Customize Your Solution

General Questions

1. Do You Need to Pull a Vacuum and/or Gas Flush the Bag?
2. Will The Bag Stand Up (Vertically), Lie Flat (Horizontally) or perhaps be on a 45 degree angle when it is sealed? (e.g., a T-Shirt Or Package Of Tortillas Would Lie Flat or "Horizontally"; whereas a Bag Of Coffee Would Stand Up "Vertically")
3. Bag Width
   inches
4. Bag Length
   inches
5. Depth of Bag When Filled With Product Vertically or Length of Bag When Laid Flat (Horizontally)
   inches
6. Weight of Heaviest Bag When Full
   lbs
7. Which Bag Material Will You Seal Most?
8. Tell Us The Bag Thickness (in mil) of Your Most Used Bag
   ml
9. Tell Us Your Bag Style
10. What Is Your Desired Operating Speed? (Bags Per Minute)
11. Tell Us The Seal Width You Would Like In Fractions of Inches
    inches
12. Are we sealing on the shorter or wider dimension?
13. What Industry Are You In?
    Choose an industry to see a video of it in action
14. What Product Are You Packaging?

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Our Initial Recommendation

The machine in the first video to the left is what we would likely recommend based on the answers you provided us. It is CE Marked and comes standard with casters, SS stand, bag counter, recipe management, data storage and crating. If you have an interest in this machine, please fill out the boxes below so we may discuss your application and confirm that this is the machine you need.

If you wish to know more about our machine offerings for your application, including important options, automation, SPC, maintenance and vacuum gas flush, please continue to fill out the next set of questions. This will change the video results, the suggested machine, and options we suggest.

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Trimming

1. Do You Need To Trim The Bag? (Is The Bag Wicketted Or Is There More Bag Top Above The Seal Than Needed)

Coding

1. Would you like to Code Your Bag? (If So, Please Select If Would You Like to Emboss, Thermal Ink Jet (TIJ) above the seal, or Code Ink Jet (CIJ) Below the Seal)
   Choose a term or acronym to see what this option means

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Your Plant

1. Will You Use 110v or 220v?
2. Do You have compressed air at your plant?
3. Do you have a inert gas source? If so what type?
4. Do you want a NEMA 4X machine that you can wash down with warm water and chlorinated cleaning solution?
5. Generally describe the environment that the equipment will be used in?
6. Is the temperature in the packaging area less than 40 degrees?
7. Do we need to port any gases out of the room?

Your Process

1. Are you filling the bag with a scale, auger filler, or by hand?
2. Are bags filled and placed in a bin then brought to the sealer?
3. How many shifts do you run?
4. How Many Hours Per Shift Are You Packaging? (i.e., do you package all day or are you producing in batches and then packaging in the last few hours?)

Your Package & Product

1. How far down will the seal be from the top of the bag?
2. How much space above product to location of seal (headspace)?
3. Does Your Bag Have A Zip Style Bag With A "Slider"?
4. Are we going to suck up any product into the machine itself?

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Air Removal - Vacuum and Gas Flush

1. Do you have a residual oxygen level you must achieve? (e.g., Do You Think You Need A "Brick Pack"?)
2. Why vacuum or gas flush?
3. Do you think it possible that we could crush your product with a hard/strong vacuum?
4. Are you using a "Bag in Box" and do you wish to take air out the top of the bag for cartoning?

Automation

1. Are you interested in automating your manual bagging line using your sealer now or in the future?

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SPC

1. Is this a sterile product?
2. Are You In A Medical Environment Where You Need To Validate, Calibrate, Download Machine Process Values, Or Do Bag Serialization? (like speed)
3. Do you wish to visually confirm a seal has been made, the bar code is correct, or product is in the bag?
4. Do you want to reject the bag when something in the production process fails? (i.e., a bar code is not printed correctly, there is no product in the bag)

Maintenance, Install and Training

1. Do you need a standard spare parts kit? (If this is the first machine you are buying you will need one)
2. Do you need a standard spare parts kit for a trimmer? (If this is the first machine you are buying you will need one)
3. Do you wish to use Predictive Maintenance? (Tells you when to change parts out based on Normal Life Expectancy - usually used in high production environments like Medical and Poultry)
4. Would you like a technician to install and train for a day? (highly recommended for reject systems, self diagnosing and automatic machines)

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Plexpack Recommendation

The machine in the first video to the left is what we would likely recommend based on the answers you provided us. It is CE Marked and comes standard with casters, SS stand, bag counter, recipe management, data storage and crating. If you have an interest in this machine, please fill out the boxes below so we may discuss your application and confirm that this is the machine you need.

Your machine would include the features based on the answers you provided us. We also included videos showing these features (which are shown below).

If what you see interests you please fill out the contact information form below.

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