Why empty your bags with an automatic bag unloader?

Emptying bags of raw materials to feed production processes is a physically demanding operation for manufacturing operators. When the process requires a large number of bags to be unloaded, the automatic bag emptying solution becomes a necessity. Palamatic has developed a range of automatic bag opening machines (MiniSlit®, VariSlit®, RotaSlit®) to free operators from handling constraints.

The production processes in the chemical, animal feed and dairy industries are a few of the major consumers of minor production ingredients often contained in 50 lb sacks.

When your production process requires 1 ton or more of sacks per production batch, it may be time to invest in an automated sack unloader. Today, the average rate of a Palamatic Process automatic bag opener is 6 bags/min. This opening rate represents a load of 9 tons/hr that would have been conducted manually by plant operators!

When compared to manual operations, the automatic emptying solution becomes a feasible investment for facilitating operations and avoiding MSDs associated with charging ports.

Opening and unloading a bag of powder can be a complex operation! The Palamatic Process bag vacuum range presents 6 automatic bag vacuum models.

Your products can present several constraints: food, abrasives, lumps, light, etc. All these constraints imply different bag cutting systems to provide an excellent unloading rate without loss of product or degradation of your process.

Palamatic has developed and patented an exclusive system that ensures a bag opening rate greater than 99%. The principle lies in the cutting of the bag on 3 sides, followed by an inversion of the bag in order to fully discharge the powder. Palamatic has an automatic test bag dispenser in its workshop to test and validate your bags.

Buying raw material when the price is at its lowest can significantly reduce purchasing costs. A good number of industrialists fill their silos to the max when material prices are at their lowest and then consume the stock during price increases. This principle is limited to the available storage capacity. Storing raw materials in bags offers great flexibility while ensuring product quality and traceability. During the opening phase of the bag operation, the automatic opening solution is essential to achieving the loading rates!

In the field of compounding, this practice is widely used with a large number of Palamatic vacuum bags due to the direct impact of oil prices on raw materials handled (PE granules, HDPE granules, PVC, etc.).

In addition to the automatic bag opener, Palamatic offers robotic solutions for depalletizing sacks. The robotic arms provide automatic picking of the various bags to be unpacked. The robot, controlled by industrial data processing, follows the production orders to supply the quantity by weight, and guarantee the quality of the bags requested.

In this process input configuration, no operator is required to ensure production. The pallets are brought in by the forklift driver for loading of the feed conveyors.

PALAMATIC Process automatic deconditioning solutions offer a significant gain in productivity by eliminating the hardship for production operators. Do you want to study an automated bag deconditioning solution? Contact our bulk handling experts.