Bag-in-Bag Film Packaging Protects Paper Bags from Environment

 

The new Beumer, Germany, bag-in-bag system quickly and reliably packs filled paper bags individually or in groups with a weather-resistant plastic film. This protects the contents against moisture, dust, insects and other environmental influences during storage and transport. The bag-in-bag is easy to integrate into existing filling and packaging systems.

The impermeable film keeps dust from escaping from the filled bags, and it prevents product losses. The films have thicknesses of 30 to 100 microns, so material costs are low. The outer packaging in the paper bags does not require an intermediate layer made of PE, a fact which also cuts costs and increases filling performance. The highly efficient system is so reliable that ultrasonic welding of the bags is usually not necessary.

The bag-in-bag, offered to customers in cooperation with Tentoma, has a wide range of uses. For the Beumer Group, the focus is on packaging of bags, but the technology is also suitable for goods with lengths of up to 8 meters and product circumferences of 600 to approximately 5,600 mm. Thus the system can also be used for bar stock, insulation materials, or consumer goods. Users can integrate it seamlessly into their work processes by simply installing it in existing feeding line. Thus the bag-in-bag supplements the Beumer Fillpac inline packer and the Beumer Paletpac high-performance palletizer.

Bagging, film packaging, and palletizing can be easily and seamlessly combined in a continuous production line. Expensive modification and system changes are unnecessary. The Beumer bag-in-bag is designed for inline packers with a capacity of up to 800 bags per hour. The flexible system can be configured for three different applications: a semiautomatic insular solution, a fully automatic depalletizing, packaging, and palletizing line, or an integrated solution in which machines can be switched on individually. Thus, the system can be adapted to specific customer requirements.

The Beumer Group is an international leader in the manufacture of intralogistics systems for conveying, loading, palletizing, packaging, sortation, and distribution. With 4,000 employees worldwide, the Beumer Group has annual sales of about EUR 700 million. More information is available online.