The challenge for new packaging line is ‘improving the existing equipment and designing new equipment tailored to production volume ‘ as the existing machine had own limit of capability…

The product to be packed is boiled noodles. Generally, dry noodles such as rice noodles or instant noodles are packaged using horizontal pillow machine (HFFS), as these products have fixed shape. However, the shape of the boiled noodles is more flexible, loose and soft as they are already boiled. Therefore customer believed that a Vertical fill-form-seal machine (VFFS) would be more suitable type of packaging machine and they found us, and contacted for the examination.

Our packaging machines are used not only by domestic customers but in overseas customers as well. In this article we would like to feature the machine installed for the customer in Singapore who manufacture the Animal Health Products.

“Panko” –the bread crumb in Japan is indispensable ingredient for our daily food such as fries, cutlet, bonding in hamburger steak, gratin etc. Panko’s crispy texture is popular in Japan and overseas as well.

tam has designed and proposed our automated systems to meet the customer’s requirement and the conditions and those are based on the product character, installation space, the way of the material supply and the working flow in the area to design the productive system, as well as considering to solve the problem the customer had.

TM-SCOPE is the web application that visualizes the ‘Production status’ of packaging line that has designed for the purpose of reducing the loss of brief short stop of packaging machine and defective products.

‘TW series’ has brought high productivity in the field of coffee filling packaging in our long-year of VFFS experiences. We have featured an article in our blog about coffee and its packaging. “Package for coffee product”

It is ordinarily familiar in Japan we see many wrapped boxes by wrapping paper that are sold in the department stores or souvenir stores. It is Japan’s particular culture and once it got an attention from overseas that the skilled staff at department store wrapped the gift box immediately in the way calls ‘department wrapping style’. Due to this cultural background, we have developed and launched our overwrapping machine ‘AR Series’ that automatically wrap the box in wrapping paper. We have 90% shares in Japanese market and many users across the country.

VFFS machine is able to pack various kinds of product. It is common to be used for the secondary packaging such as candy bag, chocolate, or for the product already packed in the individual package. VFFS machine also be used as primary packaging for the product with characteristics which have to be paid attention. We are going to share the case of such product in the view of machine introduction and how to decide the specification.

The reason why you need to install a filling machine.

How good the packaging finish is one of the important factors for our customers when they chose Vertical form-fill-seal machine (VFFS machine) to purchase. There are some cases the customer had paid their attention the initial cost only when they buy the machine, then they struggle to make the package the way they envision after using.

Machines have various roles and functions. For examples there are machines for transport vehicles or ships, or machines to assist in household functions such as home appliances. Obviously, the equipment and the composed parts are various kinds according to the usage of the specific machine. Packaging machine is literally a machine for packaging and composed of the distinctive parts that are necessary for automatic packaging.

These days, many food products are filled and packed in various packaging styles as their usage. This is because the various demand

Zipper is a word created from the sound of closing “Fastener” which had developed for solving the inconvenience to tie the shoelaces and the purpose of the fastener is repeating open-close.

“Grasping the powder nature” is something quite difficult. In the engineering field it is called “Powder technology”. We, tam have built our knowledge and experiences of the powder engineering through our cases of filling machines and we have succeeded in many cases. In this article, we would like to introduce what are the points for handling powders, and our studies and solutions.

This article introduces our VFFS (Vertical Form Fill Seal) Machine that is compatible with paper wrapping material and shares the background the packaging material has been shifting from plastic to paper.

As the demands of frozen foods have been increasing along with the changes of the time and our lifestyles, it is indispensable both in ordinary household or food service industry. tam plays a role for packaging the frozen food. In order to package frozen food, the special attentions need to be payed to the product inside and packaging environment. tam have offered and supplied the various solutions based on our experiences and history.

Let us share about the relations between coffee products and packaging. The most of the packages you see at the coffee shops or supermarkets are made by Vertical Form-Fill- Sealing machine (Called as VFFS machine). The contents of these coffee product are roughly calcified as three types : 1. Roasted coffee beans, 2. Ground roasted coffee(Regular coffee) and 3. Powder coffee(Instant coffee). These products are packed by VFFS machine with innovative techniques that is to be explained later. tam has experienced more than 170 machines for coffee products since we first delivered the machine to the Japanese coffee manufacturer in 1980.

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Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine (VFFS) is used for packaging commodities like food products and pharmaceutical products. Wide variety of the packaging styles that VFFS machine can produce such as normal pillow bag, block bottom bag, Pillow gusset bag, chained bags and 3-sided seal bag those are used in dependence on the product shape and nature etc. In some bag styles, wise function is added on the bag for considering easy opening for users or the convenience in the shop display.

In the modern world, self-service selling such as supermarkets or convenience stores is the mainstream of selling style. Then what required for the package is not only protection of the goods but it plays roles of product information, convenience of carriage and attractive appearance of the goods image. The package is a part of goods, thus, the packaging machine is something you should pay attention for both the high productivity and high quality.

In this article, we would like to introduce film overwrapping machine which is conveniently used for packaging the products such as carton of cosmetics and foods. The following chapters explain the functions of film overwrapping machine and the features of tam manufactured film overwrapping machine.

This article presents the types, functions and points for introduction of filling machine as well as the types of the filling machine that tam can offer.

When you want to send a gift to someone important for you, the gift with attentive and beautiful wrapping is preferable. Gift wrapping is such a critical element if you want to give a good impression.

Paper products such as catalogue, copy papers, or household papers like tissue, toilet rolls and kitchen papers are easily torn or ruined and hard to carry if they are exposed without package. In order to deliver these products to the retail stores and consumers in neat condition, the product should be packaged and protected from damage during transportation. These paper products also required to be packaged in neat finish.