APK-SP220 Strip Packing Machine — 220 mm Film, Air-Cylinder Cutting
Soft Alu-Alu heated-roller sealing for a single strip layout
The simplest machine in the range. Same heated-roller sealing and vibratory feeding as the SP300, on a 220 mm film, with an air cylinder driving the cutter instead of a servo. If you run one strip layout and rarely change it, this does the job for less.
1. Sealing Mechanism: Vertical roller-type double foil heat sealing (No thermal forming required).
2. Material Versatility: Optimized for Alu/Alu (Al-plastic combined film) and Plastic/Plastic films.
3. Cutting Drive: Precision pneumatic cylinder-controlled die cutting system.
4. Automation Control: Integrated Siemens PLC and Siemens V20 drive.
Is this the right machine for you?
✓ Yes, if…
- Your tablets need a full light and moisture barrier
- You pack tablets, capsules or lozenges into flat strips
- You need 20,000 to 80,000 tablets an hour
- You change strip length between SKUs — the cut is set on screen
✕ Buy something else if…
- You change strip length between SKUs → air-cylinder cutting is set by hand. The SP300's servo cutter is set on the touchscreen
- You need more width → the SP300 takes 300 mm
Technical specification
Feature | Specification |
Model | APK-SP220 (Standard Pneumatic Cut) |
Drum Speed | 7 – 14 rpm (Stepless regulation) |
Production Capacity | 20,000 – 60,000 pcs/hour |
Maximum Foil Width | 220 mm |
Packing Material Specs | Alu/Alu: 0.08-0.10 x 220 mm | PVC: 0.05-0.10 x 220 mm |
Reel Core Diameter | 70 – 75 mm |
Electro-Thermal Power | 1.5 kW x 2 |
Main Motor Power | 0.75 kW (Siemens PLC Linked) |
Air Supply Pressure | 0.5 – 0.6 Mpa |
Air Consumption Flow | 0.1 m³/min or greater |
Overall Dimensions (LxWxH) | 1600 x 850 x 2500 mm |
Machine Structural Weight | 900 kg |
Model comparison
Model | Film width | Drum speed | Cutting | Output | Heating |
APK-SP220 | 220 mm | 7–14 rpm | Air cylinder | 20,000–60,000 pcs/h | 1.5 kW × 2 |
APK-SP300 | 300 mm | 7–14 rpm | Servo | 20,000–80,000 pcs/h | 1.2 kW × 2 |
APK-SP400 | 400 mm | 7–14 rpm | Servo | 20,000–120,000 pcs/h | 1.5 kW × 2 |
APK-SP500 | 500 mm | 6–20 rpm | Full servo, motion controller | Depends on layout | 1.5 kW × 2 |
The film width sets how many lanes fit across the rollers. The cutting drive sets how easily you change strip layout. Output depends on both — and on your tablet size — so tell us your tablet and your strip layout and we’ll give you your number, not the headline one.
Light-Proof Airtight Sealing
Unlike standard blister forming, the APK-SP220 cold-presses the product tightly between two hermetic foils. This ensures protection against ambient light and moisture, significantly extending drug shelf life.
Dynamic Vibratory Material Feeding
Equipped with an automatic vibrating hopper paired with a specialized tumbling brush feeder to ensure smooth, damage-free tablet sorting into the sealing rollers.
Integrated Fragment Filtering
Features a built-in mechanical filtering mesh that separates broken tablet pieces and powder residue automatically before sealing, ensuring a package interior.
Flexible Stroke Length Adjustments
Plant technicians can randomly program the traction cutting travel range and sealing speeds via the smart HMI, making multi-specification runs highly efficient.
Industry Applications
The APK-SP220 is highly sought after for specialized primary packaging contexts:
Effervescent tablets
The textbook case for Alu-Alu strips. An effervescent tablet starts reacting the moment it picks up moisture, and foil on both faces keeps it out.
Probiotic and moisture-sensitive capsules
Where the moisture barrier is the shelf life. Each capsule is sealed in its own pocket, so opening one doesn’t expose the rest.
Light-sensitive vitamins and botanicals
Foil on both faces blocks light completely — something a clear blister can’t do.
Lozenges and compressed candies
Flat strips that fit a pocket or a wallet, sealed without the tablet surface touching a forming die.
What changing over involves
Strip length is a screen setting. Tablet size is a roller change.
What changed | What you adjust | Roughly |
Strip length or cut position | Cutting stroke on the touchscreen | 15-30Minutes |
New foil roll, same size | Change the reel | 15-30Minutes |
Tablet size or shape | Sealing roller dies and feeder parts | 15-30Minutes |
Alu-Alu → plastic-plastic | Foil and temperature settings | 15-30Minutes |
The pocket is cut into the heated sealing rollers, so a different tablet means a different roller set. An extra set of rollers and feeder change parts are both options you can order with the machine.
What to check before you buy
The roller dies, not the machine
The pocket is machined into the heated sealing rollers. Ask who designs it around your tablet, how long a new set takes, and what it costs — that's where a strip project succeeds or fails.
The manual
A clear English manual gets your operator running in a week instead of a month. Ask to see a sample page before you order.
Installation and training
Ask what's included and what costs extra. The answer varies more between suppliers than the machine price does.
Why buy from us?
One point of contact: You deal with us for the machine, the roller dies, the installation and the service call.
Roller dies designed around your tablet: Send us samples and we design the pocket and strip layout before you order.
Installation and training: We install it, commission it, and teach your operators.
Lead time: 1-3months. Confirmed in writing with your order.
APK-SP220 Strip Packing Machine FAQ
A standard blister machine uses heat to vacuum-form deep storage pockets out of rigid plastic sheets (like PVC) before sealing them to a flat backing foil. The APK-SP220 strip packing machine performs cold-press roller sealing. It draws two flexible webs of non-formed foil directly between heated roller dies, sealing the product completely flat within a tight perimeter cavity. This avoids stretching or thinning the material, providing far superior hermetic isolation against light, humidity, and oxygen leakage.
The base APK-SP220 uses a high-rigidity pneumatic cylinder-controlled cutting die to chop the continuous strip output into specific sheet layouts (e.g., 2×4 or 2×10). This is highly reliable and cost-effective for dedicated lines. Our premium upgraded models—such as the APK-SP300 and APK-SP400—replace this pneumatic cylinder cutting assembly with a dedicated electronic Delta AC servo motor drive system, which allows operators to alter cutting layouts instantly on the HMI without making physical tool adjustments.
Yes, the heated roller die configuration is highly accommodating. For standard aluminum-aluminum composite films (Alu/Alu), it is optimized for foil thicknesses ranging from 0.08 mm to 0.10 mm. If your application calls for plastic-plastic heat sealing layouts, it easily transitions to process medical-grade PVC or laminated clear films with a thickness range of 0.05 mm to 0.10 mm.
Processing fragile compressed tablets can generate debris. The APK-SP220 is equipped with an active vibrating material feeder and a broken piece filtering screen. Before the tablets drop into the main roller pocket matrices, the vibratory sift loops capture dust, broken halves, and fragments. This debris is filtered out into a collection zone, preventing trapped particles from contaminating the hot-seal seam and ensuring tight package sealing.
The standard model comes with a Siemens smart controller and a secure PC/Plexiglas cover. To meet advanced regulatory or aesthetic standards, you can opt for:
An integrated one-side or both-sides photo-cursor eye marking system to align pre-printed text perfectly on the pack faces.
An intelligent automatic empty-pocket vision detection and pneumatic rejection system to purge defective sheets from the line.
A synchronized ribbon coding device or continuous industrial inkjet printer for crisp batch number engraving.
Absolutely. The APK-SP220 is driven via a Siemens industrial PLC framework communicating through a Delta frequency converter variable speed control loop. It provides native I/O dry-contact terminals and data sync capabilities. This allows you to hook up the outfeed conveyor directly with downstream secondary units—like our WZH-120 III Intermittent Cartoning Machine—to create a fully automated, continuous strip packing and cartoning line that matches speeds dynamically.
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The step up. Strip length is set on the touchscreen instead of by hand — worth it once you run more than one layout.
Send us your tablet and your strip layout
Tablet size decides the roller dies. Strip layout — 2 × 4, 2 × 10, whatever your carton holds — decides the cutting and the lane count. Send us a few samples and tell us the layout, and we’ll tell you which width you need and what it will actually produce.
- Reply within one business day
- Roller pocket designed from your samples
- Your product specs stay with us