Equipment & Packaging Round Up

Visit our website Optima, with headquarters in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, partners with its subsidiaries to design and build packaging and filling machines and production lines for pharmaceutical, consumer, nonwovens and life science products. From very small machines to a complete packaging line Optima is your partner for innovative packaging solutions. Optima is the worldwide leader in packaging technologies for many products including toilet paper, wet wipes, coffee, tea, medical devices, snack foods, cosmetics, and chemicals. Founded in 1922, the family owned and operated business is in its third generation and employs more than 2,000 employees worldwide.
Visit us at booth C-1741.

Visit our website Rychiger AG, a company based in Switzerland, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of customer- specific solutions for packaging machines in the coffee & tea, retortable packaging and healthcare industries. We focus on filling and sealing of preformed containers. In addition to the filling of powdery substances and liquids, we integrate various processes such as punching, sealing, assembly and quality testing in complete single machine process. We also provide complete turnkey solutions for the entire manufacturing processes.
Visit us at booth US-7269

Visit our website MPE’s revolutionary, ultra-compact, “In Situ” 600.IS roller style coffee grinder is designed to operate “in place,” on top of capsule, pod and any other types of packaging machines. Now, the same leading edge roller grinding technology and patented densifier systems available with MPE’s larger grinders are available, along with a water-cooled environment, with the “In Situ,” which can be mounted directly on top of the packaging machine. No more hassles, just fresh ground coffee delivered direct to the filler, perfectly densified to your espresso or lungo style capsule or K-cup pod.
Visit us at booth LS-6061

Visit our website TC Transcontinental Packaging is committed to driving innovation and developing eco-responsible packaging solutions to support our customers’ own sustainability journey.

We believe that sustainability is a shared responsibility across the industry. With a focus on innovation, research and product development, we support our customers in their efforts towards solving the challenge of plastic waste.

Consumers want to feel good about the products they buy and the effects their actions have on the environment. Let TC Transcontinental Packaging create a sustainable packaging solution that will highlight your brand and keep your product fresh all at the same time.
Visit us at booth LS-6701

Visit our website Fres-co Announces BLOCKBAG™
Fres-co System USA, Inc is known for innovation in the coffee market. From the company that invented the one-way degassing valve comes BLOCKBAG™. Coffee roasters have come to love the advantages of block bottom bags but have not been able to automate it in production. Now, roasters can have the block bottom look with the convenience and preciseness of an automatic manufacturing machine with the following features: Stable, Reliable Flat Bottom Bag, Front/Back printing, Fully Automatic Production, Increased Shelf Presence.
Visit Fres-co at booth LS-6119

Visit our website Tsubakimoto Kogyo Co. manufacture “TWINKLE” the triangular/rectangular teabag machine which makes 200 bags per minute. With the multi-head electric weigher mounted on the teabag machine, the users can pack a wide variety of speciality tea such as herbal tea and fruit tea at high speed with excellent weight accuracy. Also, they can use inexpensive regular materials which will last 5 to 6 hours, once mounted, thus achieving the high productivity while reducing the production cost(labor and material) substantially. Tsubakimoto also have developed “TF-BIO” the compostable packaging film for responding to the recent environment issue.
Visit Tsubakimoto at booth LS-5930

Visit our website Flavourtech Innovative Processing Solutions for the Tea and Coffee Industry
Flavourtech's well-established Spinning Cone Column (SCC) technology is often referred to as the ‘gold standard’ for aroma recovery in the instant coffee industry. Building on this success, Flavourtech has now developed the Rotating Disc Column (RDC) for continuous, high-temperature extraction. Combining the two technologies has resulted in a revolutionary processing line for instant coffee, known as the Integrated Extraction System (IES). The IES may also be used to produce premium liquid extracts of tea and coffee for Ready-To-Drink products.
Visit us on our North American Distributors, Scan American Corporation, at Booth US-7472

Visit our website LENZING™ for Packaging – Smart solutions from botanic origin
Derived from sustainably grown wood, LENZING™ Lyocell fibers are certified safe for food contact under recognized standards, making them ideal for producing all kinds of tea bags and coffee pods. In addition to being sustainably produced, all LENZING™ standard Lyocell fiber types have been certified as compostable and biodegradable under industrial, home, soil and marine conditions, thus they can fully revert back to nature. These facts make them an environmentally responsible choice for consumers.

Visit our website ABCD: In 1959 K. Cyrus Melikian had an idea. He wanted to make it possible for customers to automatically brew one fresh cup of coffee on demand. It took several years, but his team finally perfected the technology that revolutionised the single cup market. ABCD continues to refine his intellectual property to improve the end product - a perfect cup of coffee on demand, every time. Innovations include biodegradable PodPerfect espresso pods, filter coffee pods, and recyclable Upshot flow through SingleCupper Kcups.

Visit our website Colombini is one of the leading industrial coffee grinder producers in the world, designing and manufacturing some of the best products available on the market. Grinders such as Angel, small yet so powerful, it unites power, precision and reliability in a minimal amount of space. Colombini is the choice for those who want only the best.

Visit our website A world-leading designer and manufacturer of automatic processing and packaging equipment, IMA Group has launched the Coffee Hub to reach every corner of the coffee handling, processing and packaging universe. Comprising a handful of expert companies and supported through consolidated, strategic partnerships, IMA can now address any issue facing coffee producers, from green coffee deliveries to bulk-packaged shipments to retail outlets.
Single serve capsule fillers from GIMA, Spreafico and Mapster, provide high, medium and low-speed solutions. GIMA also builds cutting-edge secondary packaging solutions.
Part of the Hub and with 25 years of specific experience, vertical form-fill-seal expert TECMAR provides machines handling dosed filling of flexible, sealed packages in all shapes and sizes.
Visit us at booth C-3200

Visit our website The E-Generation has been released! General Packaging and PLITEK® have answered the industry demand for reliable, low cost packaging and one-way degassing option. This engineering innovation will help coffee roasters protect and preserve the quality of their roast while improving efficiency, decreasing scrap, and reducing clean-up efforts.
PLITEK®’s PLI-VALV® E-Series valve applicator system has been engineered specifically for in-line application of PLI-VALV® one-way degassing valves to product packaging. It is easily integrated with General Packaging Entrada VFFS model to efficiently and accurately punch a vent hole and surface apply one-way degassing valves.
PLI-VALV®E-Series installed on General Packaging Equipment Entrada model will be displayed at PACK EXPO in Las Vegas.
Visit us at booth C-4140

Visit our website As the market leader TEEPACK has delivered over 3,000 packaging machines for double chamber tea bags since the company was founded. Adolf Rambold’s revolutionary double chamber tea bag shaped the industry’s history and became the worldwide standard, with the CONSTANTA and later the PERFECTA tea bag packaging machines sold in all corners of the world. With its ZENOBIA machine generation, the company has also long-since made a name for itself in the field of flexible, high-performance vertical form, fill & seal machines. The modular machine concept guarantees maximum flexibility and a high packaging variety. TEEPACK has also recently further expanded its range of services to include customised retrofits.

Visit our website Scolari Engineering SpA offers coffee roasting systems with tomorrow’s technology. Scolari manufactures complete coffee roasting plants, providing either components or a “complete turnkey installation.” Our equipment, utilizing advanced software and controls, enables clients to produce repeatably excellent coffee at lower costs, while using an integrated database, which can be read and written to from a host computer or locally. Our production program includes station(s) of bags or bulk reception, roasters, grinders and ground coffee degassing silos. A great many of the world’s main producers of quality coffee use Scolari Engineering roasters. Our office and production plant are located near Milan, Italy, close to the airport.