Packaging Machinery
Description
Packaging machinery is used for packing products or components. Packaging machines include equipment and related machinery that packs, seals, wraps, forms, cleans, fills at various levels of automation. They are also used for accumulating, counting, and sorting products. Packaging machinery can be operated manually or can be of automatic and semi-automatic type. The various packaging types include cartons, boxes, cans, aerosol containers, pouches bags, blister packs, jars, bottles, capsules, cartridges, trays, cups, pails, drums, tubes, intermediate bulk containers, vials, and pallets. The closing method for packaging machinery is usually done with use of cork, glue, wrapping paper, tamper-resistant tape, caps, lids, seals, and tuck and fold techniques.
Types
The various types of packaging machinery are as follows
Specifications
The specifications to be considered for packaging machinery are listed below:
Type of product to be packed
Mode of operation of the machine (manual or automatic)
Time involved for packaging (incase of automatic machines)
Advantages
The advantages of using packaging machinery are listed below
Reduces packaging time, especially with the use of automatic packaging machines
Increases productivity
Reduces damage to products with effective packaging
Easy packing of products which are heavy in weight
Applications
Packaging machinery offers wide range of packing applications in food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, automobiles, medical, pulp and paper, cement, HVAC, electrical and electronics, petrochemical, water, cosmetics and perfumery, garment industries and also for military, music, video and software, tobacco, and stationary applications.