Bagging Systems from Statec Binder

Pre-formed bags are taken from a magazine, opened, filled and closed. Well suited to printed retail bags and to operations running several bag sizes. Handles polyethylene, woven polypropylene and paper bags, typically 5 kg to 80 kg.

Some of these are also available as FFS-Combi versions, so one machine can run from a bag magazine or make its own bags from tubular film, switched at the operator panel. Worth considering if you want to keep printed bags for retail lines and film for bulk.

The machine makes the bag from a roll of film as it goes. No bag magazine to load, no bag stock to hold, and a lower cost per bag once the volume is there.

FFS usually wins on running cost at volume. Open-mouth usually wins on flexibility and on printed retail bags. If you are genuinely unsure which way to go, that is exactly the conversation to have at concept stage — not after the order.

• Big bag filling stations — bulk bags up to 1.5 tonne, where product goes out by the tonne rather than the sack.
• Net weighers — weighing the charge before it goes in the bag, so the bag weight is right without slowing the line.
• Bag closing — sewing, heat sealing or gluing depending on the bag material, including a hermetic tape closure for woven PP where the product has to stay dry.

These are line components rather than standalone purchases for most plants — which one you need falls out of the product and the bag, not the other way round.

Filled bags stacked to a pattern that holds together on a truck and does not fall over in your customer’s yard.

Pallet stability is where most palletising arguments end up. Bring us your bag, your product and the pallet you ship on, and we will design the pattern before we design the machine.

Automated bagging and palletising runs continuously at a consistent rate, lifting output well above manual or semi-automatic handling.

Pattern design and consistent placement mean loads arrive intact, reducing damage in storage and transit.

Removing repetitive lifting from the end of the line lowers the risk of strain injuries and frees operators for higher-value work.

Net weighing before filling controls giveaway without slowing the line.

Four questions narrow the field quickly.

• How does your product behave? Free-flowing granules and pellets suit most machines. Powders, fines and aerating products change the filling method.
• Printed bag or film? Open-mouth suits printed retail bags. Form-fill-seal is generally more economical at volume.
• What is your peak rate? Size to your busiest shift, not your average. Sizing to the average is the most common and most costly error in this equipment.
• What building do you have? Clear height determines whether a high-level palletiser is viable.

Full technical specifications are on STATEC BINDER’s website. Talk to us if you want help working out which category suits your product and building.

With most of the following we can provide a concept and a budget figure. If it is not readily available, we will visit site and establish it with you.

What it is, bulk density, moisture, how it flows, whether it is abrasive or dusty.

Material, size, filled weight, printed or plain, valve or open mouth.

Bags per hour at peak, and hours per shift and shifts per day.

Pallet type, bags per layer, layers per pallet, maximum stack height.

Clear height under steel, floor space available, door and access route for installation.

Power available, compressed air, dust extraction.

What feeds the bagger, and what happens to the pallet after it is built — wrapping, storage, despatch.

When it has to be running, and what shutdown window you have to install it in.

A single lump sum in NZD covering concept and solution design, equipment, freight and customs clearance, mechanical and electrical installation, commissioning, operator and maintenance training, documentation and a 12-month warranty.

Building work, foundations, power and compressed air are excluded, with a full list provided before contract.

The process and scope above can vary depending on the project.