Why choose stick packs over flat sachets?

Sticks consume significantly less film per dose, pour more cleanly into bottles and mouths, and present a modern shelf image. The trade-off is tighter film specifications and more delicate lane handling, so film qualification matters more than with sachet machines.

What limits the speed of a stick pack line?

Powder flowability and dosing accuracy usually cap speed before sealing does. Fine, aerated, or hygroscopic powders need slower auger cycles, settling time, or special agitation; liquids need drip-free nozzles to keep seals clean at rate.

What film structures do stick machines run?

Typical laminates are PET/alu/PE or paper/alu/PE for barrier products, and metallized PET/PE for cost-sensitive lines. The inner sealant layer must weld through minor powder contamination, so buyers should trial films with their actual product.

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Stick Pack Machine

This page explains how Stick Pack Machine is classified within Food Manufacturing. Technical values and manufacturer relationships are research references; confirm the current specification and supplier evidence for each order.

Technical Definition & Core Assembly

Multi-lane vertical packaging machine that forms narrow tube-shaped sachets from film, filling and sealing single-dose sticks of powder or liquid.

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Product Specifications

Technical details and manufacturing context for Stick Pack Machine

Definition

A stick pack machine slits a film web into multiple narrow lanes, forms each into a slim tube, and fills single-serve doses of coffee, sugar, electrolyte powders, sauces, or pharmaceutical granules before cross-sealing and cutting. Machines run 4 to 20 lanes producing up to roughly 1,500 sticks per minute total, with auger dosing for powders and piston pumps for liquids. The stick format uses 30 to 40 percent less film than pillow sachets for the same dose, which drives adoption in instant beverage and nutraceutical lines.

Working Principle

A wide film reel is slit into lanes; each lane wraps around a forming tube where a vertical seal creates the tube shape. Dosing units above each tube release the measured product between cross-seal cycles, and heated horizontal jaws seal, emboss, and cut the sticks, which drop to a takeaway conveyor or counting collator.

Common Materials

stainless steel 304 frame and contact parts, PTFE-coated sealing jaws, food-grade auger and hopper assemblies, hardened slitting knives, servo drives with PLC/HMI

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Commonly used trade names and technical identifiers for Stick Pack Machine.

lanes:	4-20 lanes per frame
products:	instant coffee, sugar, electrolytes, sauces, pharma granules
dose range:	0.5-50 g powder or 1-50 ml liquid
downstream:	counting collators, cartoners, multi-stick pouching
film types:	PET/alu/PE, paper laminates, metallized films

Stick Pack Machine

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