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ASO-BALE

High-Capacity Industrial Bag Opening Solution

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The Entecon “Automatic Sack Opener” for Bales, or the “ASO-BALE”

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

Capable of opening 200 Bales per hour, the ASO eliminates manual handling whilst making your working environment safer, cleaner and more productive.

Why leading manufacturers select the ASO-BALE:

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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 costs by reducing or eliminating manual handling.

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Rapid and Versatile

Opens and empties Bales upto 30kg in weight as quickly as 1 every 18 seconds (200/hr).

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Project De-Risking

For projects that involve novel or unique bags or products, we De-Risk by fabricating tests assemblies, especially of the 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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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-BALE 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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Designed & Built in the UK by Entecon Industries Ltd

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

  • product characteristics
  • bale type
  • throughput requirements
  • site constraints
  • manual or automatic powder additive requirements
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Typical Applications

In general, the ASO-BALE is suited to any application which calls for the automated opening and emptying of large Bales.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the ASO-BALE open plastic and paper bales?

Can the ASO-BALE open plastic and paper bales?

Yes — the ASO-BALE can open any type of bale including Bales that have folded multi layers.

Can the ASO-BALE open Bales of different sizes without changes to the cutting blade configuration?

Can the ASO-BALE open Bales 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 Bale.

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.

Thermal Management Fibre Production

Entecon supplied an ASO-BALE Automatic Bale Opener to one of the largest industrial fibre manufacturers in the world, replacing an existing and underperforming machine, increasing throughput and reducing labour dependency.

  • eliminated machine downtime due to blockages
  • 70% reduction in manual labour
  • Removed a significant production bottleneck
  • Improved hygiene with dust-free operation and reduced spillage

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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-BALE or any of our other products or services, please contact us, +44 (0) 1276 414540 .

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