With the continuous upgrading of the global pharmaceutical industry, API production imposes higher requirements on precision, efficiency and compliance of packaging processes. As a powerful original manufacturer with years of in‑depth experience in automated packaging, Guangzhou Marchi Packaging Equipment Co., Ltd. delivers efficient and stable integrated packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.
I. Strength Guarantee from the Original Manufacturer
Founded in 2014 and located in Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangzhou Marchi Packaging Equipment Co., Ltd. is a manufacturing enterprise integrating R&D and design, intelligent manufacturing, complete‑line solutions, sales, installation and lifelong maintenance services. Marchi owns six professional functional zones, including precision sheet‑metal processing, assembly, fatigue testing, complete‑line commissioning, finished‑goods warehousing and spare‑parts warehouse. Core components of equipment are independently developed and manufactured, and the whole production process is completed in‑house, so product quality and delivery cycle are controlled from the source.
II. Equipment Advantages and Core Configuration
Targeting the characteristics of finely‑ground APIs which feature fine particle size and high dust tendency, the MC5000D vertical filling packaging unit launched by Marchi Packaging consists of one vertical screw metering machine and one MC5000D vertical filling packaging machine. It is especially suitable for metering and packaging of ultra‑fine powder materials that generate heavy dust.
Integrating metering, bag making, packaging, sealing, coding and counting into one unit, the unit is equipped with an advanced material‑level control system. An anti‑static device and dust‑extraction device can be added to effectively tackle difficulties in fully‑automatic dust‑generating packaging. The equipment boasts prominent advantages: good tightness with no dust leakage; simple structure for easy cleaning, meeting strict cleanliness requirements of the pharmaceutical industry; convenient and quick packaging‑specification changeover for high production‑change efficiency; cost‑effective performance, low failure rate and convenient maintenance; small footprint to save workshop space; low packaging‑material cost to reduce long‑term operating expenditure.
Core Parameters:Model: MC5000D; bag dimension range: (50～280) mm × (70～200) mm. Compatible with pillow‑type bags, gusseted bags, hole‑punched bags, hand‑carry bags, box‑style bags and other bag types. Metering range: 10‑500 g; metering accuracy: ±0.5%‑1%; packaging speed: 25‑80 bags per minute. The whole machine adopts a three‑servo system for film pulling and sealing, ensuring stable and reliable operation.
III. Wide Compatibility with Various Materials
This equipment can handle a broad range of APIs and powder materials, including amoxicillin, penicillin, cefixime, cephalexin, erythromycin estolate, paracetamol, ibuprofen, nifedipine, lovastatin, atorvastatin, simvastatin, loratadine, omeprazole, clarithromycin, levofloxacin, rifampicin and many other APIs. It also processes materials such as taurine, Vitamin E, lipoic acid, guaiacol, sulbactam acid, tryptophan, sodium salicylate and L‑phenylalanine. In the traditional Chinese medicine sector, it can pack TCM formula granules, TCM herbal pieces, Isatis root extract, Astragalus extract and so forth. In addition, it demonstrates favourable compatibility for veterinary‑drug raw materials, fine‑chemical powders, pharmaceutical excipients (pharmaceutical starch, lactose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, pregelatinized starch, pharmaceutical dextrin, etc.) and food additives.
IV. Fully‑Automatic Packaging Workflow
The API crushing and packaging machine realizes full‑process automatic operation:
Bag Preparation & Picking — The bag‑storage magazine automatically supplies packaging bags. The bag‑picking and arranging unit completes bag centering, positioning and sorting.
Precise Bag Loading — Blades of the bag‑feeding manipulator are precisely inserted into bag mouths, and pneumatic grippers on both sides clamp and fix bag‑mouth edges to finish bag opening and bag loading.
Metering & Filling — The vertical screw metering machine rotates for feeding according to control signals. Load cells and weighing controllers process weighing signals in real‑time to guarantee metering precision. During filling, the advanced material‑level control system ensures stable feeding.
Sealing & Coding — After filling, the process proceeds to sealing. The equipment performs coding and counting simultaneously.
Conveying & Palletizing — Finished bags are transported by conveyor belts to downstream palletizing zones. The palletizing system completes automatic stacking and sorting, achieving unmanned operation from raw‑material crushing to finished‑goods palletizing. The whole packaging line can connect with upstream and downstream equipment to form a fully‑automatic assembly‑line workflow from raw‑material feeding to finished‑goods warehousing.
V. Solutions for Customer Pain Points
Marchi Packaging provides professional solutions for common difficulties occurring in API crushing and packaging:
Pain Point 1: Dust emission and cross‑contamination — Crushed APIs feature extremely fine particles and tend to generate dust during packaging, which not only causes material loss but also brings cross‑contamination risks.Solution: The MC5000D unit adopts a fully‑enclosed design, fitted with anti‑static and dust‑extraction devices. Combined with enclosed screw feeding conveying, it controls dust escape at source and maintains a clean production environment.
Pain Point 2: Difficulties in guaranteeing metering accuracy — High‑value APIs suffer direct impacts on enterprise costs and product quality from metering deviations.Solution: The vertical screw metering machine is directly driven by a servo motor, working with high‑precision load cells and controllers to achieve metering accuracy of ±0.5%‑1%.
Pain Point 3: High labour cost and low efficiency — Conventional packaging relies on manual operation with limited efficiency amid rising labour costs.Solution: The fully‑automatic packaging unit integrates metering, bag making, packaging, sealing, coding and counting. Its packaging speed reaches 25‑80 bags per minute, drastically reducing manual involvement and boosting production capacity.
Pain Point 4: Time‑consuming production change‑over and site clearance — Numerous API varieties and batches lead to long downtime for frequent production change‑over and site clearance, resulting in low efficiency.Solution: The equipment features a simple structure for easy cleaning and convenient packaging‑specification replacement, effectively shortening downtime for production change‑over.
Summary
With years of deep engagement in automated packaging, Marchi Packaging focuses on R&D and manufacturing of intelligent packaging equipment for powder, granule, liquid and other diverse materials. It is committed to delivering standardized, custom‑made and intelligent one‑stop overall solutions for packaging production lines to customers in pharmaceutical, food, chemical and other industries. Customers are warmly welcomed to visit the Guangzhou or Hefei factories for on‑site inspection and material test‑running.
