OYSTAR. The Process & Packaging Group

World's fastest tube filling line - OYSTAR IWK Breaks Own Record

The TFS 80-6, until now the world’s fastest tube filling line, gets competition from its own company. With the new TFS 80-8 OYSTAR IWK is building a machine that offers an even higher output of 750 tubes per minute.

For a long time the output of the TFS 80-6 was unmatched with 510 tubes per minute. Now OYSTAR IWK has broken its own record – the market leader for automatic tube filling machines is now building the even faster tube filling line TFS 80-8. With an output of 750 tubes per minute the new machine will be used by the world’s leading toothpaste manufacturer starting in October. Thus the company will be in a position to manufacture more than 240 million toothpaste tubes per year. Up to now the toothpaste manufacturer employed the TFS 80-6 tube filling line. However, with the new TFS 80-8 performance will again be enhanced by 50% while using the same required space.

In addition, the TFS 80-8 is able to guarantee 100% weight control, so that overfilling can be reduced from 1% to 0.5%. This translates into toothpaste savings amounting to 83,000 kilograms per year. The machine will be able to fill both mono-colored toothpaste and two- and three-colored striped toothpaste into the tubes required.

OYSTAR IWK specializes in packaging technology for the cosmetics industry and currently accounts for roughly 70% of the world’s toothpaste production with its tube filling lines.

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