A tube-filling machine, more often than not, does
not get the importance given to upstream process line machineries. The user considers it a mere packaging machine instead of an
integrated process line machine. While preparing a project report, requirement of tube filler is added-on as an afterthought. A ladle is
as important as the soup. Many a heartburn can be avoided if selection of tube filling machinery is given due importance.
Steps:
1) Appoint / hire an experienced operator and a maintenance engineer. Quality of these two will ensure optimum utilization of
installed tube filling machine. Will anyone trust his 2006 model six-door sedan to a hackney coach driver?
2) Does the filler material require any special considerations before and after filling? Convey its bulk density, viscosity and other
peculiarities to the tube filler manufacturer. Collect sealed sample tubes from the non-metallic tube supplier along with certificate
stating the temperature and minimum time required for tube sealing. Make sure the tube has been subjected to proper tests for seal
strength. This information will help the manufacturer in calculating expected capacity of the tube filler more accurately. Any variation
in the tube quality, its size and filler characteristics affect output.
3) What is the standard of 'after-sales-service' of the manufacturer? Check this up from actual users. People get pickier while
buying their six-door sedan than their machinery (tube-filler in present context). It should be understood, the former eats-up our
money while the latter earns.
4) Now where to buy from? There was a time, say about 30 years back, when anybody wishing to buy the latest model of
machine had to look westward. East was only for supplying raw material. Those days are gone and the East has developed
tremendously. Consider this – engines for most advanced aircrafts are made in Asia, Ford tests it latest designs at Suzuki,
Microsoft/IBM and the rest depend on their very sustenance on Asia. Cheaper labour cost, higher intelligence combined with its
famous industriousness, Asia (more particularly India) has really shaken the western world out of its complacency.
Author's Bio:
Manan Ghosh has tremendous experienced and exposure in Packaging Industry and presently working as the General Manager(Sales)
with Subnil Packaging Machineries Pvt. - A market leader in
Tube Packaging Machinery in Asia. For more Information visit: http://www.subnil.com/
