Material Handling Division: Are you a small business still on the fence about if you really need an automated bagging system?Are you doubting if your business is big enough to warrant investing into a bagging system for your products?Well, we can tell you right now the answer is: yes. No matter the size of the business, automated bagging machines are only a benefit and asset to your company and product.EDI Bagging Scales create and distributes high quality, durable and dependable scales to help build your business, increase production and increase profit for you and your company. A variety of solid bulk materials are packaged in open mouth bags for use by consumers and businesses. Many industries use open mouth bags to distribute their products and provide a crisp, clean, aesthetically appealing product at the point of sale. The wide top end of the open mouth bag allows for a variety of different products with widely varying mesh sizes, bulk densities and flow characteristics to be packaged.The open mouth bagging scales that fill these containers is Gross Weigh. Open mouth bags are typically constructed of paper, poly woven mesh, plastic film or burlap. All of these bags need to be closed after filling by using a sewing head, heat sealer or pinch bag closer. The process of open mouth bag filling begins with the placement of an empty bag on or below the fill spout of the bag scale. For gross weighing, the fill spout of the packer is suspended from an electronic load cell that accurately weighs the amount of product in the bag. The bag can be placed on the fill spout by hand or by an automated open mouth bag placer. Once the bag is filled, it is released and drops to the sewing conveyor belt.
