“Most Requested Product”

This year the VFS-1000 had the most product inquiries from trade show leads, phone inquiries, and website submissions, which resulted in it being the most requested product of 2022, with countless quotes drawn up for both existing and new customers.

Our Sales team, Engineers, Technicians, and Customer Service department received so many leads this year that everyone became an expert at pitching the vertical feeding system.

“Most Integrated Product”

Our head Engineer Naveen Nagarajan described the vertical feeding system as: “Our most integrable product ever! Basically, it can be used by any facility that places items into pouches and can be used anywhere a product needs singulation. When friction feeders fail, the VFS is the answer!”

The VFS-1000 can be used at any facility that uses feeders, but what is truly impressive is its ability to integrate with other products such as Labelers, Inkjet printers, CIJ printers, TIJ printers, TTO printers, CMYK printers, Laser Coders, and more!

“Most Purchased Product”

Finally, the VFS-1000 was our most purchased product of 2022. Even as we close out the year, we are still quoting and fielding submission inquiries for the top-of-the-line vertical feeding system. We look forward to getting even more out the door in 2023!

*Honorable mention category: We would also like to mention that the VFS-1000 has NEVER BEEN RETURNED! Customer satisfaction is always our first goal, so the fact that we have never had a dissatisfied customer who purchased the feeder is the best award of all!

See the VFS-1000 Vertical Feeding System in Action:

VFS-1000 Features:

• Stand Alone Machine to Pick and Place Pouches/Zippered Bags standing on edge for downstream printing and labeling
• Up to 60 Pouches/Zippered bags per minute
• Adjustable in-feed conveyor feeds on demand
• PLC controlled
• Recipes for different product setup
• Integrated with Printers and Labelers
• Alignment shuttle table
• Variable speed adjustment

For more info on the VFS-1000 contact us at sales@dartronics.com or call us at 732-324-0800 

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Below are our top American brands who dominate on a global level – like our US Olympians!

HSAUSA Feeding Systems: Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Our sister company for over 18 years, HSAUSA, builds creative one-of-a-kind custom machinery solutions. Their case feeding systems are simple, affordable, and reliable. The HSAUSA engineering team specializes in system integration and has full knowledge of Mechanical, Electro-Mechanical and PLC controlled systems.

Operating out of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, they have become a major manufacturer of customized machines. View our HSAUSA products.

Orion Stretch Wrap Machines: Alexandria, Minnesota

A leader in heavy-duty industrial stretch wrapping technology, Orion offers the most comprehensive, highest quality line of end-of-line stretch wrapping pallet packaging products available and continually sets the standard for durability, efficiency, flexibility, reliability, and performance. Their quality pallet unitizing products, customer service, and product support have helped make us the fastest growing manufacturer of stretch wrapping equipment in the world.

Headquartered in Alexandria, Minnesota, specially designed as a center for manufacturing and engineering excellence. View our Orion products

Paragon Label Applications: White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Paragon Labeling Systems has over 50 years of experience in creating a product line that is modular and flexible for specific customers, industry, and compliance needs. They are committed to engineering and manufacturing high-quality products that are user-friendly to set up and maintain. Our products are feature-rich to enhance and streamline the end users’ processes. In addition, each product has a clear upgrade path based on how the end users’ business grows and changes.

Based in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Paragon offers automated labeling solutions poised to lead the next revolution in automated labeling systems. View our Paragon products.

Regardless of their location, these brands are top suppliers of industrial equipment. And whether your business is located here or abroad, they can supply your business with top-of-the-line equipment and consumables. But for our fellow domestic companies, their location is an added bonus that makes them easier to root for!

Go Team USA!

For more info on top industrial equipment brands made in the USA, contact us at sales@dartronics.com or call us at 732-324-0800 

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What is the VFS-1000?

HSAUSA’s VFS-1000 is a Vertical Feeding System that is perfect for feeding paper shopping bags. If you are trying to inkjet or label shopping bags, this is the feeding system for you! Feeding paper, plastic, or colored bags, this machine can feed them all. The handles on the shopping bags are not a problem.

The system also allows for pouch labeling where stand-up pouches and bags are stood on the edge, pick and placed onto a shuttle table, then pushed onto the downstream conveyor for printing or pouch labeling. The VFS-1000 can run up to 60 pouches or bags per minute, depending on the size of pouches and bags. Pouches and bags are aligned as they are pushed onto the receiving conveyor.

Watch the VFS-1000 Handle Paper Bags:

Additional Features Include:

• Stand Alone Machine to Pick and Place Pouches/Zippered Bags standing on the edge for downstream printing and labeling
• Up to 60 Pouches/Zippered bags per minute
• Adjustable in-feed conveyor feeds on demand
• PLC controlled
• Recipes for different product setup
• Integrated with Printers and Labelers
• Variable speed adjustment, and more!

If you are one of the millions of US businesses that use paper bags (or any bags for that matter), Dartronics can help with all your packaging and labeling needs. We stand on the shoulders of great inventors like William Goodale with inventions like our VFS-1000 designed to integrate and automate traditional packaging and labeling methods.

Before the paper bag, baskets, bowls, and other bulky containers were the main storage solution in every home and store, so creating a convenient container was revolutionary. Happy Paper Bag Day!

For more info on the VFS-1000 contact us at sales@dartronics.com or call us at 732-324-0800 

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“If you build it, they will come” is more than just a movie slogan to us at Dartronics. Our talented team of engineers jumps at any chance to come up with creative solutions that save our clients both money and time! And because we partner with top of the line vendors, our customizations don’t always have to be created from scratch. Below are three examples of personalized projects we completed for customers who needed a little something extra to optimize their packaging lines:

#1 VFS-1000 Vertical Feeding System, Feeding Shopping Bags:

This VFS-1000 System (Vertical Feeding System) video shows us feeding shopping bags on a system that traditionally run bags from right to left. Based on a customer’s request, we build a machine that can run bags from left to right. The bags are being fed from a hopper onto the customer’s existing printing system conveyor. And because the customer was located in another state, all interactions took place remotely via phone and email. After we built the system in-house, we shipped it over to the customer, and they were able to install it themselves. The system is simple, cost-effective, delivered quickly, and easy to integrate. 

If it were not for our system, the customer would have had to purchase both a robot and conveyorized feeding system, which would have been more expensive. This project saved the customer time and money with an added bonus of also reducing their company’s carbon footprint. 

 The VFS-1000 Vertical Feeding System is perfect for feeding shopping bags with or without handles. If you are trying to inkjet print or label shopping bags, this is the feeding system for you. Feeding paper, plastic, or colored bags, this machine can feed them all. The handles on the shopping bags are not a problem. 

#2 Dartronics Box Tilt and Label System:

This video shows our unique and compact system to tilt, label, and print heavy 25 – 50 lbs bags: Bag in a Box style package. Dartronics provided a custom solution to flip cases 90 degrees in-line on a roller conveyor. The Paragon Labeler prints and applies labels to the trailing panel. Further downstream is a DartJet inkjet printer to print on the top of the box. 

All the components used to build the system are standard industry-wide, easily available components. We prefer to keep the system design simple and serviceability in mind, so the end-user does not incur any downtime at all. By sourcing standard components, we built the system very quickly! The tilt mechanism is air powered and gradually tilts the heavy cases without causing any cosmetic damages to the package. 

The print and apply labeler used in the system runs the customers existing label design software and eliminates the need to print labels offline – we are printing and applying on the fly! 

#3 Adco Compact 4, AlTech ALcode Labeler and Dartronics Integration System:

This system was a custom project created to allow one operator to increase the number of cartons they can load during a shift. Before our improvement, the customers’ operators were manually erecting the carton and tucking all the minor and major flaps closed with their fingers; that kind of repetitive work could lead to ergonomic issues. The system in the video is a single operator station where all the operator has to do is to insert the product into the carton erected by the system. The vertical cartoner tucks the flaps closed and discharges them out from the machine into a print, and apply a labeling system wherein a single pass. We apply two labels to the carton on the fly. 

The system is versatile and accommodates different carton sizes with easy changeovers. At the discharge end of the system, we could integrate a robot to case pack the cartons if needed by a customer. 

For more info on the above projects, or if you have one in mind, contact us today! Our expert team is here to help make your line simpler to operate, with faster speeds that will increase your ROI. 

Take A Free Evaluation!. Email us at Sales@dartronics.com or Call Dartronics at +1 (800) 298-8936  for more info.

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