Versatile bulk bagging solution
Pacepacker Services unveiled its new high speed bagging line, FastPac, at the PPMA exhibition.
The first of the machines in the FastPac range, the upgraded sack placer can help boost the number of bags packed per minute by up to 20% and offers a new top speed of 16-17 bpm.
It can also handle a range of sacks, including those made from difficult to pick up materials such as hessian and net. This follows a growth in demand for these bags, in particular from European customers and UK exporters packing bags of produce, pulses, rice and coffee beans in bags weighing 25kg and over.
The FastPac range is ideal for bulk solids handling, food packers and contract packers. Sack placers take flat bags from a stack and position them ready to be held in place for filling. Most conventional machines rely on suction cups to pick up the bags, but that rules out the use of very porous bag materials. The newly enhanced sack placer has an option for a system of mechanical grippers so it can handle porous materials in addition to paper and plastics.
The sack placers also manoeuvre the sacks in a different way from most of the range, picking them up by the bottom and peeling them off the stack, rather than picking up the top of the bag. This ensures that bags which have a tendency to stick together can be handled more effectively.
