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Plastic Bag Making Machine Product

Overview

A plastic bag making machine converts a roll of tubular or folded film into finished bags by sealing and cutting it to length, with optional stations that add perforations and punched handles. It sits at the end of the film line — after the film is blown and printed — and turns the web into the bags themselves: shopping bags, bread bags, garbage liners, produce rolls, and courier mailers. Film unwinds at the Plastic Bag Making Machine's Film Unwind Unit, indexes through the Feed Roller Section, and is welded and cut at the Seal & Cut Unit before the Conveyor & Stacker collates the output.

The machine runs intermittently: the film stops for the seal-and-cut, then the servo feed indexes one bag length, so the seal dwell and feed length together cap the rate.

How it works

The Feed Roller Section pull the film forward exactly one bag length per cycle, reading the print mark with a photocell so each cut lands on register. With the film stopped, the Seal & Cut Unit drops its heated bar to weld the seam while an integral knife severs the bag to length; a thermocouple holds the bar at setpoint so the weld is consistent.

Optional inline stations add features as the film indexes: the Perforation Unit nips a tear line between bags on roll and star-seal products, and the Handle Punch Unit dies out the carry handle or a hang hole. Finished bags pass onto the Conveyor & Stacker, where a counter tallies them and the stacker collates a set count into a pile for bundling. The Servo Control System coordinates the feed servo, seal timing, perforation, and punch into one cycle and runs the touchscreen where bag length, seal temperature, and speed are set.

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Bill of materials

10 top-level lines · 81 rows shown · 652 parts total · indented to 3 levels
# Item / sub-assembly Part no. Qty/assy Ext. qty Parts Type
1 Machine Frame bag-frame 1 part
2 Film Unwind Unit 4 parts bag-unwind-unit 1 36 assembly
2.1 Reel Shaft & Chuck 2 parts bag-reel-shaft 1 4 assembly
2.1.1 Air-Expanding Chuck bag-air-chuck 2 part
2.1.2 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 2 part
2.2 Unwind Tension Motor 5 parts bag-tension-motor 1 26 assembly
2.2.1 Stator Assembly 3 parts + deeper › stator-assembly 1 3 assembly
2.2.2 Rotor Assembly 4 parts + deeper › rotor-assembly 1 19 assembly
2.2.3 Motor Housing motor-housing 1 part
2.2.4 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 2 part
2.2.5 Oil Seal oil-seal 1 part
2.3 Dancer Roller 3 parts bag-dancer-roller 1 4 assembly
2.3.1 Idler Roller bag-roller 1 part
2.3.2 Dancer Position Sensor bag-dancer-sensor 1 part
2.3.3 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 2 part
2.4 Spreader Roller bag-spreader-roller 2 part
3 Feed Roller Section 4 parts bag-feed-rollers 1 32 assembly
3.1 Feed Roller bag-feed-roller 1 part
3.2 Rubber Nip Roller 3 parts bag-nip-roller 1 4 assembly
3.2.1 Idler Roller bag-roller 1 part
3.2.2 Rubber Roller Cover bag-rubber-cover 1 part
3.2.3 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 2 part
3.3 Feed Servo Motor 5 parts bag-feed-motor 1 26 assembly
3.3.1 Stator Assembly 3 parts + deeper › stator-assembly 1 3 assembly
3.3.2 Rotor Assembly 4 parts + deeper › rotor-assembly 1 19 assembly
3.3.3 Encoder encoder 1 part
3.3.4 Motor Housing motor-housing 1 part
3.3.5 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 2 part
3.4 Print Registration Eye bag-registration-eye 1 part
4 Seal & Cut Unit 5 parts bag-seal-cut-unit 1 5 assembly
4.1 Heating Element heating-element 1 part
4.2 Heated Seal Bar bag-seal-bar 1 part
4.3 Cut-Off Knife bag-knife 1 part
4.4 Seal Pressure Cylinder bag-seal-cylinder 1 part
4.5 Seal Thermocouple bag-thermocouple 1 part
5 Perforation Unit 4 parts bag-perforation-unit 1 5 assembly
5.1 Perforation Roll bag-perf-roll 1 part
5.2 Anvil Roll bag-anvil-roll 1 part
5.3 Perforation Engage Cylinder bag-perf-cylinder 1 part
5.4 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 2 part
6 Handle Punch Unit 3 parts bag-punch-unit 1 3 assembly
6.1 Punch Die bag-punch-die 1 part
6.2 Punch Cylinder bag-punch-cylinder 1 part
6.3 Die Backing Plate bag-die-plate 1 part
7 Conveyor & Stacker 5 parts bag-conveyor-stacker 1 29 assembly
7.1 Outfeed Conveyor Belt bag-conveyor-belt 1 part
7.2 Conveyor Motor 4 parts bag-conveyor-motor 1 25 assembly
7.2.1 Stator Assembly 3 parts + deeper › stator-assembly 1 3 assembly
7.2.2 Rotor Assembly 4 parts + deeper › rotor-assembly 1 19 assembly
7.2.3 Motor Housing motor-housing 1 part
7.2.4 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 2 part
7.3 Stacker Table bag-stacker-table 1 part
7.4 Bag Counter Sensor bag-bag-counter 1 part
7.5 Drive Belt drive-belt 1 part
8 Main Drive System 4 parts bag-drive-system 1 8 assembly
8.1 Helical Gear Pair gear-pair 2 part
8.2 Drive Belt drive-belt 1 part
8.3 Gearbox Housing gearbox-housing 1 part
8.4 Ball Bearing ball-bearing 4 part
9 Servo Control System 5 parts bag-servo-control 1 474 assembly
9.1 Motion PLC 4 parts bag-plc 1 184 assembly
9.1.1 Bare PCB pcb-bare 1 part
9.1.2 Compute SoC Module soc-module 1 part
9.1.3 Microcontroller mcu 2 part
9.1.4 SMD Passive (R/C/L) smd-passives 180× 180 part
9.2 Touchscreen HMI 4 parts bag-hmi 1 4 assembly
9.2.1 LCD Panel lcd-panel 1 part
9.2.2 Touch Digitizer touch-digitizer 1 part
9.2.3 Bare PCB pcb-bare 1 part
9.2.4 Microcontroller mcu 1 part
9.3 Servo Drive 4 parts servo-drive 3 91 assembly
9.3.1 Bare PCB pcb-bare 3 part
9.3.2 IGBT Power Module igbt-module 3 part
9.3.3 Gate Driver Board 3 parts + deeper › gate-driver-board 3 87 assembly
9.3.4 DC-Link Capacitor dc-link-cap 6 part
9.4 Relay relay 12× 12 part
9.5 Control Power Supply bag-power-supply 1 part
10 Machine Wiring Harness 3 parts bag-wiring 1 59 assembly
10.1 Wire Bundle wire-bundle 1 part
10.2 Connector connector 50× 50 part
10.3 Relay relay 8 part

Sourcing — likely vendors

Companies that make this · indicative price $10k–$3M · MOQ & lead are typical
VendorHQSpecialtyMOQLead time
🇩🇪Heidelberg
heidelberg.com ↗
Heidelberg, DE Printing presses 10 units 12–22 wks
🇨🇭Bobst
bobst.com ↗
Lausanne, CH Packaging machinery 10 units 12–22 wks
koenig-bauer.com ↗ Würzburg, DE Printing presses 10 units 12–22 wks
wuh-group.com ↗ Lengerich, DE Flexible packaging machines 10 units 12–22 wks
🇺🇸Mark Andy
markandy.com ↗
Chesterfield, US Label presses 10 units 12–22 wks

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