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Stick Pack Machine for Viscous & Liquids
Universal Pack designs and builds a wide range of custom-built stick pack packaging machines for viscous and liquids. Specifically, our vertical intermittent-motion stick pack machines can handle all kinds of liquid and viscous products with high dosing accuracy thanks to our piston pump dosing system.
Which Dosing Systems are Suitable for Packaging Viscous & Liquids?
The piston-pump system provides high flexibility with micro-adjustable dose control. This characteristic results in the wide range of products that the piston-pump system can dose, such as viscous, pasty and non-free flowing liquids. We install the pump on the side of the machine to improve accessibility for cleaning or on an independent pedestal to make it easier to move the pump to a dedicated cleaning area. Moreover, we can provide heated piston cylinders and heated pipes to avoid the solidification of the product during machine stops.
Contrary to the flowmeter dosing system, the piston-pump system provides higher flexibility, but also better system precision and higher operating speed. Moreover, piston pump is a user-friendly volumetric dosing system: e.g. operators only need to adjust one parameter when the density of the product changes.
The company’s patented system for inserting and folding film around forming tubes represents one of the advantages for achieving maximum efficiency and reliability. Thanks to this, Universal Pack machines are known worldwide.
Our stick pack machines for viscous and liquids are a compact solution combining high output with a compact footprint. These solutions include many advantages such as great dose 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 through “swivel” mounted dosing units. No tools required for disassembly
- Piston-pump filling technology ensures high flexibility and accuracy for viscous, pasty and non-free flowing liquids
- CIP & COP systems
- Wide parameter adjustment range
- Fast, easy parts and size changeover, with high operating comfort
- 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 costs: 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 machine capability 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 200 g or ml of viscous, pasty and non-free flowing liquids 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 iinsert from 1 to more than 100 stick packs in the same carton. We have developed patented counting units for any amount 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 viscous and liquids can process all typical heat-sealable composite films, for example: PAP-ALU-PE (paper – aluminum – polyethylene), PET-ALU-PE (polyethylene terephthalate – aluminum – polyethylene) and cold sealable materials. Our machines can also package more sustainable laminates such as PP (polypropylene), PLA (polylactic acid), PAP (paper), Bio-PE (bio-based polyethylene), and more on request.
Product Samples
Sustainability
Our continuous research in reducing the packaging industry carbon footprint resulted in streamlined machinery design for processing 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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