements of food hygiene, meet the hygienic standards of food processing machinery, and ensure the hygiene and safety of food production.

The touch screen controlled by the machine adopts German Siemens PLC and pod electrical control system, which is easy to operate and friendly man-machine interface. And it is not sealed when not blanking, so the unfilled bag can be recycled to reduce waste.

The vacuum cavity of the bag feeding vacuum packaging machine is carved and milled from aviation aluminum in the computer processing center to ensure the sealing and durability of the product.

Facing different materials, we are equipped with different filling devices for customers to choose.

Whether to C or to B, Prepared Meal is undoubtedly a “big market”, and the “next big thing” of FMCG category is well deserved. The trend of Prepared Meal must be to pursue higher quality, and the quality is highly deterministic.

Consumers’ attention to food safety, the improvement of cold chain network and the improvement of food R & D level inevitably require enterprises to choose more stable, efficient and safe packaging machines to adapt to the consumption concept of modern young people and the trend of consumption market.

EchoMachinery’s packaging machine has been a dedicated “worker” since it was produced and bought by customers.

It is stable quality in the year after year to complete their “work tasks”, but whenever the approaching winter and lower temperatures, it will also play some small “capricious”, you need to maintain it, or it may go on strike.

Below, we have a number of guides to help you keep your machine in good “working condition”.

Manual Cup Filler

As winter temperatures get colder and colder, just as people add clothing to keep warm, our “worker” need to be resupplied with the “production essentials”.

Manual Cup Filler’s measuring cups are made of food-grade PTFE, a material that expands and contracts under low temperatures, causing the gap between the cups to become larger, resulting in a lower success rate of feeding, which requires an “O-ring” for the cups.

In this way, even if the cups are “capricious” and “deformed”, there is no problem. Note that you must increase the type of ring every other cup, otherwise the effect is not obvious. Also, remember to take off the “O-ring” after the winter, otherwise, the cup can be uncomfortable to strangle!

Tips: Some machines can also adjust the stainless steel guide at the end of the ring base plate to adjust the gap between the cups, by reinforcing the cups to solve the problem of large gaps.

Industrial Chiller

Don’t look at it called an Industrial Chiller and think it’s not afraid of the cold, ​just like the barber in Russell’s paradox, in fact, the most afraid of the cold is it! When the weather is cold, the chiller is also “capricious” and screams its need for warmth.

Chiller as an independent “worker”, which placed a large amount of pure water to do water circulation for the machine, we all know that when the water temperature is low to a critical point when the liquid water will condense into solid ice, so it can not do water circulation or even damage the machine.

So the chiller should be placed in a low-temperature environment when working in indoor constant temperature conditions, and in time to empty the water in the chiller when the equipment stops running, to prevent the chiller from freezing due to low temperatures at night.

Working Environment

As the weather gets colder, “workers” are more “capricious” about their working environment. If the working environment does not meet the following 4 requirements, there is a great possibility that the machine will “strike” or cause danger to their “colleagues”.

1. Since the equipment is in a semi-open state, it is necessary to check the environment around the equipment before work starts, clean up unnecessary personal items in the work area and exclude dangerous items to eliminate safety hazards.

2. Check whether the safety channel is blocked, the blocked safety channel is not conducive to the evacuation of personnel and the flow of goods delivery in case of emergency.

3. Check whether the bag is stained with water or inadvertently stained because of low temperature, such as pollution must be replaced and clean the bag in time to prevent the machine due to stains affect the packaging effect and lead to a higher rate of defective products.

4. Check whether the product is frozen in the low-temperature environment, such as the failure to check and affect the product packaging or customer complaints, is not the fault of the “worker”.

Winter Shutdown

After a year of work, our “worker” needs a full cleaning to clean the oil and stains from the equipment to ensure that the equipment will look like new for the next year.

Remember what we said earlier about the “worker” shrinking and expanding due to the low temperatures in winter? We need to maintain the equipment by applying a small viscosity grease to the cams to reduce friction and seal the gap.

After completing all the work above, you need to cover the “worker” plastic film cover to prevent the accumulation of dust on the equipment, while the bottom of the machine and the motor box do a good job of sealing to prevent rodents from going in and chewing on the equipment wires cause unnecessary losses.

And finally, wish you a happy Chinese New Year!

Frozen food has many benefits, including preventing food waste and locking in essential vitamins plus minerals. In most cases, it can be difficult to store if you don’t have the correct frozen food packaging machine or are unaware of how the process works.

If you have a shop and require vacuum packaging for frozen food, we have the perfect solution for you. Our frozen food packaging solutions can help you maintain a high-quality food safety standard while preserving all-important nutrients.

Today’s article discusses some of the best solutions for storing your frozen food and explains why it’s a good idea to freeze your goods.

The Benefits of Freezing Food

The benefits of freezing food are better for you than you think and are a great way to preserve all the nutrients required for healthy development. In processed food, sodium is added to enhance color and keep the edible goods longer.

This comes at the cost of our health, so don’t you think it’s best to seek out other better solutions for your company? With frozen food, it remains preserved until you are ready to eat it; all you need to do is take it out and thaw the product.

Another great thing about frozen food is that it doesn’t waste because you can store it until ready to cook. You can easily portion food to have predetermined meals, which can also help with budgeting and meal prep.

Besides being more convenient frozen food is generally cheaper than fresh food and can be stored in the freezer until you require it. Some people believe that frozen food is dangerous to eat, but that is so far from the truth.

It’s good to note that the freezing process destroys harmful bacteria and improves their quality. Be careful when thawing, though, as it may be detrimental to you or your loved ones if done incorrectly.

What Is IQF Packaging?

IQF packaging is a method of freezing where food is individually quickly frozen so that there is minimal damage to the cellular structure of the product. In most cases, the packaged food is frozen at 40 degrees below zero inside a blast freezer. 

The process is demanding and requires that you use a particular IQF frozen food film resistant to such cold temperatures. One of the best ways to do this is by using a vacuum packaging machine for frozen food as it streamlines the process, especially if you own a grocery store or food business.

Premade Pouch Packaging Machine

This automatic premade pouch rotary filling and sealing machine can shorten the time to pack food destined for freezing. Using a premade pouch has many advantages, including a user-friendly sealing method, portable opening, and excellent appearance. 

These premade pouch machines also provide fully automated solutions, material handling strategies, and packaging options.

This versatile machine easily links with other downstream packaging equipment such as case sealers, weight checkers, metal detectors, and liquid fillers. There is a fully automatic rotary system fitted with heavy-duty parts to ensure the machine’s durability. 

Inside the machine, you find an automatic lubrication system that increases the production line and allows you to package whatever products you require for freezing. It can support multiple bag styles ranging from zip lock, pallet, spout, and gusset bag packaging, so you always have the perfect fit.

The device can even print the date on the packaging to know when you froze it. Multiple feeders can also be attached to the machine to fill a variety of ingredients such as liquids, powders, grains, or granules.

Automatic Vacuum Packaging Machine

This fully automatic rotary vacuum sealing machine is perfect for a large factory that freezes food. It can be used to evacuate air around perishable foodstuffs such as fried fish, chicken feet, dried bean curd, and pickles. 

The vacuum chamber is transparent, which allows you to monitor the state of the vacuum chamber without opening the device. It has a graphics touch panel and microcomputer display that informs you when the machine requires maintenance. 

There is complete automatic control of several processes, including sealing, vacuuming, packaging, filling, and loading products. Most of the machine is made out of stainless steel, ensuring durability and hygiene during the production process.

It can be fitted with various attachments so that you can automatically fill a host of different bags with any ingredients you like. With this machine, you can even perform vacuum nitrogen packaging to improve the taste and color of the goods plus enhance the customer’s product experience.

Multi-head Weigher

This fully automatic computerized combination weighs granular particles or foodstuff. Adding one of these devices to the top of your food packaging vacuum machine is crucial to decrease packaging time and increase weight accuracy.

Pairing this item with an additional stainless-steel platform is vital if added on top of your packaging machine. The extra height may make it hard to reach, and a steel platform can provide additional safety plus more support for your factory workers.

Z-Bucket Elevator

Loading your food packager often requires the help of a food elevator such as the Z-Bucket. This device is the quickest and easiest way to load grains or chemicals into your vacuum machine for distribution.

Bowl Elevator

The bowl elevator is a powerful single-capacity machine that can help you load your vacuum packaging machine with various small materials, grain, medicine, or food. It is combined with a packaging machine and weigher to form an automated packing system for your factory.

Lifting Conveyor Belt

This is a traditional conveyor belt with a lifting capacity of 4000L per hour and is made from high-quality stainless steel. With 1kw of power, it can automatically convey material from low to high places on its mesh belt.

It is suitable for moving chemicals, vegetables, frozen foods, and candy into your vacuum packaging device.

Conclusion

No matter how you look at it, investing in a vacuum packaging machine is a great way to save time and money in the factory. It can help you accurately package and vacuum various foodstuff for freezing or transportation. 

Usually, IQF factory temperature has very strict temperature requirements, all our machines can be adapted to low temperatures and operate for long periods of time at a minimum of 0 degrees Celsius.

Multi-head Weigher, Z-Bucket Elevator, Bowl Elevator, Lifting Conveyor Belt, are optional and we decide which machine is better to use according to the customer’s material.

Purchase one of the above models to help deliver the best quality packaged goods and impress your customers with your effective storing solutions. 

Are you in the coffee business, looking for good reliable machines to pack all that coffee? When it comes to packaging, there are a variety of machines for coffee –filling machines, sealing machines, trapping machines, wrapping machines, coding machines, and labeling machines.

Choosing the right type of machine is crucial to your business and can be very confusing. The wrong packaging can ruin your business, as fresh-smelling coffee is what all coffee lovers crave. No one is going to buy ill-packed stale coffee that has no aroma.

Machine To Fill And Seal Coffee

Coffee packaging consists of packing coffee beans, drip coffee, and coffee powders (instant and ground powders). Packing coffee is not just taking a pouch or bag and filling it with some beans or powder. Apart from the quality of the packing material, the way coffee is packed itself is important.

There are machines to help you pack your coffee the right way to fit your customers’ requirements. Our machines can handle different types of coffee, a variety of packing materials, and ensure your product is packed to impress.

Automatic Rotary Filling And Sealing Machines

When you want to fill and seal coffee in pre-purchased pouches or bags, you should consider the rotary automatic pouch packing machines. If needed, you can use a vacuum machine to remove all that excess air and get a neat small package.

When your coffee business picks up, you don’t want to spend time and money hiring human resources to fill and pack the coffee uniformly. The rotary machine is designed to move a preformed pouch in a rotary fashion between various stations.

Packaging Process

The coffee will be packed in the following order:

1. A robotic arm will feed the bags into the machine; there is very little requirement for human interference here.
2. The bag feeding roller will move the bags to the feeding station. The movement will be spaced equally. The bag loader will pick up the pouch and grip it well across all processes.
3. Vacuum suction pads will open the bags according to each model (with or without zipper re-closure)
4. Coffee is filled into the bags. The filling apparatus will measure and fill the bags according to the settings.
5. The machine will gently shake the pouch to encourage loose contents to settle in the bottom.
6. Deflators will squeeze out the remaining air before sealing the pouch shut.
7. The seal will be strengthened and flattened by a cooling bar.
8. Package is ready

Premade Pouch Coffee Packing machine

The automatic filling and sealing machine from MR Series can pack 80 bags per minute. It can open the pre-purchased pack, fill it up with your coffee and seal it to look neat and sophisticated. Whether you choose to use a zipper pack or a stand-up pack, this machine can save you a lot of time and do a great job with your packing.

You can also link it up with other equipment in your downstream packing – like case sealer, check weigher, liquid filler, etc. The loading, filling, sealing is completely automated, making work simple and quick for you. The lubrication system is also automatic, and the machine itself is made with heavy parts for durability.

Coffee Vacuum Packing machine

Various customers have varying needs. While coffee is generally packed in regular pouches, some customers may not like the bulge in the packaging and can ask for vacuum packing. It can be to save space in the pantry or while packing.

The fully automated rotary vacuum sealing machine from the MRZK series can pack 85 bags per minute. The vacuum chamber is transparent, allowing you to check the status of the chamber without having to open any part. You can use this vacuum sealer with almost all types of filling machines – automatic or not. We can also offer you a custom-made machine to pack large volumes.

Coffee Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine

The packaging has to be perfect for all those sachets and stick packs of coffee. A little extra powder or liquid can ruin the packing and cause leaks, and no one wants coffee liquid to spill on their belongings.

The vertical packing machine from the EC series (420/520/720) is designed to pack 60 bags per minute. All the feeding, metering, sealing, printing date, and counting are fully automated in this machine. You can save a lot of time and have a uniform professional finish for all your packets. You can even adjust the parameters for different packing needs.

Conclusion

Choosing the right coffee packaging machine can be a cumbersome process. It can be stressful, as the wrong choice can cause a lot of damage to your business – both financially and reputation-wise. The above-listed automated machines can suit varying packaging needs and help improve your business and reputation in the industry.

We shot a series of videos to help you solve some simple problems of Premade Pouch Packaging Machine.