Selfstanding pouches now available in webbed formatsacmi is taking up the challenge posed by the flexible wine and water packaging sector by offering a new integrated solution for the automated control of selfstanding pouches that provides customers with huge advantages in terms of output flexibility and efficiency.a specialised supplier of complete plants for the filling, packaging and palletization of flexible packages, sacmi packaging is bringing innovation to the selfstanding pouches sector these flexible drink containers for example, the 3litre wine pouch is particularly popular in central and northern europe differ from traditional pouches as they stand up alone and do not need to be contained in a box.appreciated by the market on account of their flexibility &ndash to begin with, they are excellent for the application of highgrade graphics &ndash these flexible, boxless pouches were, until now, characterised by not inconsiderable production difficulties firstly, unlike traditional pouches, their infeed into the machine could not be automated as the pouches were supplied individually and were not webbed together.
Now, thanks to an important agreement with swedish firm quadpak &ndash which makes the pouches &ndash sacmi can offer the market continuouslylinked &lsquowebbed&rsquo selfstanding pouches that allow fully automated machine infeed.this gives manufacturers major advantages, the biggest being the total absence of manual tasks during loading, filling and unloading. Intended, in particular, for the wine and water sectors, selfstanding webbed pouches are rapidly increasing market shares in centralnorthern europe, starting with the strategic french market.
Sacmi sees the solution as adding considerable value to an already comprehensive plant range that, based on a single technological platform baginbox filling machines characterised by solutions that ensure efficient, totally ultraclean filling control, lets manufacturers handle traditional webbed bags, selfstanding single pouches and, lastly, the new selfstanding webbed pouches. This fully integrated turnkey range will play a starring role on the sacmi stand at simei 2015, the international wine and bottling technology fair being held at fiera milano milan from 3rd to 6th november 2015 hall 15 e13e11.
More specifically, the ability to handle all pouch types on the same platform lets manufacturers carry out fully automated production, at no additional cost, of both small decorated lots e.g. For special events, promotional purposes, trade fairs etc. And largescale batches while benefitting from all the reliability, precision and finished product quality typical of all sacmi filling solutions.
