FTC Series Counting/Dosing
Machine overview
Wide format range and extreme flexibility in closure styles.
Medium- to high-speed vertical dosing and filling machines with a monobloc platform for cartons, plastic and metal containers of various types and sizes, with dispensers or top opening, pressure or screw caps, to meet all requirements.
IMA Gima’s FTC Series vertical dosing and filling machines manage soft and rigid containers such as cartons, bottles, tins and jars with cylindrical, square and irregular shapes.
Our dosing systems, such as slat or electronic counting, volumetric or weighing systems, are the result of 20 years’ experience in the confectionery industry with hundreds of filling units supplied worldwide. Every kind of product shape and type in Confectionery, Nutraceutical and Personal Care markets, can be handled: from capsules, vials, pellets and tablets to hard and soft candies, gums, coated sweets, liquorice, sweeteners, nuts, dried fruit, etc.
The machines are designed for modular configuration, with fully accessible equipment, which allows easy implementation or additional feeding systems, printers and quality control units.
Production plant
IMA Gima
Machine highlights
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Versatile machines for all product types
Extremely versatile machines that handle most product types, and in different formats.
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Wide format range and flexible closures
Wide format range and extreme flexibility in closure styles.
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Clean, compact and fully accessible design
Clean design, compact footprint, full accessibility with ergonomic operating position.
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Quick, user-friendly format changeover
Easy, operator-friendly format changeover, with adjustment through mechanical references.
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Turnkey lines from design to end of line
Turnkey lines, from the pack design phase through to end-of-line equipment.
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Modular design for easy system integration
Allows quick addition of dosing, feeding and inspection units as production needs evolve.
Machine details
Technical information
| FTC SERIES – CARTONS | |||||||||
| Carton | Blank | Production Speed | |||||||
| A (width) | B (depth) | C (height) | A+B | flap | |||||
| FTC509 & FTC517 | Min | 25 | 11 | 55 | 36 | – | FTC517: up to 450 | ||
| Max | 70 | 30 | 102 | 102 | 20 | ||||
| FTC509 & FTC517 extended height | Min | 25 | 11 | 55 | 36 | – | |||
| Max | 70 | 30 | 102 | 102 | 20 | ||||
| FTC578 pitch 120 mm | Min | 20 | 20 | 40 | 40 | 20 | 300 | ||
| Max | 90 | 90 | 140 (240) | 180 | 106 | ||||
| FTC578 pitch 180 mm | Min | 60 | 30 | 40 | 90 | 30 | 200 | ||
| Max | 150 | 120 | 260 | 240 | 120 | ||||
| FTC SERIES – RIGID CONTAINERS (plastic or metal) | |||||
| A (width) | B (depth) | C (height) | Production Speed [ppm] | ||
| FTC509 | Min | 25 | 11 | 55 | 300 |
| Max | 70 | 70 | 105 | ||
| FTC517 | Min | 25 | 11 | 55 | 450 |
Max | 70 | 70 | 105 | ||
