Vertical Form/Fill/Seal
(36 companies)Bagging or pouching equipment that forms individual bags or pouches from roll stock film in a vertical orientation. Vertical Form/Fill/Seal (vf/f/s) machines draw the film over a forming collar to create a vertical tube of film. The machines then horizontally cut and separate the tube into individual bags, filling the bags or pouches with product before sealing. The top seal of one bag becomes the bottom seal of the next bag. Commonly used for free-flowing, fragile, or hard to handle products in the food industry, such as potato chips, in combination with weighers. 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.
Bairespack USA LLC
Bairespack USA offers complete solutions in vertical form/fill/seal (VFFS) technology including the DENVER VFFS intermittent motion machine. Designed for accurate speed for food and non-food products, it is used mainly for loose, granulated, doughy products or products difficult to handle as well as liquids. The DENVER VFFS Series can be built to make pillow packs, gusseted bags, as well as quad- and five-seal bags based on the application. Other VFFS machines from Bairespack include the AUSTIN Combo Series of Automatic VFFS, a compact system perfect for short ceilings and small facilities. The WICHITA Series is designed for producing single-dose stick packs or sachets that are heat-sealed on three sides, commonly used in products in the food and pharmaceutical sectors. Many other models are available, per the Bairespack website.
Batching Systems, Inc.
The Bagmaster® Series of vertical form/fill/seal machines offers flexibility for running different types of film and versatility for system integration to any type of packaging machine. Designed for short or long production runs, machines are designed for heavy-duty applications including frozen food, hardware, toy and industrial product applications, machines run at speeds of up to 100 cycles per minute, depending on the model. The Bagmaster® 250 or 400 Vertical Form, Fill, and Seal Bagging Machine makes bags out of flat stock film, with the bag formed around the product.
BPI Equipment
BPI Packaging Equipment supplies vertical form/fill/seal (VFFS) machines that are capable of bagging items in many different formats, including pillow, sachet, flat bottom, stick pack, quad seal and many others. BPI designs its VFFS baggers for maintaining high speeds without the high maintenance. Designed with 90% less air components, baggers feature dual servo motor film pull system, smooth servo drive seal jaw actuation, auto electric rectifying film tracking system, electric photo eye film registration and numerous other features.
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.
CAM Packaging Systems
Vertical form/fill/seal (VFFS) models from CAM Packaging Systems can be manually fed or integrated with scales and feeding systems. The CV 420MN is a small VFFS bagger that can be manually fed with product sensors or a foot pedal. This model can also be fully integrated for automatic solutions.
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.
FASTechnology Group, LLC
FASTech makes stick pack machines for all levels of production demand, from entry level 2-lane stick pack machines to a 10- lane, high-speed, high-quality machines. As stick packs become more popular every day from drink mixes to nutritional powders and everything in between, FASTech stick pack machines can quickly and reliably package these products. FASTech can include a variety of printing solutions to print on every pack, including fast drying HP style cartridge printers from inkjet for high-speed, multi-head print technology.
Fres-co System USA Inc.
As part of its flexible packaging system approach, Fres-co offers automatic vertical form/fill/seal (VFFS) machines that efficiently transform rollstock into formed bags or pouches that are filled with precisely weighed contents and sealed. Machines come in multiple bag configurations (Corner Seal®, square or cathedral top) and can utilize a variety of filling options and closure formats. Applications include packaging for coffee, other dry products or liquid foods and beverages.
General Packaging Equipment
General Packaging Equipment offers low-cost, high output vertical form/fill/seal machines. Typical applications include liquid in bag, coffee packaging and bag in bags for coffee, powder and chemical products, as well as snacks, nuts and candy. Machines run a range of pack styles such as pillow, side-gusseted square bottom, three- and four-side seal on materials ranging from LDPE, LLDPE, mLLDPE and blends to coextrusions such as HDPE/LLDPE, HDPE/MDPE/LLDPE, and many other materials.
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.
Marchesini Group USA Inc.
Marchesini Group’s vertical sachet filling machines are available in stand-alone versions and for integration in medium- and high-output production lines. Fillers handle from 600 to 1200 sachets per minute. Systems are designed to offer flexibility in size changeover and highly precise sachet formation, with cutting systems that improve the quality of sachets and double the service life of the cutters. Systems also trim the outer part of the sachets to improve the design. New dosing systems make it possible to dispense different kinds of product with different densities, using the same machine.
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.
MG America, Inc.
MG America distributes vertical stickpack and sachet filling machines from Universal Pack. The ALFA line of vertical intermittent-motion machines produce convenient, practical and consumer-friendly stick packs, using a patented design to insert and fold sealing film around forming tubes. Universal Pack’s GAMMA machines are high-speed vertical continuous-motion machines operating with rotary sealing rollers, engineered to produce convenient, practical and consumer friendly rectangular four-side seal and shaped sachets.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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).
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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.
Syntegon
Syntegon is a single-source supplier of vertical packaging systems that can produce a wide range of popular bag styles for all types of foods, from free-flowing powders and lightweight snacks, to delicate cookies and crackers, to IQF fruits, veggies, and meats. Featured baggers include the SVE 3822 LR, a continuous motion vertical bagger for basic bag styles including pillow, gusseted and block bottom bags, both small and large. The low height of the SVE 3822 LR allows integration of filling equipment such as scales, augers, and metal detectors, while the compact footprint allows customers to optimize the use of their floor space for secondary packaging equipment.
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.
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T.H.E.M.
Sanko North America presents a full line of stick pack machines for liquid and solid form/fill/seal applications. The FC1000α is Sanko’s global best-selling automatic stick pack machine, designed for powders and granules. Engineered as a robust form/fill/seal stick pack solution. Easy to maintain, and built to last for years of production, this machine comes in models that handle film web widths of 600mm or 1000mm. The FC1000α-AF is Sanko’s globally best-selling automatic auger fill stick pack machine for non-free flowing products, equipped with an auger-fill hopper for poor-flowing dry products. FC1000α-LP is Sanko’s automatic stick pack machine for liquids and pastes, with filling nozzles rises/falls in sync with the horizontal seal, allowing all product viscosities. It also features HMI control of filling nozzle ascending/descending speed, upper/lower stop position, timing, and other controls.
Unified Flex Packaging Technologies
Unified Flex offers 13 vertical form/fill/seal models in six unique series: Premium line, Economic line, Continuous Motion line, Stick Pack, and Multilane Sachet. Speeds can range from 7 to 180 bags/min., handling numerous bag types and sizes. Featured machines include the Vertobagger Horner, handling up to 80 bags/min., with maximum width of 13 in and maximum bag length of 20 in. Other machines include the Multilane Stick Pack 300M for granular, liquids and powders, offering available options like tear notches, different seal patterns and more. The AP-140 Auto Pouch Bagger is a sachet machine that can pack 5 different styles of bags with the simple tooling change over.
VDL Packaging
VDL Packaging offers a wide range of vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) bag/pouching machines for a variety of applications. Continuous motion machines include the UVA Dynamic Hydro, designed for versatility, cleanability and reliability, running 150 bpm with an IP66 washdown machine. The UVA Twinner consists of two continuous motion machines installed in one frame, both operating in the same way and offer the flexibility to make different bag styles either side. Intermittent models include the UVA Essential intermittent motion bagger running 120 bpm. bags/min and the UVA InMotion 500, VDL’s largest intermittent bag maker that packs products in large and medium-sized, high-quality bags with a premium look and feel.
Viking Masek Packaging Technologies
Viking Masek Global Packaging Technologies supplies vertical form/fill/seal machines for food and non-food applications in both intermittent and continuous motion configurations as well as vertical stick pack systems. Machines are designed for versatility in handling multiple bag sizes on a single machine, such as quad seal and market-standard pillow bags. Integrate convenient options including zippers, tear notches, modified atmosphere packaging, one-way valve applicators, and more. Viking Masek also offers several vertical stick pack machines for applications such as single-serve liquid, coffee and powder packaging.
Volm Companies, Inc.
Volmpack’s product line of vertical form/fill/seal baggers are designed for packing products in flexible bags of flat film on the reel. Hygienic design and open construction combined with full stainless steel and composite make these machines suitable for the food industry. Volmpack bagging machines can be configured to meet specific customer needs for packaging style, film material, and production conditions and are designed to operate in flexible production environments. A wide range of bagger machines handles packing vertical bags at rates from 15 to up to 90 bags/min. Product line features full stainless-steel construction and composite materials, Siemens PLC control with Volmpack Smart Display, integrated modem for online monitoring, handgrip punch knife in seal system and more. Volm also offers a GKS Vertical Packaging Machine, which can produce stick packs, pillow packs, and four-side-sealed sachets for a wide variety of materials and products.
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.
Winpak Lane, Inc.
Winpak is an original equipment manufacturer of a range of pouch machines for both liquid and dry products. Featured machines include the Winpak W-25 vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) pouch packaging machine for bulk liquid applications, designed for food service applications where packaging economy through high-output production, fill accuracy, and long shelf-life are paramount. The Winpak WD-32 is a high-output vf/f/s pouch machine that packages a wide variety of particulate dry products at production rates up to 1,000 packages per minute. The W-630/AF vf/f/s pouch machine is a 4-axis servo controlled machine that forms lap seal style pouches in popular widths. Several other pouch machine models are available.
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