#drum filling

It is a general fact that fillers or technically known as filling machines are those equipment or machinery that is used in the packaging, especially in the food and beverage sector. Packers, fillers or filling machines are essential in filling and packing of finished products in other sectors as well. Although the filling machine is significant machinery in almost all the food product manufacturing industries, they play a vital role in the pharmaceutical industry. Since the pharmaceutical industry is totally dependent on the filling machines, it is in a way an indispensable device. Be it a syrup, cream or paste filling machines are employed in every case. This apart the parenteral medicines like injections need special kids of fillers that are called ampule filling machines, and are mandatory machinery in every pharmaceutical unit, that manufactures injections, u v fluids and similar products.

The type of pharmaceutical product determines the particular filling machine that is to be used. The product to be filled, swiftness, quality to be maintained, shelf life, technical feasibility and other aspects. The first type of filling machine is the flow filler, specifically designed and developed for filling liquids and oil based products. While these kinds of Liquid Filling Equipment  fill the bottles both big and small, and open up on the conveyors for sealing and are most suitable for syrups, and less viscous liquid pharmaceutical preparations. Another significant filling machine used in this sector is the tablet filler, designed for tablet filling in which the fillers count the number of pieces and fill them accordingly into bottles. Pump filling machines are important fillers that are used to for filling lotions, creams, gels and other heavy paste products. This filling machine also can fill creams, sauces, shampoo, conditioners, and so on.

Automatic drum filler for automatic and W&M approved filling of 200l steel or plastics drums. 50l drums can also be filled by using ancillary equipment.

Feige offers even more stages of expansion for the drum filling machine “Type 33” for the filling of steel and plastic drums.

Feige Filling is one of the leading manufacturers of filling machines for liquid and pasty products. They deal in manufacturing of drum filing systems, pallet filing systems, can/pail filing systems, bag filing systems, conveyor systems and palletizing systems.

Feige Filling offers a range of products under the can and pail filling systems particularly to meet the requirements of the customers on gravimeter filling of pails. Choice can be made from a variety of fully automatic and semi-automatic filling machines. A complete system for fully automatic packaging processes can also be provided with a combination of filling equipment with conveyor and palletizing system.

Feige Filling offers cost-effective and quality pail and can filling products that can fill cans and pails of up to 60 kg. "SlimLine" Pail Filler Type 4 is one such kind of system. This filler system comes with a simple design and is made of stainless steel. This filler fulfills all the major functions and requirements as expected from gravimetric filler. This filler comprises of a large number of proven components from the Feige modular system like the filling valve with minimum dead space and quick change connector. Also, it can be integrated with many cost-effective accessories.

Another system for filling pails and cans is known as the Plug and Fill Pail/Can Filling Station Type 14. In this, positioning of the empty pails is done manually to the filling unit and the pails get filled automatically as per W&M legislation (maximum weight 60kg). A mobile filling station can help in saving a lot of money within the internal production process by either using the system for the filling of uncritical liquid, pasty products or for zone 1 hazardous area application.

These mobile "Plug & Fill" machines can be directly brought to the tank as they are supplied either with rollers or via floor conveyors hence sparing the need of complex piping and hosing. No foundation is required. Compressed air supply is connected simply via connectors and then the power supply is put on. Hence, the same machine is useful at different filling places for the filling of different products into cans, pails, drums or IBC.

Feige Filling Technology Pte Ltd specializes in drum fillers which are well known in the chemical and the petrochemical industries. Its competitive advantages lie in its safety devices which fulfill the safety requirements at the work site and at the same time enable filling for many important products. Feige offers a range of drum filling systems that is catered for gravimetric filling of drums.

These systems are either semi-automatic or fully automatic and can be integrated with its other conveyor and palletising systems to form a complete packaging system. The SlimLine Filler Type 9 is a stainless steel drum filler that satisfies a maximum weight of 300 kilograms. It is cost effective with its plug and fill capability that can be mounted for production straight away.

After attaching a power supply and connecting the compressed air and product line, liquids up to 300 kilograms can be filled immediately into the drum. Another feature of this model is the minimum dead space and its self-adjusting sealing filling valves. Connectors are available for readily switching of product and fast cleaning. In conclusion, this model is a new compact series that is easy to use for its price conscious clients.

The Type 29 Drum Filling Equipment for semi-automatic filling according to W&M legislation of drums and containers of up to 300kg, increment 100g. The bunghole of the container is manually positioned. After the START button has been pressed, the weigh scale automatically tares and the container is filled in coarse and fine fill. Extensive conveyor and palletizing systems can be integrated. Also available for hazardous area application.

The Type 19 is also a no frills plug and fill product that is used for non-critical liquids. It is similar to the Type 9 where it is good to go once power supply is attached and compressed air supply is connected. Its capacity is same as Type 9 with a maximum of 300 kilograms.

Feige Filling has a drum inspection system which is known as Video Assisted Drum Inspection Station. The drum inspection system is an automatic system that is based on visuals. If there are any foreign objects in the drum, this will affect the filling process as well as the quality of the contents that are filled. In the worst case scenario, the filled materials may even be contaminated and will not be suited to be used for their original purpose.

Having a drum inspection system from Feige Filling ensures that drums can be checked automatically with ease. Instead of manually checking each drum visually using human labour, the drum inspection system takes images of the interior of the drum automatically. This reduces the amount of time needed as well as maintains the consistency of the checks that are performed on each drum. Whenever an object is found inside the drum, an error message alert will be created.

At the same time, the affected drum is prevented to be used in the filling process. The operator will decide if the drum can be rectified. If it is not possible to rectify, the entire drum is removed from the filling process flow. A useful feature of the Feige Filling’s drum inspection system is the ability to store all the images taken by the system so that they can be retrieved anytime in future.

This archiving capability makes it possible to prove the quality of the filling process and may be incorporated as part of the quality assurance process. The drum inspection system also improves the quality management for filling drums. Despite the efforts to ensure that the drums are free from foreign objects, there still lies a possibility that a foreign object may be able to find its way into one of the drums just before it is used for filling.

As such, it is worthwhile to invest in a drum inspection system to ensure 100 percent that the drums are completely safe to be filled.Prevention is always better than cure. The drum inspection system acts as a prevention method in the quality control process by warning the operator that the final deliverable will be affected if a contaminated drum is continued to be filled. Having the drum inspection system gives the quality assurance a higher level of confidence.

A higher level of quality is always a must in order to ensure higher customer satisfaction and lower complaints. The additional of a drum inspection system into the filling system is available from Feige Filling at an economical and affordable price.This additional investment will definitely be recouped in terms of the cost savings from the lesser quantity of filled drums being rejected due to the prevention of using contaminated drums.

Feige Filling Technology Pte Ltd specializes in drum fillers which are well known in the chemical and the petrochemical industries. Its competitive advantages lie in its safety devices which fulfill the safety requirements at the work site and at the same time enable filling for many important products. Feige offers a range of drum filling systems that is catered for gravimetric filling of drums.

These systems are either semi-automatic or fully automatic and can be integrated with its other conveyor and palletising systems to form a complete packaging system. The SlimLine Filler Type 9 is a stainless steel drum filler that satisfies a maximum weight of 300 kilograms. It is cost effective with its plug and fill capability that can be mounted for production straight away.

After attaching a power supply and connecting the compressed air and product line, liquids up to 300 kilograms can be filled immediately into the drum. Another feature of this model is the minimum dead space and its self-adjusting sealing filling valves. Connectors are available for readily switching of product and fast cleaning. In conclusion, this model is a new compact series that is easy to use for its price conscious clients.

The Type 19 is also a no frills plug and fill product that is used for non-critical liquids. It is similar to the Type 9 where it is good to go once power supply is attached and compressed air supply is connected. Its capacity is same as Type 9 with a maximum of 300 kilograms.

Feige Filling Technology Pte Ltd specializes in drum fillers which are well known in the chemical and the petrochemical industries. Its competitive advantages lie in its safety devices which fulfill the safety requirements at the work site and at the same time enable filling for many important products.

Feige offers a range of drum filling systems that is catered for gravimetric filling of drums. These systems are either semi-automatic or fully automatic and can be integrated with its other conveyor and palletising systems to form a complete packaging system. The SlimLine Filler Type 9 is a stainless steel drum filler that satisfies a maximum weight of 300 kilograms.

It is cost effective with its plug and fill capability that can be mounted for production straight away. After attaching a power supply and connecting the compressed air and product line, liquids up to 300 kilograms can be filled immediately into the drum. Another feature of this model is the minimum dead space and its self-adjusting sealing filling valves. Connectors are available for readily switching of product and fast cleaning.

In conclusion, this model is a new compact series that is easy to use for its price conscious clients. The Type 19 is also a no frills plug and fill product that is used for non-critical liquids. It is similar to the Type 9 where it is good to go once power supply is attached and compressed air supply is connected. Its capacity is same as Type 9 with a maximum of 300 kilograms.

These drum filling systems are available in either top fill only or bottom up fill (subsurface) configurations. Top Drum Filling configurations are less expensive but limited to non foaming bulk products. Bottom up drum filling configurations are very flexible systems capable of filling almost any bulk product within a wide range of foamy characteristics and viscosities.