G3 Bagmaker Ready to Roll

January 26, 2010

Kliklok-Woodman is poised to transition to the next generation of one its VFFS bagmaker workhorses. The "G3" twin-tube VFFS snack food bagmaker is ready to fill the immense boots currently being worn by the Gemini II.

The G3 continues the Woodman tradition of packaging expertise and legendary reliability with improved ease-of-operation, speed, and size flexibility. The G3's welded tubular steel frame with a center-balanced profile allows weighers and volumetric fillers to be direct-mounted to the machine - a cost-effective option to additional floor mounted support. The electrical cabinets are tucked inside the frame, allowing total access to the interior for ease of maintenance.

The G3 can produce up to 240 bags per minute (120 per tube), thanks to all-servo motion controls. KW uses non-proprietary, top-tier, "off the shelf" control components to lower the total cost of ownership. The G3 can produce a wide variety of bag styles: pillow pouch, block bottom bags, perforated string, promo strip, notching, hole punching and more. KW's exclusive InsightŪ icon-based, multilingual, color touch screen interface is easy to learn and use.

The new Codeline - Woodman's exciting new date/code printer - is an option on the G3. The Woodman Codeline (by Videojet) is a thermal transfer overprinter that delivers high-resolution images of variable and real-time data to a wide variety of flexible packaging materials. The intuitive, graphical user interface incorporates easy to learn, icon-based controls and a WYSIWYG image display to reduce set up errors. The Woodman Codeline is designed to operate efficiently - the bi-directional ribbon drive allows unused ribbon to be recaptured after each print, providing more prints per roll and a low cost of ownership.