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Fruit purees and pasty baby food are popular snacks for on-the-go. With a long shelf life, simple storage, and quick consumption straight from the spouted pouch, these snacks are suitable for on-the-go refreshments. They are available as an applesauce-based fruit mix in various varieties and as porridge with oat flakes, rice, or cereals. The requirements for pouch packaging with spouts for fruit purees and pasty baby food are particularly high.
The filling and packaging of these foods require special hygiene standards to avoid contamination and guarantee a product shelf life of over a year. The requirements for the packaging, such as film and spout, as well as the sealing quality, are particularly high here. Secure, tight, and high-performance sealing of the film and spout is essential here.
Performance on up to four lanes
Spouted pouches can be produced, filled, and sealed (FFS) on up to four lanes simultaneously with our high-performance pouch packaging machines for fruit puree. The performance spectrum ranges from simplex machines (1 pouch per cycle) with up to 4,200 pouches per hour to quadruplex machines (4 pouches per cycle) with a maximum of 14,500 pouches per hour. Various equipment options can be used to minimize downtimes, such as for reel changes, so machine efficiencies of up to 99% can be achieved.
Cleaning and hygiene
Special hygiene requirements must be applied when filling fruit puree and porridge. Contamination and product residue on the spout and cap must be avoided, particularly in the filling area. Filling through the spout avoids the risk of contamination in sealing areas and on the spout. Cleaning of the machine, product lines, and product feed is possible. The rotary piston doser, specially developed for fruit puree and porridge, can be easily cleaned (CIP) and sterilized (SIP) on the machine. The cleaning effort and -time can also be massively reduced by separating pouch production and pouch filling.
High flexibility
We offer various machine solutions for packaging and filling fruit puree and porridge in spouted pouches. From simplex to quadruplex, machine solutions are available for all output ranges (70-240 pouches/min.). Various products and spouts with differently colored lids can be run and packaged simultaneously on multi-lane machines. This allows product mixes to be produced easily and automatically in the machine.
Furthermore, inline solutions are possible, in which filling and pouch production are integrated into one machine, as well as the separation of pouch production and -filling. In this case, the filling methods are different because in inline operations, the pouch must be filled before the spout is added, whereas in separate operations, filling takes place through the spout, which leads to a significantly higher filling level and a reduction in the risk of contamination.
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