Types of Packaging Machinery Every Manufacturer Should Know

Whether you are packaging beverages, household cleaners, food, pharmaceuticals, or other liquids, an efficient system for preparing your products is a must-have in the competitive marketplace that is today's world. The right packaging machinery can be the difference between meeting production demand and falling behind market competitors. Below are the essential categories of packaging machinery that every manufacturer should be familiar with as well as how they can benefit almost any product category.

Filling Machinery

At the center of most packaging lines is the liquid filling machine. By consistently and accurately delivering product based on volume, level, or net weight, these machines allow for efficient filling of a range of container types and sizes. At Liquid Packaging Solutions, different filling machines are manufactured for different products, often guided by the viscosity of the liquids. The most popular filling machines include:

• Gravity Fillers - Provide an accurate volumetric fill for free-flowing products.
• Overflow Fillers - Provide a level fill for thin to medium viscosities.
• Pump and Piston Fillers - Provide accurate volumetric fills for a range of viscosities including thick products.

Capping Machinery

After the filling is completed, packaging machinery then works to protect the liquids in those bottles. Capping equipment ensures bottles are sealed using threaded caps, corks, snap on lids, and other closures. These machines may use special closures to prevent tampering or may combine other sealing equipment such as induction sealers or neck banders to further protect product. The most popular capping machines built by LPS include:

• Spindle Cappers - Allow for continuous tightening of threaded caps along a conveyor system.
• Chuck Cappers - Offers various semi-automatic options for tightening threaded caps.
• ROPP Cappers - Thread aluminum blanks onto bottles to create tamper evident seals.
• Corking Machines - Press and secure corks into products like wine, distilled spirits, olive oils, and more.

Rinsing Machinery

While not every packager will require rinsing equipment as a part of their process, manufacturers should know about the benefits of these packaging machines. Bottles and other containers can gather debris during their own production, in transit, or even in storage. Rinsing machines remove this debris before product is introduced, a process that can be very important for products that are consumed or ingested. The most popular rinsing machines manufactured by LPS include:

• Air Rinsing Machines - Inverts bottles and blasts the inside with clean air to remove dust and debris without excess waste.
• Wet Rinsing Machines - Inverts bottles and cleans the inside with water, product, or other liquid to remove contaminants.
• Bottle Vacuum - Used for difficult to invert bottles, seals over openings, loosens debris and vacuums the same from inside the container.

Conveyors and Other Packaging Machinery

While we manufacture both semi-automatic and automatic packaging machinery at Liquid Packaging Solutions, our automatic equipment would not perform efficiently without the power conveyors that work to move bottles and other containers from one station to the next. From C-Frame to Sanitary Style, LPS conveyor systems can be set up to match the production floor to provide an efficient flow from loading containers to packing finished products for shipping. While not manufactured at LPS, other packaging equipment, such as labeling machinery, coding equipment, induction sealers, and more, can be integrated and included on an LPS packaging line to allow a business to acquire all of their packaging machinery needs in one location!

Understanding the different types of packaging machinery and how they can benefit a manufacturer allows a business to build a complete packaging line specially tailored to meet the needs of the product and project at hand. It also allows packagers to plan for growth and match machines to one or more products being prepared. At LPS, we work with the packager to design and build single machines and complete turnkey systems, both automatic and semi-automatic. Contact us today to see how our team can help you find the most efficient solution for your own packaging project.