page_title: Food packaging
section_title: Packaging machines
hierarchical_section_title: Food packaging / Packaging machines
caption_attribution_description: A section of the pastry packaging line at the bakery in the Costco Wholesale warehouse in South San Francisco, California.
context_page_description: Food packaging is packaging for food. A package provides protection, tampering resistance, and special physical, chemical, or biological needs. It may bear a nutrition facts label and other information about food being offered for sale.
context_section_description: A choice of packaging machinery requires consideration of technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility (change-over, materials, etc.), energy usage, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency, productivity, and ergonomics, at a minimum.
  Packaging machines may be of the following general types:
  Autocoding  label and date verification
  Blister-, skin- and  vacuum-packaging  machines
  Capping, over-capping, lidding, closing, seaming and sealing machines
  Cartoning machines
  Case and tray forming, packing, unpacking, closing and sealing Machines
  Check weighing machines
  Cleaning, sterilizing, cooling and drying machines
  Conveying and accumulating machines
  Feeding, orienting, and placing machines
  Filling machines for liquid and powdered products
  Package filling and closing Machines
  Form, fill and seal machines
  Inspecting, detecting and checkweighing machines
  Palletizing, depalletizing, and pallet unitizing machines
  Labeling, marking, and other product identification machines
  Wrapping machines
  Converting machines
caption: Shrink-wrapping trays of bakery goods
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