Gear motors improve efficiency for AccelPak; AccelPak, Inc. switches to gear motors for its powder and granular-product bagging machines to improve efficiency and maintenance.(gear motors)

Packaging Digest, March, 2007 by Mans, Jack

Hyponic right-angle gear motors and Cyclo concentric gear motors from Sumitomo (www.accelpak. com), Ottawa, KS. AccelPak designs and builds packaging equipment for powders and granular products in the flour and bakery industry. Manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic versions of its vertical auger bagging system are running products ranging from hard and soft wheat flour and whole, cracked and crushed wheat to a variety of bakery mixes. AccelPak also produces its Component Series machines for users who have unique application requirements, and its Net Weight Free-Flowing automatic packaging system that is designed to bag difficult granular products.

AccelPak's newest fillers are the AP2600 fully automatic system and the AP2200 semi-automatic system. Both...

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