Upgrading Packaging Equipment

Customers who have existing GEA Avapac packaging equipment can enhance the performance and functionality of their plants by carrying out upgrades. Upgrading your existing packaging equipment can be a very cost effective alternative to replacing entire units or systems.

Let GEA Avapac's knowledgeable and experienced staff evaluate the feasibility and benefits of upgrading your existing packaging equipment to fulfill your needs. We can offer a broad range of equipment upgrades to improve the performance and prolong the useful life of your packaging equipment.

Inline Bag Filler Upgrade

IBF-450 Top-up Upgrade

Customers who have installed the IBF-450 filler now have the opportunity to upgrade their packing line to 6 or 8TPH capacity by adding our new top-up upgrade package to the filler.

Where the IBF-450 line was installed with a continuous heatsealer and downline equipment, this equipment will also meet the requirements of the increased packing rate thereby further reducing the overall cost of plant capacity increase.

Customers who do not have the new Advantage IBF filler can now also upgrade their packing line to increase its capacity to 6 or 8TPH using a stand-alone top-up system (see pic.) which is fitted to the end of the filler and is fed by a separate powder feed tube or diverter.

This is one of many new upgrade kits that GEA Avapac will be introducing to enhance the performance of existing packing plants.

IBF-600 Top-Up Upgrade

GEA Avapac has developed a new "twin auger" design Top-Up upgrade which will increase the packaging output capacity of an existing 6 tonne/hr IBF-600 Bag Filler to 8 tonne/hr. That's an increase in output of more than 30%.

The GEA Avapac's twin auger design Top-Up upgrade is functionally the same as on our current IBF-800 Bag Filler, the upgrade combines the tried and proven Top-Up design, retro-fitted into an existing Bag Filler.

Benefits

• Increased performance, without replacing complete machine (Cost saving)
• Increased packaging output capacity, from 6 tonnes/hr up to 8 tonnes/hr
• Improved powder transfer to the Top-Up
• Reduce dust emissions

Features

• Twin auger design, one for the Coarse, one for the Fine Top-Up
• Both Top-Up augers have individually controlled variable speed drives
• GEA Avapac Sliding filling nozzle extends down into the bag, to reduce dust emissions
• Fully adjustable for varying bag heights
• Powder transfer tube with vibration, ensures consistent product flow to the Top-Up
• Dust extraction hood
• Safe and reliable operation
• Complies with 3A Standards & USDA hygiene requirements
• Materials of construction: Stainless Steel AISI 304, Acetal, PETP

Bag Presenter Upgrade

Horizontal Magazine Upgrade

As the use of thin bags has increased the issues related with handling them have also increased. The thin bag can be difficult to stack in a vertical magazine, as it can be flimsy and not self supporting. This can result in packaging loses and increased operator intervention, due to dropped or damaged bags.

To overcome these issues experienced with the vertical bag stack, GEA Avapac has developed a horizontal stack magazine upgrade. Replacing the existing vertical stack bag infeed and pull down arm with a new horizontal stack bag magazine and bag pick-up arm. The new horizontal magazine will have a capacity of approx. 100 bags (depending on type). The GEA Avapac horizontal stack magazine upgrade is functionally very similar to our BP-800, the upgrade combines the tried and proven design of picking up the bag from a horizontal stack retro-fitted into an existing Bag Presenter.

We have received positive feedback regarding the performance gains and increased reliability of this upgrade from various sites, as the number of bags being dropped on the floor has reduced significantly. After carrying out the upgrade there has been a reduction in packaging losses and the need for operator intervention, to remove dropped or damaged bags.

Benefits

• The ability to handle thin and flimsy bags, without creasing or damage
• Increased magazine bag capacity, reducing operator input
• Increased performance and reliability (Cost saving)
• Increased output, due to fewer machine stoppages
• Reduce packaging losses, due to dropped bags or bag damages
• Reduced operator intervention, due to dropped bags
• New horizontal magazine safe and simple to reload

Features

• Bags stacked laying flat on a horizontal magazine
• Automatic de-stacking of the bags, via the new bag pick-up arm
• Bag magazine capacity: 100 bags approx. (depending on type)
• Flexibility to handle a range of different bag sizes
• New design presenter arms