FAS SPrint Revolution^™ SidePouch^® Food Bagger

FAS SPrint Revolution™ SidePouch® Food Bagger

The FAS SPrint Revolution food packaging machine brings new levels of speed and versatility to demanding, high-productivity environments that require daily wash-down procedures. Operating at speeds up to 22 m per minute, this state-of-the-art system offers maximum flexibility, functionality and reliability for food bag packaging.

This unique food grade packaging system presents a conveyor of pre-opened plastic bags that are staged for immediate loading. The 1500 mm wide load area features a 150 mm pass-through and tilts vertically for easy maintenance and sanitation. An innovative Coordinated Motion Seal Flattener is coupled with a band sealing system to ensure high quality, airtight, 8 mm bag seals. The SPrint SidePouch bagger operates in continuous, intermittent or batch modes and cycles on pre-set parameters, or manually with a footswitch. This highly flexible design accommodates one or more operators or infeeds and a wide variety of products and bag sizes.

An integrated Allen-Bradley^® control package, featuring Kinetix^® Servo motors and drives, a CompactLogix™ L45 PLC and a large, 10" PanelView Plus HMI, is designed for ease of operation, serviceability, integration and overall system reliability. A simple flash card programs all of the components. The AutoTouch™ Control Software displays real time productivity data and provides easy access to job storage, job recall and on-board system diagnostics.

System-matched SidePouch plastic poly bags provide optimum performance and offer a variety of special features, such as reclosable zip bags, gussets, reinforced headers, tamper-evident perforations and more. SidePouch bags are pre-made and fan-folded in a box, eliminating the need for costly machine modifications to utilise their value-added features. In addition, these bags can be pre-printed in up to 10-colours with high-resolution graphics, text and bar codes for unique, attractive food packaging with a competitive edge.