Liquid Packaging Solutions
Technical details
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Machine Type | Double Lane / 2-Lane Stick Pack Sachet Packaging Machine |
| Filling Volume | 50–60 ml |
| Packing Speed | 25–30 bags/min |
| Bag Size | 50 mm Width × 90–160 mm Length |
| Filling System | Piston Pump |
| Machine Material | 304 Stainless Steel |
APPLICATIONS
We recently completed a customized 2-lane energy gel stick pack sachet packaging machine project for a customer in Italy.
The customer needed a compact and reliable packaging solution for sports energy gel in small stick sachets, with particular attention to accurate liquid filling, attractive sealing, stable continuous operation, and customized shaped cutting.
Instead of choosing a larger multi-lane system, the customer selected our 2-lane stick pack machine, which provides a practical balance between production capacity, machine investment, floor space, and operating cost.
This type of two-lane sachet packaging machine is especially suitable for new energy gel projects, start-up brands, and small to medium-sized manufacturers that need professional packaging quality without immediately investing in a large high-speed production line.
BAG SAMPLES
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Side seal custom stickpack for energy gel
OPTIONAL DEVICES
1. Inspection & Quality Control Modules
1. Checkweigher (Weight Checking System)
2. Metal Detector
3. X-ray Inspection System (for high-end factories)
4. Automatic Reject System
2. Sorting & Conveying
1. Discharge Conveyor
2. Stick Pack / Sachet Collating System
3. High-speed Lane Diverter Conveyor
3. Counting & Grouping Systems
1. Automatic Counting Machine
2. Multilane Automatic Counting & Grouping Unit
3. Stacking System (for bundle packs)
4. Secondary Packaging Options
A. Cartoning
1. Automatic Carton Erector
2. Vertical / Horizontal Cartoning Machine
3. Multi-pack counting + automatic cartoning line
B. Bag-in-Bag Packaging
1. Automatic Bag-in-Bag Packaging System
2. Secondary VFFS / HFFS Machine
C. Jar / Can Filling
1. Stick Pack to Can/Bottle Filling Line
2. Automatic Capping and Labeling Systems
5. End-of-Line Packaging
1. Case Erector
2. Case Packer (Drop-type / Side-load)
3. Case Sealer
4. Robotic Palletizer
6. Labeling & Traceability Systems
1. Inkjet or Laser Coding System
2. Automatic Labeling Machine
7. Robotic Arm Applications (Pick-and-Place Robots)
1. Robotic Bag Sorting
2. Automatically picks and orients bags for downstream equipment.
3. Robotic Bag Loading
4. Loads single bags or grouped bags into:
Cartons
Trays
Display boxes
Buckets/cans
5. Robotic Grouping System
High-speed grouping of pouches/bags based on preset patterns.
6. Robotic Feeding to Case Packer
Ensures continuous feeding without manual intervention.
DESCRIPTION
The machine was designed according to the customer's actual sports gel product and sachet specifications.
Main project specifications:
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Customer Market | Italy |
| Product | Sports Energy Gel |
| Machine Type | 2-Lane Stick Pack / Sachet Packaging Machine |
| Filling System | Piston Pump |
| Filling Volume | 50–60 ml |
| Packaging Speed | 25–30 sachets/min |
| Sachet Width | 50 mm |
| Sachet Length | 90–160 mm |
| Film Width | 220 mm |
| Packaging Material | Laminated Film |
| Film Thickness | 9–11 silk |
| Vertical Seal Width | 5 mm |
| Easy-Open Design | Customized Shaped Cut |
| Machine Frame | 304 Stainless Steel |
| Control System | Siemens |
| Power Supply | 400V, 50Hz, 3 Phase |
| HMI Language | English + Italian |
The customer required a special sachet appearance, so the sealing and cutting section was customized according to the supplied bag drawing.
For many new sports nutrition brands, a very large 6-lane, 8-lane, or 10-lane machine is not necessarily the best starting point.
A 2-lane energy gel stick pack machine offers several practical advantages.
For a newly launched energy gel, sports gel, carbohydrate gel, electrolyte gel, or nutritional gel product, production volumes may still be developing.
A two-lane system reduces the initial equipment investment while still providing automatic:
liquid filling → film forming → sealing → cutting → finished sachet output
This makes it particularly suitable for companies testing a new product or expanding from manual or semi-automatic packaging into fully automatic production.
The machine has a relatively compact structure compared with larger multi-lane stick pack systems.
It is suitable for:
Start-up sports nutrition brands
Small and medium-sized food manufacturers
Contract packaging companies
Nutritional supplement manufacturers
Energy gel producers
New product development lines
Companies entering the single-dose sachet market
For customers whose current output does not justify a large multi-lane machine, a 2-lane sachet packing machine can provide a much better balance between capacity and investment.
Because the customer's product is sports energy gel, the machine uses a piston pump filling system.
Compared with filling systems designed for powders or free-flowing liquids, piston filling is more appropriate for viscous or semi-viscous products such as:
energy gel, sports gel, nutritional gel, carbohydrate gel and similar liquid or paste products.
For this Italian project, the required filling volume is 50–60 ml per sachet.
Stable product dosing is particularly important for single-serving sports nutrition products because inconsistent filling can affect both product cost and the consumer experience.
For energy gel packaging, filling accuracy is only one part of the machine performance.
The finished stick sachet must also have clean, consistent and attractive seals.
This machine is designed to maintain stable film pulling and sealing performance during continuous production.
The customer's sachet uses:
50 mm finished bag width
90–160 mm bag length
5 mm longitudinal sealing
Customized horizontal sealing
Customized shaped easy-tear cutting
The sealing and cutting system is manufactured according to the customer's actual sachet drawing.
This helps produce a finished pack with precise alignment, neat sealing edges and a professional appearance.
For sports nutrition products sold directly to consumers, this is especially important because the sachet itself is part of the brand presentation.
Another important feature of this project is the special shaped cutting design.
Energy gel sachets are frequently consumed during:
Running
Cycling
Hiking
Triathlon
Marathon events
Gym training
Outdoor sports
Consumers therefore need to open the sachet conveniently.
According to the customer's packaging design, we customized the cutting system to produce the required easy-open shaped sachet.
This makes the packaging more practical for actual sports applications while maintaining the required finished bag appearance.
The main machine frame is manufactured from 304 stainless steel, providing a durable and professional structure suitable for food and nutritional product packaging environments.
The machine is designed for long-term production with emphasis on:
stable operation, accurate sealing, consistent bag formation and convenient operation.
For small and medium-sized manufacturers, machine stability is particularly important because production teams are often smaller and cannot afford frequent machine adjustments or downtime.
According to the production order, this 2-lane gel sachet packaging machine uses a Siemens control system.
The machine is equipped with an HMI interface supporting:
English and Italian.
This makes daily machine operation easier for the Italian customer's production team.
The customized interface also reduces the learning curve when the equipment is installed at the customer's factory.
The project also includes several customized functions according to the customer's production requirements, including:
Thermal transfer coding equipment, which can be used for printing production information on the packaging film.
The machine is also designed with a wireless network connection device.
In addition, the project includes a software communication requirement for connecting production data with the customer's system through signal-point communication.
These customizations allow the packaging machine to fit more naturally into the customer's existing production management process.
Although this Italian machine was customized according to this customer's specific sachet dimensions and filling volume, the 2-lane stick pack / sachet machine platform has already been applied in multiple customer projects.
Its advantages are not simply based on theoretical machine specifications.
The design has been validated through multiple practical applications, particularly in projects requiring:
Small sachet packaging
Stable liquid or gel filling
Accurate film feeding
Consistent sealing
Attractive finished packs
Customized cutting
Continuous production stability
For customers starting a new energy gel project, this type of proven machine platform can reduce equipment selection risk compared with developing an entirely new packaging solution.
For a company that does not yet require an extremely high production capacity, a two-lane stick pack machine can be one of the most practical choices.
It provides the essential benefits of industrial automatic packaging while keeping the overall system relatively compact.
The machine is especially suitable when the customer requires:
high-quality packaging + stable running + accurate filling + precise sealing + moderate production capacity + reasonable investment.
It can therefore serve as a practical entry-level industrial solution before the manufacturer expands into higher-capacity 4-lane, 6-lane, or larger multi-lane production systems.
This 2-lane stick pack sachet packing machine can be customized for different single-dose liquid and gel products, especially:
Energy Gel / Sports Gel / Nutrition Gel / Carbohydrate Gel / Electrolyte Gel / Liquid Supplement Sachet
Different filling volumes, sachet lengths, sealing patterns and cutting shapes can be customized according to the actual product and packaging film.
For single-dose sports energy gel, a stick pack or sachet packaging machine equipped with a suitable liquid or gel filling system can be used. For this Italian project, a 2-lane machine with piston pump filling was selected for 50–60 ml sports gel sachets.
Yes. A 2-lane stick pack machine is particularly suitable for new projects and small to medium-sized manufacturers because it provides automatic packaging capability without requiring the higher investment associated with large multi-lane machines.
For this project, the finished sachet width is 50 mm, while the bag length can be adjusted between 90 and 160 mm.
Yes. The cutting system can be customized according to the customer's sachet drawing. This Italian project uses a customized shaped cutting design for easier opening.
The machine in this project is configured for 50–60 ml per sachet using a piston pump filling system.
Yes. This project uses an English and Italian HMI interface according to the customer's requirements.
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Foshan Samfull Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise engaged in the production, sales and research and development of intelligent packaging machines.
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