Two top-of-range PFM Scirocco flow-wrappers have been installed by one of the UK's largest producers of fresh sausages to produce hermetically sealed, gas flushed packs for extended shelf life compared with the previous bunch wrap style.
Speed is a constant 80 packs a minute when producing the traditional 450g pack of eight sausages.
The wrappers are bottom reel machines, with the print registered film unwinding onto the machine bed to carry the sausages through the wrapping process without mechanical contact.
Feeding is via a special Intralox infeed belt, onto which folded sausages are placed and transferred to the film.
Longitudinal seals are made above the product by rollers while the cross seals are created by PFM's patented long dwell design, which incorporates a mechanical Dcam action to ensure high seal integrity.
There is also a gusetting device to produce a neat, compact appearance in the finished pack.

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