Valve bag or open-mouth bag: let the product choose
Most bagging projects start with a machine enquiry and end with a bag that does not suit the product. Turning that order around costs one afternoon of tests and saves the whole project.
Engineering notes on bag choice, weighing, bulk filling and dust — written to be used at a site visit, not read as brochure copy.
Most bagging projects start with a machine enquiry and end with a bag that does not suit the product. Turning that order around costs one afternoon of tests and saves the whole project.
A filler that weighed 25.02 kg all morning and 24.88 kg after lunch is not necessarily faulty. It is usually reporting a change in the product or in the machine's own zero — and the fix is a sequence, not a setting.
A bulk bag is not a large small bag. At a tonne the tolerances that felt generous at 25 kg become a conversation with the customer, and the air the product carries becomes the dominant problem.
When a filling station is dusty, the instinct is a larger extraction hood over the spout. It rarely helps, because most of the dust is not escaping past the spout — it is being pushed out of the bag by the air the product displaced.
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