A skin-care manufacturer in Cape Town needed to pack its lotion and cream into shaped sachets. We supplied a liquid vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machine that forms, fills, seals, codes and punches out shaped sachets of 2.6 to 60 ml, rated at 30 to 60 sachets a minute, with tooling for two sachet shapes.
The customer makes skin-care products and packs its lotion and cream into small shaped sachets of 2.6 to 60 ml (1 to 20 g). A shaped sachet is punched out to an outline rather than cut square, so the seal and the cut have to follow the shape on every sachet, and each sachet carries a printed date code.
The customer needed one machine to make finished, date-coded sachets of lotion and cream from roll film, with the option to run more than one sachet shape.
Fills of 2.6 to 60 ml of lotion or cream (1 to 20 g).
Each sachet sealed and punched out to its outline, 20 to 75 mm wide.
Tooling to change the machine from one sachet shape to another.
We supplied a liquid vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machine, which makes each sachet from a roll of composite film in one cycle. It forms the film into a tube, fills it with lotion or cream, seals it like a pillow pack with a seal down the back, prints the date code and punches the sachet out to its shape. The shape is set by three matched parts: the forming shoulder, the sealing jaws and the punching knife. The customer took a second set of these parts, so the machine can switch to a second sachet shape. See the vertical form-fill-seal machine and our sachet filling machines.
Film is formed into a tube, filled, sealed, date coded and punched out to the sachet shape in one cycle.
| Machine | Liquid vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) |
| Product | Lotion and cream |
| Fill | 2.6 to 60 ml (1 to 20 g) |
| Sachet | Shaped sachet with pillow pack seal |
| Sachet width | 20 to 75 mm |
| Film | Composite film |
| Shape tooling | Forming shoulder, sealing jaws and punching knife, plus a second set for another shape |
| Coding | Date coder |
| Output | 30 to 60 sachets a minute |
| Controls | PLC with touch screen |
| Power | 220 V, 50 Hz, 2 kW |
The machine was rated in our workshop at 30 to 60 sachets a minute on 2.6 to 60 ml fills, with every sachet formed, filled, sealed, date coded and punched out to shape on one machine.
Forming, filling, sealing, coding and punching happen in one cycle.
Fills from 2.6 ml (1 g) up to 60 ml (20 g).
A second forming shoulder, set of sealing jaws and punching knife.
The clip shows a liquid VFFS machine like the one supplied, filling sachets from roll film. The playlist and the machine videos page show more.
Our YouTube playlist of vertical form-fill-seal machines.
Video demonstrations of every machine type we supply, filmed in the workshop and on site.
Start from your product, your sachet shape and size, and the output you need, as this project did. For another liquid project, read how a wellness oil producer fills dropper bottles at 25 a minute, or see our packaging machines in Cape Town.
Machines that form, fill and seal bags and sachets from roll film.
Every machine we supply that fills liquids, compared in one place.
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Send us your product, your sachet shape and the output you need. We will test them and come back with a recommendation or quotation.
