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Harrison's Packaging stock a wide range of packaging machinery to go with your other packaging purchases. As well as being able to supply all the packaging machinery listed below either for sale or for hire we can supply all the packaging materials required for use with the machinery including items such as shrink wrap film and plastic strapping.

If you are looking for packaging tools and equipment such as tape dispensers and steel strapping tools these can be found in our packaging tools section.

Packaging machinery can be fairly complex and the purchase or rental of it often raises a lot of questions that need answering before a decision is made, so we have included basic product descriptions and typical usages listed below with more technical details and images of the available in our online shop.

Type of packaging machinery

Variations

Description and Typical Uses

Impulse heat sealers

Available in 4 different sizes, 200mm, 300mm, 400mm and 500mm with and without a cutter.

Impulse heat sealers are suitable for small packing of all types of thermoplastic film. The heat sealers are easy to operate, lightweight and have a variable sealing time setting. The Impulse heat sealers are suitable for packaging items that require a seal of up to 500mm, for example, instruction books, stationery and nuts and bolts.

Shrink wrapping system kit

The kit is a low cost shrink wrapping system comprising a 1400mm shrink wrapping heat sealer, a roll of film, an unrolling device with a film separator bar, a table and a multi-speed hot air gun.

The kit has everything you need to make a shrink wrapped bag to seal your products and is an entry level low cost system ideal for small businesses.

The shrink wrapping kit is suitable for packaging items that require a seal up to 400mm, for example, software boxes, stationery and nuts and bolts.

Instapak foam in place packaging machinery

The Instapak range of foam in place machinery is designed to protect products during shipping, warehousing and general handling.The machinery is suitable for precision cushioning, high speed void fill or heavy duty blocking and bracing.

The Instapak foam used expands up to 280 times its liquid volume - the equivalent of a truckload of packaging materials can be stored in two 210 litre drums saving valuable warehouse space!

Instapak foam packaging is suitable for protecting a wide range of products including wine, musical instruments, exercise machines, lighting fixtures, electrical appliances, computer hardware and furniture

Refurbished Instapak Machinery, Parts and Repairs available on request. Please call us for a quote on 01257 477920.

Instapacker Tabletop Foam-in-Bag packaging machinery

The Instapacker Tabletop Foam-in-Bag machine from Sealed Air offers all the usual benefits of foam-in-bag packaging including cost savings from reduced material, storage and labour costs as well as offering a compact tabletop design saving valuable workspace.

This machine is ideal for packaging high value small sized items of a similar size such as electronic components.

Producing up to 16 bags per minute it is much faster than the Instapak foam in place packaging machinery detailed above.

The machine is easy to use with simple diagnostic indicators showing the system status and offers 10 preset touch keys control the amount of foam required. Perforated film with a fixed bag size is used to keep matters simple and for extra convenience there is an option to run continuous bags or an adjustable time delay between bags can be set.

The Instapacker Tabletop is compatible with all Instapak foams.

Audion vertical form fill sealing machine

The machine can produce bags with widthes between 50mm -190mm and lengthes between 50mm - 300mm.

The machine has a variety off seal options: gusset seal, flat bottom, chain bags, clip closing, print seal system, different profile sealing bars and varying punch hole systems.

Optional extras: linear net weigher, multi head scales, volumetric cup feeder systems, pump feeder systems for liquids, auger fillers, vibration bowl, counting systems, conveyor belt feeder systems, auger feeder systems and a carry off conveyor belt.

The Audion vertical form fill sealing machine automatically forms a bag, fills it with a products and then seals and separates the finished package. It can produce different shapes of bags and can produce up to 40 bags a minute.

The machine uses a single roll of flat material and seals polyethylene, polypropylene and laminates without set-up operations.

The machine is suitable for production processes where small size packages of free flowing goods are produced and as such is widely used in the food industry for goods such as salt, water, coffee and deep frozen meat. Other goods that can be packaged using this machine include toys, chemicals, pet food and small machinery parts.

The machine can be ordered with a wide range of optional extras as listed and we are more than happy to discuss these with you in greater detail.

XCS 550 semi-automatic strapping machine

The strapping machine can produce plastic straps between 5-12mm wide.

This is a competitively priced high tech powerful semi-automatic strapping machine suitable for holding together items in transit including tarpaulins, flat pack boxes and other boxed items.

It is easy to use and has a compact control head for easy maintenance, electronic tension control, sensor controlled heat sealing blade and adjustable weld cooling time for optimum joint efficiency. The machine also has an adjustable table height to make life even easier for the operator.

TMS 300 semi-automatic strapping machine

The strapping machine can produce straps between 6 -16mm wide.

The TMS 300 is a competitively priced powerful semi-automatic strapping machine that is easy to operate and has external tension control.

Like the XCS 500 it is suitable for businesses that need to hold items together whilst in transit or storage including tarpaulins, flat pack boxes and other boxed items.