We are often asked questions about the right choice of equipment. After all, there are so many options and it is not easy for an inexperienced person to understand the nuances and immediately understand what kind of equipment is suitable for packaging exactly his product. Therefore, we decided to publish a series of articles in which we will tell you what equipment is used to pack various products. Well, for more detailed answers, you can always contact our managers.

So, today we will tell you about flow packs. Or horizontal packaging machines for packaging in bags of the "flow-pack" type. There are a fairly large number of such machines with a variety of modifications. And now we will explain to you which of them are suitable for which products.

First of all, we will determine that flow-pack machines are mainly suitable for packing piece items. There are machines with top film feeding and with bottom film feeding. The former is used to package goods that have an exact geometric shape, most often the correct one. It can be chocolate bars and sweets, soap, bread. The second type of machine, the bottom-feeding machine, is used for wrapping objects that have no clear shape or irregular shape, such as valves, fasteners, folded towels.

In both cases, the product is stolen onto the infeed conveyor and pushed onto the film by pushers. The function of the pushers is also to place the product at the same distance from each other so that it does not get under the knife.

However, if you have a soft product, then using pushers that can damage it, is not the best option. For packing such goods, it is better to use a conveyor belt, always with partitions for unloading goods.

Finally, if the product to be packaged is sticky and messy, such as marshmallow, then you need a direct-on-film flow-pack machine such as this one.

Of course, what we have just told here will only give you a general direction when choosing a particular flow-pack machine. And our managers will help you to choose a packing machine more accurately from all the options presented on our website.