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Filling lines are used extensively in all industries, such as food, pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetics, to accurately package different products into a container suitable for that product. Although the filling process is at the very end of the production line, it is no less important than the earlier steps. Last but not least, the idiom that dates back to 1382 when John Wyclif wrote the firste the laste, and the laste the firste, indicates just that the last things on a list are just as valuable as the previous ones. In this case, this idiom fits perfectly.

Filling

<span style="font-weight: 400">At last, you reached the final stage of processing your product - welcome to the packing world! Packing preserves and protects a product from damage, spoilage, and contamination while it makes its way from the production line to the consumer or further production. Depending on which industry your products belong to, the type of primary packaging equipment can change drastically. You need to pay careful attention to products with </span><span style="font-weight: 400">chemicals or hazardous substances since they can be potentially dangerous to human health. </span>

Packing

The topical route is a convenient route for the self-administration of drugs. But turning a pharmaceutical formulation into an easy-to-use cream involves specialized cream manufacturing equipment. Topical dosage forms are essentially an emulsion of oil and water.  But the ratios can be changed to process it into lotions, ointments, and gels.

Cream

According to a legend, Cleopatra soaked her sails in her perfume so that Mark Antony could smell her ships before they arrived. This is to say that, from soaps and shampoos to perfumes, conditioners and pomades, cosmetics have always been highly valued and used for their properties of aesthetic enhancement. Cosmetics are a broad class of topical agents applied for various purposes such as cleansing, protecting, beautifying, or otherwise altering your appearance. As a result, a wide array of processing equipment is used in the cosmetics industry.

Cosmetics

A tube is a collapsible package, made of plastic or metal, used for packaging highly viscous liquids or pastes. Considerations for choosing a suitable tube filling system include the nature and viscosity of the product to be filled, the tube material, capping requirements, and the desired filling speed and volume. Tube fillers are used in the food industry for the packaging of food pastes; in the chemical industry for packaging caulk, glues, and sealants. In the cosmetics industry, tube fillers are used for the packaging of gels and creams and in the pharmaceutical industry for the packaging of toothpaste and ointments.

Increasing consumer demand forces production lines, especially packaging, to invest in different machines to adapt to the variety of products coming from the pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries and thus keep up with demand. To fulfill the rising production demand investing in a flexible automatic system that can be assembled or disassembled to accommodate and fit the product and production requirements would further increase efficiency and reduce running costs.
<h2>Automatic filling line for bottles, jars, tubes, vials</h2>
The Response Automation Base from The Adelphi is a filling machine that incorporates up to 4 Adelphi Response Benchtop Filler, which can also be used as stand-alone pieces of equipment when required. It has logic controls for gating and sensing systems, thus giving consistent and reliable fills in each cycle. Pneumatic cut-off nozzles ensure a clean fill with no dripping, thereby maintaining a hygienic production environment.

Variable speed conveyor with adjustable guides and rails facilitates handling of a variety of products. The automatic filler has the capacity to fill volumes of 5ml to 1L, with a fill accuracy of up to ±0.25% (superior to the industry average of ±1%). Its fast-filling ability can give a highly productive output at up to 60 containers per minute, i.e. up to 29,000 containers per 8-hour shift.

Up to four head automatic filling machine

Small and medium-sized manufacturers with manual filling processes often have to deal with inaccurate filling levels. Plus, the process is time-consuming. They know that an automated system can be expensive when scaling-up. Moreover, they don't need the level of output that a fully automatic system can provide. Switching to a semi-automatic system will ease the scaling-up process, giving consistently reliable fills at a higher production rate.
<h2> Filling bottles, jars, vials or tubes using interchangeable nozzles</h2>
The Response Benchtop Filler from The Adelphi is a pneumatically driven, volumetric filling machine having a versatile filling head design. It can be used for different products from pharma, food and cosmetic industry such as oils, gels, creams, sauces or peanut butter. It is available in single or twin-head configurations, with a wide range of nozzles, including cut-off nozzles for a clean fill with no dripping.

The versatile unit can be set to a single shot or continuous operation, filling at an average of 20 to 40 containers per minute. The filling speed can be adjusted according to the product characteristics. It can fill volumes of 5ml to 1000ml, with an accuracy up to ±0.25%. (superior to the industry average of ±1%).

Semi-automatic filler

Bottling equipment draws a measured quantity of your drink, food, or formulation from a holding tank and fills it into bottles. These bottles usually need to be checked, capped, labeled, and sealed for distribution. Bottling solutions differ in product metering system, sterilization level, and bottle type and sealing system depending on your production scale and product format and regulations. Bottling systems are utilized in a variety of industries. For example, in the food and beverage industry as well as in cosmetics and pharma.

Bottling

For small-batch productions that utilize metal tubes as containers for their products, the sealing process requires closing the open end of the tube by folding and crimping. Some manufacturers may even require coding marks as part of their standard procedure. Performing these three steps through one piece of equipment can help reduce costs and save time and space.
<h2>Folding, crimping, and coding of metal tubes using a single equipment</h2>
The Centrac FCC – Metal Tube Closer from Adelphi is a manually operated sealing system for metal tube containers with diameters ranging from 12 to 40mm. The system only requires two handle rotations to close, fold, and crimp the metal tube. It is provided with an adjustable rest to load the tube in the correct position, a gauge plate to regulate the fold depth, and a wing nut to adjust the crimp depth. Coding jaws are supplied with the unit for code marking up to 4 digits or characters. The operation angle can be adjusted up to 90 degrees for greater operator comfort and all working parts are fully guarded for safety. The system has an output of up to 600 tubes per hour.

Manual metal tube sealing equipment

The process of forming allows you to shape your products homogeneously. Forming machines are fed the manufactured material in bulk and cut it down to specification, so the process takes place between formulation of the mass and the packaging of the final item.

A special class of this equipment – Form, Fill, and Seal Machines (FFS) – creates bags and pouches from flat material such as plastic sheets, fills them with your designated product, and seals them.

Forming

Continuous

Test tube filling needs to be accurate and efficient. Moreover, large laboratories test hundreds of samples simultaneously in extensive research. A laboratory test tube filling machine can take care of this task faster, and more accurately than a human assistant can.
<h2>Automatic test tube filling machines for production laboratories</h2>
The IQ-TRX Test Tube FIlling Machines from IQ Designs can fill many of the standard tube sizes on one machine. These innovative designs help eliminate the need for several pieces of equipment. Moreover, the change parts for running multiple tube types on one machine are easy and down without the use of any special tools.

There’s a touch control panel for easy user interface. The test tube caps are fed from an automated cap feeding station, while tubes arrive via a gravity fed hopper. All of the main operations are done in-line with each other and these stations include: An accurate persitcaltice pump delivers the media. Cap tightening station with cap tightening adjustment and verification, and optional labeling or direct printing onto the tube.

The IQ-TRX Test Tube Filling Machine offers optional: pre-flush gassing, labeling of pre-printed labels just below the cap, direct printing on the side of the tube, aseptic enclosure and automatic rack station for loading the finished tubes into the Clients specified racks.

The standard IQ-TRX  can fill a specific tube type 2,500 uph. The machine footprint is approximately: 2.2 meters across by 1.8 meters deep.

Laboratory test tube filling machine

Drawing samples and testing them for conformity with preset quality standards allows manufacturing units to produce a consistent quality of the product. In a batch process, sample testing systems ensures that each batch meets the specified standards. In a continuous process, product and materials testing helps in the early identification of quality issues, saving significant time and resources, and preventing a sub-standard product from reaching the market. The selection of industrial testing equipment depends on the identification of key quality parameters. These parameters may include volume, weight, viscosity, hardness, particle size distribution, sterility, gauge and containment, among other parameters. Testing machinery need regular calibration to ensure that the parameters being tested are accurate. Some of the more common testing solutions include thermal imagers, scratch testers, optical inspectors and texture analyzers.

Testing

solid

Chocolate paste and other viscous liquids require special handling to obtain the optimum filling results. By opting for a purpose-designed pressure dosing system with hygienic construction you will see increased reliability and throughput.
<h2>Rotary volumetric food filling machine for viscous pastes</h2>
The Triblock MPI series from CMI Industries is a high quality food-grade rotary volumetric filling machine that is designed to dose any form of liquid product, including high viscosity items like chocolate pastes and spreads.

The MPI uses pressure volumetric dosing technology, able to handle the viscosity levels found in paste-like products with ease. Automatic detection systems reject any missing or imperfectly sealed caps.

The MPI features a 20 jet electronic blower for jar preparation, 16 highly accurate volumetric dosers, and a capper with 6 pick and place heads. The system can achieve throughputs of up to 10,000 units per hour with 400g doses, and 7,000 units per hour with 750g doses with a rapid “no tool” changeover process that minimises the downtime associated with format changes.

MPI is available in stainless steel or plastic construction, to suit the end-product. It has been designed to be quick and easy to clean and is able to be used for food and non-food products.

Filling machine for viscous products

liquid

Filling of liquid detergents requires specialised equipment because of the foaming nature of the product. Some detergents can also be corrosive, making traditional filling solutions impractical. A modern, purpose-designed filling system for corrosive detergents provides the most efficient and cost-effective solution for these products.
<h2>Rotary filling machine for corrosive and non-corrosive detergents</h2>
The IP Series from CMI Industries is a purpose-built solution for filling foaming detergent products, both corrosive and non-corrosive products. The liquid delivery valves are made of stainless steel, or titanium for corrosive products. The self-priming dosing pump is also made from stainless steel, or plastic where this is required.

The IP series features a rotary caps sorter with automatic pick and place system to ensure accurate delivery to the screwing heads. The heads are fully speed adjustable and controlled by a magnetic clutch, or the use of pressing heads.

A wide range of options is available to tailor the IP Series to your exact requirements, including a centralized adjustment system for the liquid level in the dosing cylinders, dosing units made of stainless steel or Pyrex glass, automatic control device to ensure the cap has been screwed onto the bottle, with rejection of uncapped bottles.

Liquid detergent filling machine

Traditional filling solutions are not appropriate for corrosive substances as they make extensive use of metal parts. For dosing and capping acidic products a specially-designed filling solution is required. As well as resisting the corrosive properties of the product, an acid filling machine needs to deliver good levels of throughput while being reliable and energy efficient.
<h2>Rotary monoblock machine for dosing and capping corrosive products</h2>
The IC series from CMI Industries is a purpose-designed dosing and capping solution for corrosive and acidic products. Offering a pressure gravity dosing system, the IC series features pneumatic valves with viton seals and a no-drop system.

With an in-feed and out-feed conveyor, the IC is able to handle a wide range of bottle and cap sizes. Where specified, format changeover is straightforward, keeping downtime to a minimum.

The capping unit has screwing heads that can be controlled by mechanical clutch or by pressing heads, depending on cap configuration, and have full speed control.

Other options include perfume injection after filling - Dosajet system.

Acid filling machine

When looking for capping equipment, it is crucial to know first which type of capper your product requires. Do you want screw caps, twist-off caps, hand pumps, or push-pull caps on your bottle or container? If you require different cap types for format changeover times can be time-consuming. The bottle cap seals the top opening of a bottle to guard the product against leakage and spoilage and sterility and filling requirements depend on the nature of your product.

Capping

Liquid cosmetics have particular requirements when it comes to filling and capping containers. Moreover, the clean-up between product changeover can take a significant amount of time. By adopting a modern modular filling and capping solution with integrated CIP systems you can benefit from reduced downtime and increased throughput.
<h2>Modular filling and capping solution for liquid cosmetic and pharmaceutical products</h2>
The Logyka Care is a purpose-designed, modular filling and capping unit made to process liquids, fluids and high viscous products. Suitable for both cosmetic and pharmaceutical products, all components that contact the product are constructed of mirror-finished AISI 316L stainless steel.

In order to meet all sanitary requirements, the fill module uses electromagnetic or mass flow meters to reduce the amount of moving parts in contact with product.Full electronic control of filling, dosing and capping parameters is by means of HMI control panel. Changeover is therefore fully automatic with minimal downtime involved.

Innovative CIP/SIP system with full electronic control is fitted as standard. Suitable for use with any liquid, this system reduces wash time by 85% and power consumption by 75%. Again, this contributes to very rapid changeover times.

The capping unit can be specified with capping heads controlled by either magnetic clutches or brushless motors. This provides the ultimate flexibility to process screw caps, pressure caps, or even off-axis pressure caps.

Filling machine for creams

For smaller production volumes, a fully automatic filling solution for mascara, eyeliner, lip gloss and similar products is not cost-effective. A modern filling machine range that provides for both automatic and semi-automatic production as well as focuses on accuracy and quality, offers the perfect balance between performance and cost.
<h2>Innovative mascara filling system for medium-volume and batch production</h2>
The Venus range from CMI Industries is a highly efficient solution for the accurate filling of mascara, lip gloss, eyeliner, liquid foundation and similar products.

Thoughtfully designed, the semi-automatic version of Venus features two ergonomic operator stations, one on each side, to maximise manual loading operations with improved operator comfort and working space. Larger versions offer automatic pick and place loading.

Designed for multi-format lines, the Venus is extremely easy to adjust for product-size changeover and uses innovative features including a pull-out filling unit.

To improve filling, the Venus uses a vacuum system. This avoids leaks and minimises product oxidation while providing a perfect seal between the container and inserted wiper.

Control is by way of dual touchscreens, one per operating side, with a multifunction display and a 99-product recipe memory. All Venus models feature an integrated modem to allow quick and efficient remote diagnosis and assistance.

Mascara filling machine

Lipsticks, lip balms and lip glosses are very popular cosmetic products that require highest quality in the end product. Traditional lipstick filling solutions can struggle to maintain the temperatures required throughout the production process to achieve a high-quality result. A modern production system with innovative temperature control methods can eliminate thermal shock and produce large volumes of high-quality lipstick.
<h2>High quality lipstick production using accurate temperature control</h2>
The Contact SM Series from CMI Industries is a range of fully and semi-automatic lipstick fillers that has been designed from the ground up to produce the highest quality end-product.

With production volumes ranging from 400 up to 3,600 pieces per hour, the Contact series contains models that can suit all levels of production.

The key patented technology that makes the Contact series unique is its temperature control systems. Innovations include mould pre-heating, double melting unit, and 2 or 3-step cooling process, all designed to ensure the quality of the final product is perfect.

Volumetric dosing with full electronic control comes as standard, and the diving nozzles used to fill the moulds have full control of the raising speed based on the speed of the dose. This allows the machine to easily adapt to a range of recipes.

Along with this flexibility comes an extremely easy changeover process, with metal and silicone soft moulds available.

The specially-designed cooling tunnel uses an innovative 3-stage cooling system. This gives the perfect temperature profile, eliminating defects such as streaking or pitting in the final stick.

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Automatic lipstick filling machine

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries utilise high speed tube fillers on large-scale production lines. Automated tube unloading and feeding systems that operate with high speed and accuracy are required to supply the tube fillers with a constant stream of empty tubes. The flexibility to handle all types of tube material and to quickly adjust to a variety of sizes and shapes maximise efficiency and increases uptime.</span>


<h2><b>Ultimate high capacity and high speed tube feeder</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TZ Tube feeding system consists of four machine variations and two sizes. When used in combination, this high-performance system is capable of supplying up to 300 empty tubes per minute to feed the highest performing tube filling machines.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZ Series can handle tubes of diameter 12.7 mm to 60 mm, and input cartons up to 650x600x265 mm.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZ uses it’s own transport conveyor, onto which boxes are manually placed which are loaded with empty tubes with open ends facing up.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The high speed system uses mandrills to pick up the tubes, from where stripper rakes deposit them on the conveyor and into the filling machine, emptying the input boxes row by row.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple to use human/machine interface makes product changeover simple. The operator only has to select the relevant program and new values are set automatically. The pickup mandrills and stripper rakes are changed for the appropriate sizes and operations can begin again. This reduces the downtime associated with changeovers.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZ system is fully self-contained with its own drive system, and can be operated standalone unit with an associated filler machine if required.</span>

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Tube unloader and feeder

Conveyor systems are used for moving materials from one location to another. Considerations for choosing a suitable industrial conveying system include the nature of the product, its physical state, the desired conveying rate, and sensitivity of the product to heat and mechanical shock. Conveying equipment is used in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical, biomass, and mineral industries to move materials around a warehouse as well as to transport bulk powders, granules, and grains for processing and filling. These types of systems are usually automated and there is a wide variety of solutions to choose when it comes to the type of conveyor. Types include screw, gravity, chain, roller and belt conveyors.

Conveying

A loading system feeds your continuous or batch processing machine with the specified material or item in line with the flow of production. Loaders transfer the articles from one stage of preparation to the next with uniformity and accuracy.

Loading

<span style="font-weight: 400;">High performance tube-filling machines are used for large scale production of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. Automated feed systems must be able to match the high throughput speeds of the filling machine whilst maintaining perfect feed of the empty tubes to minimize downtime associated with jams or obstructions. They need to store an adequate number of tubes to reduce time spent refilling.</span>


<h2>Extensive uninterrupted tube feeding for high speed tube filling machines</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TZF is designed to reliable feed empty tubes to the highest speed filling machines. Capable of handling all tube types, the TZF can supply up to 220 tubes per minute on a continuous basis with diameters of 10 mm to 63.5 mm.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">To meet the demands of high speed filling machine, the TZF storage magazine can handle the contents of cartons up to 600x600x265 mm, keeping time between refills to a minimum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Tubes are manually loaded into the TZF magazine where they are then carefully and gently aligned into a single continuous row to be fed into the filler.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A dedicated sensor monitors the minimum/maximum fill of the magazine as a backup to the highly visible transparent unit.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZF tube filler has its own drive system and can be used as a complete standalone unit if required.</span>

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Tube feeding unit for high volume and high speed tube filler

Batch

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Low speed tube-filling machines are used for small scale production lines in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Traditionally low speed machines relied on manual feed of empty tubes, slowing the production process and using additional human resource. Automated feed-in systems can greatly improve efficiency by delivering empty tubes instantly and accurately to the filler machine input. Loading systems are available in a variety of formats, including the hopper feed.</span>


<h2>Low-cost manual feeder with anti-jam features</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TZT Tube Feeder has been designed specifically to accurately feed tubes for slower speed automated fill machines operating at up to 90 tubes per minute maximum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZT uses a tube storage hopper fitted with a fold down front panel which makes the manual loading of empty tubes quick and easy.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to feed tubes made of any material and of diameters from 11 mm to 60 mm, the TZT features a rapid changeover feature, meaning that changing tube size only requires resetting the rear panel and replacing a small number of size-related parts. This minimizes downtime associated with product changes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZT features a highly effective separating rocker device that preventing tubes from jamming in the storage hopper. An additional pusher assembly then ensures that the tubes roll safely onto the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">feeder chute into the tube filler.</span>

Tube feeder for a small scale production tube filler

Industrial feeding systems allows you to control the flow of solid bulk materials throughout the manufacturing line. After loading your material onto the vibrating hopper, a screw at the base drives it out in uniform doses to the next stage of processing. New feeding technologies are designed to deal with challenges of powders clumping together in the hopper (bridging and ratholing) that interrupt the outflow. Common feeder systems include centrifugal feeders, vibratory feeders as well as elevator, linear and pneumatic feeders.

Feeding

<span style="font-weight: 400;">High performance tube-filling machines are used in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Their performance is greatly enhanced by the use of automated feed-in systems, delivery the empty tubes accurately and quickly to maximise the efficiency of the filler. Loading systems are available in a variety of formats, including the flexible cassette type.</span>


<h2>Feed cylindrical tubes via a cassette</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring a constant supply of appropriately orientated empty tubes, the IWK TZM Cassette Tube Feeding Magazine is suitable to supply machines operating at up to 120 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZM allows for uninterrupted operation because it holds tubes in a reservoir between the tube filler and tube feeding magazine. Tubes in the reservoir are processed first, meaning restocking the filler will not impact on the operation. A photo-electric backup sensor monitors</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">the tubes in the reservoir ensuring it does not run empty.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZM aligns tubes into singles by using pneumatic baffle plate movements in the magazine and the reservoir area. Individual tubes are picked up at the far end of the tube filler chute and loaded in the tube filling machine.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with laminar flow, the TZM gently handles tubes, minimising damage to fragile materials. The TZM is able to handle all commercially available tube materials, and operates with tubes of diameter 13.5 mm to 40 mm, and length 60 mm to 230 mm.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Size changeovers are very quick to minimise downtime and don’t require the use of any tools.</span>

Loading cassette for a tube filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For high-volume lines filling pharmaceutical, cosmetic or food products into tube containers, high speed and throughput must not come at the compromise of fill accuracy and sealing quality. High performance tube filling machines successfully match performance with quality, using a range of technological advances to ensure the maximum efficiency and rapid ROI.</span>


<h2>World’s fastest high efficiency tube filler with advanced features</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-80 Series from IWK is a high-performance, next-generation tube filling machine that is most suited for large scale production environments. It features up to 24  workstations that can handle tubes from 22 to 40mm in diameter and can accurately dose from between 2 ml and 220 ml of product at up to 750 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-80 Series is officially the world's fastest tube filler, and yet it’s new weight checking and quality control system guarantees accuracy, reducing tube overfilling significantly. By using a clever modular design, workstations can be retrofitted with ease for maximum flexibility and future expansion, making development of new packaging or product types simple.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Because it operates with such high performance, the TFS-80 Series has been engineered for reliability and efficiency. Many traditional mechanical actions have been rendered obsolete by the use of servo technology throughout. State of the art bearings with central lubrication system allow for long service intervals, reducing maintenance costs. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For greatly reduced downtime caused by product changes, fast exchange systems are employed. New motion parameters are automatically set via servo drives in case of product changes. The touch screen panel HMI makes these operations quick and easy, as well as allowing simple monitoring of the machine in use. Internet access allows remote diagnostics, further reducing any downtime.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the high performance of the TFS-80 Series, it’s been designed to occupy as compact a form-factor as possible, providing maximum flexibility when it comes to your own installation.</span>

High speed automatic tube filler

Dosing systems are a line of hoppers, feeders, filling machines, and checkweighers that operate in sync to dispense materials accurately. Dosing is an essential feature of the packaging process, whether you’re filling shampoo bottles or tea bags. But dosing equipment is critical for formulations, too, particularly in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Imprecise dosing may cause quality degradation in the best-case scenario. In the worst scenario, it creates serious health risks.

Dosing

<span style="font-weight: 400;">When scaling up production of pharmaceutical, food or cosmetic products that use tube containers, increasing speed and throughput without compromising on accuracy and quality are vital. Tube fillers need to be able to handle a wide range of packaging types and allow for rapid changeover to benefit from their flexibility and speed.</span>


<h2>Small footprint, GMP-design medium to high speed tube filler</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TFS-E Series benefits from a range of innovations that result in a robust, easy-to-use and maintenance-free tube filling solution for medium scale production.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-E Series features 20 workstations that can handle tubes from 11 to 52mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1 ml and 350 ml of product at up to 220 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Designed with flexibility in mind, the TFS-E features a format change over time of less than 25 minutes, and storing and recalling all relevant process parameters to guarantee a vertical start up. All product-contacting parts are swapped out “en bloc” which gives the maximum efficiency whilst allowing for a range of product. The patented IWK dosing system is supremely accurate but also simple to maintain, thanks to Clean in Place in under 5 minutes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to fill metal or plastic containers, the TFS-E Series can accurately contour seal plastics, and offer a choice of double, triple or saddle folding for metal tubes to meet your needs.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with a wide range of products, the TFS-E Series can fill and close cylindrical (with EURO-hole, curved seal) oval or conical tubes, dispensers (including inserting of pistons), mascara brushes, cartouches, jars, and tottles (with capping).</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A wide range of options enables the TFS-E Series to be specified exactly to your requirements. Options include multi-colour filling, tube de-dusting, in-line checkweighing, automatic central lubrication system, and many more.</span>

Medium and high speed range automatic tube filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For scale-up filling of tube packaging for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food products, a medium-speed automatic tube filler is required that meets increased demands of speed and volume with high levels of accuracy and minimum downtime. The ability to handle a wide variety of packaging types, and to cap and seal in different ways means additional flexibility that results in increased efficiency.</span>


<h2>Scale-up tube filler for increased efficiency at higher volumes</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK FP Series is a latest-generation modular filling and sealing machine for tube-based containers. Designed with reliability, ease of use and performance as a priority, the FP Series uses the latest servo technology throughout to provide industry-leading levels of reliability.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The range features 18 to 64 workstations that can handle tubes from 10 to 63mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1.5 ml and 700 ml of product at up to 300 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The modular design of the FP Series allows it to be configured to your exact requirements, both in terms of operations and functions and floor layout. 5 servo drives (with an additional 4 as options) are at the heart of the oval transport system and offer high level of accuracy together with a robustness that keeps maintenance and downtime to a minimum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP Series is available with a large range of options that means it can be tailored to your exact requirements. Options include tube feeding systems, in-line checkweighing, frequency welding, droplet dosing and many more.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Multi-colour tube filling is available and features the IWK patented swing-out quick change system for rapid changeover. Multi-colour fill types include sandwich, deep stripe, surface stripes and core striping.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The newly designed HMI features a 15” touchscreen control with graphical status reporting and diagnostics, and is fully 21CFR part 11 compliant for auditing and reporting.</span>

Medium speed tube filler and sealer

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Increasing numbers of products in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries are delivered in flexible tubes, bottles or dispensers. Automated tube filling machines improve production efficiency by accurately filling, sealing and capping a range of tube-based packaging with minimal operator intervention. For smaller-scale production environments, large filling machinery is impractical and expensive.</span>


<h2>Automatic tube filler for small scale production</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP-10 from IWK is a next-generation tube filling machine that operates at lower speeds, most suited for small scale production. It features 10 workstations that can handle tubes from 10 to 52mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1.5 ml and 300 ml of product at up to 70 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP-10 has been designed to allow for rapid product changeover, and all components can be switched out in a little as 15 minutes, keeping downtime to a minimum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP-10 benefits from the latest servo technology, giving the machine extremely high reliability and minimum maintenance. A new 5.7” touch panel HMI not only displays all relevant process parameters, but also allows profile storage and data recording. Internet connectivity allows for remote diagnostics and servicing.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to fill metal or plastic containers, the FP-10 can perfectly contour seal plastics with hot air and offers double, triple or saddle folding for metal tubes to meet your exact requirements.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with a wide range of products, the FP-10 can fill and close cylindrical (with EURO-hole, curved seal) oval or conical tubes, dispensers (including inserting of pistons), mascara brushes, cartouches, jars, and tottles (with capping).</span>

Low speed tube filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A wide variety of pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food products require tube-style packaging. An automated tube-filler adds flexibility to production lines by not only filling, sealing and capping tubes with high levels of accuracy, but also offering additional features such as labelling and in-built quality checks.</span>


<h2>Tube filler with additional flexible features</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-15 from IWK is an automatic tube filling machine that operates in the lower speed range, and is suitable for moderate scale production lines. It features 10 workstations that can handle tubes from 10 to 60mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1.5 ml and 400 ml of product at up to 90 tubes per minute. High-precision dosing is guaranteed by an infinitely variable, play-free direct pump drive.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The highly flexible TFS-15 allows for rapid changeover between tube and product types. Product-handling parts are changed out as one unit. Sizing parts can be simply and quickly changed out without the use of tools. These minimise downtime associated with product changes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-15 also offers two-component filling and the ability to fill applicators, expanding the range of products it can be used with. Labelling can be achieved with laser or inkjet printing as well as embossing.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Designed to deliver constant high quality tube folding or sealing, the TFS-15 has inbuilt quality control checking that will detect and eject bad tube seals and incorrectly fitted or missing caps.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with a wide range of products, the TFS-15 can fill and close cylindrical (with EURO-hole, curved seal) oval or conical tubes, dispensers (including inserting of pistons), mascara brushes, cartouches, jars, and tottles (with capping).</span>

A two-component filling application tube filler

When working with several lines of stand-up pouches, you can benefit from controlling the weight on the different lanes with a single checkweigher.


<h2>Weighing control of up to two lanes with just one indicator</h2>
The Checkweigher for stand-up pouches from Anritsu, is a space-saving checkweigher for multiple lanes. These checkweighers are suitable for lines where multiple lanes of products are inspected with just one unit, such as divided filling packaging or tube filling lines. The Anritsu KW6205E type - allows weighing control of up to two lanes with just one indicator. It has colour LCD touch panel, automatic power switching and support of GMP and HACCP.

Checkweigher for stand-up pouches

Industrial measurement equipment is used as a crucial step before products leave the production line. These measuring instruments check for correct dosage and standards. Equipment for measurement and control employs a wide range of technologies to detect inconsistencies in volumes, sizes, weights, and fill levels as well as to inspect goods for quality against a set of criteria. Specialized measuring tools allow you to minimize the probability for error to its lowest possible, ensuring that both products and packaging meet your benchmarks.

Measurement &amp; Control

Weighing

Tube filling equipment

Did you know that in the 30s, cosmetic creams that contained radioactive material were booming on the market because they promised to reduce wrinkles? Thank God that's no longer the case. To make a cosmetic cream today, you need to create a stable mixture of oil and water and add an emulsifier to join these otherwise immiscible substances.

Cosmetic creams

A cosmetic foundation comes in a powder, cream, or liquid form. And did you know that the liquid form came about because women in the 30s and 40s didn't want to wear stockings? So to cover up their legs, they turned to leg makeup, which played an essential role in our liquid foundation formula. The foundation making process involves balancing the oil and water phase interactions during the formulation stage, mixing ingredients, and packaging using a liquid foundation filling machine.

Cosmetic foundation

You can make emulsions by combining two immiscible liquids (oil and water, for example) in a suspension through the use of force. The use of emulsifiers is necessary to keep this mixture stable and permanent.

Emulsions

To make glue, you usually starting from gelatin, which is animal collagen. Glues help in the production of furniture, automobiles, clothing, paper, wood, art and craft, to name a few applications. The production of different glues depends on their industrial use. Different manufacturing processes and glue making equipment make it easier to create the many variations of this useful product.

Glue

Invented in 1930 by Max Factor to give movie actresses' lips a brighter, more glossy look, lip gloss is a must-have for kids and adults alike. If you think about it, it's the first makeup product a little girl plays with. Making lip gloss involves the use of lip gloss making equipment for several steps such as melting, mixing and packaging.

Lip gloss

In America was estimated that $1,780 is the number that an average woman spends on lipstick during her life. Putting color on your lips apparently comes at a price and it is $1,780. Making lipstick involves pigment milling, melting of waxes, mixing of ingredients like oils and alcohol, molding and last but not least filling and packaging. Besides ingredients, what lipstick making equipment do you need?

Lipstick

After shaving, anti-aging, with organic ingredients, for the feet... Lotions are many. They compose the skincare world, which has been growing in recent years. More consumers look for the benefits of products that promise to enhance well-being and self-care. Whether you want to help prevent wrinkles, provide vitamins or just hydrate your consumers’ skin, get your formula and select lotion making equipment to get started.

Lotion

Mascara is a cosmetic makeup used to thicken, lengthen and darken your eyelashes to give brighter, bigger-looking eyes. Made of coal dust and petroleum jelly, the first mascara formula was created during the Victorian era, as Victorian ladies were so vain to spend hours upon hours beautifying themselves. The mascara manufacturing process known today includes the anhydrous and emulsion methods in which both involve a base mixture of pigments, waxes, and oils.

Mascara

The most significant decision when making ointments is likely to be the choice between automatic or semi-automatic processes for it. This impacts on individual phases of the ointment cream manufacturing process - the water phase and oil phase.

Ointment

Cosmetic serums are a very light formulation with a high density of active ingredients dispersed in oil, water, or gel. This makes serums well suited to the delivery of vitamins, antioxidants, and anti-aging ingredients, but provide less moisturization and protection. Serum production is mainly divided into stages related to optimal mixing and preventing degradation of the active ingredients.

Serums

Despite only one letter difference, silicon and silicone are two different things. While silicon is the 14th chemical element on the periodic table, silicone is a synthetic material that, among other chemical elements, contains silicon. Although commonly observed as plastic, technically silicone is rubber. Among others, silicone processing equipment mainly involves several high-temperature machines, mixers and molds.

Silicone

Sunscreen is an emulsion which can be either oil-in-water or water-in-oil. To create it, you must prepare an oil phase and a water phase separately, then mix and heat them. Homogenization is a key process to guarantee that the product will have the right consistency. When manufacturing sunscreen, give special attention to protection against UV filters.

Sunscreen

It's been estimated that we spend an average of 3,000 hours brushing our teeth. In fact, in our daily routine, toothpaste is something we use at least twice a day. Making toothpaste is a very straightforward process; just mix together water, abrasives, humectants, thickening and foaming agents, sweeteners, and flavors in the right amounts until you get a paste. Once you have added the colors, you can fill a tube with your colorful toothpaste and seal it before being shipped to stores.

Toothpaste

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