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Quality Glossary
PACKING MACHINERY PRINCIPLES
INTRODUCTION
This section of the knowledgebase gives
information on various types of packing machines and their
function.
Packing machinery is a complicated subject
and involves a multiplicity of machine types and suppliers. A
final choice of machines can be influenced by factors such as
appearance, size, past experience, type and quality of
maintenance-staff, size of factory and engineering capability.
There are a number of machines performing
certain special functions and these have not been shown under the
present categories. For general information some of these are:
- Bottom loading bottle packers
- Conveyors
- Product diverters
- Labellers
- Weighing machines
- Palletisers
- Product loading on pallets
- Robots
- Cartonning machines