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08/30/2018

New KHS pouch system for single-serve formats

The KHS Group is expanding its portfolio: with its Innopouch IM Focus the systems supplier now provides a horizontal form/fill/seal pouching machine specially for the packaging of dry products in single-serve formats.

• Horizontal form/fill/seal pouching machine for dry products
• Flexible system developed for popular single-serve formats
• Pouches of between 50 and 240 millimeters in height

Dortmund, August 30, 2018 – The KHS Group is expanding its portfolio: with its Innopouch IM Focus the systems supplier now provides a horizontal form/fill/seal pouching machine specially for the packaging of dry products in single-serve formats. Operators of the cost-effective system with an output of up to 100 pouches a minute benefit from KHS’ many years of experience in the high-performance range. KHS has specifically developed the Innopouch IM Focus to cater for the requirements of its clients as the rise in popularity of the single-serve format now also applies to pouches. Into these the new system reliably packages dry products, such as beverage mixes, food products and powder for pharmaceutical and agricultural use. “All the advantages of the well-known KHS Bartelt® machines have gone into the development of this especially compact system,” explains Tom Brooker, senior product manager at KHS USA. On the KHS Innopouch IM Focus operators can produce three- and four-sided and bottom side seam pouches. Formats range from 50 millimeters in width and 50 millimeters in height to widths and heights of up to 195 and 240 millimeters respectively. Depending on the content the machine forms and fills up to 100 pouches a minute. In devising its new construction KHS paid particular attention to easy cleaning, resulting in considerable savings in both time and cost – especially when filling dry products. “With the Innopouch IM Focus we offer an effective, high-quality system for all single-serve variants to all companies, whether large or small, brand owner or co-packer,” states Brooker.

About KHS Bartelt

American company Bartelt has decisively shaped the market for pouch packaging machines since 1949 and sold over 4,000 machines and more than 1,000 cartoners worldwide. Taken over by KHS in 2003, Bartelt’s leading market position has since been further strengthened by various synergy effects and the pooling of expertise.

About the KHS Group

KHS is one of the leading manufacturers of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food and non-food industries. The KHS Group includes the following companies: KHS GmbH, KHS Corpoplast GmbH, NMP Systems GmbH and numerous subsidiaries outside Germany. KHS GmbH manufactures modern filling and packaging systems for the high-capacity range at its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, and at its factories in Bad Kreuznach, Kleve and Worms. The KHS Group's PET expertise is pooled at KHS Corpoplast GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, where innovative PET packaging and coating systems are developed and produced. NMP Systems GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KHS GmbH based in Kleve in Germany, designs and markets new, resource-saving packaging systems. In 2017 KHS and its 5,070 employees achieved a turnover of around €1.137 billion. The companies in the KHS Group are 100% subsidiaries of the MDAX-listed Salzgitter AG corporation.