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Open mouth bag fillers weigh, fill, and seal different types and sizes of bags and containers with dry bulk solids and products like powders, flakes, granules, and irregular shaped pieces. The filled bags and containers usually fall in the 20 lb. - 110 lb. weight range. There are many different types of open mouth bag fillers including manual, semi-automatic, and automatic versions with filling speeds up to 24 bags per minute with 50 lb. bagging machines being the most popular. Once the bags have been filled, they are usually moved through a bag sealer or sealer machine. Then, they are conveyed to a station where the bags are palletized, stacked, and wrapped for shipping, storage, and sale.
To give you a good idea about the types of open mouth bag filling machines available, we have included different examples with descriptions, images, and videos. Learn more about filling plastic and paper bags with products like deer corn, seeds, cattle feed, fertilizer, wood pellets, flour, mixes, sugar, sand, pellets, and more. We have tried to include as many details as possible including how fast you can fill bags, how each machine operates, and how bag sealing works.
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Category | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
A co-op in Iowa replaced their existing bagging machine with a high-speed net-weigher used to fill 50Lb craft paper bags with cracked corn and pelleted feeds.
High-speed bagging machine added to existing packaging system
This cooperative grinds approximately 50,000+ bushels of corn per day at all of their feed mills. They primarily supply swine feed, but also produce cattle feed and dairy feed.
Category | Bag Handling Conveyors | Bag Sealers, Stitching, Sewing | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
The Grain and Corn Bagging System combines product storage, filling, and bag closing into one system. Efficiently fill and close 30-50 lb. paper and poly-woven open mouth style bags.
The system has been engineered for bagging deer corn (whole corn), feed, seed, and other grains. The manual, or mechanical, bagging option includes automatic weighing. The system is upgradeable to a higher packaging speed with the addition of a high-speed bag sewing system to quickly close the bags. Additional options are available including hand held bag sewing machines, bag flattening conveyors, and bag stacking systems.
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
The automatic bag placer machine picks up, hangs, and clamps an empty open mouth bag onto a bagger before product is discharged into a bag. Up to 20 bags per minute are possible and it works with both new / existing net weigh and gross weigh bagging scales. With this type of automation, one full-time operator can be removed from the bagging system.
Category | Bagging Equipment by Product | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
Dry pet food bagging systems and machines automatically weigh and fill 1-50 lb. bags, pouches, containers, and multi-wall open mouth bags with different types of dry pet food. This includes dog food, cat food, rabbit food, hamster food, food for mice, and more.
Fill small bags, pouches, and containers that weigh 1 – 10 pounds or larger open mouth paper or poly bags that weigh 10 – 50 pounds, or bulk bags that weigh up to 4,400 pounds. All packaging machines have an accuracy of +/- 0.5-1% of target weight and can operate at different bagging speeds.
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Bagging Equipment by Product | Open Mouth Bag Fillers | Small Bag Fillers |
This commercial equipment is used for repackaging bulk dry goods stored in bulk bags, bins, totes, pro boxes, 40-50Lb bags, and more into small bags, pouches, and containers.
Examples of free-flowing bulk dry goods to repackage or re-bag would be food products such as rice, nuts, coffee beans, sprinkles, pasta, beans, candy, seeds, dog food, and cat food as well as products such as feed pellets, wood pellets, and plastic pellets.
Category | Open Mouth Bag Fillers | Palletizing |
Bagging system, bag sewing system, and bag handling conveyors
This 40kg bagging system fills open mouth plastic bags with different types of livestock feed for poultry, pigs, dairy cows, sheep, and horses. This semi-automated system also includes a high-speed bagger, bag handling conveyors, and a palletizing robot with automatic pallet dispenser and pallet stretch wrapper.
Category | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
Filling 50 lb. bags with milk powder
This milk powder bag packing machine fills 50 lb. open mouth bags at a rate of 2-3 bags per minute. It provides an accurate and dust tight filling process. The machine is designed to be quickly and easily disassembled for access to internal components when cleaning and sanitation is required.
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
The video below shows an automated feed bagging system that quickly fills and packages multi-wall paper bags with 50lbs. of alfalfa pellets (pasture cubes or range cubes) to be used for livestock feed. This system uses a high-speed net weigh bagger with 2 internal weigh hoppers.
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Bag Handling Conveyors | Bag Sealers, Stitching, Sewing | Open Mouth Bag Fillers | Palletizing |
Auto Bagging and Palletizing System (click for larger image)
This auto bagging and palletizing system is designed to fill 50 lb. open mouth poly bags at a rate of 10 bags per minute. Free-flowing and dry bulk material flows from the 80 cu. ft. hopper into a net weigh gravity flow bagger that includes a vibrating feeder with gravity gate. The feeder doses a set amount of product into the internal weigh hopper.
Category | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
This aggregate bagging plant fills multiwall paper bags (also known as open top, 25kg kraft paper bags) with aggregate and crushed rock at a rate of 10 bags per minute. The plant also includes a dust collection system. The customer is adding a robotic palletizer to further automate the packaging process.
Category | Bulk Bag Fillers | Open Mouth Bag Fillers | Small Bag Fillers |
Choose from different types of seed bagging equipment to package seeds and grains into small snack bags, pouches, 50 lb. bags, and all the way up to 4,400 pound bulk bags. All machines have an accuracy of +/- 0.5-1% of target weight and can operate at different fill rates.
Fill bags with many different types of seeds and agricultural products such as soybean seeds
This type of equipment fills bags with many different types of agricultural products such as seeds and grains. This includes sunflower seeds, grass seeds, wheat seeds, corn seed, soybean seeds, barley, oats, rice, bird seed, alfalfa, rye, canola, and more.
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Bulk Bag Fillers | Open Mouth Bag Fillers | Small Bag Fillers | Valve Bag Fillers |
There are many different types of bagging machines using custom configurations to package many types of products. These products can range from agricultural products like corn, feed, and seed to chemical and industrial powders like graphite, gypsum, and barite.
Since 1978, we have seen it all!
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
This automatic plastic pellets bagging system fills 50 lb. poly bags at a continuous rate of 12-14 bags per minute with pellets that are used in various extrusion processes.
Both the bag placer and bag top reformer can operate in automatic or manual modes, allowing the system to continue to operate, even during maintenance or repairs of this equipment. Other automated systems do not allow for this type of feature and the entire packaging line must be shut down.
Auto Bagging and Palletizing System (click for larger image)
This type of packaging system can be used to pack plastic granules, or more slightly irregularly shaped free-flowing particles that are used in processing recycled plastics.
Category | Bag Handling Conveyors | Bag Sealers, Stitching, Sewing | Open Mouth Bag Fillers |
The NWB, or Net Weigh Bagger, is used for bagging BBQ wood smoker pellets at a rate of 20 tons per hour into open mouth bags. It is a great solution to accurately fill bags to a set target weight of 25 – 60 pounds.
