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Could you give an example of what pricing would work to fill/seal the tubes in your case?
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how about units like these? do they have better capabilities? What does running undervacuum do as a benefit compared to pressure or rotor/stator types?
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I agree with prior comments regarding heat sealers (also called hot-jaw sealers) being difficult to work with and not producing professional looking results. Hot-AIR sealing is the best method and is used on the high end, high speed fully automatic machines. Hot-Air machines are expensive though. You can now get hot-air machines that are small, lightweight, portable, table-top machines. They can produce 10 - 15 tubes per minute with professional seals, vertical serration pattern, date/lot coding stamped into the seal and trimming the top of tube seal for a nice clean look. Tubes sealed on these machines look the same as tubes from large fully automatic machines used by large manufacturers. They are fairly quick and easy to setup and change over to different tube sizes.
Looking for input from members here regarding what sort of price levels they think would be attractive for small lot filling & sealing (for instance 100 - 1,000 tubes). What flat-rate fee would be interesting? -
yes bottles and jars are easy and inexpensive to fill and cap by hand manually. However, tubes require specialized equipment if a professional-level tube seal is desired. Hot-air sealing is the best method to seal plastic and laminate tubes to achieve professional looking results (just like the look of tube seals from major brands in retail stores). For instance machines like these: http://www.TubeSealingMachine.com These sealing machines can be expensive, thus small brands may not be able to achieve a professional tube seal quality with the vertical pattern and date/lot coding in the tube seal. Contract manufacturers/fillers that use professional hot-air sealing level machines usually have higher minimum quantities than small start-up brands can commit to. This is where a flat-fee type of filling/sealing service may be useful?