Horizontal Form/Fill/Seal
(44 companies)Bagging or pouching equipment that works in a horizontal orientation to form bags or pouches from roll stock film. Horizontal Form/Fill/Seal (hf/f/s) equipment makes a vertical cut in a horizontal flow of film to form individual pouches and bags. After forming and filling, bags are sealed via heat, ultrasonically or another method. Are you planning to buy new bagging, pouching or wrapping equipment? Here are some guidelines for what to consider when planning your next purchase.
ALLIEDFLEX Technologies, Inc.
Alliedflex Technologies distributes vertical form/fill/seal packaging machines from Velteko Corporation. Models include the HSV 210 SLIM, a reduced footprint vertical packaging machine specifically engineered for the snack industry that delivers and maintains top speeds for a wide range of higher to lower quality films. HSV 280 Series of vertical packaging machines is designed for the food industry, running speeds of up to 200 bags/min. HSV 360 Series of vf/f/s equipment, runs at speeds to 360 bag/min, can package a large variety of food and non-food items, and accepts a wide range of bags with volumes of up to 20 L.
Bartelt Packaging
Bartelt, known for its horizontal form/fill/seal equipment, supplies the Bartelt® RPM Series, featuring double pouch clamps that enable customers to run heavier fill weights and larger pouch sizes. This space saving rotary turret machine series achieves speeds up to 60 cycles per minute depending on product and model. Optional duplex configurations yield to 110-120 pouches per minute. Bartelt also distributes horizontal pouching equipment from FLtècnics in both rotary and walking-beam styles.
Belco Packaging Systems, Inc.
In addition to its bag sealing and wrapping equipment, Belco supplies the Merlin, a fully automatic form/fill/seal wrapper designed to form and seal flat film around products without producing any waste or film trim. This design produces can maintain production speeds up to 100 packages or 120 feet of film per minute depending on model and configuration. The Merlin Sealer comes with a 16- or 24-in. wide hot knife cross seal and the choice of a static overlap or thermal bottom seal to satisfy any film requirement. Four configurations of sealing modules are available.
Bodolay Packaging Machinery
Bodolay Packaging Machinery’s horizontal form/fill/seal runs at speeds up to 100 ppm. Optional features of the hf/f/s system include zipper applicator and gusset former options as well as non-wash down or wash down versions. Machine handles dry and wet food snacks, as well as pet foods, shredded cheese, cosmetics, toiletries, powders, hardware, seeds and tobacco products.
Butler Automatic, Inc.
The SP1 offers a compact and highly efficient automatic splicing solution for a variety of packaging processes, including vertical form fill seal (VFFS), horizontal form fill seal (HFFS), and overwrap machines. The SP1 is designed with easy to replace wear parts and engineered to provide a fast return on investment.
BW Packaging
The BW Flexible Systems vertical form/fill/seal (VFFS) bagging product line features a variety of continuous and intermittent motion bag filling systems. Company’s vertical bagger systems are capable of filling low, medium and high-speed packaging applications for a variety of products and industries. Product line includes machines from Hayssen, Sandiacre, and Simionato brands.
CP Packaging, LLC
CP Packaging’s VisionPak™ horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) machine covers the gamut of packaging applications, from zipper to semi-rigid, flexible and vacuum skin packaging.
Dispac
Dispac supplies a vertical sachet filler that is designed for filling and sealing of sachets or bags for food and beverages. This form/fill/seal equipment can be easily integrated into a production line.
DTM Packaging, a Massman Company
DTM Packaging is a builder and supplier of the HFFS High Speed Horizontal Flexible Pouch Packaging Machine, capable of filling and sealing 50 to 150 pouches/min. Standard features include a single point plow adjustment, solid state electronic componentry, a multilingual touch screen operator interface, an auger filler for filling powder product, a funnel product delivery system, top seal stations, and a cam and lever mechanical design for reliable multi-shift operation.
Duravant
Duravant’s Hamer brand specializes in horizontal form/fill/seal bagging automation equipment for large format bags. Hamer brand machines are in use worldwide in some of the harshest production environments, including animal feeds and supplements, pet food, seed, bulk foods, agricultural products, chemicals, fertilizer, concrete and building material and beyond. Hamer equipment utilizes heavy gauge metal components, robust mechanism construction, hardened alloy wear parts, innovative controls design and an intuitive HMI.
Formost Fuji Corporation
Horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) systems from Formost Fuji are designed for easy maintenance, easy film change and reduced film routes. Hf/f/s systems feature user-friendly wide touch panels. High-speed rotary and box motion models and sanitary design models are available. Featured hf/f/s systems include the VX II horizontal flow wrap machine for flexible packaging. With increased product height capability of up to 7.75 inches or taller, the wrapper is specifically designed to package various sizes of product for a variety of industries.
Grupo Empac SA de CV
Grupo Empac SA DE CV presents its line of vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal equipment.
Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC
Flow wrapping machines from Harpak-ULMA Packaging are designed to be versatile and cost-effective packaging equipment. Varieties include horizontal form fill and seal (HFFS), vertical form fill and seal (VFFS), horizontal bagging, pillow-pouch wrapping, stretch, seal and flow-pack. HFFS is suitable for primary packaging of individual products (whether flat or irregularly shaped) in the food products, medical, industrial and other consumer goods sectors. Well suited to high-volume production, and a producer of minimal waste, flow-wrapping enables packaging of large orders in very short time frames. Easy to change over from one packaging size to another with no tooling changes. Harpak-ULMA Packaging offers a full line of flow wrapping machines built to meet the customer’s packaging needs.
Hinds-Bock Corporation
Hinds-Bock manufactures horizontal vacuum former as well as vertical form fill seal machines. Liquid filling machines are integrated with vertical form/fill/seal machines to offer seamless automatic filling from low production volumes to high-speed applications. Clean, accurate filling of products ranging from thin pickle brine to viscous peanut butter as well as products with delicate particulates such as pie filling or soups can be filled with these systems.
HMC Products
HMC Pouchmaster is a horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) system designed for pouching a wide variety of dry and liquid products, including soaps, shampoos, nutritional supplements, powders, cake mixes, microwave products, pet treats, towelettes, sponges, swabs, plastic medical cards, medical test kits, and trail mix. Featured in the HMC line are the IMF Pouchmaster hf/f/s series, which runs free flow products and powders at speeds up to 160 ppm and the IM Pouchmaster hf/f/s that forms, fills, and seals powder and liquid products in pouches at speeds of up to 100 ppm.
MACTEC Packaging Technologies LLC
Mactec Packaging manufactures small footprint pouch and sachet packaging machines for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cbd, cosmetic and other applications. Mactec’s form/fill/seal machines include the MTVP200, a larger frame vertical four-sided sealing machine for sample pouches, sachets and other unit dose pouches. The MTVP160 vertical pouch machine is designed for automatic filling of liquids, powders, capsule tablets and other products into sachets. Other models from Mactec include the MTHP150 horizontal form/fill/seal, designed for packaging products such as transdermal patches, powders, edibles and medical devices in pouches.
Mamata Enterprises, Inc.
The Vegapack M-Series horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) pouch machines are designed to meet specific needs of consumer packaged goods companies in the food/pet and home/personal care markets. Machines are engineered to balance high line-speed with a small footprint and offer flexibility of being able to process both laminate and co-extruded films with ease as well as offer quick and repeatable changeovers; a total format changeover, height/width/gusset can be achieved with one operator in under 45 minutes.
Matrix Packaging Machinery, Inc.
Matrix Packaging Machinery offers a wide range of vertical form/fill/seal (VFFS), horizontal form/fill/seal (HFFS), stick pack, and sachet type packaging machines. Machines run various sizes and bag types, such as pillow, flat bottom, gusset, quad, bag-in-bag, zipper, spout, as well as three- and four-sided seal bags. Featured among these is Matrix’s high-speed VFFS machine designed with longevity and speed in mind; system runs at cycle speeds to 140 bpm. The compact, modular, and robust INV Pack BY3 EVO multilane stickpack machine is for low to medium production operations, with minimal investment required. Output ranges from 210 stick packs per minute for a three-lane operation to 490 per minute with seven lanes.
Mespack-Cloud LLC
Mespack’s line of vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) equipment includes a stick pack machine series and four-sided seal multilane machine series for flat sachets. In addition, Mespack supplies 34 models of horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) machines for flat and stand up pouch packaging from low to high fill volumes with different speed ranges. Mespack’s vf/f/s machine is built in a monobloc design and heavy-duty steel frame, designed to provide free access to all sides of the machine as well as facilitate maintenance procedures. The ML Series is especially suited for packaging granules, powder, and liquids into flat sachets for pharma, food, and home and personal care sectors. Highlighted amongst Mespack’s line of hf/f/s models is the HIM Series, combining a patented intermittent and continuous motion design and capable of producing 150 pouches/min.
Mexicana de Ingenieria y Maquinaria, S.A. de C.V.
MexiMaq offers the latest generation of automatic form/fill/seal (f/f/s) equipment including eight vertical f/f/s machines. Company also offers three horizontal bagging machines to form, fill and seal small bags that handle three or four seals, bottom bellows or stand-up/doy packages.
Middleby Food Processing
Middleby Food Processing's form/fill/seal equipment is designed for processors and packagers who pack meat, poultry and cheese into vacuum and modified atmosphere packaging.
nVenia, a Duravant Company
nVenia, a Durant Company, manufactures a variety of form/fill/seal machines. Hamer brand large format horizontal form/fill/seal and bagging automation machines designed for dependability and versatility for industrial applications, commonly used in the food packaging industry.
Omori North America
Omori manufacturers entry-level to high-speed horizontal form/fill/seal (HFFS) machines for a wide variety of applications in the food, medical, consumer and confectionery industries.
Ossid LLC
Ossid manufactures medical horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) machines that can be customized to each customer's product needs and offer high speeds and versatility in packaging formats. These medical device packaging machines are designed and built in accordance with the AMI sanitary principles and can be built for clean room environments. With three machine options – the 800, 8000 and 8000S – Ossid can build a machine to specification. Medical hf/f/s machines are capable of ambient, modified atmosphere (MAP), vacuum pack, as well as vacuum skin pack (VSP) packaging formats, and run a variety of materials including flexible and rigid films. Ossid medical machines have output rates of up to 30 cycles per minute making this equipment perfect for meeting large capacity requirements.
PallayPack, Inc.
PallayPack supplies horizontal and vertical sachet pouch and stick pack filling machines for solid, powdery, granular liquids and pasty products. Featured in PallayPack's line of intermittent and continuous motion systems is the PharmaStick CS OMAG machine, which uses a single roll of heat-sealing film that is pre-cut in the number of packaging lanes. A tubular sleeve is created out of each strip, and then sealed lengthwise; the horizontal sealing unit forms the stick.
PFM Packaging Machinery Corporation
PFM Machinery offers a wide variety of models of horizontal and vertical form/fill/seal (f/f/s) packaging equipment including turnkey pouching lines. Vf/f/s machines handle pillows, gusseted bags, stand-up pouches, three-sided seals and more.
Phoenix Engineering
Phoenix Engineering specializes in vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal machines and stick pack machines. Vertical form/fill/seal machines include the GP1000 pouch machine, used for packing pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products, vitamins, multivitamins, candy, teas, spices, desiccants, liquids, lotions, creams, powders, dental and medical products and other products. This intermittent type pouch bagger can be integrated with tablet feeders, powder fillers, liquid fillers and many other types of feeding machines. The GP2000 is a 3- or 4-sided fold-over seal type intermittent motion horizontal form/fill/seal pouch machine
PLAN IT Packaging Systems
Plan It Packaging presents their family of Mars Vertical series vertical bagging machines, which are designed for mid-range and high-speed packaging and are capable of handling both small and large bag sizes. These machines use the latest technology to seal a wide range of film types, structures, and styles, and are used in packaging everything from candy and snack food to vegetables, fruits, cheese, poultry, pet food, bakery items, cannabis, vitamin gummies, pharmaceuticals, frozen foods, and grains. In addition to the Mars Vertical series, Plan It Packaging also offers a range of horizontal form/fill/seal machines that can produce stand-up DOY pouches, as well as 3-sided seal and 4-sided seal pouches with zipper closures, and shaped pouches requiring die cuts. These machines are used in applications for food, pharmaceuticals, life sciences products, liquids, and more, and can use laminated roll stock film to create a variety of pouch styles, eliminating the need for pre-made bags and reducing material inventory costs. Customers can choose from a range of available options, including gas flush, hole punch, middle capping device, shaped bag molding device, stand-up pouch former, tare notch, vacuum station, zipper applicator, and rigid spout inserter, among others.
Polypack, Inc.
Horizontal form, fill and seal shrink packaging machines are intermittent and continuous motion total closure shrink wrappers that use a forming head to wrap products with rectangular or round profiles. Designed to run products ranging from a few inches to several feet in length, width, and height. Total closure bundles provide durable protection for distribution and clean graphics for retail applications. Printed and clear polyolefin and polyethylene films can be used.
PPi Technologies Group
PPi Technologies manufactures a range of form/fill/seal equipment the SN Machinery form/fill/seal zipper and spout machines and RadPak vertical pouch designs with zipper. Both systems offer code dating, scales, pumps and more for applications in food, pet food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, non-food, household, personal care. For stick pack pouches, PPi offers the PSG MentStick systems for both liquid and dry stick packs.
Premier Tech
Premier Tech specializes in form/fill/seal (FFS) bagging machines for bags heavier than 5kg. Baggers from Premier Tech handle a wide range of products including minerals, chemicals, food, wood pellets and seed. They can use a weighing scale or a volumetric feeder depending on the product. Premier Tech’s FFS machines handle up to 33 bags/min., depending on the model. Premier Tech supplies bagging machines specified to the size of the project, budget and the production rate needs of the customer.
Prodo-Pak Corporation
Prodo-Pak Corporation offers a broad range of standard and semi-custom flexible packaging equipment including vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s), horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) equipment, stick pack f/f/s and sachet f/f/s systems. Featured products include the H Series of hf/f/s machines, designed to automatically pack powders, grains or liquids in sachets of three or four seals. The Model PV Series offers advanced vf/f/s technology for food, personal care, pharmaceutical, chemical, and beverage industries. Prodo-Pak’s TM Series Stick Pack machine is suitable for a wide range of powders and granules like sugar and sweeteners, energy drink powders, soluble coffee, creamer, infant formula, pharmaceutical products and OTC as well as liquids and pastes for shampoo, conditioner, mayonnaise, syrups, dyes and other flow transfer type products. The SP SERIES is a single tube vf/f/s sachet packer running standard stick pack, standard pillow style, as well as three- and four- sided styles for packaging powders, granules, liquids and pastes.
R.A. Jones
R.A Jones manufactures form/fill/seal pouching and chub equipment for various food and non-food products. Pouching equipment can run up to 2,000 pouches per minute, while chub machines can run up to 150 chubs per minute. Between both types, machines can package a variety of consumer and industrial product such as: drink mixes, dairy powders, coffee, tea, oatmeal, cake mix, sugar and spices, soup mix, OTC powders like antacid, supplements, protein, ground/minced meats, cookie dough, pet food, caulks, resins, chemical emulsions, dual chambered products, blasting agents in emulsions, slurry, and water gel chub formats. Pouch King is a high speed pouch-filling series of horizontal form/fill/seal machinery with patented printed circuit heating technology for three- and four-sided, as well as gusseted and stand-up gusseted pouch styles. KartridgPak chub machines feature close-clip option, continuous motion, rollstock clips and film, PLC controls, simplified clipping head, stainless steel construction as well as heat, radio frequency and extruder sealing options.
Rethceif Packaging
Rethceif Packaging develops and manufactures form/fill/seal (FFS) packaging equipment in its facility located in Northeast Indiana, USA. Rethceif engineers have extensive experience in FFS packaging and continue to bring new products and innovations to the industry.
Ropak Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Ropak supplies flexible packaging equipment, specializing in vertical form/fill/seal machines, horizontal flow wrappers, and stick pack machines. Ropak’s equipment is used by brands in industries ranging from food processing and pharmaceuticals and beyond. Featured products include the ExpressPak filler, designed for sachet-style packaging. Utilizing intermittent motion, it can vertically form, fill, and seal both mixed and pure liquid products spanning a wide range of viscosities and textures. Ropak’s StikPak filler is a continuous motion vertical form/fill/seal machine that handles dry products (drink mixes, protein supplements, pharmaceutical powders), liquids (syrups, concentrated liquid drink mixes, cosmetics) and specialty products (industrial greases, semi-frozen puree, chilled milk).
Scholle Corporation
Via its partnership with Bossar, Scholle offers horizontal form/fill/seal (HFFS) machines covers a wide range of applications, including spouted pouches and flat sachets. In addition to traditional mechanical machines, Bossar offers a complete full-servo series. Designs feature modular frame construction, composed of three independent modules: unwinder, pouch forming and dosing-sealing.
SIGMA Equipment, Inc.
SIGMA Equipment offers a comprehensive range of used form/fill/seal (FFS) machines designed for efficient and automated packaging processes across industries like food, beverage, and pharmaceuticals. Their inventory includes vertical (VFFS) and horizontal (HFFS) systems capable of forming bags or pouches, filling them with products, and sealing them in a single process. These machines handle solids, liquids, powders, or granules and accommodate various packaging materials. SIGMA’s selection supports diverse production scales, from small batch operations to high-speed output. Explore the complete product lineup at the SIGMA Equipment site, linked below.
STORCAN
Storcan offers form/fill/seal solutions from Ilapak for bakery, meat and poultry, cheese, chocolate and confectionery. Machines include both horizontal and vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) machines, such as Ilapak’s V-Smart, an entry-level intermittent vertical packaging machine.
System Packaging
System Packaging offers vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) equipment, including Model 1200 machines, designed as highly reliable, microprocessor-controlled, that use inexpensive polyethylene or other co-laminate rollstock to produce 25-30 bags per minute, depending on the model, package size, and product. Model 1219 vf/f/s is an economical, high-speed, versatile bagging system, designed for packaging small parts, dry goods, processed foods and more. The Mark 12 packaging systems create bags up to 12-in. wide by 16-in. long from polyethylene roll stock, and can form, fill and seal at rates up to 100 bags per minute.
TDI Packsys
TDI Packsys supplies vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal equipment for snack foods, popcorn, nuts, coffee, pet foods, as well as hot and cold fill liquid applications. Pouch filling machines handle various sizes and styles, including flat, side gusseted, quad-seal and block bottom, and run at speeds of speeds of up to 70 pouches per minute. Optional valves and tin ties for coffee packaging and nitrogen flushing option is available for extended shelf life products. Machines use an Allen Bradley PLC user interface and feature servo-assisted film feeding and full servo-driven, heavy-duty sealing jaws for optimal speed and accuracy.
TELESONIC PACKAGING CORP
Telesonic Packaging Corp. supplies continuous and intermittent motion bag forming machines for a wide range of applications. Featured vertical systems include the 4 Lane vertical packaging machine for automatic packing of loose solid material, such as snack food, nuts, popcorn, seed, sugar and salt. The 14 H packaging system can automatically complete functions such as conveying, measuring, and feeding, filling and bag forming, date code printing, bag sealing and cutting. The Automatic Horizontal F/F/S packaging machine is designed to automatically package free-flowing food and chemical products, liquids, pastes, pills and counted parts.
Ultrasource LLC
UltraSource offers Rollstock horizontal form/fill/seal packaging machines for small, medium, or large production capacities, including the compact BullDog® and expandable Bison® and Mammoth® machines.
VC999 Packaging Systems Inc.
VC999 supplies vertical and horizontal form/fill/seal for liquids and other applications. Highlights from the VC999 vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) product include the TSR vf/f/s for liquids, a fully automatic, stainless system designed specifically for the handling of fluids, liquid and paste products packed in heat sealable materials and light laminates of rollstock film. Other machines include the TSC Series Vertical Flow Wrapper, a fully-automatic vf/f/s for bean bagging applications. Numerous other vertical and horizontal f/f/s models are available.
WeighPack Systems Inc. / Paxiom
WeighPack’s family of vertical bagging machines includes models for both mid-range and high-speed packaging as well as small or large bag sizes. Both the VerTek® and XPdius® series of vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) machines are engineered to seal a wide variety of film types, structures and styles. WeighPack has installed hundreds of vf/f/s machines around the world for packaging applications including candy, snack food, chocolate, vegetables, fruits, cheese, poultry, pet food, bakery, cannabis, vitamin gummy, pharmaceutical, frozen foods and grains. WeighPack’s horizontal form/fill/seal machines include the R2B series that produce stand-up DOY pouches and both 3-sided seal and 4-sided seal pouches with zipper closures as well as shaped pouches requiring die cuts. It is also capable of inserting a corner rigid spout. The R2B series, for food, pharmaceuticals, life sciences products, liquids and more, uses laminated roll stock film to create a large variety of pouch styles, eliminating the need for premade bags and reducing material cost dramatically. Available options include gas flush, hole punch, middle capping device, shaped bag molding device, stand-up pouch former, tare notch, vacuum station, zipper applicator and rigid spout inserter and more.
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Horizontal form/fill/seal (hf/f/s) equipment, which is used in bagging or pouching lines, is an advanced category of packaging machinery. It has become a mainstay in packaging because of its rapid production capabilities, powered by automation, and is used in a wide range of applications from food and pet food packaging to medical, agricultural, personal care and household goods.
In a typical hf/f/s system, the product – which can be wet or dry– is fed into the machine, where it is automatically weighed, measured, and packaged in a seamless workflow. A key feature of hf/f/s is its versatility; the machines can be used to produce all sorts of packaging styles, shapes, and sizes. For instance, they can create bag types like gusseted bags, stand-up pouches, and quad-filled bags, and even intricate patterns, like checkerboard seals. Another flexibility advantage of hf/f/s equipment is that the same machine can be used for various product lines.
Versatility is not its only selling point, though. Horizontal bag systems are known for their ability to produce airtight and moisture-proof packages, made possible by cutting-edge, modern technology, like heat-sealing or infrared-sealing mechanisms, which seal the packaging shut at extremely high temperatures. This guarantees maximum product protection, especially helping to extend the shelf life of perishables, like food products.
In terms of operations, hf/f/s technology is also very reliable, with high production speeds and minimal downtime possible, in part because of the durable structure of the machines, with components that are designed with longevity in mind. Also, hf/f/s equipment is packed with sophisticated control systems, which can be constantly monitored for optimum performance.
For manufacturers and packagers that need to minimize costs, hf/f/s equipment can be the perfect place to start. They often require less manpower than other packaging methods, as the machines run automatically. Not to mention, hf/f/s machines can use less energy than some traditional bagging and pouching systems, saving on electricity costs.
Perhaps the clinching benefit of hf/f/s equipment is its capacity for high-speed production, meaning businesses can scale operations with minimal effort; an investment in this machinery can help lay the groundwork for a competitive business model in an ever-changing market.
With all of the benefits of hf/f/s on the table, buyers should take time to work with potential suppliers to select the appropriate machine for their needs. Things to consider include: the size and shape of the product, the kind of packaging material being used, cost, durability, and overall throughput rate. Additionally, businesses should plan on exercising proper operational conduct and regularly scheduled maintenance to protect their investments.
Overall, hf/f/s equipment offers an array of benefits to the packaging operations of businesses that are willing to invest in their future. From increased productivity and bottom-line savings, to the flexibility enjoyed by many packaging options, horizontal form/fill/seal machinery will be a cornerstone in packaging for years to come.
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