Automated feeding and packaging line for crackers

Optimize your cracker production with seamless integration of high-speed feeding and precision flow wrapping, ensuring consistent packaging quality and efficiency across your line.

Feeds, Rotates, Deposits, and Wraps Crackers

The Flow Pack Wrapper with Automated Feeding System offers a comprehensive solution for biscuit manufacturers, bakery companies, and confectionery producers seeking efficiency in their packaging operations. This equipment integrates seamlessly into high-speed production lines, featuring a sophisticated feeding mechanism that rotates and deposits solid snacks such as crackers, biscuits, and chips onto a flow wrapper. Designed for continuous operation, it optimizes throughput while maintaining precise alignment and consistent packaging quality.

Utilizing vibrating channels, products are delicately rotated and conveyed in four rows, maximizing spatial efficiency and ensuring uniform presentation for wrapping. The pillow pack wrapping format provides a versatile packaging style ideal for preserving product freshness and integrity. Engineered for rigorous food industry standards, this system supports full automation and remote monitoring, reducing manual intervention and minimizing downtime.

Constructed for operational resilience, the equipment accommodates diverse solid snack types, from saltine crackers to chocolate chip cookies, and offers adjustable settings to tailor packaging parameters. The system’s robust construction ensures longevity and minimal maintenance, with easy access for cleaning and maintenance. With this system, you gain a reliable partner in elevating packaging consistency and efficiency.

Benefits

  • Enhances production efficiency by seamlessly integrating high-speed feeding and wrapping.
  • Minimizes labor costs through full automation and remote monitoring capabilities.
  • Ensures consistent packaging quality with precise rotating and depositing of products.
  • Adapts to various solid snack types, providing flexibility across multiple product lines.
  • Reduces downtime with easy maintenance access and robust construction.

General


Applications
Biscuits,Snacks,Bakery,Confectionery,Crackers
End products
Candy-coated biscuits,Digestive biscuits,Chocolate chip cookies,Shortbread biscuits,Tortilla chips,Saltine crackers,Potato chips,Graham crackers,Crispbread,Hard pretzels
Steps before
Biscuit Baking,Cooling,Conveying to Feeding System
Steps after
Secondary Packaging,Boxing,Palletizing,Distribution
Input ingredients
crispy breads,crackers
Output ingredients
packaged crackers,pillow pack
Market info
ULMA Packaging Spain is renowned for designing and manufacturing innovative, customized packaging solutions for the food, pharmaceutical, and non-food industries, emphasizing advanced automation technology, sustainability, and high-quality service.

Technical Specifications


Automation
Fully automated
Feeding system
Automated feeding system with four rows
Wrapping type
Flow pack
Packaging type
Pillow pack
Vibrating channels
Yes
Product orientation
On edge
Application
Crackers

Operating Characteristics


Automation Level
Fully Automated
Batch vs. Continuous Operation
Continuous Inline
Integrated Feeding System
Vibrating Channels
Working Mechanism
Flow Wrapping
Feeding Rows
Four

Material Compatibility


Density/particle size
0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm

Product type Characteristics


Cracker shape
Rectangular / Circular
Edge orientation
On edge
Product sensitivity
Fragile / Crispy
Packaging type
Pillow pack
Feeding method
Automated / Vibrating channels
Flow packing
Yes
Product grouping
Row-based
Throughput
High-speed

Custom Options


Control panel type
Touchscreen HMI
Integration possibilities
PLC,SCADA
Automated feeding system
Vibrating channels,multi-lane integration