PRESS RELEASE
BEHN + BATES presents new packer for open-mouth flat and gusseted bags
The filling machine specialist BEHN + BATES located in Münster/Germany expands its activities in the field of open-mouth bag packaging. In the last years the company focused on the development of the fully automatic packing systems TOPLINE and ORBIS for high packing outputs and large food packing companies. Now, the company is targeting food producers not needing fully automatic systems with automatic bag application and discharge, but insisting on the precise filling of their products. Based on the proven modules of its fully automatic machines BEHN + BATES has developed the packing system BO which is a cost-effective, simple-to-operate, manual filling station for open-mouth flat and gusseted bags made of paper, PE, PP or material combinations.
Besides the standard features, such as clean, weight-accurate and gentle product filling, the new machine can be easily upgraded due to the expandable design of the basic filling module that is equipped for the manual bag application and full bag discharge in a first stage. The buyer does thus not only profit from the tailor-suited expansion of his capacities, but also from the optimum budgeting thanks to the possible successive extension in different planning periods becoming more and more important in view of the present situation in the global economy.
The BO packing system fills bag weights from 10 to 50 kg according to either the gross or the net filling principle what depends on the buyer’s individual needs. High emphasis is placed on a product-adapted packaging process guaranteed by the proven dust-tight hexagonal filling spout. It holds the bag tight on all sides thus preventing dust leakage. At the same time, highest weight accuracies are reached due to the MEC weighing electronics developed in-house especially for filling needs. The product is dosed into the filling spout according to need either by a screw, impeller or gravimetrically.
The filled bags are taken off the filling spout and transferred to the closing station manually. The buyer decides how he closes the bags – either by sewing, folding, welding and/or hot-melt activating. In the food industry the combination of welding and hot-melt activating has proven its worth, as the bags are closed especially tight then. Any humidity, foreign bodies, vermin, etc. cannot get into the packed product. When using the right bag material the buyer may even reach higher storage times due to the tight closure in combination with an internal PE film welding.
PRESS RELEAS - ORBIS
Innovative and dynamic on the occasion of the 75th anniversary
BEHN + BATES presents new high-performance packaging systems: ORBIS for open-mouth bags and impeller packer with integrated metal detector for valve bags.
In 2008 the company BEHN + BATES located in Münster/Germany celebrates its 75th anniversary and presents itself more innovative than ever. At the interpack 2008 the German packaging specialist will show its new filling system ORBIS for open-mouth bags that has been specially developed for the filling of powdery products at hourly rates of more than 500 bags with filling weights of 25 kg. In addition, the traditional company will present its well proven impeller packer in optimised version with integrated metal detector.
The demand of the international food industry for hygienic filling of powdery products into open-mouth bags at rates of more than 500 bags per hour has increased, as the valve bag has not been convincing for all products. The packaging machine manufacturers are confronted with the challenge that powdery products, just as flour, baking ingredients, starch, yeast, etc. cannot be filled as easily and efficiently as granules. Everybody knows: Powders are dusty. Optimum filling results can only be attained with the right filling system. The relation between low-air filling, dust-tight filling spout and efficient product de-aeration are of utmost importance, but influence the machine output.
BEHN + BATES accepts this challenge and presents its new open-mouth bag filling system ORBIS at the interpack 2008 in Düsseldorf/Germany from
2007-04-24 until 2007-04-30.
The new packaging system ORBIS made by BEHN + BATES guarantees both the efficient hygienic filling of powdery products as well as high machine outputs of up to 600 bags per hour. It can handle all of the common bag types, just as gusseted and flat bags made of paper, PE or combinations thereof. It is equipped with 3, 4 or 6 filling spouts.
The machine shown at the interpack 2008 is equipped with 4 filling spouts that work independently from each other thus making it possible to carry out the individual filling steps (bag application, coarse-flow filling, fine-flow filling and bag discharge) simultaneously. This results in shorter cycles and higher machine outputs. The individual filling steps are optimally synchronized.
The empty bags are separated at their bottom and then guided through the modern empty bag magazine by the optimized high-speed singling station. Thus, a controlled bag opening and a secure bag placing by a servo-driven applicator arm to the filling spout is guaranteed. The product is filled according to the gross system, i. e. the bags are weighed during the filling process. Height-adjustable bottom vibrators provided in encapsulated design, due to the severe hygienic prescriptions in the food industry, assure that the bags are optimally compacted. The results are stable bags that can be easily stacked and a perfect pallet shape being of utmost importance for the product marketing.
After the filling the bag is taken off the filling spout and transferred to the discharge unit. The filled bags are closed either by folding, sewing, sealing, gluing, hot-melt activation or combinations thereof. The chosen type of closing systems depends on the individual customer requests. In the food industry the combination of sealing and hot-melt activation has proven its worth as the bags are especially tight then. Humidity, foreign bodies, bugs or similar cannot penetrate the product. Even longer storage times are possible due to the tight closure in combination with an internal PE welding, provided that the right bag material has been chosen.
The severe hygienic standards in the food industry were one of the main criteria for the design of the new BEHN + BATES packaging system ORBIS: The filling system is suspended from the top. It is thus easily accessible for cleaning purposes underneath the filling spouts. In addition, the machine bottom is completely closed and the energy cables are laid outside the dust area. The access doors made of security glass are flush with the machine frame. Possible dust deposit areas are reduced to a minimum.
With the ORBIS system BEHN + BATES is perfectly prepared for the future. Again and again new convincing packaging designs for the food industry arise from the combination of tradition and innovation.
BEHN + BATES at the interpack 2008 in hall 12, stand 12D08/E07.
February 2008
