A fish packing line for frozen fish is built around the fish, the target weight, the bag and the output you need. Our SVC260 continuous-motion VFFS is built for frozen foods and IQF products, from fillets and portions to fish balls.
Typical route: weighing → VFFS bagging → inspection → case packing
Six points that decide whether a fish packing line runs well.
Frozen fillets are brittle. Long drops into the weigher and into the bag can snap tails and edges, and broken pieces lower the value of the pack.
What we do · Drop heights and the transfer into the bag are checked with your fillets in the test.
Long fillets can bridge in chutes and hoppers sized for small pieces, and one large fillet can push a light pack over its target weight.
What we do · The weigher heads, hopper size and target weight are matched to your piece size.
Glaze adds weight and sheds ice fragments. Ice caught in the seal area is a common cause of weak or leaking bags.
What we do · Every packaging test checks seal quality and what reaches the seal area.
Hard frozen edges, fins and bones can puncture thin film, more so on heavier packs.
What we do · The film is chosen for your fish within the SVC260's 0.04–0.10 mm range and confirmed in the test.
Fish fingers and breaded portions shed crumbs that build up on contact surfaces and can reach the seal.
What we do · Crumbs in the seal are part of every seal check, and the cleaning routine is planned with you.
The SVC260 makes bags up to 260 mm wide and 400 mm long. Long fillets and small whole fish are checked against the bag size before the setup is fixed.
What we do · Piece length and fill weight are checked against the bag in the test.
Each step is matched to the fish and to the step before it. A fish packing line starts where frozen, glazed fish leaves the freezer and ends at the pallet. Filleting, freezing and glazing come before it, on the processing line.
Buffer and transfer to the weigher
Weigher configured for frozen food
Forming, filling and sealing pillow bags
Checkweighing and contaminant checks
Bags into cases
Cases onto pallets
Fresh and chilled fish in trays follow a different route on the Hybrid Pro T680. See Fresh Seafood MAP Packaging.
Each module is chosen for the fish, then integrated into the line.
Configurations built for frozen food are available. The final choice follows the piece size, how fragile the fillets are, the target weight and the dose rate the bagger needs.
Built for frozen foods and IQF products. Continuous motion, bags up to 260 mm wide and 400 mm long, up to 160 bags/min.*
Checkweighing, metal detection, combined units, or X-ray where the application calls for it. The method is chosen once the fish, the package and the film are known.
Robotic case packing and palletizing, integrated around the finished bag, the case pattern, the case rate and the pallet pattern.
*Machine maximum. Actual output depends on product, fill weight, bag size and film.
A fish packing line runs at the pace of its slowest stage, so we check every stage instead of quoting one machine's top speed.
Example: 1 kg bags at 30 good bags per minute give 1,800 good bags per hour, or 1,800 kg/h. This shows the calculation; it is not a quoted output.
We set the final line target from product tests and agreed FAT conditions.
Request a Packaging TestA steady flow of fish into the weigher
Enough sustainable doses per minute
Enough good bags per minute
Enough accepted packs per minute
Enough cases per minute at the bags per case you need
Keeps up with the case rate
Pillow bags are the first route for frozen fish on the SVC260.
Pillow BagStandard on the SVC260
Side Gusset BagOption where neededThe SVC260 is built for frozen foods and IQF products, which makes it our main machine for frozen fish. Detailed specifications are on the machine page.
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Send a sample or the product details. We run them before the final configuration is fixed.
How the packaging test worksWhat to send
Frozen fish sample or product details
Product type: fillet, portion, fish ball or small whole fish
Piece length and weight range
Target fill weight
Bag dimensions
Film
Required good output
Inspection requirement
What the test checks
Breakage at each drop
Feeding and weighing stability
Bag forming
Seal quality
Ice and crumbs in the seal area
Sustainable output
Weight result
Reject and stop causes
Photo: SVC260 test run in our workshop.
The machine, industries, related applications and complete line behind this application.
Frozen fillets, portions, fish balls and other IQF fish pieces, in pillow bags with side gusset bags as an option. Each product is confirmed in a packaging test.
It depends on the fillet length and the bag. The SVC260 makes bags up to 260 mm wide and 400 mm long, so the fillet size is checked against the bag first.
By keeping drops short and matching the weigher and the transfer into the bag to your fillets. Breakage is checked with your product in the test.
It can, with a changeover between products. Weigher settings, forming parts and bag size change with the product, so every product the line will run is tested.
Yes, in trays. Fresh and chilled fish run on the Hybrid Pro T680 in MAP, VSP or seal-only packs. See Fresh Seafood MAP Packaging.
Yes. Feeding, weighing, the SVC260, inspection, case packing and palletizing are planned as one line. The SVC260 is at the center, and responsibility for each module and interface is agreed in writing. Line planning is free.
160 bags/min is the SVC260's machine maximum. With frozen fish, the output depends on the piece size, fill weight, bag and film, and is confirmed in the packaging test.
A fish processing line cuts, fillets, freezes and glazes the fish. A fish packing line takes the frozen product from there: feeding, weighing, bagging, inspection, case packing and palletizing. We build the packing line.
Send the product, target weight, bag, film and required output. We will use them to define the packing setup and the test plan.
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