Stickpack forming shoulders

Application:

• Cross-section: rectangular or round with centered seal
• Types of seal: lapseal, distant seal and turned finseal

Bags with a flat bag width of less than 60 mm are called stickpacks. The flat film is formed into a tube with the seal concealed completely within the forming shoulder.

We are not limited to a minimum flat bag width. The smallest forming shoulder we have ever manufactured was for a flat bag width of 6 mm. Our entire stickpack forming shoulders are milled and thus ideal for multilane purposes. Each forming shoulder of a series is identical to any other.

Forming shoulders with a flat bag width exceeding 60 mm are usually called universal forming shoulders. They are made of sheet metal and their application in multilane machines is limited.

Benefits:

• reliable forming process
• reduced forming height and improved stability compared to a forming process that does not utilize forming shoulders
• improved stability of film run compared to a process that utilizes heads of forming shoulders
• no special qualification required for installation and operation of the forming shoulder
• ideal fortheapplicationin multilane stickpack machines

Limitations:

• Complex production and testing processes
• frequent adaption to new film material and process conditions necessary