As a technician who has been working in the packaging equipment industry for eight years, I know the pain points of coffee brands too well. In the past two years, the boutique coffee market has been very competitive. It is not enough to just compete on the quality of beans, and the packaging shape must also have a memorable point. Last week, a customer came to the door with a sample of hexagonal coffee granules: "This shape is the core symbol of our brand, but ordinary packaging machines on the market can't seal the corners at all. Can you solve it?"
Hey, you asked the right person! The third-generation coffee granule packaging machine developed by our factory is specially designed to cure the "disobedience" of various special-shaped granules. For shapes with sharp edges like triangles and pentagons, traditional equipment is prone to leaking or breaking bags due to uneven pressure during heat sealing. Our solution is to use a "little trick" on the heat sealing module of the packaging machine - through the flexible pressure adjustment system, it can accurately fit every edge line like wrapping coffee particles with the palm of your hand. Last year, this technology was used to package diamond-shaped particles for a coffee farm in Yunnan, and the customer reported that the shelf life was directly extended by 30%.
Of course, sealing technology alone is not enough. When many customers come to us with design drawings, the biggest headache is that they can't find quantitative filling equipment suitable for special-shaped particles. Our factory's coffee particle packaging machine is equipped with a multi-stage vibration sorting module. Regardless of whether it is spherical, flake or polygonal three-dimensional shape, it can achieve accurate material drop through amplitude adjustment. Last time, when we tested the star-shaped particle packaging for overseas customers, the error of 250g/bag was controlled within ±0.8g, and the assembly line speed could be maintained at 35 bags/minute. The customer made a decision on the spot.
If we talk about the new trends in the industry in the past two years, customized mold development is definitely on the list. We have set up a special-shaped packaging laboratory. From receiving the customer's design draft to making a sample mold, it can be done in as fast as three days. There is a customer who makes geological-themed coffee, which is particularly interesting. He insists on making coffee particles in the shape of a volcanic cone. Our engineers took the geological profile to the workshop for three days and debugged the mold assembly with the tilt adjustment function. Now this batch of limited packaging has become a popular online model.
In the past years of debugging equipment in the workshop, I have deeply realized that a good coffee particle packaging machine must not only be able to "package", but also to "protect". Our equipment has specially added an automatic nitrogen filling module to complete gas replacement within 0.3 seconds before sealing. Don't underestimate this detail. Last year, a customer who made cold brew coffee tablets tested that the integrity of the particles in nitrogen-filled packaging was nearly 40% higher than that of ordinary packaging. When opening the bag, the aroma of fresh grinding can be smelled through the packaging bag.
From the laboratory to the production line, we always believe that packaging should not be a shackle on creativity, but an amplifier of brand stories. Next time you encounter the problem of packaging irregular-shaped coffee granules, you may want to visit our workshop. Looking at the packaging machines that are "tailor-made" for coffee granules, you may be able to come up with the next hot-selling inspiration.
