Bosch Flat Pouch Packaging and Cartoning System ensures High Speed and Flexibility

The flat pouch is an increasingly popular packaging format for today’s consumers. The compact layout of the system requires minimal space, which consequently leads to a smaller footprint for reduced operating costs.

Sep 28 2011 --- As part of the Sigpack RNx platform, Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase for the first time its vertical flat pouch system, the Sigpack RNGS-6/KG3 at the PACK EXPO trade show in Las Vegas in September. The system, consisting of a sachet packaging machine and cartoning unit, offers an integrated solution for the primary and secondary packaging, transport and grouping of powders, granulates, pellets and piece goods. The flat pouch is an increasingly popular packaging format for today’s consumers. The compact layout of the system requires minimal space, which consequently leads to a smaller footprint for reduced operating costs. With an output of up to 1,000 sachets per minute, it efficiently and reliably delivers high-quality pouches.

Capable of handling the entire dosing and packaging process while meeting food and pharmaceutical industry standards, the RNx platform ensures product quality through gentle handling. With its dosing module, it offers the option of using auger fillers for difficult-flowing powders and granulates, or a tipping filler for free-flowing goods. In the sealing module, extended sealing times create tight and reliable pouch seals. Grippers accurately position the sealed pouches into a transport module.

An integrated weight control system (WCS) ensures 100 percent inline weight control. Faulty products are automatically ejected via a dump gate to guarantee high product quality, while good products are passed through an equalizer unit and stacked according to the requested count. The stacked products are transferred to the side loading cartoning unit, which
is capable of handling single or double stacks of sachets intermittently at an output of up to 100 cartons per minute. The format-flexible cartoner can support the use of a variety of cartons, whether for attractive point-of-sale presentation or tight-fitting racks or drawers.

The RNx platform can be customized to handle various pouch sizes and can include optional modules such as leaflet insertion, carton coding, carton rejection and an after-cartoning checkweigher. In addition, the system is easy and efficient to operate via touch screen, and provides clear and visible depiction of product flow and processes.

“There is increasing demand in the North American market for products such as drink sweeteners and pain relievers to be packaged in flat pouches. Our packaging and cartoning system gives manufacturers the ability to produce these pouches with high efficiency, cost effectiveness and high hygiene standards.” said Frank Buehler, product manager, Bosch Packaging Technology.

PACK EXPO Las Vegas, held September 26-28, is one of the most important processing and packaging shows of the industry in North America. More than 1,600 companies present their latest innovations to an international audience coming from more than 75 countries worldwide. Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase its exhibits at booth C-1423 in the Central Hall.