Bagging system for bulky bedding

THE SYSTEM uses a Hugo Beck Flexo 700 E-com at its heart, with several adaptations from the standard model.

These include:

• The cross-seal has been extended to a width of 800mm to accommodate bulky pillows and quilts.
• The sealing jaw is able to open to a height of 300mm for the same reason.
• An upgrade to the cross-seal section using a pneumatic cutting blade for guaranteed separation of packs to ensure streamlining of downstream sortation. 
• An adapted film folder included to give space for a cross conveyor at the back of the machine, running YPS’s 98% recycled content films.
• A semi-automatic splicer incorporated into the film folder, which fuses the new and old film together with no requirement for tape. The splicer results in quick roll changeovers when they are needed.
• A controlled pack presser was added which lowers prior to sealing of the bag to expel the air from the pack. This results in a higher quality seal and improved pack performance.
• A kissing conveyor which achieves speedy transfer of products over the sealing area and which enables the machine to pack smaller items if required.

The resulting bagging system prepares the bulky products for despatch to customers at high speed, achieving a packing rate of 14 bags per minute. The direct ZPL labeller which is standard with this machine was also an attractive feature to the bedding manufacturer. This takes any file and converts it to a label, print and applying for each order.

The one-in, one-out packing system ensures GDPR compliance, with every pack correctly labelled for onward distribution. This unit also features a batch mode which can be utilised with sequential data to run through thousands of the same product if needed.

YPS sales manager Jaques-Pierre Macchi, says: “We discussed the customer’s exact requirements at length with them, recommending a quality system that would bring them significant benefits as it was and then further adapting it to create an ideal solution for them.

“Seeing how this system has come together to deliver exactly what they need has been such a satisfying project.”