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HORIZONTAL FORM-FILL-SEAL [4 records]

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Record 1 1993-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging Techniques
  • Food Industries
CONT

Grace Culinary heat-seals pouches on a horizontal form-fill-seal system, places them in carts, then wheels the carts into the sous-vide processing room.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'emballage
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
DEF

Section d'une chaîne d'emballage disposant de machines qui fabriquent, remplissent et ferment les sachets une fois remplis.

OBS

Voir aussi la fiche «form-fill-seal machine» dans la banque Termium.

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 1991-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Packaging
CONT

New Microseal heat-sealable rollstock allows food packagers to create single-vessel, microwavable flexible packaging on high-speed, horizontal form-fill-seal machinery.... Microseal is metallized-polyester film laminated to printable, white bleached paper.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Emballages spéciaux
DEF

Pellicule de matériau souple (par ex.: complexes, feuilles d'aluminium mince ou feuille de cellophane, etc.) disponible en rouleau et que l'on emploie en emballage.

Spanish

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Record 4 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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