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HST Tea Bag Machines
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Double chamber tea bags
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Advances in research and develop-
ment, has enabled manufacturers to de-
velop tea bag machinery that does more.
On example of this is Teepack's Com-
pacta HS module which can be attached
to the basic machine to pack the prod-
ucts in heat sealed foil to protect the in-
tegrity of the tea. The knotting unit has
also been refined, providing a stable tight
knot without requiring an expensive nee-
dle upgrade. "With the new knotting unit
customers need less spare parts for their
machine and can reduce maintenance
time resulting in lower costs," explained
Roland Delapille, head of sales, tea bag
machines, Teepack, Cologne, Germany.
Individual tea bag over wrapping for
a tea bag is becoming more common
both to preserve freshness and for those
consumers wanting hygienic and premi-
um design. Manufacturers are beginning
to seek out machinery that not only forms the bag, but will also wrap the prod-
uct. FUSO's FT-II responds to this needs by overwrapping up to 3,000 pyramidal
tea bags an hour. The overwrap machinery can be used as a stand-alone machine or
through interlocking the system with the tea bag making machinery.
With increased interest in hot tea, the US consumer has become more sophisti-
cated shifting their consumption to loose leaf tea. Within black tea, Euromonitor's
January 2017, Coffee in US report stated that loose (standard and speciality combined)
grew by 5% in off-trade volume terms compared with a 3% decline for bags (standard
and speciality combined).
FUSO translucent tea bags
