Ceepackaging

Having to withstand high loads during filling, transport and storing packaging for heavy goods requires a secure closure. At the same time, the closure needs to provide safety without sacrificing ease of operation and convenience for the consumers. Pactiv’s new Easy-Open Track security does not necessarily come at the expense of convenience.

Despite the availability of highly sophisticated silo logistics, bags continue playing an important role in the distribution of bulk goods. Especially for applications involving small batches or the packaging of demanding products, the manufacturers of chemicals, food, and non-food as well as mineral products tend to rely on bags because of their flexible use. When it comes to selecting the appropriate bagging system, the properties of the products to be packaged need to be taken into account. Free-flowing products such as PE resin or vitamin powder make other demands on the bagging technology than do heavy-flowing and/or powdery and dusty products such as E-PVC, starch or titanium dioxide. It is for this reason that engineering company Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) is presenting at this year's ACHEMA with TOPAS and OPAL two different Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) packaging systems specially geared to these applications.

Starlinger, the world’s leading supplier of production technology for FIBCs of various sizes and types and of machinery for load testing of the finished container bags, recently became the newest member of EFIBCA, the European FIBC Association.

Exact knowledge of a product’s properties is a prerequisite for offering the customer the most optimum machine with a satisfactory packing speed. Every day the experts of the Haver & Boecker Research & Development Center use various test instruments to acquire fundamental knowledge of a product’s properties, or the product packaging to be used. The HAVER Bulk Density Tester is such an instrument.

Which packing machine is best suited for the customer’s product? How can a satisfactory bag filling speed be reached? How does one attain the optimum interaction between packing machine, packaging and product? These are questions the experts at the Haver & Boecker Research & Development Center work on every day. An extensive study of the product to be filled and its properties, as well as the bag type to be used, are the basics you need for making the right machine selection to assure customer satisfaction.