Tube Filling Systems Offer Flexibility and Reliability

With hot air tube sealing technology, an eight-station tube filler can work with a variety of tube sizes and styles.

By Dr. John Young, Silicone Functional Additive Technical Manager, Wacker Chemical Corp., Ann Arbor, Michigan

Tube Filling Systems Offer Flexibility and Reliability

With hot air tube sealing technology, an eight-station tube filler can work with a variety of tube sizes and styles.

The RT60 is a compact eight-station dial tube-filler that fills a variety of tube sizes and styles. With the RT60, both plastic and metal tubes can be filled using one system. Offering flexibility, reliability, and accuracy, the RT60 features fully automatic tube filling and closing, which reduces labor requirements. The eight-station indexing dial is supplied as standard, but additional stations can be added as required. The system is available in plastic/laminate, metal, or combo models; the combo model saves time by filling both plastic and metal containers with a few simple station changes.

With its hot air tube sealing technology, the RT60 offers the fastest plastic tube sealing method and works with all plastic and laminate tubes with diameters ranging from ⅜-inch to 2 ⅜-inch. Also available are custom profile seals and textures for unique tube presentations. Unit dose filling offers the flexibility of filling small tubes on the same system.

Additional features of the RT60 include:

• Fully automatic filling and closing of tubes
• Combination of metal and plastic model is available, providing easy and fast changeovers
• Available in custom profile seal and trim
• Metal crimp/double fold or saddle fold
• Servo-drive fill station with recipe saving and recall
• A code station and top trim
• Vertical bottom-up filling
• A standard sanitary fill station
• Custom fill profiles and swirl filling
• Optional explosion-proof controls, for Class 1 Division 1 and 2, ATEX O & 1

The RT60 is suitable for both sealants and adhesives.