Disadvantages Of Packaging Machines

Abstract :A fresh food which is prepared in a manufacturing plant must undergo several stages throughout its shelf-life. To achieve its sole purpose ie., to reach the customer in a best possible way it is necessary to pack it in that regard. Hence Packaging technology acquires the big stage to assure desired returns to the processed food. A package provides protection, tampering resistance and special physical, chemical or biological needs. It may also contain nutritional facts label and other information about food being marketed. A choice of packaging machinery requires consideration of technical capabilities, maintainability, serviceability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floor space, flexibility, energy usage,

Mainly based on the axis of motion of materials into sealing area packaging machines can be categorized into,
Horizontal Form Fill Seal machines
Vertical Form Fill Seal machines
Confectionary machines
Horizontal Form Fill Seal Machines: Also called as Flow Pack machines because of their style of functioning. The basic principle of these machines is to unwind the wrapping material and pull through a former to create a tube, seal it lengthwise, fill it with evenly spaced product and then seal, crimp and cut. Fig 3. Form Fill Seal operation A typical HFFS machine will have ainfeed conveyor which is connected to material manufacturing unit may be oven. The material placement onto the conveyor can be manual or automatic. Then comes three aligning conveyors Back log, Altering, Metering which gives proper orientation and spacing to the materials to be packed. Sealing will go on as mentioned earlier and the products which are packed are moved onto to the discharge conveyor consisting of checkweighers, metal detectors and pneumatic