The document outlines various types of confectionery equipment and packaging machinery, detailing their functions and applications in food processing and packaging. It covers mixers, grinders, fillers, cartoning machines, pallet wrappers, shrink tunnels, and carded packaging machines among others. Each equipment type is described along with its specific use case, illustrating the complexity of modern food manufacturing and packaging processes.

1. Confectionery Equipments
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2. • Mixer: stainless steel beater, whisker for whipping at desried rate
• Roaster: obtain high quality dry fruits, sell directly from industry
• Manual Grinder: chopped dry fruits, biscuits, nougat
• Sugar mill: processing granulated sugar in icing sugar
• Sugar coater: use sugar to coat hazelnut, almonds, peanuts and whole
grain nuts
• Coating machine: used for production of dragee, Jordan almonds,
colored products

3. • Flour sifter
• Dough mixer
• Dough divider
• Rounder
• Intermediate proover
• Measuring tools: dry measuring cups, dry measuring bowl, measuring
spoon, liquid measuring cups
• Dough moulder
• Bread cooler
• Bread slicer
• Packaging machine

4. Packaging machine

5. • Filling Machines
• Filling machines or fillers are utilized for packaging, mostly for
beverage and food but for other products also. These are used to
fill either a pouch or a bottle, depending on the product. The
following are the most popular.
• Auger or Agitator Filler
• Augers or agitator fillers are made to fill dry mixes, like flour and
sugar. The fillers have a hopper in a cone’s shape which holds the
mix and fills it in a pouch utilizing an auger conveyor which the
agitator controls. The mix is put in a pouch which is made from
poly or paper which is made in a collar and the pouch is sealed by
a consecutive number of dies and heaters. The interface which
has the process applying the powder is of key importance to
guarantee an efficient filing.

6. • Flow Fillers
• Constructed for oils, liquids, and thin
edible products. These fillers are
constructed when they fill a tub or bottle
that enters the machinery. This emits the
open bottle back on another conveyor
machine for sealing.
• Vibratory Weigh Fillers
• These offer a blend of speed, versatility,
and accuracy for linear feeders. Every
weighing-hopper is constructed to
accommodate the requirements for
precise weights.

7. • Tablet Fillers
• These are constructed for
products which are counted
by portions instead of weight.
These are constructed for
small bottles like other flow
fillers. The filler’s hopper is
set up to allow scan counting
of candy pieces or tablets.
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8. • Positive Displacement Pump Filler
• Positive displacement, pump filling
machinery handles a broad range of
container dimensions, fill volume, and types
of product. While originally constructed for
filling gels, lotions, and creams, these fillers
also accommodate water heavy and thin
paste products. Some of the products this
machinery simply fills are heavy sauces,
cosmetic creams, hair conditioners and
thick shampoo, honey, paste cleaners, hair
gels, and car wax.

9. • Vertical Form Fill Sealing Machine
• Vertical form fill sealing machinery is a type of
automatic assembly line packaging system, normally
utilized in the food packaging industry, and a wide
range of other products. The machine makes stand-up
pouches and plastic bags out of a flat film roll, while
filling the bags simultaneously with products and
sealing filled bags. Both liquids and solids can be
bagged utilizing this packaging system. The
machinery is loaded with a continual flat plastic film
roll, which has had labeling and artwork on the interior
or exterior of the film. While plastic is the most
normally utilized packaging material in the food
industry, the machinery can also be utilized to make
continuous metalized paper, film/foil, and fabric
products vessels by altering the edge seaming/sealing
methods. For other products the film might first be put
through a sterilizing chemical wash and drying before
using in the packaging system

10. • Cartoning Machines
• Cartoning machinery or cartoner, is packaging machinery that makes cartons: close, folded, erect, sealed and side
seamed cartons. Packaging machines which make carton board blanks into cartons filled with products or bags of
products or many products into single cartons, after the filling process, the machinery engages its slots or tabs to put
adhesive and cover both the ends of cartons wholly sealing the carton.
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Cartoning machines may be grouped into two types:
• Horizontal cartoning machines
• Vertical cartoning machines
• Cartoning machines which pick single pieces from stacks of folded cartons and erect them, fill them with products or bags
of products or many products horizontally via open ends and close by tucking carton end flaps or applying adhesive or
glue. The products may be pushed into the cartons by pressurized air or through mechanical sleeves. For other
applications, the product is put manually into the carton. This kind of Cartoning machinery is commonly used for
packaging confectionery, foodstuffs, medicine, sundry goods, cosmetics, etc

11. • Pallet Wrappers or Stretch Wrappers
• Pallet wrappers are pervasive in numerous packaging lines worldwide. Having substantial cost savings for big operations
over wrapping manually, utilizing pallet wrappers also exploits the stretching capabilities of the stretch film. This
guarantees saving both money and time.
• A stretch wrapper helps ensure that exact load containment for wrapping operation is being used. For load containment,
three variables are considered:
• The amount of layers or wraps on the load
• The wrapping force
• The thickness or gauge of the film
• Turntable Wrapper
• With this machine, a pallet is placed on a turntable that rotates while a wrap applying system distributes the stretch wrap
onto the load. The wrap delivery system usually starts at the bottom and up to the top then back to the bottom.
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12. • A turntable wrappers is one of the most common types of stretch wrapping
machinery and can be set up to work harmoniously with different kinds of
applications.
• Straddle Wrapper
• With straddle wrappers a load stays fixed while a wrap applying system
rotates around the load. This type of wrapper wraps light weight and heavy
unstable loads and is able to wrap low to high volumes.
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13. • Orbital Wrapper
• Orbital wrappers are also referred to as “ringer” wraps the pallet by going under and over the load
as the load moves on a conveyor machine into the machinery. Orbital wrappers are mainly utilized
for packaging oddly shaped or flattened products like rolled carpets, pipes, and windows.
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Ring Straddle Wrapper
• These are fast wrappers that are typically capable of wrapping 200 loads an hour. These machines
are at times found in the beverage and toiletry industries. They are exceedingly specialized
equipment and only contribute a small part of stretch wrapping machinery presently in use.
• They enable the load to stay fixed while the wrap applying system rotates around the pallet.

14. • Shrink Tunnels
• A shrink tunnel is a staple of many packaging lines. When configured with the correct temperature
settings, it is a packaging powerhouse. It works by conveying a product that has been put inside a
shrink bag produced from a shrink film via a hot tunnel which causes the heat sensitive film to
shrink evenly around the item inside.
• Airflow from the machinery avoids the products from becoming too hot. If a product is mostly
sensitive, particularly heat sensing tapes are put through the machinery to identify if the product is
suitable for packaging using a heat tunnel.
• If the tapes identify that the heat tunnel is inappropriate for packaging a product, other choices can
be recommended by the packaging professionals.
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15. • Carded Packaging Machines
• These put products into a plastic shell which is backed either by a blister board piece or another
plastic piece. The three kinds of carded packaging are skin packs, blister packs, and clamshells.
Skin packs and blister packs have plastic shells which are built-in with blister board backers and
clamshells are entirely made from plastic shells which close as their namesake shellfish.
• For numerous goods, carded packaging like skin packs, blister packs, and clamshells give safety
dynamics or a visual appeal which won’t be gotten otherwise. Blister packs are usually utilized to
package fishing lures since they provide safety from the hooks at the same time giving a clear
window to see the product contained inside.
• Skin packaging has a particular shelf appeal for tools like wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers, and
hammers. As skin packs are frequently sealed to fit the outline of the product inside, they enable
potential customers to more closely see the package contents physically and also hold the product
within securely.

16. • B lister Packaging Machines
• They come in semi-automatic and automatic models. They have rotating sections which hold the plastic part
of the blister pack in position.
• As the section of the machinery rotates, empty plastic shells either automatically or manually are filled with
the product. Next, blister board backers are put on the plastic shell’s back either by machine or hand with a
glue and the blister pack is done.
• Skin Pack Machines
• While blister packs and skin packs share similarities, the machinery that makes the two are very different.
Skin pack machinery has a platform for resting the backing substrate or blister board. The products to be
packaged are placed on the board.
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The machine puts a heated soft plastic layer which shapes itself over the products. Vacuum sealing is often
implemented to guarantee a tight fit. The substrate then binds to the heat-seal layer on the cardboard.

17. • Clamshell Machines
• There is a distinctive dissimilarity between blister and clamshells packs.
Clamshells are a one-piece molded plastic having a hinge. They could be
sealed by a number of ways including staples, pressed fit closures, buttons,
RF, heat, etc.