Light-weight forming sets/formers

Sandiacre Packaging Machinery offers a range of robust, light-weight forming sets/formers which are approximately one third the weight of conventional assemblies. These forming sets/formers are considered to be the heart of any form/fill/seal machine, and are designed and manufactured to improve your packaging efficiencies and reduce operating costs.

The benefits of our light-weight forming sets/formers include:

• Light-weight, helps you comply with manual handling regulations
• Low friction wear strips, typically 10% speed improvement in wet/frozen environments
• Elimination of Teflon tape costs where used
• Ergonomic design to ease handling
• Hygienic, easy clean design.

Our light-weight forming sets are designed and manufactured to suit individual applications and film types, which means that we can be confident that your film will run effortlessly and your packaging facility will operate more effectively. We offer fast, affordable, high quality design, manufacturing and delivery services which will exceed your expectations and welcome any opportunity to quote for new and refurbished forming sets.

Sandiacre Packaging Machinery has been designing, manufacturing and refurbishing forming sets for vertical form/fill/seal machines for nearly 40 years. We can provide this service for all makes of vertical form fill seal machinery.

Tube Plate and Shoulder Plate

Manufactured from precision machined aluminium and prepared for the end application as appropriate.

Wet Applications

Protected with T-Coat 1000 coating, our specially developed coating, giving excellent resistance to corrosion and protection against harsh chemicals in any environment.
T-Coat 1000 inhibits the growth of bacteria, resulting in a safe, clean and simple wash down process.

Dry Applications

Deep hard anodised and blackened for corrosion resistance.

Forming Tube

Wet applications

The high quality tube has longitudinal grooves which reduce friction and allow the film to flow freely down the tube.

Grooved profile for wet applications.

Wet and Dry Applications

All tubes deep hard anodised and blackened for corrosion resistance, thus increasing production and life expectancy.

Smooth profile for dry applications.

Forming Shoulder

Our forming shoulders, which are crafted by highly skilled specialist sheet metal fabricators, are constructed from stainless steel with a low friction, rigidised fin. All shoulders have a high quality hard chromium coating as standard, providing a long lasting, hard wearing film contact surface. We also offer a myriad of lap style options to suit customers' requirements.

Backseal Strip & Transport Plates

The backseal strip and transport plates are manufactured with a specially woven fabric backing, which is subsequently treated with a revolutionary coating to provides long life, low friction, non-stick sealing surfaces. The sealing strip provides a flexible sealing surface which promotes high integrity sealing. This construction replaces costly Teflon tape, reduces running costs and increases both efficiency and productivity.

Quality Assurance

Our forming sets are tested on customer production film prior to despatch. During the manufacture of our forming sets we make the following quality assurance checks to ensure:

• the 'flat bag width' size is as specified.
• film tracking is no more than 1.5mm (without the use of tracking collars).
• film marking, caused by the former, is eradicated.
• ensure that the backseal is in the correct position to prevent backseal spiralling.

Unless specified by the customer, all forming sets are commissioned at 65bags/minute (dependent on bag size).

Optional Features

We offer a range of optional features to suit customers' requirements.

Spreaders

These are offered in a range of fully interchangeable styles to assist in the formation of a myriad of bag styles, which can be produced from a single forming set:

• Block Bottom/Gable Top.
• Gusset.
• Pillow Pack.

Cone

These are used to increase feed efficiencies in snack and salad applications.

Gas Flushing

This option is used to prolong the shelf life of fresh produce.

Side Creasing

This option is used with rectangular forming tubes to give a neat, sharp appearance to the four edges of a bag.

Dust Extraction

These systems are used to improve bag sealing by removing dust from products during packaging.

Wheel-Away Transport Stand

This facilitates transportation of the forming tube between the storage area and the machine.