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Your Screw Auger Systems Is Built To Last

Packaging Machinery

Applications Across Many Industries

Screw Auger Systems successfully transfer a large range of products across many industries. Broadly speaking it is suitable for Non Blended or Homogeneous powders and granules. They are preferred for their efficiency and ease of operation.

In the food, pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, a large number of products may be pneumatically conveyed,including salt, sugar, flour, starch, spices (food) or yeast granules, glucose, talc, paracetamol (pharmacy) etc. Other sectors using this system include the chemical, plastic, water and mineral industries. PVC resins, limes, silica sands, soda ash, iron oxides, calcium carbonates, cement, fly ash, talcs, and detergents are suitable for Pneumatic Conveying.

Points About Your Screw Auger Systems

A key feature of a Bradwood Packaging Screw Auger Systems is training and documentation, to maximize your ROI.

Total Evacuation – Bradwood Packaging pneumatic conveying systems fully evacuates the vessel being discharged and the conveyor line. This limits cross contamination of multi-ingredient systems. Complete transfer of material also ensures accurate transfer of single or multiple ingredients, maximising quality with minimal waste.
Wide Capacity Range – Bradwood Packaging have a range of systems varying in capacity from several kilos to hundreds of tons per hour and feeding any destination from small packaging lines to silos and mixers. Even if there are fluctuations in the feed rate, this will not damage the system.
Enclosed System Prevents Contamination – Totally enclosed and dust free, Bradwood Packaging conveying systems prevent contamination of the product and the external environment, allowing safe transfer of sensitive or hazardous products.
High Reliability and Ease of Maintenance – Bradwood Packaging Pneumatic conveying systems allow for easy cleaning and maintenance through easy to maintain filter receivers with access doors and inspection ports as well as rotary airlock valves with optional rotor support bars.
Mobile and Custom Configuration – Self contained Bradwood Packaging conveying systems are available pre-engineered and configured on castor mounted frames for mobility within your plant. Packages include feed hopper, and/or pick-wand, blower unit , filter receiver and control package.
Designed, Constructed and Finished to Industrial and
Sanitary Standards – Bradwood Packaging conveying systems are available in carbon steel with durable industrial finishes or stainless steel to standards required for food, diary and pharmaceutical applications.

Designing Your Screw Auger Systems

Your Pneumatic Conveying Systems is designed to move material reducing your labour costs and improving your factory efficiency.

So when you order your Pneumatic Conveying Systems you need to advise us of your applications along with as much information as possible, including feed rates, conveying distance & materials to be conveyed.

Our systems are available to operate in isolation, or can be designed to work in conjunction with a number of feeding solutions such as IBC’S ,Silos, tanks ,big bag and sack handling products. Bradwood Packaging’s engineers can design and install a comprehensive turnkey pneumatic conveying system including the control systems. Additionally controls and equipment can be produced to meet the requirements of the intrinsically safe, dust explosion directives regarding flammable and explosive atmospheres.

The system and design principles in this Pneumatic Conveying Systems Brochure give you some basic information. To make sure you get the right Pneumatic Conveying Systems to suit your needs, you should always talk to Bradwood Packaging sales engineers.

Get More Out Of Your Screw Auger Systems

  • Pressure blowers and vacuum pumps with integral sound enclosures, separate cooling fans and easy access maintenance points.
  • Rotary airlock valves available in a variety of styles and sizes
  • Flex-tube diverters, Y-diverters, plug diverters, rotary and other line diverter configurations
  • Filter receivers for low to high capacity applications
  • Cyclone separators for low to high capacity applications
  • Gain-in-weight and loss-of-weight batching systems
  • Dust collectors and bin vents
  • Controls and electrical equipment
  • Hand-held pick up wand
  • Silos, day bins and other storage vessels
  • De Humidifiers, etc

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Your Pneumatic Conveying Systems Is Built To Last

Packaging Machinery

Pneumatic Conveying Systems successfully transfer a large range of products across many industries. Broadly speaking it is suitable for Non-Blended or Homogenous powders and granules. They are preferred for their efficiency and ease of operation.

Pneumatic conveying system is the heart of bulk material handing system, To increase the product capacities

In the food, pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries, a large number of products may be pneumatically conveyed,including salt, sugar, flour, starch, spices (food) or yeast granules, glucose, talc, paracetamol (pharmacy) etc. Other sectors using this system include the chemical, plastic, water and mineral industries. PVC resins, limes, silica sands, soda ash, iron oxides, calcium carbonates, cement, fly ash, talcs, and detergents are suitable for Pneumatic Conveying.

 Points About Your Pneumatic Conveying System

A key feature of a Bradwood Packaging Pneumatic Conveying System is training and documentation, to maximize your ROI.

Total Evacuation – Bradwood Packaging pneumatic conveying systems fully evacuates the vessel being discharged and the conveyor line. These limits cross-contamination of multi-ingredient systems. Complete transfer of material also ensures accurate transfer of single or multiple ingredients, maximizing quality with minimal waste.
Wide Capacity Range – Bradwood Packaging has a range of systems varying in capacity from several kilos to hundreds of tons per hour and feeding any destination from small packaging lines to silos and mixers. Even if there are fluctuations in the feed rate, this will not damage the system.
Enclosed System Prevents Contamination – Totally enclosed and dust-free, Bradwood Packaging conveying systems prevent contamination of the product and the external environment, allowing safe transfer of sensitive or hazardous products.
High Reliability and Ease of Maintenance – Bradwood Packaging Pneumatic conveying systems allow for easy cleaning and maintenance through easy-to-maintain filter receivers with access doors and inspection ports as well as rotary airlock valves with optional rotor support bars.
Mobile and Custom Configuration – Self-contained Bradwood Packaging conveying systems are available pre-engineered and configured on castor-mounted frames for mobility within your plant. Packages include feed hopper, and/or pick-wand, blower unit, filter receiver, and control package.
Designed, Constructed, and Finished to Industrial and
Sanitary Standards – Bradwood Packaging conveying systems are available in carbon steel with durable industrial finishes or stainless steel to standards required for food, dairy, and pharmaceutical applications.

Designing Your Pneumatic Conveying Systems

Your Pneumatic Conveying Systems is designed to move material reducing your labor costs and improving your factory efficiency.

So when you order your Pneumatic Conveying Systems you need to advise us of your applications along with as much information as possible, including feed rates, conveying distance & materials to be conveyed.

Our systems are available to operate in isolation, or can be designed to work in conjunction with a number of feeding solutions such as IBC, Silos, tanks, big bags, and sack handling products. Bradwood Packaging’s engineers can design and install a comprehensive turnkey pneumatic conveying system including the control systems. Additionally, controls and equipment can be produced to meet the requirements of the intrinsically safe, dust explosion directives regarding flammable and explosive atmospheres.

The system and design principles in this Pneumatic Conveying Systems Brochure give you some basic information. To make sure you get the right Pneumatic Conveying Systems to suit your needs, you should always talk to Bradwood Packaging sales engineers.

Get More Out Of Your Pneumatic Conveying Systems

  • Pressure blowers and vacuum pumps with integral sound enclosures, separate cooling fans, and easy access maintenance points.
  • Rotary airlock valves are available in a variety of styles and sizes
  • Flex-tube diverters, Y-diverters, plug diverters, rotary and other line diverter configurations
  • Filter receivers for low to high capacity applications
  • Cyclone separators for low to high capacity applications
  • Gain-in-weight and loss-of-weight batching systems
  • Dust collectors and bin vents
  • Controls and electrical equipment
  • Hand-held pick up wand
  • Silos, day bins, and other storage vessels
  • De Humidifiers, etc

 

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How The Viking Hot Sealer Works

Packaging Machinery

This is the top-of-the-line Viking Hot Sealer in Australian Weighing Equipment that will increase the productivity and efficiency of your business, This Bradwood Sealer works on the principle of the heat is being transferred by steaming gets, To give the perfect seal a dozen knurled roller applies pressure.

The Viking Hot Sealer Works

1. Using the temperature controller, the correct temperature is set to suit the thickness of the bags being sealed.

2. The In-feed section guides the leading edge of the filled plastic bag to the feed belts where it is gripped and supported through the sealer.

3. The bag then travels through four streams of “hot air” to create a malleable band of plastic which passes between pressure rollers to complete the weld.

4. Cooling occurs and the seal is complete.

What You Get With The Viking Hot Air Sealer

  • The Viking Sealer’s hot-air sealing technology eliminates the need for Teflon Fabric or Steel Teflon coated sealing bands, which means you get quality seals, faster changeover, less downtime, increased reliability with greater flexibility
  • Get consistent seals every time because of the Automatic PID temperature control
  • Precision Laser cut Stainless Steel construction
  • A large variety of knurled rollers available to suit the bags your using, and seal widths up to 12 mm to meet your bagging needs (Standard 5mm)
  • The adjustable heating bars, allows you to seal various thickness of bags (up to 250 Microns)
  • Plug and Play setup
  • It’s easy to match your systems conveyor speeds with the VFD Speed Controller
  • Low-profile infeed ensures correct bag presentation
  • All working parts are fully accessible
  • No compressed air required
  • Your Viking Sealer has a built-in Auto Cool Down function, so it cools faster, reducing overheating of belts.
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How the OMB Net Weigher Works

Packaging Machinery

The OMB NET WEIGHER provides the most accurate way of filling free-flowing products because of the sensitive electronic. 

loadcells and intuitive control system. This protects you from over and underfills, and assures your end-user gets the correct amount of product every time. The Hermetically Sealed APE-7 loadcells pre-weigh one batch in an internal weigh hopper so it is ready to dump when your operator installs a bag.

 

OMB Net Weigher comes fitted with SMART GATE technology designed to overcome the issues associated with the small apertures required to deliver accuracy and maintain flow rate. It may be supplied with an infeed hopper from our range or with adaptions to suit your existing overhead bin.

The advantage of our OMB net packer is that whilst the operator or an automatic bag placer is managing the bags, a precisely weighed batch is being loaded into an internal weighing hopper. The batch is typically ready when a bag is inserted and a dump of the internal hopper occurs. After the bag fills, the OMB automatically senses its hopper is empty and starts a new batch. The end result is improved bag weights and greater throughout. In simple terms gross packers weigh the material into the bag, there is no internal hopper, whereas the Net Weigher Pre-Weighs the
product prior to filling into the bag.

This system can be linked with other Bradwood feeding devices such as augers, vibratory feeders, belt feeders, etc. for non-free-flowing products. (see page 5 for Optional infeed).

We can configure our packers in a duplex mode where 2 packers service one bag outlet, or in a multiple packer environment where a common infeed silo services 2 or more packers. These special configurations may be implemented to increase production rates, especially for products with higher bulk densities or larger bag weights. The OMB Net Weigher Has The Lowest ‘Cost Of Ownership’ Because It Will Provide Year Round, Low
Maintenance, Precise Filling Of Open Mouth Bags.

What You Get With OMB Net Weigher

  • Production rates: up to 720 bags per hour depending on product characteristics, bag weight, and accuracy needed
  • High accuracy, reliable operation with our SMART GATE technology
  • Constructed from mild steel with stainless steel options, it’s built to last
  • After Bradwood Packaging installs your OMB Net Weigher you get hands-on training and documentation, to maximize your ROI
  • The OMB-NET open-mouth bagging system is a semi-automatic electronic bagging system available in standard patterns or customized to your requirements
  • Enclosed design with removable panels providing easy access into the machine
  • Choice of round dust-tight manual bag holding system for dusty applications or Hi Flo v-shape bag holding system (Duck Bill)
  • Manual adjustment of flow control & shut off gate Two-stage flow control with SMART GATE technology
  • Precision weigh hopper with Stainless Steel Hermetically Sealed IP68 Rating APE-7 Loadcells
  • Full safety guarding, ensures a safe working environment, which conforms to Australian and International safety standards
  • Hi-flow Bombay doors with empty sensing & auto-refill
  • Built for continuous operation 24 hours/day
  • SOFT CLOSE clamps on our designs are fast and safe
  • Quick connect pneumatic and single-phase electrical hookup
  • Also Controls overhead hopper (high and low) and bag closing line
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Guidelines To Follow When Choosing A Tank

Packaging Machinery

This is the best guide on how to Choosing A Tank, liquid storage, or blending tank. Make sure your tank system is specifically fabricated to your project’s application and you obtain as many quotations as possible from reputable companies.

If your project requires more than tanks, it is better to deal with companies that can supply a complete package. Thus ensuring all the parts of the jigsaw fit together, your tanks, conveying system, or other materials handling equipment being supplied will integrate into your existing system or satisfy your new requirements.Awe group will help you on choosing a tank for your business

 Consider who wrote the specifications you’re following. Do they have a bias for a preferred system? Are they providing you with all the technical options and pricing?

Always make sure the offers you receive to provide you with individual elements of the tank design, including plate thicknesses, coatings, welding methods, and the certainty that the tank or silo offered is suited to your specific needs.

If you are acquiring a field welded or field-installed bolted tank ensure the tank provider has a valid construction license, adequate insurance cover, and safety certifications.

Obtain a written guarantee of the lifespan of the tank and other accessories and integrated components for your overall system.

If you receive competitive bids, be sure to compare like with like, and as time is usually of the essence – investigate the installation methods that are to be employed. For example, our tank jacking system allows the tank to be installed without the use of cranes and scaffolding. This is a faster and safer system and enables tanks and silos to be installed in areas where space is critical.

When looking at price, don’t be tempted to opt for the cheaper product without first investigating if the lower price is due to the use of cheaper materials and inferior construction methods.

If you’re looking for a traditional tank, silo, or looking at the fast-growing RTP-Rolled, tapered panel bolted tank or silo, then make sure they can deliver on these guidelines.

By following these guidelines your tank fabricator will supply a tank that should have a lifespan of more than 40+ years and will be an integral and reliable part of your bulk storage and materials handling system. 

If your looking for a fabricator to design, manufacture and install your tanks then talk to Bradwood Packaging because our silos and tanks are highly competitive and we build them to last.

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Which Bags Can Your Pinch Bag Closer Use?

Packaging Machinery

If you’re using a Pinch Bag Closer & Sealing System, then sack quality will have a direct influence on your overall productivity. Don’t take shortcuts with your Pinch Bag Closer Systems, because using cheap inferior sacks will cause inconsistent results.

PBC is designed to handle bags up to an overall width of 620mm or 24½ inches. The PBC can take various bags’ lengths and has 200mm height adjustable legs. There is also room to play with the bag support platform/rollers or conveyor able to be adjusted to suit your needs. The critical factor in bag length is making sure it is long enough to fit the contents with enough headspace.

You should expect your Pinch Bag Closer to process 5,  2 Ply paper bags per minute. The packing speed is subject to many variations such as Conveyor Speed, Type of product to be filled, Filling Time, and how long it takes to weigh the filled bag. The Pinch Bag Closer is designed to seal and close stepped end bags. These bags may be either flat tube, gusseted, with block or pinch type bottoms.

pinch bag is a multi-wall paper bag, open mouth stepped end and pre-glued. With these bags, the glue is pre-applied during the production of the bag itself and then reactivated after filling, by hot air during the closing process. Pinch bottom bags provide siftproof integrity, even for fine powders. The sift-proof system prevents the product from escaping while protecting the package against contamination from foreign particles, insects, or moisture.

Informative guide on which bag can be used in your Pinch bag Closer

Pinch Bottom Open Mouth The staggered plies, or stepped-end design, provides a strong sift proof closure on both ends of the bag, of the staggered plies, or stepped-end design. They work well on Pinch Bag Closer.

PBOM bags are not recommended for products with inconsistent density, because the length of a PBOM is fixed by the stepping and pre-applied hot melt. Unlike flush cut open mouth bag style that can be trimmed prior to closing.

If you’re using unlined bags, then the sealing function on the PBC is not required and the machine only closes the bag. (‘Close only’ as a setting in the HMI Screen)

These stepped-end flaps bags usually have a fold-over between 40mm and 50mm (1⅝ – 2 inches). This feature differs slightly between bag manufacturers.

If you’re using a Pinch Bag Closer & Sealing System, then sack quality will have a direct influence on your overall productivity. Don’t take shortcuts with your Pinch Bag Closer Systems, because using cheap inferior sacks will cause inconsistent results.

PBC Pinch Bag Closer is designed to handle bags up to an overall width of 620mm or 24½ inches. The PBC can take various bags’ lengths and has 200mm height adjustable legs. There is also room to play with the bag support platform/rollers or conveyor able to be adjusted to suit your needs. The critical factor in bag length is making sure it is long enough to fit the contents with enough headspace.

You should expect your Pinch Bag Closer to process 5,  2 Ply paper bags per minute. The packing speed is subject to many variations such as Conveyor Speed, Type of product to be filled, Filling Time, and how long it takes to weigh the filled bag. The Pinch Bag Closer is designed to seal and close stepped end bags. These bags may be either flat tube, gusseted, with block or pinch type bottoms.

pinch bag is a multi-wall paper bag, open mouth stepped end, and pre-glued. With these bags, the glue is pre-applied during the production of the bag itself and then reactivated after filling, by hot air during the closing process. Pinch bottom bags provide siftproof integrity, even for fine powders. The sift-proof system prevents the product from escaping while protecting the package against contamination from foreign particles, insects, or moisture.

Pinch Bottom Open Mouth The staggered plies, or stepped-end design, provides a strong sift proof closure on both ends of the bag, of the staggered plies, or stepped-end design. They work well on Pinch Bag Closer.

PBOM bags are not recommended for products with inconsistent density, because the length of a PBOM is fixed by the stepping and pre-applied hot melt. Unlike flush cut open mouth bag style that can be trimmed prior to closing.

If you’re using unlined bags, then the sealing function on the PBC is not required and the machine only closes the bag. (‘Close only’ as a setting in the HMI Screen)

These stepped-end flaps bags usually have a fold-over between 40mm and 50mm (1⅝ – 2 inches). This feature differs slightly between bag manufacturers.

Pasted Open Mouth bags are flat-tube paper bags with a factory-formed, Pasted satchel style bottom. Once filled, the satchel bottom serves as a flat, square base. There are no gussets on this bag. POM bags are either sewn closed after filling, or folded and glued. The flush-cut end makes the POM bag suitable for products with variable density because the bag length can expand with room and headspace.

Required Electrical
AWE Model PBC Series requires 240V and operates on both 50 Hz. It only needs a Single Phase and a 15 Amp Supply.  Other Power configurations are available.

Required Air Pressure
AWE Model PBC Series needs clean, cool dry air supplied at 80 PSI (5.52 bar) at 27 Litres (1 CuFt) per cycle. The air supply hose should be 20mm.

PBC  Technical Specifications

Model PBC (Pinch Bag Closer)
Speed Up to 3 Sacks per minute
Suitable Bag
Dimension
Width: 620mm (max)
Height: 956mm +_ 100 mm adjustable up 200mm
Freeboard Above
Product
150mm
Bag Types POBM, (POM – Option) Flat Stepped End Bags up
to 250mm With single-layer polyethylene liners
Air Consumption Needs clean, cool dry air supplied at 80 PSI (5.52
bar) at 27 Litres (1 CFM) per cycle
Power 240V AC 50 Hz 15 Amps Single Phase (Other
Power configuration available)
Weight 150 kg
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Optimized silo capacity needs to consider the following

Packaging Machinery

These are some tips on how to optimize your silo capacity to be able to see the full potential of your silo.

  • What is the capacity of my bulk raw material delivery vehicle?

You must be able to fit at least 1 truckload of raw material into your silo each time you order a new load.

 

  • What is the output of my plant in tonnes/hr and what is the worst-case usage of this raw material?

So if your recipe uses 50% of this raw material per batch and you manufacture at 6 tonnes per hour, you require 3 tonnes per hour of this material.

 

  • When will your plant manufactured?

Consider here if you run 24/7 or 8 hours/day for 5 days.

  • When I call, how long will the supplier take to deliver the raw material?

First, you should only call the raw material supplier when you can fit at least 1 load in your silo. You need the full load in your silo.

Optimizing silo for your business

 

 

Second, the volume of product left in your silo needs to support production until your next delivery. e.g. You can calculate your raw material requirement based on the 24-hour response by your supplier. A 10-hour production schedule using 3 tonne/hour of this material and 24 hours to supply, will need 10 x 3 = 30 tonnes of material.

  • Your silo must hold 1 truckload plus production requirement until the next delivery.

Assuming each truck delivery is 32 tonne, from our example, your silo must hold 32 + 30 = 62 tonnes.

  • What is the average bulk density of this raw material?

The silo capacity must be converted to a volume (from a weight). To calculate the volume of the silo we multiply the weight by the raw material bulk density. Assuming our raw material is sand, we can determine at a bulk density of 1.6 (see table) that the volume needed to store 62 tonnes is 1.6 x 62 = 99.2 cubic meters. The bulk density may be calculated by weighing a sample of your raw material and determining geometrically what volume it occupied. We can assist with this calculation.

  • What is the angle of repose for your raw material?

This is the angle or slope formed when the product starts to flow. It is also the angle that we need on the cone of the silo so that all products will flow out of the silo. Many products have an angle of repose less than 45 degrees and by default, our silos use 30 degrees for infeed and outfeed calculations. We can calculate the approximate angle of repose using the Tilting Box Method that places the material within a box with a transparent side. It should initially be level and parallel to the base of the box. The box is slowly tilted at a rate of approximately 1/2 degree/second. Tilting is stopped when the material begins to slide in bulk, and the angle of the tilt is measured.

  • Are there any other constraints?

Perhaps the discharge outlet needs to be above your downstream process to allow gravity feed, or there is a dust collector and walkway on the top of the silo. Certainly, the height of your factory roof is a constraint, and our most economical tanks have transport constraints of 3.5 meters in diameter. Try to identify any conditions on the silo design that will limit its height or diameter.

To demonstrate the typical silo sizing process we will work through the calculations for a simplified cylindrical silo with conical bottom.

  • The silo capacity is 100 m3
  • The angle of repose is assumed to be 45°
  • The ceiling height is 20 meters
  • The clearance under the discharge is 0.5 meter
  • The infeed and dust collector needs 2m with a service factor
  • The diameter is 3 meters (suggested)

The discharge angle of repose – the CONE is based on the angle of repose of your product or in this case 45 degrees. Cone Volume=1/3πr2 X h1 where r is the silo radius and h1 is the height of the cone. H1 = r = 1.5m for the angle of repose =45° The capacity of the cone is 3.5 m3

The filling angle of repose – the MOUND Is also based on the angle of repose of your product or in this case 45 degrees fed from the center. Mound volume=1/3πr2 X h3 where r is the silo radius and h3 is the height of the mound. H3 = r=1.5m for the angle of repose =45° The capacity of the mound is 3.5 m3

The straight-walled section – the BODY of the silo is a regular cylinder where the product will fill the volume. (does not include the filling mound) Body Volume =πr2 X h2 If r is the silo radius and h2 is the height of the straight-sided cylinder. Also, Body capacity = Silo capacity- mound capacity-cone capacity Body capacity is 100-3.5-3.5 = 93m3 Body height(h2) =body volume / πr2 If r is the silo radius and h2 is the height of the straight-sided cylinder. Body height is 13 meters

The final geometry. This silo has the following vital statistics

Capacity (m3) 100
Silo diameter(m) 3
Height Under Cone (m) 0.5
Height Of Cone (m) 1.5
Height Above Cone (m) 13
Total Silo Height (m) 15
Height Above Silo (m) 2
Height Under Roof (m) 20

Let us design your next silo or tank In practice your silo may be any shape and capacity and our engineers will model the silo to suit your workplace, flow path, and material properties.

 

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How Does the Vertical Auger Weigh Your Product

Packaging Machinery

Our Vertical Auger Filler system uses scale feedback to monitor the filler and correct any inaccuracy. You won”t want to deliver too much or too little to the consumer, but you will want to pack as fast as possible. Weigh & volumetric can be combined to offer a weighing solution, that allows the speed of a volumetric filler with the accuracy of net weighing. 

The biggest headache in packing & filling is the dreaded bottleneck. The speed of your plant is determined by your constraints, which often are the filler and the check weigher. So you need to match your weighing system to the same speed as a machine can fill. There’s no point having a super-fast filling, if the weighing, becomes a bottleneck.

Volume: Using a servo drive to control the acceleration, speed, and a number of revolutions to dispense the required amount of product. We achieve speeds of up to 5000rpm and stop in 0.2 seconds with this technology. This is the lowest cost and fastest solution with an option to weigh samples and correct fills by weight. Without this scale feedback, you rely on manual adjustment or a product with good volumetric repeatability.

Weight: Using scales to accurately control the servo system to the required fill. The system uses programmable fill points for fast and slow feed into your container. This method is used for nonhomogeneous powders where the repeat accuracy of each volumetrically delivered amount is not consistent and weighing
whilst the filling is the best solution.

Combination: Using both Volume & Weigh filling to maximize container capacity

  • Use volumetric filling to fill your container to 95% (say) of its final weight and then index to the weigh station to top up precisely. At a higher capital cost, this option offers the benefit of filling accurately by weight with high throughput. it suits most auger suitable powders. Weigh & volumetric can be combined to offer a weighing solution, that allows the speed of volumetric with the accuracy of net weighing filling.

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Precision Augers Are the Key

Packaging Machinery

AWE Precision Augers

Each Precision Augers needs to be designed to suit the dry product being filled. The auger in auger filler is not a dumb screw but a precision engineered component designed to match product characteristics as well as filling speed and volume requirements. Auger stems & OD flight needs to be exactly concentric to avoid erratic dispensing.

One size does not fit all, even on products that appear similar. So talk to Bradwood Packaging so the correct auger combination can be designed for your product.

The Auger In Auger Filler Is Not A Dumb Screw But A Precision Engineered Component Designed To Match Product Characteristics As Well As Filling Speed And Volume Requirements.