Syntegon has made four new vertical forms, fill, and seal (VFFS) machines for various food applications and a second package for its cloud-based monitoring solution, aspiring to provide customers with a safe, flexible, and efficient packaging line.
The SVX Agile is compatible with basic tubular bag styles and can reportedly be upgraded with modules for corner sealed bags, three-sided seal bags, doy-style bags, and doy-style zip bags. The SVX Duplex, meanwhile, features two film lanes on the same 1,220 mm wide frame, which is thought to lead to higher output rates for such bag styles as a pillow, gusseted, and block bottom bags.
While the SVX Agile is functioning as a stand-alone machine solution producing pillow bags applicable to various industries, the SVX Duplex is producing packaging for jellies in the kitchen, processing, and depositing equipment applications, as well as primary packaging for cartoning.
Each SVX variant contains a patent-pending cross-seal drive that features four independently controlled servo motors. Combined with the low inertia, this is said to drive high outputs as well as give manufacturers full control over the vertical and horizontal movement of the machinery to ensure that seals are fully reliable.
Compared to previous machines of their kind, the SVX series can reportedly provide a wider range of bag sizes with a maximum of 400 millimetres in width. A front cylinder is built into each machine, with its curved sliding doors relocating to the back of the cylinder when opened to prevent obstruction during maintenance work; this feature also allows for the safe adjustment of printers, two of which can be installed behind the cylinders, without the need for machine downtime, as would be the case for a design with side doors.
The central cabinets also feature Beckhoff technology, which can be easily reached from either side of the machines and does not contain any mechanical components.
In combination with Synexio, Syntegon’s cloud-based monitoring solution, the machines utilize in-built sensors and a self-diagnosing system to support manufacturers in accessing, evaluating, and visualizing information about the machine and the production process on demand.
“The new VFFS machine series combines high pack style flexibility with intuitive functionalities, giving frozen food, bakery, confectionery, and snack producers a leg up on the competition,” says Martin Boutkan, product manager at Syntegon.
Customers are always looking for solutions that can reliably produce tight cross-seals for added product safety. The SVX makes sure this is the case without compromising on speed. Depending on the bag parameters as well as the dosing of the product, the SVX Agile achieves outputs of up to 300 bags per minute with one film lane.