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ASO-300

High-Capacity Industrial Bag Opening Solution

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The Entecon “Automatic Sack Opener” or ASO-300

is a fully enclosed and dust tight, automatic bag cutting and emptying machine, ideal for explosible or hazardous powdered products.

Capable of opening 300 SACKS per hour, the ASO-300 eliminates manual handling whilst making your working environment safer, cleaner and more productive.

Why leading manufacturers select the ASO-300:

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Health and Safety - Achieve Dust-Free, GMP-Compliant Operation

Fully enclosed design with integrated dust extraction protects your operators, your product and your environment.

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Eliminate Manual Handling

Saves cost by reducing or eliminating manual handling.

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Rapid and Versatile

Opens and empties bags 10…80kg in weight as quickly as 1 every 12 seconds (300/hr).

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Project De-Risking

For projects that involve novel or unique bags or products, we De-Risk by fabricating test assemblies, especially of the bag pick up arms, before CAPEX investment.

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ATEX Compliant

ATEX zone 21 (internal) and zone 22 (external) Hazardous Area Classification for explosive powders.

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Prevent Product Contamination

Innovative cutting and bag separation system, combined with a check sieve/magnet, ensures packaging materials never enter the product stream.

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Engineered for Demanding Industrial Environments

Continuous, reliable and repeatable for heavy-duty industrial use made from Stainless Steel 304 or 316L.

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Standalone Operation

The ASO-300 can be supplied with an integrated dust extraction system, an integrated waste bag screw with continuous liner and a pick-and-place Fuji ACE robot.

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What’s the Payback?

  • Significant labour cost reduction
  • Increased production
  • Typical ROI is achieved within months, not years (depending on application)
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Standard Blank ASO-300 before anything is fitted

Designed & Built in the UK by Entecon Industries Ltd

every ASO system is engineered to order, ensuring it matches your exact:

  • product characteristics
  • bag types
  • throughput requirements
  • site constraints
  • manual or automatic powder additive requirements
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Typical Applications

In general, the ASO-300 is suited to any application which calls for the automated opening and emptying of sacks or bags of powdered or dried materials.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the ASO-300 open plastic and paper bags?

Can the ASO open plastic and paper bags?

Yes — the ASO-300 can open any type of bag including bags that have folded multi layers.

Can the ASO-300 open bags of different sizes without changes to the cutting blade configuration?

Can the ASO-300 open bags of different sizes without changes to the cutting blade configuration?

Yes — the cutting blades are positioned using compressed air “springs” which allow them to automatically cut the profile of any sized bag.

Is an Alan Bradley PLC Control Panel an option?

Is an Alan Bradley PLC Control Panel an option?

Yes — we have supplied Alan Bradley PLC control systems and the more common Siemens equivalent.

Flour Milling

Entecon supplied an ASO-300 Automatic Sack Opener to one of the largest flour millers in Europe, replacing manual opening of 25kg paper sacks, increasing throughput and reducing labour dependency.

  • 80% reduction in bag opening time
  • 50% reduction in manual labour
  • Improved hygiene with dust-free operation and reduced spillage

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Pet Food Manufacturing

The ASO-300 has also been successfully installed in pet food manufacturing facilities handling a wide variety of powdered ingredients. The automated solution eliminated production bottlenecks caused by manual sack opening while maintaining clean GMP operation.

  • Handles 10kg, 16kg, and 25kg bags
  • Reduced spillage and improved cleanliness
  • Reliable, repeatable emptying of diverse ingredients

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Designed & Built by Entecon

Entecon Industries Ltd are leading UK specialist in bulk material and powder handling. Every machine is engineered to order, ensuring optimal performance, safety, and long-term reliability. We believe that our Automatic Sack Openers are the best machine of it's type available on the market today.

For more information about our ASO-300 or any of our other products or services, please contact us, +44 (0) 1276 414540 .

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