form fill and seal machine made in USA

The Orics form fill and seal machine is without a doubt the future of all food packaging, it is the only machine that can give you full liberty from suppliers and inventory stacking.
Film is pre-heated and then trays are vacuum thermoformed via a customized and interchangeable tool.  The FFS-30 supports a maximum pocket size of 16-in. x 12-in. and can be divided into virtually any number of pockets/trays that fit within that maximum size.  This allows the end-user to easily change container sizes and volumes with a simple tooling change--providing maximum flexibility for a single machine to produce multiple products.  In addition, the tray depth can be varied, up to a maximum depth of 4-in., with its HMI controls.
The FFS-30 provides ample space for hand or automated product filling and the company manufactures a full line of liquid and particulate fillers for product placement.  Once filled, the line advances to the sealing sector where a top film is positioned from rollstock and sealed to the bottom, thermoformed tray.  Additionally, a full array of atmospheric options for the sealer including gas flush, vacuum gas flush, controlled atmosphere, and vacuum sealing is available.

The system may be purchased with full aseptic construction making the unit suitable for dairy and medical device applications.
The FFS-30 is capable of forming flexible, semi-rigid, and rigid trays and the top seal may also be formed from registered film for precisely located product branding, as well as sealing and die-cutting Tyvek film for medical device applications.

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packaging machinery

• Filling machine
• Sealing machine
• Wrapping machine
• Labeling machine
• Container machinery
• Multifunction machine
• Packaging Materials manufacturing machinery
• Packaging container manufacturing machinery
• Secondary packaging machinery, etc.

Packaging is necessary to protect products, and is now done mainly through the use of packaging machinery. Machinery plays increasingly important roles such as:

• Improve labor productivity. Sliding blister sealing machine packaging machinery is much faster than manual packaging. One good example of this is the candy packing machine. Here, hundreds to thousands of candies can be wrapped in minutes.
• Ensure packaging quality. Mechanical packaging is particularly important for exported goods to achieve consistent packaging.
• Handle specialized requirements, such as vacuum packaging, inflatable packaging, skin packaging and pressure filling.
• Reduce labor and improve working conditions for bulky/heavy products.
• Protect workers from health effects brought by dust, toxic/hazardous products and prevent environmental contamination.
• Reduce packaging costs and save storage costs for loose products, such as cotton, tobacco, silk, linen, etc., by simply using compression packaging.
• Reliably ensure product hygiene by eliminating hand contact with food and medicines.

          Orics is a leader company in the packaging machinery industry in America and world wide.

In 1990, Ori Cohen founded Orics industries in NY and since then is leading the packaging industry to new levels of technology and performance.
cup and tray filler and sealer, modified atmosphere or not, there is no machine too small for Orics to take over, as long as it is in the food packaging industry.
Orics Industries has 60,000 sqf of shop and engineering facility to assure that all their machines are being tested and operated before leaving the facility and being shipped to you.
a crew of mechanical engineers to come to your facility, where ever you are and assist in putting it together and show you how it works.
Among the best sellers of Orics Industries you can find rotary filling and sealing machines like the MR35 and R50 and the R20.
the stand up filler is the best you can find in the market.
and the table top tray sealer M10 is the most common tray sealer for small scale operations.

And it is all being made here, in 240 smith street, Farmingdale, NY.
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Future American economy

I am 45 years old and I am a business man in America 2015.
A lot have changed in the business world in my generation, when I was 18 the first cell phones just came out, and people were still carrying around their beepers.
Back then every child around the world, even adult, were hoping to wear a shirt or a dress that has a Tag Made in the u.s.a.
In 30 years we have lost in every industry that exist, we gave all of our daily products to china,    from small 99cents items trough clothing and dishes and appliances and furniture and even our technology , phones, computers and sound systems, all is made in china, we are owned.
What left for us to make money on  is medicine, high end technology, education and food.
Yes food, notice that people are more eating at home and less outside.
Notice how in the past 20 years there are more and more food shows and channels.
Notice that supermarkets are way bigger and carrying much more items on their shelves.
This is our future economy, growing, processing and packaging food.
One only need a good recipe and equipment and there he bring the public his flavor, his own doing and make money out of it.
A filler and a tray sealer and a good recipe can take you far.
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Cups and trays filling and sealing

ORICS is a leader and innovator in the field of Modified Atmosphere Packaging systems (M.A.P.) and tray sealing technology. Since 1990, ORICS has designed and manufactured award-winning packaging systems utilizing denesters, fillers, sealers to create turnkey solutions. We make packaging systems for virtually any product that is packaged in tubs, trays or, cups. With the addition of the FFS-30, ORICS’ Horizontal Form-Fill-Seal System, ORICS now has the largest catalog of sealers manufactured in the United States. That’s right… all ORICS equipment is manufactured in the USA at our Farmingdale, NY facility. Call us with your next project.
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By Pat Reynolds, VP Editor, Packaging World

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Preformed three-compartment trays used for Reichel Foods’ snacks are filled with a variety of components. Monday it might be meat cheese and crackers Wednesday nacho chips and salsa and Friday peanut butter jelly and pizza bread.

The trays are filled by a semi-automatic depositor but some compartments are fed by hand. No two operators load trays at the same pace so filled trays in their eight lanes head toward the lidding machine randomly. The task of evacuating backflushing and lidding these trays is performed by an intermittent-motion machine that Craig Reichel describes as one of a kind.

“We needed automated equipment that would accept randomly fed trays in multiple lanes” says Reichel. “Most machinery builders who said they could design such equipment wanted a sizeble financial commitment from us before they would even show us what their solution was.”

Considering that his was a small firm in start-up mode such an arrangement was less than ideal. One equipment builder however willing to design machinery on acceptable terms was Orics Industries (Flushing NY). The eight-lane system installed by Orics in 1998 uses eight-cavity-wide carrier plates 23 plates in all to take trays through a lidding chamber. Arranged like the treads of a tank in a long oval path the carrier plates come up to receive filled trays at the infeed end of the oval travel through the lidding chamber discharge lidded trays at the discharge end of the oval and then travel beneath the machine before coming back up at the infeed end.

Immediately upstream from this part of the system is a robotic pick-and-place tool and just ahead of that an eight-lane infeed device. The robot has eight pairs of end effectors. When a filled tray reaches the transfer position a sensor signals the central PLC to actuate a mechanical device that elevates the tray slightly. This puts the tray into the pick position. Also triggered is a mechanical stop that prevents trailing trays in that lane from advancing. When all eight lanes have a tray in the pick position the servo-driven robot’s eight pairs of end effectors pick up their assigned trays and load them into an eight-cavity carrier plate.

The carrier plate takes the trays into the sealing chamber. Just ahead of this chamber eight fiber-optic sensors detect when containers are present. A signal is then sent to the PLC indicating that the sealing chamber is to be activated.

Inside the sealing chamber says Reichel “A lot of things happen.” The first thing once the chamber is closed is evacuation. Next is backflushing with a modified atmosphere followed by heat sealing of lid to tray and finally cutting of the lidding material around the tray perimeter. With all these tasks performed the lidding chamber opens and all eight trays are discharged onto a takeaway conveyor leading to an automatic cartoner. Reichel runs the machine as fast as 120 trays/min.

“One of the nice things about the machine is that the carrier plates move independently of the film feed” says Reichel. “Film is only drawn from the roll when it’s needed. The carrier plates just keep steadily cycling through the lidding chamber while the infeed section waits for all eight pick stations to be occupied by a tray. Only then will trays be advanced and lidding material drawn. It’s a very clever solution that accommodates our random-feed requirement without wasting lidding material.”

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Gills onions and Orics S30

By Pat Reynolds, VP Editor, Packaging World

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The nation’s leading supplier of fresh-cut packaged onions Gills Onions of Oxnard CA has been busy changing its approach to packaging in both its foodservice and its retail offerings. In both cases a rigid package is now being offered as an alternative to packs made of flexible film.

The firm’s first foray into packaging of fresh-cut onions for foodservice accounts came nearly five years ago when a flexible package was introduced for foodservice accounts. While foodservice operators appreciated the convenience of not having to peel and slice their own onions they suggested a tray might be more convenient. “They seem to prefer the handling characteristics of the tray over the bag” says Steve Gill who with his brother owns the firm. “The sliced onions are easier to remove from a tray.”
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So about two years ago a rotary tray-sealing system from Orics Industries was installed to package 5-lb portions of sliced onions. That system has since been replaced by a new model from Orics the S-30 in-line system. According to Gill the in-line machine occupies less space in the plant than its rotary predecessor. It also utilizes less lidding material because the film’s width is the same as the tray’s. So unlike the rotary system there is no excess lidstock around the perimeter of the tray that has to be trimmed after the tray exits the heat-sealing tool.

Thermoformed of 39-mil polypropylene by ClearPak Co. the foodservice trays for 5-lb portions measure 103¼8” x 121¼2” and are just over 3” deep. Operators fill and weigh the trays by hand along an 18’ long assembly conveyor. The trays are then placed in an indexing conveyor that feeds them into the cavities of the Orics in-line lidding system.

Lidding material from Packaging Products is a two-layer adhesive lamination of 48-ga oriented PP and 1-mil cast PP. It’s microperforated to give it a permeability that allows the proper respiration rate. In other words CO2 given off by the onions is allowed to escape and O2 is allowed to enter at rates that ensure the 16-day shelf life that Gills Onions needs for nationwide distribution.

Foodservice customers who order trays instead of a bag with a zipper reclosure pay a slight premium says sales manager Melia Alamo. “But they’re willing to because the product is so much easier to access and handle” says Alamo. “We still offer the bag but we’re seeing more and more converts to the tray.”

Shelf life on tray-packed sliced onions is 16 days same as for bagged product. The product is shipped from the Oxnard plant to warehouses in Oxnard Salinas or Los Angeles where it’s sold. “It becomes the buyer’s responsibility to get it through the chilled distribution chain” says Alamo.

And on the retail side

Gills Onions’ entry into the retail market is more recent than the launch of its foodservice line. In April of 2002 it began selling 10-oz zippered bags of sliced or diced onions (see packworld.com/go/c135). But in March of this year in response to retailers who thought it would display better a thermoformed PET cup with heat-sealed film lidding and a snap-fit overcap was being released as an alternative. A second Orics S-30 sealing machine was installed to handle the retail line. It includes a station near the discharge area where snap-fit lids are automatically applied.

Thermoformed PET cups are 4.5” square and 3” deep. They’re supplied by Cool-Pak. The lidding material a 1-mil DuPont Mylar with a heat-seal coating is from Packaging Products. A pressure-sensitive bar-code label is applied to the bottom of each cup by Packaging Products. The firm also applies a brightly decorated p-s label to the side of each container. This label is printed flexo in four colors and is supplied by Label Technology.

For diced onions the cups are filled automatically by a 14-bucket combination scale from Heat and Control. The Orics S-30 cup sealer sits beneath it. For sliced onions cups are filled by hand and then sent through the Orics machine.

The cups run through the S-30 system two-across at 60 cups/min. Sliced onions are filled 8 oz per cup while diced onions—including a diced onion/celery mix—are filled 10 oz per cup. Cups are manually packed six per corrugated tray. Refrigerated shelf life is the same for the retail cups as for the foodservice trays: 16 days. The cups sell for about $1.99.

“We think consumers will like the cup better and we already know that retailers prefer it because it displays and merchandises better than the pouch” says Gill. “We’ll pay a little more for packaging materials but if we sell more product it will be worth it.”

Automated food facilities

 

Food processing is the largest market for packaging machinery industry. It is predicted that it will account for 43 % of global product sales in 2012. 

If the above prediction holds true, India's packaging machinery manufacturers would be treated with a double bonanza. India is just the right market for players of packaging machinery manufacturers.

Food processing and pharmaceutical industries, the biggest drivers for packaging, are on growth trajectory. The organised retail market is growing and the government is also contemplating to permit FDI in multi brand retail. The growing middle class population, rising health consciousness, competition from the west, are all the boosters for packaging and packaging machinery industry in the country.

The current value of the market of the world packaging machinery is around $30.9 billion. Top countries producing packaging machinery are Germany (23%), Italy, (16%), Japan (11%), USA (10%) and China (6%), according to VDMA estimates.

Where producing machinery is concerned India is producing the basic machinery, however the growing population is creating a demand for sophisticated state-of-the-art technology. India lacks in the production of high-end sophisticated technology.

“One reason for India's inability to produce advanced technology is that the investments are not taking place, “ says a packaging machine manufacturer.

However, the increasing investments by both domestic and foreign companies in the Indian food processing sector, especially in beverages, dairy products, processed food, edible oil, and marine products have expanded the market for packaging machinery. India processes only 2% of its food produce, that explains the scope for packaging.

One good news for the packaging machinery industry came with the standardisation of excise duties. The excise duty has been reduced from 24% to 16%.

With growing awareness Asia, particularly India, is accepting the idea of instant cooking and thus opened the trade gates for the packaged food industry in the country. Time limited consumer (TLC) is the driving factor for the growth of packaged RTE and OTG products in India.

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The total trade volume of packaged food in Asia in 2009 was around 132 million tonnes. China led the market with a share of around 50 million tonnes, followed by Japan (22 million tonnes) and India (18 million tonnes). India is estimated to reach 25 million tonnes by 2014.

In India's packaged food segment, dairy led the market with a share of around 11.2 million tonnes. It was followed by bakery products (3.5 million tonnes), oils and fats (1.5 million tonnes), dried processed food (0.7 million tonnes) and confectionery ( 0.2 million tonnes). Packaged dairy industry is expected to reach 15.6 million tonnes by 2014, whereas bakery will touch 4.2 million tonnes by 2014. Likewise oils and fats will contribute 2 million tonnes, dried processed food 1.2 million tonnes and confectionery 0.4 million tonnes by 2014.

The main function of packaging is to protect a product, give it a visual appeal, provide hygiene and preserve it during seasonal variations.

From a consumer point of view ease of handling and decomposability are the qualities that make a good package. Accordingly packages are developed and delivered.

Packaging machinery industry in India is labour intensive supported with weak infrastructure. Thus automation with advanced technology is the need of the hour. In product manufacturing, packaging costs around 45% of the total expenditure.

To understand the packaging machinery industry it is important to know that the industry is divided among small players with local presence, medium players and large players. The industry comprises large number of manufacturers of basic materials, converted packages, machinery and ancillary materials. 

The unorganised sector provides tremendous opportunities for the packaging machine manufacturers, the need is to work on the cost factor for this market. The organised sector which forms the major supplier to food and pharma companies and score high on quality and hygiene is another big market for machine manufacturers.

Packaging machines like automatic form-filling and sealing machines, Tetra Pak's aseptic packaging machines for sterilised filling and packing of liquids, and testing instruments offer best prospects for the machine manufacturers. Manufacturers of machine can also look at equipment for manufacturing aluminum beverage cans, machinery for cleaning and drying containers; automatic high speed labeling machines and capping machines; sealing machines for cans, boxes, and other containers; machinery for filling, and closing bottles and cans; packing/wrapping machines; and moulding machines which provide immense opportunities. 

Some leading companies in the packaging machinery industry are Nichrome India Limited, Multi Pack Machines Pvt Ltd, Hassia Packaging, Heat and Control (South Asia) Pvt. Ltd, Bosch packaging Technology, Ishida India Pvt.Ltd., Larsen & Toubro and S P Ultraflex Systems

In India, rigid packaging has been the mantra for packaging but the trends are shifting towards flexible. Rigid packaging with a share of 80% rules the roost. Rigid packaging is the conventional form of packaging constituting glass bottles, metal cans, corrugated boxes aerosol cans, battery cell cans.

With the gradually growing automation, India's corrugated packaging segment has witnessed a significant evolution in recent years. India has around 4,000 corrugated board and sheet plants spread across the country and it employs around 5 lakh people.

Though on an average around 2 million tonnes of kraft paper is converted into corrugated boxes, however overcapacity, manual operations and low productivity have restricted the prices of corrugated sheet and converted boxes. Also transportation and high freight costs have added to the woes.

Therefore, the small-medium sized corrugated plants are often located within the proximity to consumers..

Flexible packaging is an industry which is fast gaining acceptance in India. Plastic for example being cheaper and easy to handle, is being preferred by the manufacturers over corrugated boxes and tins. Flexible packaging consists of multi-layered laminated sheets of single or combination of substrates like plastic, paper or aluminium.