Packaging Machinery Guides & Technical Resources
Straight answers to the questions that come up before a packaging project starts. What determines throughput, what breaks product, what drives cost, and what has to be tested before anyone signs anything.
Flow Wrapping
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Flow Wrapper ROI: What Actually Drives Payback in High-Speed Packaging?
Six things decide what a flow wrapping line delivers on your floor, and every one of them is a decision you make before you sign. Here is how each one moves the payback.
Weighing & Dosing
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How a Multihead Weigher Reduces Giveaway and Improves Line Efficiency
A few grams over target, on packs that pass every check and please every customer. It never trips an alarm, and by the end of the year it can cost more than maintaining the line that produced it.
Bagging
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Vertical Form Fill Seal Machines: The Complete VFFS Buyer's Guide
A VFFS machine is one link in a chain that runs from where product leaves production to a sealed, correctly weighed bag. Specify the whole chain and the line delivers what the bagmaker is built for.
Cartoning & End of Line
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Cartoning Machine Selection: Matching the Carton to the Line
The carton is the last thing your customer sees and the first thing that gets value-engineered. It is also sized by the pack inside it, which makes specifying it after the primary machine an expensive habit.
Line Integration
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Complete and Turnkey Packaging Lines: When One Scope Is Worth It
One supplier or five? It comes down to who is accountable for the finished line and which engineering you want to own in house. Both routes work, and the scope decides which one fits your project.
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Integrating a Packaging Machine into an Existing Line
A retrofit is an integration project with an equipment purchase inside it. Five joins decide what the new machine delivers: product transfer, controls, speed matching, access and who owns the finished line.
Service & Support
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Packaging Machine Service and Support in North America
A packaging machine is a twenty-year relationship with whoever services it. Evaluate that relationship as carefully as the equipment, and settle commissioning, parts and training while they are easy to agree.
Applications
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Chocolate and Bar Packaging Machines: Choosing the Right Wrap
Chocolate is the least forgiving product in packaging. It marks, it blooms, it softens in your hand, and the wrap is most of what the customer judges before they taste anything.
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Cookie, Biscuit and Wafer Packaging Machines: Handling Fragile Product
A cookie survives the oven and breaks on the conveyor. Stack and wrap or weigh and bag is the first decision, and the handling ahead of the packaging machine is where yield is won.
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Frozen and Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) Food Packaging Machines: What Cold and Wet Change
Cold, wet and fragile is the hardest combination in food packaging, and Hastamat engineered a hygienic design concept for exactly it. Sanitation stops being a preference here and becomes a specification.
Packaging Solutions
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How Much Does an Industrial Packaging Machine Cost?
Packaging machinery is quoted per project, because every machine is configured around one plant's product, pack and rate. Here is what sets the number, what sits outside the machine price and how to reach a real figure quickly.
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Packaging Automation ROI: Where the Money Actually Moves
Most automation cases lead with labor savings, and labor is rarely the biggest number available. Seven lines build a model that stands up in a finance review, and every one of them comes from data your plant already has.
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Running Paper and Recyclable Materials on Packaging Machinery
Paper and mono-material structures touch the machine at every stage, and each stage is a configuration decision. Here is what changes, and how a platform built for material flexibility takes it in stride.
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VFFS vs. Flow Wrapper: Which Packaging Machine Do I Need?
One machine wraps a piece. The other weighs out a quantity and bags it. Your product has usually made this decision already, and Piepenbrock Packaging can tell you which way it points.
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What Packaging Machine Do I Need for My Product?
Four answers decide almost every packaging machine selection, and none of them are about machines. What the product is, what the pack has to be, how fast the line runs and where the project starts and stops.
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Lake Champlain Chocolates, Williston, VermontLake Champlain Chocolates: Tripling Output on a Sealed Fold Wrap
A Vermont chocolate maker needed hermetically sealed bar ends and three times the output. Nine months from project start to commissioning, the line runs 200 bars a minute.
Downloads
Brochures and spec sheets published by LoeschPack and Hastamat. Every figure printed anywhere on this site traces back to one of these.
- Brochure Hastamat fresh and frozen food brochure The manufacturer's brochure for fresh and frozen applications, including the hygienic design weigher built for wet areas.
- Brochure Hastamat stackable chips brochure The manufacturer's brochure for stackable chips lines, from feeding and counting through to the finished pack.
- Spec Sheet LoeschPack CMC data sheet The manufacturer's data sheet for the CMC display cartoner, including carton styles and output.
- Spec Sheet LoeschPack FGT data sheet The manufacturer's data sheet for the FGT three-side-seal pouch machine.
- Spec Sheet LoeschPack FHW-S data sheet The manufacturer's data sheet for the FHW-S horizontal flow wrapper, including rated output, film speeds and material handling.
- Spec Sheet LoeschPack LRM-S data sheet The manufacturer's data sheet for the LRM-S single-stage fold wrapper for bars, napolitains and wafers.
- Spec Sheet LoeschPack LTM-DUO data sheet The manufacturer's data sheet for the LTM-DUO twin-station fold wrapper for chocolate tablets.
- Spec Sheet LoeschPack RCB data sheet The manufacturer's data sheet for the RCB fold wrapping machine with wrapping head.
- Brochure LoeschPack product portfolio brochure The manufacturer's overview of the full LoeschPack range, from feeding, distribution and LOOP buffering to flow wrapping, fold wrapping, cartoning and banding.
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August 8, 2026PPT USA Appoints Paul Landes as Director of Sales
Piepenbrock Packaging Technologies LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Landes as Director of Sales, reinforcing the company's commitment to delivering innovative packaging solutions and exceptional customer support across North America.
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June 2, 2026PPT USA Heads to PACK EXPO International 2026 in Chicago
Piepenbrock Packaging Technologies joins LoeschPack and Hastamat at North America's largest packaging and processing event, October 18-21 at McCormick Place. Come talk through your next line with the team that builds and runs it here.
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May 22, 2026Sweets & Snacks Expo 2026: The Show's Las Vegas Debut
Piepenbrock Packaging Technologies connected with confectionery and snack manufacturers at the NCA's Sweets & Snacks Expo, May 19-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the show's first year in Las Vegas.