BEUMER Group: Determining the Venting Capacity of Bags with a Mobile Unit

Press release

BEUMER Group: Determining the venting capacity of bags with a mobile unit Doing away with air!

With the BEUMER bag tester, BEUMER Group has developed a testing device which is easy to transport and enables users to exactly determine the venting capacity of any type of valve bag – including all paper and plastic layers, and glued areas. The determined parameters can be used to optimise the manufacture of bags or check conformity with specifications.

Bags filled with bulk material are then stacked flat on pallets after being closed. These stacks are only stable if the air has been removed from the bags lying on top of each other. Therefore, the remaining air needs to escape from the filled bags before they are closed. The quicker this happens, the higher the filling capacity. The new BEUMER bag tester provides users with important information on the filling behaviour of each bag. This is relevant for the manufacture of bags and filling technology, as well as for transport and logistics.

A pressure-compensated flow control valve on the device constantly increases the volume flow rate until a steady pressure of 50 mbar is reached. With this pressure, the user can read the current volume flow rate, which indicates the air permeability, from the flow-rate meter. A filling spout with inflatable sleeve seals the bag valve during the air flow measurements. The scope of supply includes an additional inflatable sleeve for valve widths of up to 200 millimetres.

The BEUMER bag tester can be easily operated with the digital display unit. Thanks to this feature, the bag tester is quick to use and new users can operate it without much briefing. BEUMER Group has designed the BEUMER bag tester for mobile use. For this purpose, the device weighs just 14 kilograms and is housed in a stable hard-top case on wheels.

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PR contact BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG Regina Schnathmann: Tel. + 49 (0) 2521 24 381, [email protected] Verena Breuer: Tel. + 49 (0) 2521 24 317, [email protected]. www.beumergroup.com

Agency a1kommunikation Schweizer GmbH, Dr. Matthias Schweizer Tel. + 49 (0) 711 9454161 0, [email protected] www.a1kommunikation.de

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Meta-title: Determining the venting capacity of bags with a mobile unit

Meta-Description: With the BEUMER bag tester, BEUMER Group has developed a portable testing device on wheels to determine the venting capacity of valve bags.

Keywords: BEUMER Group BEUMER bag tester valve bags bag tester venting capacity air permeability volume flow rate filling machine

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Picture 1: The BEUMER bag tester enables users to exactly determine the venting capacity of any type of valve bag.

Picture 2: The BEUMER bag tester can be easily operated with the digital display unit.

Picture credits: BEUMER Group GmbH & Co. KG

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The BEUMER Group is an international leader in the manufacture of intralogistics systems for conveying, loading, palletising, packaging, sortation, and distribution. With 4,000 employees worldwide, the BEUMER Group has annual sales of about EUR 750 million. BEUMER Group and its subsidiaries and sales agencies provide their customers with high- quality system solutions and an extensive customer support network around the globe and across a wide range of industries, including bulk materials and piece goods, food/non-food, construction, mail order, mail and airport baggage handling. For further information visit www.beumergroup.com.

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