High-Capacity Industrial Bag Opening Solution
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.
Fully enclosed design with integrated dust extraction protects your operators, your product and your environment.
Saves cost by reducing or eliminating manual handling.
Opens and empties bags 10…80kg in weight as quickly as 1 every 12 seconds (300/hr).
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.
ATEX zone 21 (internal) and zone 22 (external) Hazardous Area Classification for explosive powders.
Innovative cutting and bag separation system, combined with a check sieve/magnet, ensures packaging materials never enter the product stream.
Continuous, reliable and repeatable for heavy-duty industrial use made from Stainless Steel 304 or 316L.
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.
Standard Blank ASO-300 before anything is fitted
every ASO system is engineered to order, ensuring it matches your exact:
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.
Yes — the ASO-300 can open any type of bag including bags that have folded multi layers.
Yes — the cutting blades are positioned using compressed air “springs” which allow them to automatically cut the profile of any sized bag.
Yes — we have supplied Alan Bradley PLC control systems and the more common Siemens equivalent.
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.
Automatic Sack Opener Flour
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.
Automatic Sack Opener Pet Food
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 .