Printing & Packaging Machinery

72 products, each exploded into a recursive bill of materials. Open one and keep clicking down to the bolts.

Aerosol Filling Machine A rotary aerosol line that doses product into cans, places and crimps the valve, then injects propellant through the valve stem. 119 parts · 8 subsystems

Automatic Labeling Machine An inline pressure-sensitive labeler that conveys products past a dispenser, peels labels off their backing web, and wipes them onto each product in registration with a product sensor and encoder. 104 parts · 10 subsystems

Automatic Screen Printing Machine A carousel screen press that prints ink through a stencilled mesh onto garments, glass, or rigid sheets: a substrate is clamped to one of several pallets that index under fixed print heads, where a squeegee forces ink through the open mesh and a flood bar recoats it; flash and UV dryers cure each color before the next, and a vacuum table holds flat stock down. 640 parts · 9 subsystems

Banner Welder A machine heat-sealing vinyl banners and fabric graphics using hot-air or wedge welding. 90 parts · 6 subsystems

Blister Packaging Machine A thermoform-fill-seal machine that forms pockets in a plastic web, fills them with tablets or capsules, seals a lidding foil over them, and punches finished blisters. 98 parts · 9 subsystems

Blister Packaging Machine A rotary blister machine that forms plastic blisters, fills them with products, seals to backing card, and cuts individual packs. 225 parts · 10 subsystems

Book Sewing Machine Industrial machine that sews signatures together along their spines to bind hardcover and softcover books. 48 parts · 7 subsystems

Booklet Maker Automated system that collates, staples, and trims folded signatures into finished booklets at high speed. 58 parts · 8 subsystems

Button Maker A machine crimping flat metal badges and buttons using rotating die sets and a hand-operated or pneumatic press. 66 parts · 6 subsystems

Can Seaming Machine A machine that hermetically joins a can lid to its body by rolling the two edges into an interlocked double seam in two roll operations. 75 parts · 7 subsystems

Capping Machine An inline or rotary machine that sorts caps from bulk, places one on each passing container, and tightens it to a set torque. 172 parts · 8 subsystems

Carton Folder-Gluer An inline folder-gluer that feeds flat die-cut blanks, breaks the creases, applies glue, folds the panels, compresses the seams, and delivers counted batches of finished folding cartons. 225 parts · 13 subsystems

Cartoning Machine An intermittent cartoning machine that erects, loads, and closes cartons for packaged products. 280 parts · 10 subsystems

Case Erector An automatic case erector that pulls flat carton blanks from a magazine, vacuum-erects them, folds the bottom flaps and seals them with tape. 163 parts · 11 subsystems

Case Packer A robotic or mechanical case packer that erects cases, groups and loads products, then seals the case for shipment. 326 parts · 10 subsystems

Case Packer Automated machine that collimates cartons, loads them with product, and closes them for palletization. 163 parts · 10 subsystems

Case Sealer (Tape) A semi-automatic case sealer that grips a filled carton between driven side belts, carries it through top and bottom tape heads, and applies and cuts pressure-sensitive tape across both seams in one pass. 147 parts · 10 subsystems

Channel Letter Bender A machine that feeds, bends, and notches aluminium coil stock into channel letters for signage. 196 parts · 8 subsystems

Continuous Inkjet Coder A non-contact continuous inkjet printer that codes dates and lot numbers onto products moving past a remote printhead at line speed. 56 parts · 7 subsystems

Corrugator (Single-Facer) The single-facer section of a corrugated-board line: two webs of liner are preheated, one is fluted by passing between meshing corrugating rolls, glue is applied to the flute tips, and the flat liner is pressed onto them to make single-faced board, which is then slit, scored, and cut to sheet length downstream. 875 parts · 10 subsystems

Depalletizer Automated machine removing layers of cartons from a palletised load and feeding them to a packaging line. 234 parts · 10 subsystems

Digital Label Press A roll-to-roll inkjet digital label press: a tension-controlled web unwinds, passes corona treatment and a web-transport servo path, prints CMYK+White from piezo printbars, cures under UV LED pinning, gets a varnish/primer coat, is inspected by a vision camera, then is laminated, die-cut, and rewound — all sequenced by a machine controller and fed by a DFE/RIP server. 340 parts · 11 subsystems

Direct-to-Garment Printer Digital inkjet system that prints color patterns directly onto fabric garments using CMYK and white pigmented inks. 64 parts · 8 subsystems

Drum Filling Machine Automated machine filling and weighing bulk product into drums or pails using a filling lance and platform scale. 108 parts · 9 subsystems

Dye-Sublimation Printer An industrial inkjet printer using heat-reactive dyes to produce photo-quality prints directly onto polyester and coated substrates. 414 parts · 7 subsystems

Envelope Making Machine Industrial converter that folds, patches, glues, and delivers finished envelopes from continuous or sheeted blanks. 38 parts · 8 subsystems

Flatbed Die Cutter Industrial hydraulic press machine that uses shaped steel dies to cut precise shapes from sheet materials like cardboard, leather, and foam. 50 parts · 7 subsystems

Flexographic Press A central-impression (CI) flexographic press for printing film and label webs: the web unwinds under tension, wraps a large temperature-controlled central drum where up to six print decks lay down ink wet-on-wet, passes through inter-deck and tunnel dryers, gets corona-treated, and rewinds — all coordinated by a servo registration and tension control system. 1,559 parts · 11 subsystems

Flow Wrapping Machine High-speed machine wrapping individual products in plastic film using a horizontal forming tube and fin-seal wheels. 182 parts · 10 subsystems

Gantry Palletizer A high-speed cartesian gantry robotic palletizer that stacks cases onto pallets using multiple axes and a gripper or layer head. 236 parts · 10 subsystems

Gravure Printing Press A rotogravure press that prints high-volume packaging and publication webs from engraved cylinders: the web unwinds under closed-loop tension, runs through one printing station per color where an engraved cylinder picks ink from a pan and a doctor blade wipes it before the impression nip transfers it to the web, dries between stations, and rewinds — with servo register control keeping every color in line. 2,094 parts · 10 subsystems

Heat Press Machine A machine applying heat and pressure to transfer images or emboss substrates using a heated platen and swing or clamp mechanism. 56 parts · 7 subsystems

Horizontal Flow Wrapper A horizontal flow-wrapper that forms a pillow pouch around products moving on an infeed conveyor, seals and cuts it. 197 parts · 10 subsystems

Hot Foil Stamping Machine A press that uses a heated engraved die to transfer metallic or pigment foil from a carrier ribbon onto paper, leather, or plastic under pressure. 69 parts · 7 subsystems

Induction Cap Sealer A non-contact conveyor-mounted machine that welds a foil liner inside a screw cap onto the container mouth using a high-frequency magnetic field. 44 parts · 6 subsystems

Industrial Label Printer A thermal-transfer industrial label printer: a stepper-driven platen pulls die-cut label stock under a thermal printhead while ribbon is metered from supply to take-up, the heated head melts ink onto each label, and an optional cutter or peeler finishes the strip. 123 parts · 10 subsystems

Inline Checkweigher A conveyor scale that weighs every package in motion at line speed and ejects those outside tolerance. 75 parts · 7 subsystems

L-Bar Sealer Heat-sealing machine combining film heat-wrapping and shrink-tunnel for packaged product sealing. 169 parts · 10 subsystems

Laser Coding Machine A production-line marker that steers a focused CO2 or fiber laser beam with galvo mirrors to engrave date, lot and traceability codes onto moving packages. 48 parts · 7 subsystems

Mug Press A machine pressing a curved heating element against a cylindrical mug for heat-transfer decoration. 69 parts · 6 subsystems

Multihead Weigher Automated scale combining multiple weigh hoppers and a computer to achieve fast, accurate portion weighing and dispensing. 209 parts · 9 subsystems

Offset Printing Press A four-colour sheet-fed offset lithographic press for CMYK commercial printing. 1,931 parts · 13 subsystems

Open-Mouth Bagger Automated machine filling open-mouth paper bags with product via a hanging spout and applying a closure seal. 176 parts · 9 subsystems

Pad Printing Machine An indirect gravure press that lifts an inked image from an etched plate with a silicone pad and transfers it onto irregular 3D part surfaces. 64 parts · 7 subsystems

Pallet Stretch Wrapper A rotary turntable stretch wrapper that spins a loaded pallet while a powered film carriage stretches and applies stretch film up and down the load to unitise it for shipping. 131 parts · 9 subsystems

Paper Bag Machine Industrial system forming, gluing, folding, and delivering finished paper shopping and kraft bags. 39 parts · 8 subsystems

Paper Cup Machine Industrial thermoforming system converting paper blanks and plastic film into sealed disposable drinking cups. 43 parts · 8 subsystems

Perfect Binding Machine A bookbinding machine that mills the spine of a gathered book block, applies hot-melt adhesive, and wraps and nips a cover to produce a paperback. 98 parts · 9 subsystems

Plastic Bag Making Machine A side- or bottom-seal bag machine that converts a roll of tubular or folded plastic film into finished bags: the film unwinds under servo tension, a heated seal bar welds across it while a knife cuts each bag to length, optional stations add perforation and a punched handle, and a conveyor with a counter stacks the bags into batches. 652 parts · 10 subsystems

Premade Pouch Filling Machine A rotary machine that picks finished stand-up pouches from a magazine, opens them with vacuum and air, fills them, and heat-seals the top in one indexed circuit. 143 parts · 8 subsystems

Print & Apply Labeler Machine printing custom variable data onto adhesive labels and automatically applying them to case or carton surfaces. 137 parts · 10 subsystems

Robotic Palletizer A 4-axis robotic palletizing cell that stacks cases onto pallets, fed by an infeed conveyor and served by pallet and slip-sheet dispensers. 393 parts · 9 subsystems

Roll Laminator Industrial machine applying adhesive film or hot-melt coating to printed sheets using heated rollers. 59 parts · 8 subsystems

Rotary Die Cutter A rotary die cutter that draws web or sheet stock through a cutting cylinder carrying a flexible magnetic die against a hardened anvil, cutting and creasing shapes on the fly while stripping and delivering the finished blanks. 148 parts · 10 subsystems

Rotary Labeler A high-speed rotary labeling machine that applies self-adhesive or pressure-sensitive labels to round containers using multiple labeling stations. 374 parts · 10 subsystems

Saddle Stitcher Industrial binding machine that nests signatures and staples them through the spine in a single-pass operation. 62 parts · 8 subsystems

Screen Exposure Unit A machine using UV light to harden photoemulsion on silk-screen stencils through a photographic positive. 83 parts · 5 subsystems

Screen Print Conveyor Dryer An industrial-scale oven with a motorised conveyor belt curing screen-printed ink at controlled temperature and speed. 123 parts · 6 subsystems

Screen Print Flash Dryer A rapid-drying machine using infrared heat to flash-cure screen-printed ink between print strokes. 40 parts · 6 subsystems

Shrink Sleeve Applicator A machine that unwinds printed shrink film, cuts it into sleeves, shoots each sleeve over a passing container, and shrinks it tight in a steam or hot-air tunnel. 117 parts · 8 subsystems

Shrink Wrap Machine An automatic L-bar sealer and heat shrink tunnel that wraps products in polyolefin film and shrinks it to a tight, glossy package. 213 parts · 10 subsystems

Shrink Wrap Tunnel A heated tunnel that shrinks plastic film around packaged products using convective and radiant heat. 220 parts · 10 subsystems

Strapping Machine An automatic strapping machine that feeds plastic or steel strap around pallets, tensions and seals them for shipment stability. 218 parts · 10 subsystems

Strapping Machine An automatic strapping machine that feeds polypropylene or PET strap around a package through an arch, tensions it, and welds the overlap with heat or friction before cutting. 119 parts · 9 subsystems

Stretch Wrapper A rotating turntable stretch wrapper that applies pre-stretched plastic film around pallets for load stabilisation. 236 parts · 10 subsystems

Tray Forming Machine Thermoforming machine that heats and moulds plastic film into consumer trays for food packaging. 202 parts · 10 subsystems

Tray Sealing Machine Machine heat-sealing flexible film lids onto thermoformed trays, optionally with vacuum or modified atmosphere. 156 parts · 9 subsystems

Tube Filling Machine A rotary machine that loads empty tubes, fills them through the open bottom, and closes them by hot-air or ultrasonic sealing for plastic tubes or folding for metal ones. 134 parts · 8 subsystems

UV Flatbed Printer Industrial inkjet system printing UV-curable inks onto rigid substrates using LED curing lamps. 79 parts · 8 subsystems

Vertical Form-Fill-Seal Machine A VFFS bagger that turns a roll of flat film into filled, sealed bags in one continuous cycle: film is pulled over a forming collar that wraps it into a tube around the fill spout, a vertical sealer welds the back seam, pull belts draw the tube down one bag length, a dosing system drops product in, and the horizontal jaws seal the bottom of the next bag and the top of the filled one before a knife cuts them apart. 474 parts · 10 subsystems

VFFS Machine A high-speed vertical form-fill-seal machine that forms a pouch from film, fills it with product, and seals it in one continuous motion. 237 parts · 10 subsystems

Vinyl Cutting Plotter A machine that cuts vinyl film and thin materials into precise shapes using a drag-knife carriage and pinch-roller feed. 147 parts · 6 subsystems