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HFFS [3 records]

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Record 1 1994-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging in Plastic
CONT

"There's no difference between flowrapping and HFFS"(horizontal-form-fill seal], says one machinery pro. "Flowrapping is a European term for what Americans call HFFS. "Others disagree completely. Says a manufacturer who does so. "You have to differentiate between either making the bag first or forming a bag around the product. A flowrapper makes the bag around the product. But I am using a machine to make a bag first and then fill it. "Yet another variation on the theme are horizontal machines that use premade pouches.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Emballages en matières plastiques
DEF

Technique d'emballage consistant à envelopper de la marchandise (produits alimentaires, petits objets) sous sachet tubulaire de dimensions prédéterminées provenant d'une bobine de film plastique.

Spanish

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Record 2 1993-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging Machinery and Equipment
CONT

Horizontal form-fill-seal(HFFS) machines... utilize packaging materials in roll-stock form. The roll is placed on a mandrel on one end of the machine and is fed through a series of rollers.... The web is then drawn over the machine bed and through a forming shoulder. The product is placed on the moving web and the forming shoulder shapes the web around the product into a tube. A back seal is then made by heated rollers....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines et équipement d'emballage
DEF

Machine d'ensachage combinant les opérations de formage, d'ensachage et de scellage sur un plan horizontal, c'est-à-dire que le défilement de la pellicule et des paquets remplis se fait en position couchée.

OBS

Proposés d'après "formeuse-ensacheuse-scelleuse verticale" figurant dans le "Vocabulaire des sacs" de l'OLF.

Spanish

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Record 3 1989-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Packaging
DEF

Refers to equipment that forms, fills and seals bags horizontally.

OBS

"HFFS" is an abbreviation used by the multilayer flexible packaging industry in its system of notation of converting materials.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Emballages spéciaux
DEF

Locution se rapportant aux machines d'ensachage qui exécutent les opérations de formage, d'ensachage et de scellage sur un plan horizontal.

OBS

Proposés d'après le syntagme "formage, ensachage et scellage" apparaissant dans la définition de "formeuse-ensacheuse-scelleuse verticale" du Vocabulaire des sacs de l'OLF.

Spanish

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