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.

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”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.