Being one of the world's three most popular non-alcoholic beverages, the coffee market is wide. Its packaging has got much attention of manufacturers and consumers.
Fresh ground coffee, with great tastes and flavors, but it takes some time to make. Therefore, buying ground coffee directly is a convenient way. Then it could be packaged and sold. When the buyers get it, they just need to extract it.
Ground coffee combines the advantages of fresh ground coffee and instant coffee, making it popular with urban coffee lovers.
How to Keep Ground Coffee Fresh?
In essence, ground coffee is part of the bean. So its packaging requirements are somewhat similar to coffee bean's.(Click to know more about coffee beans packing)
The Factors affecting ground coffee preservation
The requirements of package materials
The fat and flavor of ground coffee is the criterion of quality. They are prone to oxidation reactions. And high temperatures will accelerate the oxidization of fat and the release of aroma. They are easily affected by light temperature, oxygen and moisture, which is the reason for the deterioration.
According to the above factors, the package materials of ground coffee must meet the requirements of moisture-proof, oxygen insulation and gas barrier. Because of the grinding extent, the coarse ground coffee is a little bit sharp, the package material should be wear-resistant.
You could choose bags with laminate heat sealable materials with a layer of aluminum foiled film. Meanwhile, when packing coffee, vacuuming and nitrogen flushing can be selected as part of the packaging process to reduce oxygen residue.
The Main packaging formats of ground coffee
Bag packing
Bag packing is popular with customers and manufacturers for its attractive shape.
The normal packing pouch formats are flat pouch, quad sealed pouch, stand-up pouch and gusset pouch.
If you're worried about bursting the bag with carbon dioxide, you can also choose a bag with a degassing valve. But as the valve removes released CO2, it also removes the aroma. Please pay attention to this.
And to pack ground coffee with bags with resealable zippers is a good chioce. After opening the bag, the packaging bag can still be sealed repeatedly, thereby prolonging the freshness and storage time of the ground coffee.
Capsule packing
Capsule packing is the most convenient for customers. They only need to put coffee capsule into the coffee extractor. Coffee capsule formats are K-cup, Nespresso, Lavazza and other similar capsules.
Jar packing is an effective way. The mental or glass jar could totally keep the moisture and oxygen entering, and lock in flavors.
Ground coffee packing machine
Pre-made pouch packing machine
We have three types pre-made packing machines:
1. Linear pre-made pouch packing machine model 116
For a new start-up business, it is the small footprint machine, with an affordable price.
2. Horizontal pre-made pouch packing machine model 146
For the expanding business, its speed is high.
3. Rotary pre-made pouch packing machine model 109
It is applicable for Multi-sized bags, it could change over pouch format for 5 minutes.
Roll film formed packing machine
Vertical form fill seal bag packing machine model 103
This machine could form many kinds of bags, like pillow bag, gusset bag, quad sealed bag. And it could weld the valves and labelling.
The specific process is shown in the following video:
Coffee capsule packing machine
Rotary mechanical driven coffee capsule packing machine
Mechanical driven design and less pneumatic components make it more reliable. The speed is up to 3600 cups per hour theoretically.
| No | Gloex Product | Others | Advantages |
| 1 | Mechanical driven design | Pneumatic driven design | Reliable, well synchronized and faster |
| 2 | Mass loading of empty cup | Limit loading of empty cup | No need to load cups frequently |
| 3 | Self-adapting sealing device | Sealing device with spring only | Get better sealing quality |
| 4 | Mechanical driven rotating cup edge cleaning after filling | Simple sucking by vacuum tube | Keep the filled edge of cup clean and get better sealing quality, No products inside the cup been sucked out |
| 5 | Servo motorized auger with centrifuge disk | Stepper motorized auger | Get better filling accuracy |
| 6 | Discharge conveyor | Discharge chute | Convenient for downstream sorting, bagging or boxing |
Jar packing machine
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