VFFS Build for Food Industry Wash Down

Our latest commissioned LE360 has been designed and optimised for the bagging of a leafy salad product. Part of the customer’s specification required the protection against food-industry standard manual wash down processes. It has been built in Type 316 stainless steel for strength at elevated wash down temperatures and for better corrosion resistance, as it…

All Bag Styles from One VFFS Machine

New Machine Shortlisted in PPMA Awards Line Equipment, past winners of the PPMA Certificate of Merit for Design and Manufacture in packaging machinery, are not resting on their laurels, even after 30 years in business. The new LE360 PDQ was shortlisted in the PPMA Awards ‘Innovative Packaging Machinery’ category for 2018. The LE360 PDQ is the latest machine…

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More PLC Upgrades

Talking of the nations favourite, as we were in our Rovemea post, one of the UK’s best known Snack brands has entrusted us with two Sandiacre Twin TG250’s for a complete refurb/upgrade. Sandiacre machines are one of the most popular older machines to benefit from a PLC/Electrics upgrade and Front Plate components refurb from us,…

More Take-Up of GreenPE Bags

An interesting article from Packaging News on the move away from industry-standard polythene, derived from finite fossil fuels, for ones made from a sugarcane biopolymer known as GreenPE. As well as being renewable, sugarcane captures and stores CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, making it carbon-negative.Avoiding the use of fossil fuel plastic material in favour of GreenPE…

New Year – New VFFS Machine

Happy New Year to everyone! The big news from us is we have developed a fast, easy to operate and tool free transition system that allows the LE360 bagging machine’s jaws to move from a traditional pillow, block bottom, gusset or quad style bagging machine to a Doy style packaging machine in under 40 seconds. The rotatable…

Total Show 2017

Good few days at The PPMA Total Show at the NEC. Plenty of interesting visitors. Good interest in our Zip Applicator which was demonstrating one the range of Zip Pak™ resealable (re-closable) zips that are available.

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PPMA Total Show

Back from the PPMA Total Show. Three very busy and interesting days. Always a pleasure to meet people starting new ventures and be involved with ensuring they get the right machines to suit their product. It is quite a level of responsibility and one we enjoy. Usually, new ventures come to the exhibition with minimal knowledge of the…