Machinery and materials combination

7 October 2010


Dow, Starlinger and Haver & Boecker have co-operated to combine the advantages of form, fill seal (FFS) technology for free-flowing goods and woven tape fabric as a packaging material - providing an opportunity to cut costs, energy and raw material consumption in the bulk material packaging process.

Until now, processing woven fabric on FFS packaging lines was not possible. Now it is possible to process woven tape fabric, produced on Starlinger machinery using Dow resin, on Haver & Boecker FFS packaging lines.

Bags made of woven tape fabric do not rip and are resistant to dropping, squeezing and bending. The fabric is also lightweight, resulting in reduced material consumption, and fully recyclable.

The great advantage of the FFS method is that it uses a sealing process to close the bags, instead of needles, which are prone to breaking, nor sewing thread, which has to be constantly replenished. There is no contamination of the filling material with thread ends, and the bags are hermetically sealed as there are no stitching holes.

Dow, Starlinger and Haver & Boecker aim to make the shift from PE film to woven tape fabric as easy as possible for fillers. Users of existing H & B FFS lines do not have to undertake major conversions. Ony slight modifications to the FFS system – and use another type of tube roll are involved, it is claimed.

Companies who until now were unable to use FFS machines because they have been processing woven fabric due to customer and market requirements, can now benefit from this fully automatic, low cost packaging concept. The investment for a new system ‘is offset easily by the high production capacity and the reduction of operator and maintenance time/costs these machines offer’.

The new packaging concept will be shown for the first time at the K 2010 show in Düsseldorf from 27 October – 3 November.




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