The FLX R8 System Handles a Wide Variety of Popular Pouch & Bag Formats
ALLIEDFLEX® provides their broad application experience to help you identify the proper Pouch Filling System to suit your specific product / packaging requirements. The ALLIEDFLEX FLX R8 Rotary system provides a compact, quality packaging solution for the automatic packaging of popular Standup Pouch and Innovative Bag Formats.
PLUG & PLAY Installation with the FLX R8
Our FLX® R8 Rotary Standup Pouch Fill & Seal machines are set up and ready to go in a matter of hours. We save time since our machines are fully tested to our mutual satisfaction prior to shipment and installation at your facility. Upon delivery to your facility your new FLX® R8 system is installed, integrated, and ready to go into full production in a matter of hours. You save money by reducing labor costs and improving productivity from day one. We welcome you to compare our quality and value.
Key Benefits of the FLX R8 System
This system accommodates a wide variety of popular Pouch and Bag formats including popular Standup/Zipper, QuadSeal and Corner Spouts styles.
This compact rotary filler fills premade pouches, has pouch widths upto 12.5″, has nitrogen flushing, an automatic pouch infeed conveyor and an optional washdown feature.
The revolutionary FLX R8 Rotary System can be supplied with an optional cold sealing Herrmann Ultrasonics to achieve strong and hermetically sealed pouches.
Watch the FLX R8 System in Action
The FLX R8 series is designed to handle popular pre-made pouches and bags made of laminated, recyclable, compostable and biodegradable materials.
The FLX R8 Duplex Retort with Herrmann Ultrasonic is a duplex system designed to provides increased, efficient production capacities and suits client’s higher output requirements and expectations.
The stainless steel, NEMA-compliant wash-down sealed top plate keeps liquid contaminates from entering the controls section housed beneath the top plate.
ALLIEDFLEX FLX R8 250 CS
The ALLIEDFLEX FLX R8 250 CS Rotary Corner Spout system for filling and sealing popular premade Corner Spouted Stand Up Pouches.
This FLX R8 Fill Seal system is configured for handling refill pouches for Home Care and Beauty Care products.
The FLX R8 features an extended automatic pre-made pouch in-feed conveyor. The pouches are picked up using the pick and place gripper system. Then moved over to the pouch opening station where the pouches are opened utilizing the pouch opening blade.
Next the pouch opening plunger checks that the pouch is fully open. No pouch / No Fill and No Seal sensing is standard.
At the filling stations, this FLX R8 250 CS is configured for filling liquid products incorporates a “two-shot” 50/50 filling system utilizing two separate filling nozzles to improve speeds and minimize product foaming. The second filling nozzle completes the 2nd 50% of the required fill volume. Product is supplied on-demand to the FLX R8 by the supplied servo controlled positive displacement pump as an integral part of the system. Connection for CIP cleaning is available.
Next the pouches are heat sealed and separately top seal cooled prior to discharged via a motorized conveyor feeding downstream inspection and case packing.
Our FLX R8 Model Systems
The FLX R8-150D and FLX R8 200D are Duplex (2 Up) models, offering duplex ranges with a Max 150mm wide (6”) or 200mm wide (7.8”) – These duplex size ranges to accommodate popular retail sizes on a single machine platform with rapid size change over features. The FLX R8 D series is designed to handle popular pre-made pouches and bags made of laminated, recyclable, compostable and biodegradable materials.
Automatic controlled gripper system, with the robust index driver and the CAM position control, provides stable gripping movements to enable reliable performances of pouch pick-up, filling and sealing operations.
Duplex (2 UP) operation provides increased, efficient production capacities and suits client’s higher output requirements and expectations. The pouch gripper positions can be adjusted through the HMI touch screen, which guarantees easy and fast size change- over with data recipe memory storage function.
FLX R8 150D (DUPLEX) POUCH SIZE RANGE: Width: 3.5” (90mm) to 5.9” (150mm) FLX R8 200D (DUPLEX) 3.5” (90mm) to 7.8” (200mm} Height: 6.9” (150mm) to 12.59” (320mm) Pouches Per Minute: 80-90
POUCH STYLES: 3-4 SIDED POUCH, INVERTED SPOUT POUCH, STANDUP POUCH, QUADSEAL POUCH, RETORT POUCH
The FLX R8 250S model – offers a max pouch width of 250mm (9.8″) wide Simplex (1 UP) to accommodate popular retail sizes on a single machine platform with rapid size change-over features. The FLX R8 series is designed to handle the popular pre-made Standup Pouch and other pre-made bag formats made of laminated, recyclable, compostable and biodegradable materials.
FLX R8 250S POUCH SIZE RANGE: Width: 3.5” (90mm) to 9.84” (250mm) Height: 4.72” (120mm) to 13.77” (350mm) Gusset: 0 – 3.5” (90 mm) Pouches Per Minute: 30-50
The FLX R8 250S Simplex (1UP) model is designed to accommodate wider moderate bag size applications to comply with the demands of various size of and types of bag applications and moderate product fill volumes. The FLX R8 series models all operate in intermittent motion and are available configured optionally with 6, 8, and 10 working stations depending on final machine application configuration.
POUCH STYLES: 3-4 SIDED POUCH, STANDUP POUCH, STANDUP POUCH | ZIPPER, QUADSEAL POUCH | ZIPPER
The FLX R8 320Z (zipper) model – offers a max. pouch width of 320mm (12.5″) wide Simplex (1 UP) size range to accommodate popular retail, club and food service sizes on a single machine platform with rapid size change over features. The FLX R8 320Z series is designed to handle popular pre-made Standup Zipper Pouches and Bag Formats made of laminated, recyclable, compostable and biodegradable materials.
FLX R8 320Z POUCH SIZE RANGE: Width: 5.5” (140mm) to 12.59” (320mm) Height: 6” (150mm) to 13.75” (350mm) Gusset: 0 – 5” (140 mm) Pouches Per Minute: 30-50
This larger FLX R8 320Z model size range is designed to accommodate larger bag applications to comply with the demands of various larger size and heavier fill volumes. The FLX R8 320Z operates in intermittent motion, and is available optionally configured in 6, 8, and 10 stations depending upon application requirements.For more information on the FLX Axis-Servo.
POUCH STYLES: 3-4 SIDED POUCH, STANDUP POUCH
Cold Sealing with Herrmann Ultrasonics to Achieve a Strong, Hermetically Sealed Pouch
Pouch Formats & Product Applications
LIQUIDS
• Seasoning Pastes, Sauces, Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Retort RTE Products, Cooking Oils, Condiments • Beverages, Wines, Liquid Coffee • Detergents, Paint • Shampoo, Hair Treatments, Body Wash
FOOD PRODUCTS
• Frozen Fruit, Frozen Food, Meats & Poultry, Fresh Vegetables & Fruits • Ready to Cook Food (Soups, Stew, Gravies, Seafood, Refried Beans) • Rice, Grains, Nuts, Snacks, Cereals • Candy, Jelly, Chocolates, Confections • Meat Products (Beef, Pork, Chicken)
POWDERS / GRANUALS
• Flour, Grain, Seeds, Powders • Coffee, Tea, Sugar, Salt, Baking Mixes, Nutritional Powders • Seasoning Powders, Peppers, Curry Powders • Detergents, Fertilize
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