IMA Dairy & Food Introduces Line Of High-Speed, Continuous Motion Equipment For Spouted Pouch Assembly, Filling & Sealing

Four-machine Ermetika Series offers significant cost savings compared to purchasing premade pouches

IMA Dairy & Food US, whose equipment solutions comprise the long-established brands Gasti, Hamba, Hassia, Fillshape, Corazza and Erca, has introduced a portfolio of high-speed, continuous motion rotary machines for assembling, filling and sealing spouted pouches in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Offering significant cost savings when compared to buying premade pouches, the Ermetika Series has four models whose output capacities range from 120 to 480 pouches per minute– far faster than intermittent motion modules.

Part of IMA's Fillshape family of machines, the Ermetika Series offers premium levels of efficiency and quality suitable for a wide array of food and dairy products. Strict segregation of pouch making and filling areas lends itself to exemplary levels of hygiene, and its fill-through-the-spout system allows for complete-to-compacity pouch fills, avoiding costly materials wastage. The versatile machines can nimbly accommodate films, spouts and caps from different suppliers, and can produce an exceedingly broad range of pouch shapes and sizes.

Fitted with a novel, patent-pending leak test system, the Ermetika line is the only machine series capable of validating the resistance of the pouch seal - a quality control device that can enhance reputations by significantly mitigating the risk of defects being shipped and shelved. The exacting system has been shown to decrease greenlighted leak defects to one 1 in 30,000 – a 300% improvement over conventional leak detection technologies.

For the Ermetika Series, another differentiating feature is extended and continuous welding time, and a dwell time of three full seconds per station compared to a more typical .7 seconds. Its compact footprint and single-person operation are also attractive aspects in increasingly efficiency-minded manufacturing settings.

All Ermetika Series machines can pair with Fillshape Kompakta Pouch Makers for completely vertical integration. Extended shelf life and aseptic versions also are available.

About IMA Dairy & Food
IMA Dairy & Food USA serves the dairy and food industries with several brands of the IMA group (Corazza, Erca, Fillshape, Gasti, Hamba and Hassia) and offers a portfolio covering nearly all areas of packaging machine application, including:

Filling and sealing machines (FS) for preformed cups and bottles, forming, filling and sealing machines (FFS) for packaging products in the food, dairy, and beverage segments (filled up to the aseptic level), filling systems for flexible stand-up pouches with and without spout for dairy, food, beverage and personal care sectors as well as wrapping machines for packaging butter, fresh cheese, soup cubes, yeast, margarine, etc.

Aseptic vertical and horizontal form, fill and seal machines for stick packs / pouches (with the corresponding dosing systems) as well as FFS machines for packaging single portions of coffee, honey, jam, etc.