A flexible container is provided. The flexible container includes four panels. The four panels form (i) a body portion; (ii) a neck portion, and a flare portion that extends from the neck portion; (iii) a tapered transition portion between the body portion and the neck portion; and (iv) the neck portion has a reduced width. The flare portion has an expanded end. The width of the flare portion gradually increases from the neck portion to the expanded end.

Film strip (1) for wrapping food or pharma products, packaging made thereof and a process for manufacturing said packaging. The film strip (1) is made of a flexible and foldable composite film comprising a continuous protection layer (70) and on one outermost side of the composite film at least partly a sealing layer (11) which forms at least on one end part (12, 14) a sealing band (5, 6), wherein one sealing band (5) is further spaced apart from the corresponding end face (15) than the other one (6). The composite film comprises further at least one polymer layer (11, 70, 72) having at least one weakening line (40), wherein the weakening line/s start/s from the end face (15) whose sealing band (5) is further spaced apart from the corresponding end face (15) than the other sealing band (6), the weakening line/s extend/s further through said end part (14) and along the whole longitudinal extension B1 of the adjacent sealing band (5) or through the polymer film (11, 70, 72) lying above the whole longitudinal extension B1 of the sealing band (5) and further extend/s continuously into at least a part of said polymer layer (11, 70, 72) adjacent to said area of or above said sealing band (5) in the direction of the first end face (13).

A machine for making packages containing liquid or creamy products includes stations for punching/forming a first blank defining upper, lower and rear faces of the open package. A punching and creasing station forms a second blank defining first and second lateral faces of the package. The second blank has a notch for partial transversal separation between the first and second lateral faces. A station for assembling the first blank with the second blank for opening/closing the package with the notch of the two lateral faces, arranged in a V, to form an edge of the package. A transport unit is movable along a feed direction and configured to receive the package from the assembly station. A station opens the edge and fills the package with a dose of the product fed through the open notch. A station seals the notch.

A method of making a storage bag comprising the following steps performed in any order: (a) forming a composite tube having an inner surface comprising a higher melting polymer, an outer surface comprising a lower melting polymer, two ends, and a diameter; (b) flattening the tube in a direction perpendicular to the diameter; (c) forming a joint at one of the ends at a temperature between respective melting points of the higher melting polymer and the lower melting polymer; (d) providing a composite sheet having a first side comprising a higher melting polymer and a second side comprising a lower melting polymer; and (e) disposing the composite sheet over the joint such that the first side comprising a lower melting polymer engages the joint and forming a lap seam over the joint at a temperature between respective melting points of the higher melting polymer and the lower melting polymer, and a storage bag made by such method.

A system for the production of a medical product, above all in the form of an ostomy bag, as well as a method for operation of such a system, uses a highly flexible modular system concept, in which individual feed lines for semi-finished products are provided. The feed lines can transfer semi-finished products to a main line in pre-assembled manner. In the main line, ultimate processing of the semi-finished products to produce the finished product or a further semi-finished product takes place, with the greatest possible work precision, in contrast to conventional systems that guide different film systems in different planes at a distance from one another, to allow pre-processing steps, before bringing the films together in one plane and welded to one another.

An apparatus for production of sacks from semi-finished sacks, preferably tube pieces, with which sacks of different format can be produced has at least one device for the folding of sack bottoms and at least one gluing station for the gluing of at least the bottom flaps of an opened bottom square of the sack bottoms. The gluing station has at least two application heads. Each application head has a glue application area, whose extent is variable in a spatial direction (y), and is movable relative to a bottom center line of the sacks. A maximum glue application area in the spatial direction (y) has a length that is shorter than a spacing (C) located on one side of a bottom center line between an outer edge of the bottom flap of the largest sack format gluable in the gluing station and the center line of the sack.

A process for making a container includes the step of providing at least one of a slider, sticker, textured surface, pattern, or embossed surface along a folded web of thermoplastic material that comprises a plurality of container templates. The process also includes the step of picking up, with a turner, each container template. The turner includes one or more rotator assemblies that include a rotatable shaft and a bag-contacting surface connected to an end of the rotatable shaft. The bag-contacting surface is configured to engage a top exterior side of each container template. Additionally, the process includes the step of reorienting, with the turner, each container template. The rotatable shaft is configured to horizontally translate and rotate each container template.

A woven laminated plastic bag having an easy open feature is provided. The easy open feature is generally defined by a weakened portion in the bag. In various aspects the bag can be fabricated from a woven polyethylene layer which can be laminated with a polyethylene film layer, can form a pinch bottom bag, and can have one or both sides include graphics and/or printing. The bag can also provide a top end and/or a bottom end either or both of which provide a discrete area which may contain discrete graphics and/or printing.

Package having a flexible inner sheet, a flexible secondary inner sheet, a flexible secondary outer sheet, and an outer sheet. The inner sheet and secondary inner sheet are joined together at least an outer seam and forming one or more primary expansion chambers. The package also has a flexible secondary outer sheet and an outer sheet, joined together at least an outer seam and forming one or more secondary expansion chambers. The secondary outer sheet and the outer sheet also form one or more non-expansion chambers that can be a label surface.

In one embodiment, a method for cutting and taping a substrate includes providing a substrate having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a perimeter. A first flexible joint is created in the substrate by making a first cut through the first side to the second side making first and second sections. A first length of tape is located along at least a portion the first cut to secure the sections together. A second flexible joint is created in the substrate by making a second cut through the first side to the second side. A second length of tape may connect the additional sections created by the second cut.