Broager - Denmark's Tentoma has launched a new extra large packaging machine for nonwoven fabrics that offers high capacity and greater operating speeds.

The new XL Power packaging machine enables 6-sided sealed packaging of up to 19-meter-long products. For packaging of shorter products, XL Power can also stretch film for even more products per packaging cycle, which increases the packaging speed.

The first XL Power is already built and sold to replace an orbital wrapper. It is for a packaging line at a production site, where it will pack panels in varied sizes, all the way up to 13.5 m in length.

XL Power has been designed to produce more force for stretching film. It means that XL Power can load and stretch even more film on the gripper arms during the packaging process opening opportunities for more packaging improvements. Most obvious is the increased maximum length of the products, which now can be packed and protected by 6-sided waterproof packaging. Depending on product shape and film thickness, it is now possible to pack and seal products up to 19 meters long, an increase in product length of 50%, compared to the standard RoRo StretchPack XL machine.

The XL Power also offers increased packaging speeds. The ability to load and stretch even more film on the gripper arms increases the packaging speed when using the “Semiflow packaging” principle. “Semiflow packaging” enables the packaging of multiple products in a row before the machine needs to load more film on the gripper arms.

XL Power can load and stretch even more film on the gripper arms, so it is possible to pack even more products in a row compared to the XL machine, the company says. A comparison between XL and XL Power shows that when the XL machine packs 210 products per hour, the new XL Power machine packs 260 products.

Technical speaking, the new XL Power is a reinforced version of the proven RoRo StretchPack XL packaging machine.