The U8 was engineered to offer you maximum flexibility. Our unique modular design allows for multiple machine configurations, alterations and expansions based upon your unique needs and growth. Quick set-up maximizes production time. Our expert team offers the training and support needed to help guarantee your success. The U8 is the machine to take your company's production to the next level.

Conceived by industry pioneer Art Gustafson in response to a customer's needs, the ergonomically sensitive Algus Universal 8 Station (U8) Packaging System was designed with your future success in mind. As your sales increase, the revolutionary U8 is designed to allow for in-plant reconfiguration to satisfy increased product demand and production requirements. This cost-effective system allows for different packaging formats, from simple face seal packs, complex club store packs. With the flexibility to add feeders for inserting components and vision systems for quality assurance, the U8 offers “the sky is the limit” approach to packaging.

The standard fully automated U8 is 72" high x 102" wide x 97" deep. The machine includes 4 open product load stations or up to 4 hookup stations, with a 12” x 18.5 ” seal area. Other features of the U8 are “quick install” feeder stations for inserts or blister cards. The U8 has an independent electro-mechanical drive system as well as a servo driven turntable. The machine has full PLC control and a user friendly operator interface panel. Interlocked door panels on the U8 base allows for quick access to the drive system which in turn allows for quick reconfiguration of the machine in the field.

• Package Components Feed Automatically
• Operator or Feeder Loads Product
• Package Components Sealed Automatically
• Finish Package Removed By Eject System

• 12" X 18.5" Seal Area (U8) Standard Model
• 18”x 26” Seal Area (U8x) Oversize Model
• Quick Change Tooling
• Advanced Full Function Controller
• Servo Operated Turntable
• Maximum Load Time
• Rapid Precision Indexing
• Heavy Duty Mobility Casters With Floor Locks
• 4 Product Load Stations/feeder Hookup Stations
• 5-25 Cycles Per Minute
  

• Servo Operated
• Independently Controlled
• Quick Connect Plugs On All Connection
• Caster Mounted Satellite Feeders
• Easily Mounted To Machine Base
• Stations Are Reloadable During Machine Operations
  

• Quick Machine Reconfiguration
• Reduced Labor Cost
• Increased Productivity
• Quick and Accurate Change-over
• Multiple Pick Capability For Product loading
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership

• Modular feeders for inserts or double cards
• Modular feeders for custom product loading
• Modular feeders for clamshell closure
• Modular Eject Systems to suit application
  • Transfer eject
  • Hand-off eject
  • Pick and place eject
  • Slide pan eject
               
• Heat plate change-over assist
• Bottom Heat plate
• Heat seal tooling
  • 8 product nesting trays
  • Blister and card magazine
  • One blister plug rack
  • One card suction rack
  • One eject suction rack
  • One heater plate
• Over size seal cylinder
• Production monitoring software
• Machine status light tower
• Anodized tooling components
• Teflon® coating for heater blocks
• Cylinder air exhaust filter
• Plastic welding systems
  • Radio-Frequency sealing (RF)
  • Ultrasonic sealing
  • Hot-Cold sealing