'Packet' is the word used where the pack is small and the count is large - namkeen, snacks, sweets, dry fruit, spices sold by the packet, a kirana unit packing its own brand. The machine question in this trade is almost always about speed rather than film.
Packet sealing is the trade where a hand machine is outgrown fastest. A small packet takes seconds to seal, which sounds fine until you multiply it by the number of packets a namkeen or sweet unit makes in a morning. The operator, not the machine, becomes the limit.
The other feature of this trade is that the packet is the product's face. A customer picking a packet off a shelf reads a straight, clean seal as a properly made product and a wrinkled or scorched one as a home job, whatever is inside. Consistency of seal matters commercially here in a way it does not in a godown.
The count is what decides the machine
Be honest about the number, including the peak rather than the average. Festival and season peaks are when a unit discovers its machine is too slow, and that is the worst possible time to find out.
Up to a few dozen packets a day - a hand sealer is right and nothing more is needed.
A few hundred, in bursts - a foot sealer, so the operator keeps both hands on the packet and works in a rhythm.
Steady packing through a shift - a table top machine built for continuous use.
Packets waiting for the machine - a continuous band sealer. Packets feed through on a belt and the machine never cools between them.
This is the practical problem that separates snack packing from every other kind. Oil, masala dust and fine powder get onto the inside of the packet mouth while it is being filled, and a seal made across contaminated film is a weak seal.
No machine solves that on its own. What helps is filling that keeps the mouth clean, a moment to wipe or shake the mouth before sealing, and a machine whose setting has enough margin to fuse through a little contamination. Tell us what is in the packet and how it is filled - it changes the recommendation.
Vertical band sealers and why snack units use them
A packet of loose namkeen or a powder will spill if the packet is tilted, which is what a horizontal conveyor does. A band sealer configured to run the packet upright keeps the contents at the bottom while the mouth travels through the seal.
If your product would fall out of a tilted packet, say so on the enquiry. It is the detail that decides between two machines that otherwise look the same.
Snack packets are often gas flushed so the product is cushioned and stays crisp. That is not something a plain sealer does - it needs a machine that flushes the packet as it seals.
If your packets are currently sealed flat and you want them to look like the branded ones on a shelf, this is the range to look at rather than a bigger sealer.
A packet sealing machine rarely disappoints on its own. It disappoints because of where it was put.
The usual snack or namkeen bench runs frying or roasting, then cooling, then weighing, then filling, then sealing. If the sealer is placed immediately after filling with no space in between, packets arrive at the machine warm, and warm product means steam inside the packet and moisture on the film - which is one of the commonest causes of a seal that looks fine and opens later.
The second placement mistake is having nowhere to set a packet down. An operator who has to hold the packet with one hand, keep it upright so the contents do not spill, and press a bar with the other is working against the machine.
Neither problem is fixed by buying a bigger sealer. Cooling before packing, a small ledge beside the machine, and a format that leaves both hands free will do more for your output than the next model up.
Tell us what the bench looks like and how the product arrives at it. It changes the recommendation more often than the daily count does.
Packet size and the bar it needs
Measure the packet mouth laid flat and pick a bar longer than it. Small 4 × 6 inch tea and spice packets close on the 8 inch sealer, which takes mouths up to 190 mm. A 500 g namkeen packet of 10 × 12 inch needs the 12 inch (up to 290 mm), and so do most 1 kg dal and sugar packets. Courier-size packs move to the 16 inch, and 5 to 10 kg atta packets to the 20 inch.
Packet sealing machine price
A hand packet sealer starts at ₹1,348 + ₹243 GST for the 8 inch Standard; the Heavy Duty version for all-day packing starts at ₹2,348 + ₹423 GST. Where packets come off a filling bench without a break, the CS900 continuous band sealer starts at ₹12,812 + ₹2,306 GST, and the CS900AF, which flushes air into chips packets as it seals, at ₹40,320 + ₹7,258 GST. Packets that must carry a printed date can go on the CS1100, which has a steel wheel printer.
When a hand sealer is enough
If one person fills and seals a few hundred packets in a day, a hand sealer keeps up and costs a fraction of a band sealer. When packets queue at the sealer and the filler waits, that is the point to move to a band sealer, not to a faster hand.
Packet sealing by trade
Tea and spice sellers: small 4 × 6 inch packets, closed on an 8 inch hand sealer. Chemists: medicine covers, also on the 8 inch. Bakeries: 8 × 10 inch bread and pav bags on the 10 inch. Namkeen units: 500 g packets of 10 × 12 inch on the 12 inch, or on a band sealer once the line runs all day. Online sellers and garment shops: 12 × 16 inch courier and garment bags on the 16 inch. Chakkis and rice mills: 5 and 10 kg atta and rice packets on the 20 inch.
How the seal looks
A hand impulse sealer leaves a neat 2 mm line across the mouth. A band sealer runs a wider 8 to 10 mm band along the top of the packet, and the hot bar foot sealer a 10 mm seal. For a printed retail packet the wider band often looks more finished; for a plain poly packet the 2 mm line is all that is needed.
Horizontal or vertical band sealer
The CS900 band sealer comes as the CS900L, which carries packets lying flat, and the CS900V, which carries them standing up on the belt. Both seal at up to 12 metres a minute with an 8 to 10 mm band and take up to 3 kg on the conveyor. For wider packets the CS900LW and CS900VW have a 300 mm conveyor and take up to 5 kg, and the CS1100 takes up to 10 kg and can print a date with its steel wheel printer. If the packet film is new to you, post a few empty packets for a free seal test before choosing.
That depends on your operator and your packet, so a figure from us would be a guess. The useful test is simpler: if packets are waiting for the machine, you have outgrown it.
Our seals fail on oily packets. What fixes it?
Usually a cleaner packet mouth at filling rather than a different machine. Tell us what is in the packet and how it is filled and we will be straight about what a machine can and cannot do.
Can the packet be gas flushed and sealed together?
That is a specific machine type. Say at the enquiry that you want flushing - it is not something added to a plain sealer afterwards.
Horizontal or vertical band sealer?
Vertical if your product spills when the packet is tilted, which is true of most loose snacks and powders. Horizontal for packets that lie flat without losing anything.
Our packets seal warm and open later. Why?
Warm product puts steam inside the packet and moisture on the film. Cooling before packing usually fixes it - a bigger machine does not.
'Packet' is the word used where the pack is small and the count is large - namkeen, snacks, sweets, dry fruit, spices sold by the packet, a kirana unit packing its own brand. The machine question in this trade is almost always about speed rather than film.
Packet sealing is the trade where a hand machine is outgrown fastest. A small packet takes seconds to seal, which sounds fine until you multiply it by the number of packets a namkeen or sweet unit makes in a morning. The operator, not the machine, becomes the limit.
The other feature of this trade is that the packet is the product's face. A customer picking a packet off a shelf reads a straight, clean seal as a properly made product and a wrinkled or scorched one as a home job, whatever is inside. Consistency of seal matters commercially here in a way it does not in a godown.
The count is what decides the machine
Be honest about the number, including the peak rather than the average. Festival and season peaks are when a unit discovers its machine is too slow, and that is the worst possible time to find out.
Up to a few dozen packets a day - a hand sealer is right and nothing more is needed.
A few hundred, in bursts - a foot sealer, so the operator keeps both hands on the packet and works in a rhythm.
Steady packing through a shift - a table top machine built for continuous use.
Packets waiting for the machine - a continuous band sealer. Packets feed through on a belt and the machine never cools between them.
This is the practical problem that separates snack packing from every other kind. Oil, masala dust and fine powder get onto the inside of the packet mouth while it is being filled, and a seal made across contaminated film is a weak seal.
No machine solves that on its own. What helps is filling that keeps the mouth clean, a moment to wipe or shake the mouth before sealing, and a machine whose setting has enough margin to fuse through a little contamination. Tell us what is in the packet and how it is filled - it changes the recommendation.
Vertical band sealers and why snack units use them
A packet of loose namkeen or a powder will spill if the packet is tilted, which is what a horizontal conveyor does. A band sealer configured to run the packet upright keeps the contents at the bottom while the mouth travels through the seal.
If your product would fall out of a tilted packet, say so on the enquiry. It is the detail that decides between two machines that otherwise look the same.
Snack packets are often gas flushed so the product is cushioned and stays crisp. That is not something a plain sealer does - it needs a machine that flushes the packet as it seals.
If your packets are currently sealed flat and you want them to look like the branded ones on a shelf, this is the range to look at rather than a bigger sealer.
A packet sealing machine rarely disappoints on its own. It disappoints because of where it was put.
The usual snack or namkeen bench runs frying or roasting, then cooling, then weighing, then filling, then sealing. If the sealer is placed immediately after filling with no space in between, packets arrive at the machine warm, and warm product means steam inside the packet and moisture on the film - which is one of the commonest causes of a seal that looks fine and opens later.
The second placement mistake is having nowhere to set a packet down. An operator who has to hold the packet with one hand, keep it upright so the contents do not spill, and press a bar with the other is working against the machine.
Neither problem is fixed by buying a bigger sealer. Cooling before packing, a small ledge beside the machine, and a format that leaves both hands free will do more for your output than the next model up.
Tell us what the bench looks like and how the product arrives at it. It changes the recommendation more often than the daily count does.
Packet size and the bar it needs
Measure the packet mouth laid flat and pick a bar longer than it. Small 4 × 6 inch tea and spice packets close on the 8 inch sealer, which takes mouths up to 190 mm. A 500 g namkeen packet of 10 × 12 inch needs the 12 inch (up to 290 mm), and so do most 1 kg dal and sugar packets. Courier-size packs move to the 16 inch, and 5 to 10 kg atta packets to the 20 inch.
Packet sealing machine price
A hand packet sealer starts at ₹1,348 + ₹243 GST for the 8 inch Standard; the Heavy Duty version for all-day packing starts at ₹2,348 + ₹423 GST. Where packets come off a filling bench without a break, the CS900 continuous band sealer starts at ₹12,812 + ₹2,306 GST, and the CS900AF, which flushes air into chips packets as it seals, at ₹40,320 + ₹7,258 GST. Packets that must carry a printed date can go on the CS1100, which has a steel wheel printer.
When a hand sealer is enough
If one person fills and seals a few hundred packets in a day, a hand sealer keeps up and costs a fraction of a band sealer. When packets queue at the sealer and the filler waits, that is the point to move to a band sealer, not to a faster hand.
Packet sealing by trade
Tea and spice sellers: small 4 × 6 inch packets, closed on an 8 inch hand sealer. Chemists: medicine covers, also on the 8 inch. Bakeries: 8 × 10 inch bread and pav bags on the 10 inch. Namkeen units: 500 g packets of 10 × 12 inch on the 12 inch, or on a band sealer once the line runs all day. Online sellers and garment shops: 12 × 16 inch courier and garment bags on the 16 inch. Chakkis and rice mills: 5 and 10 kg atta and rice packets on the 20 inch.
How the seal looks
A hand impulse sealer leaves a neat 2 mm line across the mouth. A band sealer runs a wider 8 to 10 mm band along the top of the packet, and the hot bar foot sealer a 10 mm seal. For a printed retail packet the wider band often looks more finished; for a plain poly packet the 2 mm line is all that is needed.
Horizontal or vertical band sealer
The CS900 band sealer comes as the CS900L, which carries packets lying flat, and the CS900V, which carries them standing up on the belt. Both seal at up to 12 metres a minute with an 8 to 10 mm band and take up to 3 kg on the conveyor. For wider packets the CS900LW and CS900VW have a 300 mm conveyor and take up to 5 kg, and the CS1100 takes up to 10 kg and can print a date with its steel wheel printer. If the packet film is new to you, post a few empty packets for a free seal test before choosing.
Questions we are asked about this
How many packets an hour will a hand machine do?
That depends on your operator and your packet, so a figure from us would be a guess. The useful test is simpler: if packets are waiting for the machine, you have outgrown it.
Our seals fail on oily packets. What fixes it?
Usually a cleaner packet mouth at filling rather than a different machine. Tell us what is in the packet and how it is filled and we will be straight about what a machine can and cannot do.
Can the packet be gas flushed and sealed together?
That is a specific machine type. Say at the enquiry that you want flushing - it is not something added to a plain sealer afterwards.
Horizontal or vertical band sealer?
Vertical if your product spills when the packet is tilted, which is true of most loose snacks and powders. Horizontal for packets that lie flat without losing anything.
Our packets seal warm and open later. Why?
Warm product puts steam inside the packet and moisture on the film. Cooling before packing usually fixes it - a bigger machine does not.
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