Thürlings: packaging solutions made for users

The Viersen, Germany-based ­Thürlings Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH is developing and producing smart packaging solutions with the scope to user friendly and flexible machinery. One example is the Linearpac 85M which the Swiss bakery Läckerli Huus uses to pack its individual product Basler Läckerli.

“The development of a packaging machine system should be done once”, says Managing Partner Felix ­Thürlings. “Time for development, testing on the shop floor and in the field is quite expensive, so that we at Thürlings are concentrating on a modular way of machinery. We can use the standard machinery for extensions to the customer needs. This leads to more flexibility and efficiency on customers’ side.” An example of it is a newly designed shaking device for the Linearpac 85M.
The Linearpac 85M unstacks prefabricated block bottom bags from a cassette, opens and fills them with a large variety of product and closes them with different devices. “Each machine is customer fit for his needs”, says Felix Thürlings. “The different options of closing devices are easily to be integrated like a sealing or folding device.” The outstanding advantages of the Linearpac are a very compact and robust construction type, a large range of bag sizes, combined with an easy and fast changeover time. Also a high speed of bag handling makes the machine successful.
The packaging system is designed for flowing products, yet the machine can also handle larger items. “A very low drop is a high advantage for fragile products”, states Felix Thürlings. This was one of the aspects for Swiss bakery and confectionary Läckerli Huus in Basel to change the packaging equipment to a Linearpac a year ago. A customer orientated shaking device was developed here. This shaking device helps settling the product equally in the bag. With that, the filling heights of the product stays the same with every bag. The closing device can operate very efficiently, waste bags and machine stops are ­reduced to a minimum.
Information about the system is available at Thürlings.     •

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The history of Thürlings Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH – founded in May 1990 – goes back to the year 1959, when Fritz Thürlings founded the company Maschinenfabrik Fritz Thürlings in Viersen to manufacture counting machines. The product range was expanded to in­clude ­packaging machines in 1965. The new machines were designed to open pre-made bags, present them for manual or automated filling ­followed by bag closure utilizing ­several closure methods including clips, twist tie and heat seal.