Trade Show Name | Show Dates | Show Location | Visit Us in Booth #… |
IPPE | January 24-26, 2023 | Atlanta, GA | C-13104 |
WestPack | February 7-9, 2023 | Anaheim, CA | 5231 |
Contract Packaging and Manufacturing Experience ENGAGE | February 22-23, 2023 | San Antonio, TX | Tabletop |
Petfood Forum | May 2-3, 2023 | Kansas City, MO | TBD |
Sweets & Snacks Expo | May 23-25, 2023 | Chicago, IL | 30248 |
EXPO PACK Guadalajara | June 13-15, 2023 | Guadalajara, Mexico | TBD |
Pack Expo | September 11-13, 2023 | Las Vegas, NV | TBD |
Global Produce & Floral Show | October 19-21, 2023 | Anaheim, CA | TBD |
Vertical Form Fill Seal (VFFS) Machines
Matrix’s Steve McConnell discusses the Elete Bag-in-Bag {video transcript}
Steve McConnell shares what sets the Matrix Bag-in-Bag VFFS machine apart in the marketplace. Learn about its features and benefits. See how easy it is to use, and watch the machine create filled small pillow bags that are then deposited into a larger rollstock-made master bag. The Bag-in-Bag is the perfect fit for many products where you need a unique option, including coffee and tea products and much more.
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STEVE MCCONNELL: The Elete Bag-in-Bag is ideal for applications where you want to make a smaller say snack bite size bag and drop it into a master pack for distribution. Excellent for club store packs, airline vending. Let’s say you want to put 50 small bags of peanuts into a larger bag. Anything that you can put in a small bag that then you want to have like a club store pack 8 count, 12 count, and even larger. The Matrix Elete Bag-in-Bag, like all Matrix baggers, features a nonproprietary mechanical design, easy to operate and maintain, low operating costs, and therefore a low cost per bag out the door.

The Bag in Bag vertical machine incorporates proven reliability into its core design. As easy to run and maintain equipment, the Bag in Bag features quick changeover and setup. Proven to lower production costs and increase time efficiencies, this machinery is the perfect solution to your manufacturing needs.
This flexible VFFS solution can stretch your investment even farther. The upper section of the machine can produce pillow bags and bypass the lower section when an overwrap bag is not necessary. It also allows for different product and film to be run in pillow bags that are within the bag size limits of the top section.

Matrix provides flexible packaging machinery solutions to customers worldwide. Vertical form, fill, seal; horizontal form, fill, seal; pre-made pouches; stickpacks and sachets, Matrix can help you find your flexible packaging solution.
Matrix’s Chris Higgins discusses the benefits of its intermittent Mercury VFFS packaging machine {video transcript}
Chris Higgins shows the attributes of our flexible Matrix Mercury. In this video you can see how this intermittent flexible packaging machine can produce quality bags with a variety of film. Watch how well the machine can produce resistance bags. The same machine can also create poly bags with a simple jaw replacement!
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CHRIS HIGGINS: The Matrix Mercury is a vertical form fill seal solution for a variety of products anything from a liquid to particulate. It can run a bag up to 11 inches wide, down to about two, with the programmable length verified via encoder in a single stroke 15 inches and you go even longer with a double pole. The Matrix Mercury helps our customers be successful by maximizing uptime. By partnering with our service support team and parts team out of our Saukville, Wisconsin headquarters. We’re able to ship parts overnight and troubleshoot over the phone to limit downtime as much as possible.

The Mercury is a high speed Matrix vertical form fill seal machine designed with longevity in mind. When you need a reliable, durable, system, the Mercury is the perfect solution. With a cycle speed up to 140 BPM and many available options, you’ll notice a drastic difference in manufacturing and production.
The Mercury high speed is simply the most profitable machine in the world for Matrix customers. Standard features on this system include a stainless steel frame, automatic film tracking, a registered film sensor, and much more.
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Matrix provides flexible packaging machinery solutions to customers worldwide. Vertical form, fill, seal; horizontal form, fill, seal; pre-made pouches; stickpacks and sachets, Matrix can help you find your flexible packaging solution.