Primary packagingStick packsStick Pack Machines for Free-flowing Powders
Stick Pack Machines for Free-flowing Powders
Universal Pack designs and builds a wide range of custom-built stick pack machines. Specifically, our vertical intermittent-motion stick pack machines can handle free-flowing powders with high accuracy and consistent performance thanks to a dedicated basculating-cup dosing system.
Which Dosing Systems are Suitable for Packaging Free-Flowing Powders?
Our basculating doser supports high output through a volumetric oscillating-cup system, with micro-adjustable dose control. Parts in direct contact with the product are made of AISI 316L stainless steel or other suitable materials.
The company’s patented system for inserting and folding film around forming tubes helps achieve maximum efficiency and reliability. Thanks to this, Universal Pack machines are known worldwide.
Our stick pack machines for free-flowing powders are a compact solution combining the highest output with a small footprint. These solutions include many advantages such as high dosing accuracy, reduced wrapping material waste, easy handling and cleaning. Moreover, our user-friendly and modular stick pack machines allow our customers to reduce downtime and meet demanding production requirements.
Features
- Customer- and product-specific design with maximum flexibility
- Robust, compact machine footprint, user-friendly technology
- Optimal accessibility, easy handling, modular design and quick cleaning thanks to “swivel” mounted dosing units. No tools required for disassembly
- The basculating cups dosing technology ensures high-speed and consistent dosing accuracy of free-flowing powders and granules
- Wide parameter adjustment range
- Fast and easy parts and format changeover, with operator-friendly design
- Washdown operations
- Compliance with cGMP, ease of cleaning and easy access to all machine parts
- Good visibility of product flow and packaging operations
- Clear and modular structure
Services
- Conformity with CE and FDA regulations
- UL certification predisposition
- Transparent running cost: automated estimation of the machine’s production costs ensures the best quality at a competitive price.
- TPM: we provide our customers with a wide range of tools aimed at improving machines performance through a better utilization of maintenance by following the TPM Total Productive Maintenance philosophy
- Technical support on site and/or through remote assistance
- Data transfer management and real-time performance analysis
- FMEA and Risk Assessment Management
Types of Packages
Formats
Universal Pack stick pack machines are specifically dedicated to single-dose packages. For example, we can dose from 0.1 up to 100 g of free-flowing powders & granules in a stick pack, with dimensions that vary according to your marketing goals, nature of the products and production requirements.
Moreover, we provide you with the possibility to easily integrate your stick pack machine in a Universal Pack packaging line for cartoning. Our lines allow you to insert from 1 to more than 100 stick packs in one carton. We have developed patented counting units for any number of packages to be picked and placed into cartons. In recent years, our philosophy is to save as much material and product as possible, both for economic and environmental sustainability.
Laminates
Universal Pack stick pack machines for free-flowing powders can process all typical heat-sealable composite films, for example: PAP-PE (paper – polyethylene), PAP-ALU-PE (paper – aluminum – polyethylene), PET-ALU-PE (polyethylene terephthalate – aluminum – polyethylene) and cold-sealable materials. Our machines can also work with sustainable laminates such as PP (polypropylene), PLA (polylactic acid), PAP (paper), Bio-PE (bio-based polyethylene), and more on request.
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Sustainability
Our continuous research in reducing the packaging industry’s carbon footprint resulted in streamlined machinery design for processing with recycled, recyclable and compostable laminates. LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) is used to measure the environmental impact of our products and identify optimal ways to reduce it. It is a 360° analysis that goes beyond the mere packaging produced and involves every step of the packaging machinery production process. We develop our solutions in close collaboration with the main global film suppliers and test them in agreement with major multinational companies in order to provide them with a turnkey solution able to produce more sustainable packages.
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