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Schur now offers a fully automatic weighing/closing system for packing shisha tobacco into bags. The high-barrier Schur®Star stand-up bags, holding quantities from 200g to 1kg, carry a zipper to ensure that the shisha tobacco stays moist during storage and consumption.
Producers of shisha tobacco often face challenges deriving from the texture of shisha tobacco: it is a sticky matter, consisting of tobacco, molasses or honey, and flavors. The fact that product residue tends to stick to the bag opening in the filling process prevents effective sealing of the bag.
Schur has now refined the Schur®Star concept with an innovative technology that overcomes the challenges of packing shisha tobacco. By way of example, the technology employs a special feature that shapes the metered quantity of product into a block and fills this into the bag by means of a specially designed filling funnel. This results in product residue no longer clinging to the bag opening, and sealing problems caused by contamination are eliminated. No more costly downtime and packing speed and overall production capacity are improved considerably without increasing staffing.
Shisha tobacco is efficiently and reliably packed on the Schur®Star packing machine into Schur®Star stand-up bags. The premade bags are linked together on a string to ensure a smooth packing process. The Schur®Star concept gives the producer optimal flexibility and a minimum of complexity – in other words, the widest possible range of options in both packing process and packaging design. Changeover between product varieties, bag sizes, or bag constructions requires only a few minutes. There are no set-up times, the machine is easily integrated into an existing process, and filling can be combined with marking equipment.