The main goal of dairy packaging, much like any other food packaging, is to shield the food from potential damage (such as physical harm, contamination by microbes, etc.) while upholding the top-notch quality of the product. Ideally, packaging should minimize both weight loss and nutrient depletion, while also extending the shelf life of the product. Packing machines play crucial roles in containing, safeguarding, communicating, and providing utility for the packaged items. This section will examine various types of packaging machines, exploring their capabilities, operational principles, and other defining features.

Packaging, shelf life, machine, dairy, principles

The packaging line combines materials science and industrial engineering, and advancements in these fields have aided packaging innovation. Flexible wrappers and bags with tear strips or laser cut to make them easy to open or innovative tamper-evident technologies to provide the brand owner and the consumer certainty about the integrity of the goods are now commonplace. Bottles are currently being molded from resin, filled, sealed, marked, cartonned, and palletized on complete packaging lines with a high automation control and inspection level. As a result of these advances, a wide range of packaging machinery is now required.

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