Material Handling
Bagging and debagging for empty bottles
Your blow molders run around the clock; your fillers don't. Our bagging and debagging systems store the difference and feed it back, so your fillers always have bottles.
In summary
Custom Metal Designs builds semi-automatic and fully automatic bagging and debagging systems for empty plastic bottles. Bagging takes the bottles your fillers can't use yet and bags them for storage; debagging opens the bags and feeds the bottles back onto the conveyor when the fillers need more than the molders can make.
As with everything CMD makes, the line is engineered to your bottle and rate, then fabricated and assembled in CMD's shop in Central Florida, and tested under power before it ships. CMD has built bottle-handling equipment since 1972 and is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
Key facts
- Bagging stores what your fillers can't use yet
- Debagging feeds bottles back onto the line
- Semi-automatic or fully automatic
- Fabricated and assembled in-house
Bagging and debagging
Bagging and debagging that keep your fillers supplied
Most filling plants require bagging and debagging because blow molders and fillers run at different rates and on different schedules. A blow molder can run around the clock at a steady rate; the fillers run one or two shifts and fill bottles faster than the molders make them.
While the fillers run, fresh bottles go directly to the fillers, and debagged bottles make up the difference. When the fillers stop, the molders keep running, and their bottles are bagged and stored in a warehouse or trailer.
The goal: keep the fillers always satisfied with bottles, accumulate bottles in a buffer, and design your gate program to minimize bagging and debagging.
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Bagging
Collects the bottles your fillers can't use yet and bags them for storage in a warehouse or trailer. Semi-automatic or fully automatic, depending on the level of automation you want.
- Best for
- Building a reserve while the fillers are down
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Debagging
Opens the bags and puts bottles back onto the conveyor in the right orientation, at rate. Semi-automatic or fully automatic.
- Best for
- Making up the difference when the fillers need more than the molders make
Credentials
Certifications and memberships
ISO 9001:2015 certified by NQA
Our quality-management system is certified to ISO 9001:2015 by NQA.
View the certificate (PDF)
PMMI member
Custom Metal Designs is a member of PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies.
Gallery
Automatic debagger, running Single-infeed automatic bagger Bagger stacker with a finished bundle Automatic debagger at the pallet Bottles moving through the debagger
Industries we serve
The same handling, tuned to how each industry runs its line.
- BeverageEmpty-bottle handling for high-speed beverage lines.
- Blow MoldingTake-away and annealing off the blow molder.
- DairyEmpty milk-jug and bottle handling; DCC covers the filled dairy side.
- FoodBottle and container handling for food lines.
- Household CleaningBottle handling for household-products lines.
- PharmaceuticalHandling for pharmaceutical bottle lines.
Next step
Handling empties by hand?
Tell us the bottle and the rate between your molder and filler. We'll size a bagging or debagging line to fit.