Notes

Notes from the filling line

Engineering notes on bag choice, weighing, bulk filling and dust — written to be used at a site visit, not read as brochure copy.

Bag selection

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.

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Dust control

Where the dust at a filling spout actually comes from

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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