Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Roberto Ghirardello

Renzo Bellei

Danilo Veroni

Alessandro Veronesi

Daniele Apparuti

Robert Bartolini

Simone Maini

Massimo Melotti

Cesare Bertacchini

There is described a packaging machine for producing sealed packages of pourable food products from a web of packaging material, comprising: an aseptic chamber through which web is fed and within which a sterilizing agent is applied onto web; a station which is arranged downstream from said aseptic chamber and in which a tube formed by web is, in use, fed; and a sealing device which separate chamber and station; packaging machine also comprise a conveyor fluidically connected with station and adapted to convey away residues of sterilizing agent from station.

Packaging machine and method for producing sealed packages of a food product from a web of a packaging material

There is described a unit for sterilizing a web of packaging material advanced along a given path, having, along a longitudinal portion thereof, a succession of pre-applied opening devices and adapted to be transformed in a plurality of sealed packages containing a pourable food product; the unit comprises a bath, containing a sterilizing agent in which the web with the opening devices is advanced, and an aseptic chamber connected to an outlet of the bath and housing drying mechanism for removing residual sterilizing agent from the web; the drying mechanism comprise an ejector located at a distance from the outlet of the bath and configured so as to direct a stream of air transversally to the web and onto the longitudinal portion of the web provided with the opening devices.

Unit for sterilizing a web of packaging material for a machine for packaging pourable food products

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Carpi, Italy

Roberto Ghirardello