Horizontal Form/Fill/Seal
(19 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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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