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Machinery options for adhesives, lubricants, sealants and heavier technical liquid products.
Application support
Thicker products need careful filling method selection and robust container handling. Machinery can be specified around product flow, fill accuracy and cleaning requirements.
Relevant machinery
Use these pages as a starting point, then send the details of your pack format and target output.
Application engineering
Adhesives, sealants and lubricants can create stringing, dripping, retained product and cleaning challenges that must be considered with the container and closure.
Provide product at the intended operating temperature and describe settling, thixotropy, particles or the effect of agitation. Generic viscosity labels are not enough for final selection.
The fill cycle should control drips, strings and product contact with the container finish. Trial observations help define nozzle position and cut-off needs.
Bottles, tubs, cartridges, caps and lids vary in strength and opening geometry. The complete component set should be reviewed with filled-pack handling.
Begin with the filling machinery guide and include handling where heavy or unstable filled packs must move to capping and labelling.
Provide the thinnest and most viscous products, the smallest and largest container openings and each cap or lid family. Explain the planned product sequence so retained material, recovery, cleaning and operator access are addressed before the product path is fixed.
Project resources
Use representative products and final packaging components to confirm the machinery duty. The strongest project evidence includes normal and difficult format combinations, the current method, retained operator work, required finished-pack checks and the intended production environment.
Continue with the first planning guide, second technical guide and related machinery or project page. The packaging automation resource centre provides the complete route from selection to handover.
Application evidence
Oils, greases, adhesives and sealants can create different product-supply, dosing, nozzle, cleanup and pack-handling demands.
Provide the actual product at operating temperature and describe whether it drips, strings, traps air, settles or changes with shear or time. Product-contact materials and cleaning or purge methods must be confirmed for the specific formulation.
The filled pack may be heavier or more sensitive to neck contamination than an empty sample suggests. Include closures, plugs, spouts and labels in the trial sequence so the finished pack, not only the dose, can be assessed.
Stringing occurs when the product forms a filament during cutoff or nozzle withdrawal, influenced by rheology, temperature, nozzle geometry, fill speed and movement. Trial the actual product and observe the cutoff sequence before selecting a mechanical or timing response.
A lubricant oil and an adhesive may share a machine only when the dosing principle, product-contact components, supply, nozzle, cleaning and operating range suit both applications. The difference in flow and cleanup can make separate product paths or dedicated equipment more practical, so confirm by engineering review and trials.
Thick and stringing products
Adhesives, greases and thick lubricants should be reviewed through the viscous and paste filling route when product feed, temperature, stringing, shut-off or cleaning differs from a free-flowing liquid. The actual product behaviour determines the pump, piston, valve and nozzle questions.
Representative trials should include the most difficult viscosity, any particulates or fibres, normal fill temperature and the final container opening. The project boundary should state how product is transferred from the source vessel, whether heating or agitation is needed and how retained material is safely removed between batches.
