Packaging

Established Form, Fill and Seal Technology for Portion Cups Made from Polypropylene Films

Wednesday 18. February 2009 - OYSTAR Hassia presents new applications of its Polyflex 12/48 form, fill and seal machine

OYSTAR Hassia (Ranstadt) will present a form, fill and seal machine for portion cups from its Polyflex range. This is the first time that a FFS machine will be used to demonstrate the process of creating portion cups from polypropylene films. OYSTAR Hassia is also presenting the capabilities of the machine for packaging pressed coffee tablets.
Handy, hygienically packed products such as butter, margarine, jam, honey, cream cheese, spreads, and sauces – nowadays, it’s hard to imag-ine life without these products in canteens, in hospitals, and on flights. The ability to process polypropylene films (mono and multilayer material) opens up a far wider range of potential applications in the manufacture of portions, for instance with regard to product protection and handling (suit-able for freezing and/or microwave heating).
High-precision dosing aggregates adapted to suit the given product re-quirements combined with flexible control systems guarantee completely reliable operation. Since this Polyflex is designed and built to customer specification – whether in respect of production capacity, hygiene re-quirements, dosing configuration, or creative cup handling – it guarantees highly efficient production and cost-effectiveness. The machine being pre-sented in Cologne is especially user-friendly, featuring ergonomic working height for maintenance, servicing, and visual inspections as well as a floor level station for attaching covering foils and a cutting and bonding table.

OYSTAR Hassia’s form, fill and seal technology not only offers perfect and highly economical solutions for packaging low to high viscosity foodstuffs; Anuga FoodTec will provide the platform for presenting the technology’s proven suitability for use in packaging pressed coffee tablets.
The form, fill and seal machine for portion cups forms half-shell base parts from a PET/aluminum/OPP composite into which a coffee tablet is placed. A lid strip, which is also formed as a half shell, is then applied. The filled packs (24 per production cycle) are evacuated and aerated to provide op-timum product protection before being hermetically sealed. With this proc-ess, approximately 43,000 coffee tablets are sealed in airtight packaging, ready to be enjoyed fresh from espresso machines.