Flow Wrapping Machines

November 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Flow wrapping offers non- shrink, high clarity, sealed packaging. Flow wrapping is suitable for mailings, small promotional scratch cards, food products, and CDs. It produces a pack that is recognizable by a vertical seal down the center on one side (fin seal) and crimps at each end of the pack.

Materials Used in Flow Wrapping

Materials of various kinds and qualities come in use for Flow Wrapping. The materials include POF Film, Polyolefin shrink films, and other shrink-wrap accessories.

Propafilm [TM] OFS, designed for flow-wrapping pizza, gives an eye-catching glossy finish with a protection for delicate toppings.
Food and candy pieces are suitable for wrapping and packaging in Super Seal, a proprietary high-speed film wrap material. Super Seal provides the barrier, hot tack and seal integrity.
Greetings cards, flat gift-wrap packs, stationary, mailings, CD’s, and premiums like scratch cards.
Stand-up pouch have a cast polypropylene (CPP) sealant web. The pouch features a polyester film laminated to CPP, which gives it transparency and provides a water barrier to the package.
Flow wrapping films of different dimensions and properties including 20, 25, 30, 40 micron.
Horizontal Pocket Bag is applicable for cheeses and fresh products in general. A zip opens and closes the pack.
Vertical Pocket-Bag is better with a resalable tab and an adhesive strip or zip. Open & Reclose is a system that allows resealing of the packaging. It is suitable for all types of food products.

Machineries and Equipments Employed in Flow Wrapping

Flow Wrapping Machines are slightly different from other packing machines. It can pack all regular, irregular, cylindrical, and cubical shape products. There is a wide range of machines available in market. Some of them include following machines.

Delta VacMap machine allows extracting trapped oxygen inside the product, particularly spongy bakery products, keeping it fresh for longer.

Rapid four cross strapping machines for bundling of wrapped flat products and multi film packing for ease of handling.

New vertical form fill and seal wrapper for producing pillow pack bags from a reel of heat-sealable packing film is suitable for wrapping granular products like chips, crisps, and candies.

SCIROCCO‘s high speed Modified Atmosphere Packaging for cheeses, breads, fresh pasta, sausages and salami, meats and other products.

Mistral’s flow-wrap packaging machine produces packs sealed on three sides from a roll of heat-sealable packaging film.

The fully automatic Flow Wrapping Machine can pack a variety of solid products of different shapes and sizes with all types of heat sealable films and laminates. The machine is suitable for packing products like Chocolates, Dry cells, Surgical Cotton, Biscuits, Bandages, and Gum tapes.

Some more popular machines include Over-Wrapping Machines, Flow-Wrap Machines, Fully Automatic Filling Lines, Merlin HSE Flow Wrapper, Merlin PC Flow Wrapper, Merlin Mechanical Flow Wrapper, and PFM Flow Pack Wrapping Machines for Cheese slices and BORA - Horizontal Flow-Pack Machine, Shamal - Horizontal Flow Wrap Type Packaging Machine Tornado Long Dwell - Horizontal Pillow - Pack Wrapping Machine.