What Is Packing Machinery?
Packaging machinery is simply defined as machinery that wraps and protects goods, and is indispensable in our daily lives.
Packing machinery is manufactured in consideration of the characteristics of each product to be packaged.
In particular, packing machinery used in the food industry, which is distributed on a daily basis and handles foodstuffs that have a significant impact on health. Upgrades are constantly being made to provide a higher level of functionality to keep pace with the daily evolution of packaging technology.
Uses of Packing Machinery
Packaging machinery is used in a wide variety of fields, and many manufacturers of familiar food products and sundries as well as pharmaceuticals who use packaging machinery day and night.
In addition, packaging machinery is used not only for “commercial packaging,” which is mainly for retail purposes, but also for “industrial packaging,” which is used to transport and store goods.
Furthermore, as the required functions of packaging machinery increase, such as in the food industry, it has become necessary to link it with the pre-processing of the goods to be packaged, and integration is being promoted along with higher functionality and multifunctionality.
Features of Packing Machinery
Packaging machinery is classified into vertical pillow wrapping machines and horizontal pillow wrapping machines according to the direction in which the product to be packaged is fed, as well as “top wrapping machines” that wrap the product from above and “boxers” that pack the product into cardboard boxes, among others.
In addition, blister packs, which have recently become the mainstream for pharmaceuticals such as tablets and capsules, as well as sundries, are packaged using a combination of a convex transparent resin and a backing paper, for which specialized machinery is used.
Packing machinery varies greatly depending on the item to be packaged. In the case of food packaging, the contents are vacuumed or gas-filled to prevent deterioration of the contents.
Isolation from external factors is especially important for packaging food products. External factors include oxygen and moisture in the air, sunlight, temperature, and microorganisms.
The packing machinery used for food products depends on the ability to minimize the effects of these external factors.