Manufacturing Technology

New oriented anchor and nail bag-making machine 05 January 2017

To respond to the demand for more flexible and cost-effective packaging for hardware sustainable products, Weighpack International (WPI Services B.V) has designed a flexible bag-making machine, WPSF280, to pack oriented steel fasteners up to 150mm – such as anchors and nails.

Weighpack’s bag-making machine is equipped with a special forming shoulder that can be used with flat biodegradable film bags of 100mm – 250mm wide with an easy adjustable length up to 230mm.
During the filling operation the longer products are lined out horizontally, resulting in a solid and compact pack without any unnecessary additional foil length. The product lining is achieved by a newly designed oscillating electro magnet, which will line up the product during the filling process. Weighpack points out that this new automatic principle could save up to 35% packing material, when packing longer items.
The bag-maker can be equipped with different dosing applications such as high-speed product counters, multi-head weighing machines or linear feeders. The bags can also be produced with a euro-lock or pickup hole – giving possibilities to be well presented in hardware stores.

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