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Shaped Stick Pack Machine

Universal Pack designs and builds stick pack packaging machines for the production of shaped stick packs. This solution meets the needs of those customers who are pushing hard on unique packaging formats. For this reason, we want your shaped stick packs to be more attractive, practical and ergonomic.

Our machines can produce any shape thanks to a hollow cutter below the horizontal sealing unit. This part is completely customizable in order to give you the possibility to choose your preferred stick pack shape.

Our vertical intermittent-motion shaped stick pack machines guarantee a compact solution combining the highest output with a small footprint. These solutions include many advantages such as great dose accuracy, minor wrapping material waste, easy handling and cleaning. Moreover, our user-friendly and modular shaped stick pack machines allow our customers to reduce downtime and fulfill their increasingly high production demands.

Which dosing systems are suitable for shaped stick pack machine?

We can provide your shaped stick pack machine with any dosing system, according to your needs and depending on your product characteristics. In fact, we offer:

Auger and basculating for powders and granules;
Gravimetric and flowmeter for liquid or semi-liquid products;
Piston pump for liquid, semi-liquid or viscous products.

Moreover, we design each machine for shaped stick packs to guarantee high levels of precision, quality and efficiency.

The company’s patented design to insert and fold sealing film around forming tubes represents one of the advantages that ensures maximum efficiency and reliability. Thanks to this Universal Pack machines are known worldwide.

Features

Customer – and product – specific design with maximum flexibility
Robust, compact machinery footprint, user-friendly technology
Optimal accessibility, easy handling, modular design and quick cleaning through “swivel” mounted dosing units. No tools needed for disassembling
Different filling system available to guarantee higher accuracy, depending on the product characteristics
Wide parametres adjustment range
CIP & COP systems
Fast, easy parts and size changeover, with high operating comfort
Washdown operations
Conformity with cGMP, ease of cleaning and easy access to all machine parts
Good visibility of the product flow and of the packaging
Clear and modular structure

Services

Conformity with CE and FDA regulations
UL certification predisposition
Transparent running cost: automated estimation of the machine’s production costs ensures the best quality at a competitive price.
TPM: we provide our customers with a wide range of tools aimed at improving machines capability through a better utilization of maintenance by following the TPM Total Productive Maintenance philosophy
Technical support on site or/and through remote assistance
Data transfer management and real time performance analysis
FMEA and Risk Assessment Management

Stick

Double

Strip

Round edges

Pillow

Lap seal

Side fin

Shaped

Universal Pack machines for shaped stick-packs are specifically-dedicated to single-dose packages. For example, we can dose from 0,1 to 200 gr or ml of product in a shaped stick pack, the dimensions of which vary depending on your marketing goals, nature of the products and production requirements.

Moreover, we provide you with the possibility to easily integrate your shaped stick pack machine in a Universal Pack packaging line for cartoning. Our lines allow you to put from 1 up to 100 or more stick packs in the same carton. We have developed patented counting units for any amount of packages to be picked up and put into cartons. In recent years, our philosophy is to save as much material and product as possible, both for economic and environmental sustainability.

Universal Pack machines for shaped stick packs can process all typical heat-sealable composite films, for example: PAP-PE (paper – polyethene), PAP-ALU-PE (paper – aluminum – polyethylene), PET-ALU-PE (polyethene terephthalate – aluminium – polyethene) and cold sealable materials. Our machines can also package sustainable laminates such as PP (polypropylene), PLA (polylactic acid), PAP (paper), Bio-PE (bio-based polyethene), and more on request.

Our non-stop research in reducing the packaging industry carbon footprint resulted in streamlined machinery design for processing recycled, recyclable and compostable laminates. LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) is used to measure the environmental impact of our products and identify optimal ways to reduce it. It is a 360° analysis that goes beyond the mere packaging produced and involves every step of the packaging machinery production process. We develop our solutions shoulder-to-shoulder with the main global film suppliers and test them in agreement with major multinational companies in order to provide them with a turnkey solution able to produce eco-packages.