Bag Closing Equipment
(27 companies)Machinery used to close any preformed bag, that is closed by a method usually other than heat sealing or sewing. Note: form/fill/seal machines are not included here. Are you planning to buy new bagging, pouching or wrapping equipment? Here are some guidelines for what to consider when planning your next purchase.
All Packaging Machinery
All Packaging Machinery’s sealing equipment for bags includes a tabletop conveyorized band sealer for stand-up pouches used in candy, confections and snacks and other applications needing lightweight or smaller stand-up pouches. This portable sealer and synchronized conveyor renders a ⅜-in. wide seal without trimming. Crank handle adjustment feature allows easy seal height changes from 2- to 12-in. off the conveyor.
American-Newlong, Inc.
American-Newlong’s product line of pre-made bag sealing and closing equipment includes heat sealers, industrial sewers, stationary sewing heads, portable bag sealers and more. Featured heat sealers at the company’s product page (linked below) include impulse, band sealers and heater bar sealers for small, pinch bottom, and heavy duty bags. The Newlong PBC/PBS series pinch bag heat sealers are high-performance machines designed to seal pinch bottom open mouth (PBOM) multi-wall paper bags-either double or single—an inline, fully automatic sealing process from bag insertion to closing.
B&B Packaging Technologies, L.P.
B&B Packaging Technologies manufactures sealing equipment for bags including the CPH-WPP, designed for aligning and sealing woven PP bags and paper bags by using the hot air sealing method and plastic bags by impulse sealing after the filling process. Bag aligner and sealer eliminates the need for pre-applied hotmelt. Sealer can be implemented in existing filling lines and runs up to 65 bpm.
Belco Packaging Systems, Inc.
Belco is a manufacturer of semi-automatic impulse wire and hot knife bag sealers, automatic L-bar sealers, bag top sealers and sealer/tunnel combination units. Automatic L-sealers come in 6 sizes and are designed to offer the dependable performance and high productivity you require to meet your packaging requirements. The FEN continuous motion automatic side seal wrapper features a no-product/no-cycle photo eye and is designed to reach production speeds of 60 feet of film or 50 packages per minute. The MAXX 5 bag top sealer replaces the manual operations of bag sealing, folding and stapling a header label for retail-level quality packaging.
BW Packaging
BW Flexible Systems offers a wide range of bag filling machines, designed for free and semi-free flowing products, that handle a variety of products and accommodate a variety of bag types and sizes. Featured machines include the Thiele OmniStar, a high-speed bag filling system that offers production-enhancing features for large bags that were formerly found only on packaging systems for small bags. Other models include the Thiele Series 7115XC automatic bagger with specialized "duckbill" filling spout that moves into the bag prior to filling to reduce dusting and the Thiele Series 7105 Swinger Bag Filling System that automatically hangs heavy-duty flat tube or gusseted bags.
CAM Packaging Systems
CAM Packaging Systems manufactures the CR8-250Z premade bagger. This eight-station rotary premade bagging system runs three- and four-side seal bags, pillow style bags, spouted bags as well as zipper standup pouch bags, the most popular application for this machine. Bagger comes with Allen Bradley controls. Many options are available.
Clamco Packaging
Clamco supplies the packaging industry with its line of automatic poly baggers for pre-made bag loading and sealing applications including packaging parts, medical products, as well as items that are shipped in poly mailers for e-commerce fulfillment. Rollbag® brand automatic baggers are designed for easy operation, providing efficient solutions for filling and sealing pre-made poly bags. Rollbag automatic baggers can be easily fed by hand or used in conjunction with numerous automatic feeding devices. Working with thermal printers, labelers, feeding systems, and conveyors, Rollbag automatic poly baggers deliver value, speed and versatility using pre-opened bags on a roll or poly tubing. Bag changeover is accomplished in minutes.
Duravant
Under the nVenia brand, Duravant's supplies pre-made bagging and sealing equipment for a broad range of versatility, allowing many types of products to be bagged, including animal feed, food, agricultural seed, minerals, and chemicals.
Formost Fuji Corporation
Formost Fuji offers bag opening equipment featuring gentle product handling that is engineered to be simple to operate. Machines run at speeds up to 90 ppm and include several easy to operate bag changeover options.
Grupo Empac SA de CV
Grupo Empac offers pre-made bag loading and sealing equipment for stand-pouches and doypacks.
Kwik Lok Corporation
In addition to supplying resin-based bag closures, Kwik Lok supplies automatic and semi-automatic machines to apply closures to bags. Featured machines include the Kwik Lok® 865 Automatic Bag Closing Machine, which closes packages using bag closures and Striplok® bag closure-labels. Equipped with variable speed control for closing up to 80 packages/min., the 865 will close any package width without adjustment and will adapt to most automatic bagging operations on the market.
Magnum Systems, Inc
Magnum Systems partners with top manufacturing vendors to provide bag closing devices with open mouth bag systems ranging from sewing heads, to hot air sealers (both crimping and band sealers), to pinch bottom, open mouth (PBOM) glue sealers, to plastic inner liner sealers (PILS) which seal bags with poly inner and paper outer structures. Magnum Systems also offers a variety of downstream bag handling accessories to integrate with all of its bagging equipment, including sealing conveyors, bag flatteners, bag turners and more.
Mamata Enterprises, Inc.
Mamata’s Vegapack PFS-Series pick, fill and seal system is specifically designed for higher speed pre-made pouch filling applications in the food, flour, personal care and pet food markets. Handles large format pouches and rapid changeover in a matter of minutes. Engineered for flexibility with a versatile pouch transport system, it is a suitable machine to convert a semi-automatic or manual operation to highly efficient packaging operation to reduce per pack cost on filling. Suitable for companies requiring multiple changeovers and packaging a wide variety of products. The system can be integrated with a wide variety of OEM filling systems, coding systems and validation equipment and handles speeds of up to 60 ppm.
Massman Automation, a Massman Company
The automatic pouch filling and sealing machine from Massman Automation handles virtually all types and sizes of pouches. Applications for the pre-made pouch filler and sealer include stand-up resealable pouches (SURPs), which have become very popular due to their low weight and on-the-shelf advantages.
nVenia, a Duravant Company
Under the nVenia brand, Duravant'supplies pre-made bagging and sealing equipment for a broad range of versatility, allowing many types of products to be bagged, including animal feed, food, agricultural seed, minerals, and chemicals.
Packaging Aids
Packaging Aids offers impulse bar, continuous band sealers, vacuum sealers, as well as vacuum sealers and industrial chamber vacuum sealers. Designed for entry-level packagers, Packaging Aids brand supplies highly versatile impulse bar sealers and Audion brand continuous band sealers for poly bags, stand-up pouches, and flat bags. Packaging Aids brand vacuum sealers work by removing the air in a bag prior to sealing for extending product shelf life, reducing package volume, and protecting items from corrosion. PAC manufactures an extensive line of industrial vacuum packaging machines, specializing in industrial nozzle vacuum sealers that are designed to meet the needs of the most demanding industries. We also manufacture a full line of industrial chamber vacuum sealers, ranging in size from tabletop models to larger high production vacuum packing machines.
Paxiom
Paxiom Group manufactures premade pouch filling machines, offering solutions for retail, wholesale and bulk packaging. Designed to meet any production rate, package style and budget, Paxiom’s family of bag filling machines includes the Swifty Bagger® series for laminated pouches with zipper closures and the Bingo Bagger® and Zippy Bagger® for wicket pouches. Paxiom’s premade bag fillers automatically open, fill and seal a wide variety of products including snack foods, powders, spices, coffee, confections, pet food, cheeses, fruits, vegetables, bakery ingredients, frozen foods, liquids, hardware and pharmaceuticals, among others.
PLAN IT Packaging Systems
Pre-made pouch packaging solutions by Plan It Packaging are engineered to be versatile and efficient. Accommodating an array of bag types and sizes–including stand-up, gusseted, flat-bottom, zipper, and spouted pouches–these pre-made pouching solutions cater to various industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Key benefits include reduced labor costs, increased production output, and improved package quality. Machines feature user-friendly interfaces, easy-to-clean components, and tool-less changeover, ensuring optimal performance and sanitation. Plan It Packaging also offers comprehensive support and customization options to meet specific needs. Models include the ECOBAGGER™, designed as low production, pre-made pouch packaging machine that runs from 10-20 bags/min. The ROTOBAGGER™ is ideal for mid-level speeds and high production in 24/7 environments, reaching between 30-50 bags/min. The RotoDuplex is a high-speed production system, equipped with horizontal bag magazine for easy pouch loading, automatic servo changeover for different bag widths and optional automatic zipper opening device, gas flush, bag shaker at the fill station for product leveling and ink jet printer for lot code and best before date.
Poly-Clip System Corp.
Poly-Clip offers clipping machines used in chub packs and sausage casing, as well as for poultry bags and similar applications. The hygienic design of the clip application machines in stainless steel, with smooth surfaces and ease of access, permits both simple and thorough cleaning. Maximum process and user safety as well as high operational comfort are always given priority.
Premier Tech
In addition to its line of bagging machines, Premier Tech also offers valve bag sealers, bag closers, bag sealing machines, and bag sewing machines for all types of pre-made bags. Premier Tech manufactures both semi- and fully automatic bag closers depending on the level of automation required. Its wide range of bag sealing machines and bag closers covers the food, seed, feed, chemical and minerals industries.
Rollstock Inc.
Rollstock offers vacuum chamber bagging equipment including the RM-100, a vacuum packaging system that, at just over 6-ft long, fits in the smallest of spaces offering standard web widths of 420mm and 459mm. Other vacuum chamber machines include the RC-300 Rotary Chamber system, featuring water-cool hold down, continuous temperature sealing and rates at 25 packages/min. It is designed to seal through any bag thickness or crease. In addition, Rollstock offers the RZ-200, pre-made bag equipment for resealable zipper bagging operations, with zipper technology by Pro-Pac Services.
Shorr Packaging
Schorr Packaging supplies bagging equipment from manufacturers including Sharp® Packaging System and Texwrap. Bagging systems can be set up quickly in a variety of bagging environments and use all-electric functionality to decrease maintenance needs. Some products use roll bagging systems with advanced technology to feed, open, load and seal up to 50 bags per minute.
Syntegon
Syntegon’s range of bag closers are designed for applications ranging from medical and food to non-food items. Each bag closer comes with sealing technology that ensures bags are properly sealed, especially for medical applications where hermetic sealing is required. For horizontal bag sealers, the human-machine interface (HMI) is mounted to be at the ideal height for the operator and the HMI pivots to allow access on the conveyor side of the system. Bag closers come in all stainless steel for a hygienic design.
Tach-It / Ben Clements and Sons, Inc.
Tach-It twist tie machinery and materials for pre-made bag sealing includes tape bag sealing equipment and supplies as well as impulse sealing equipment.
Triangle Package Machinery Company
The Triangle/JDD rotary pouch machine is designed for food packagers and others looking for an automated method to fill and seal pre-made pouches. The machine runs various styles, including Doy bags, and has the ability to store up to 48 recipes on the HMI. Markets include candy, pet food, vegetables, meat, poultry, bakery and snacks.
Union Special
Specializing in sewing equipment for open mouth bags, Union Special offers a variety of complete sewing setups, including manual and automatic systems. The US400 pedestal automatic sewing system features an infeed for feeding the bag into the sewing head and photo eyes that automatically start/stop the sewing head. Union Special also supplies other tape sew, plain sew, plain and tape sew, fold-over plain sew and easy-open tape sew systems.
Volm Companies, Inc.
The Pouch Bagger is a single pouch bagging machine that easily bags product in common, pre-made pouch-style bags. Optional sealing units can be added to automate the sealing process. Options include a heat sealer and/or zip lock closer. The Pouch Bagger allows facilities to move away from costly and labor-intensive manual pouch bagging to affordable, high-speed automation. At up to 20 bags per minute, the Pouch Bagger can help keep up with consumer demands and can be equipped with soft handling features. Typical applications include: cherries, apples and citrus.
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More on Bag Closing Equipment
Automatic and semi-automatic bag closers are types of packaging machinery used to quickly and securely close preformed bags or sacks on the production line. Bag closing equipment helps streamline production and ensure products arrive safely and securely to wherever they are headed. There are a few different types of bag closers beyond just automatic versus semi-automatic. Included in this group are various types of bag closers that don’t use heat sealing or sewing.
To start, inline bag closing machines automatically close and discharge paper, plastic or woven bags of up to around 22 lbs. These bagging machines allow for product inventory consolidation into just a few large containers, working to conserve space. They’re also capable of both bottom and side bag closing, depending on the specific product needs. With all bag closers, the desired end result is a tight, secure seal that can handle a multitude of different types of bags and sacks used in applications such as food and medical packaging.
There are also glue bag closers, which provide an optimal closing solution for paper, paper-plastic laminated, and other fabric material bags. These semi-automatic machines are dependable, efficient and economical. Glue bag closing machines also feature an adjustable pre-feeder that helps keep the pace with the overall operating speed, ensuring bags are securely glued shut at the correct time.
Bulk bag, bulk tote and flexible intermediate bulk container bag closers come next. These are fully automatic closing machines used mainly to handle heavy-duty sacks. Also sometimes referred to as bulk industrial bag closers, these machines have been designed for large scale operations and are capable of closing many materials, including: paper, PP woven, PE non-woven, cotton, jute and more. Bulk bag closing machines also feature a self-calibration mechanism, which allows the machine’s settings to be precisely programmed to the exact parameters required for each size of sack used.
There are also tote bag closers, which are ideal for closing plastic crates, bottles, containers and other open-top containers. Much like the aforementioned, these machines can be programmed to accurately close containers at different lengths, sizes and shapes, providing a great deal of flexibility. Another prominent feature of many is a mechanism that allows them to fill containers without completely opening the bag.
Last, but certainly not least, we have tape over bag closers. This equipment provides an efficient and cost-friendly packaging solution, best suited for large cloth sacks or plastic bags. They come equipped with a heavy-duty sealer arm, along with a flexible guide rail and cut-off knife to ensure the bag is properly closed, with a professional, clean finish. The sealer is designed with a variable speed motor, allowing the operator to adjust the speed up or down, depending on the force necessary to close the bag.
To quickly recap, both semi-automatic and automatic bag closing systems are integral components of the packaging process. Equipment such as inline bag machines, glue bag closers, bulk and industrial bag closers, tote bag closers and tape over bag closers, provide solutions for consolidating inventory, and packaging and shipping goods safely and cost effectively. With their associated cost-of-labor savings and advanced features, these machines can help manufacturing businesses seeking packaging process optimization.
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