Yunnan is an important coffee-producing region in China, and the market for instant coffee stick products continues to boom. Small and portable coffee sticks are deeply loved by consumers for their convenient brewing and rich flavor. However, coffee sticks are mostly aluminum foil soft pouches with light and thin pouches. After production and discharge, they easily stack, stick together, and become disorderly oriented, creating considerable difficulties for the downstream cartoning process. Today, many coffee manufacturers in Yunnan have chosen the unordered material sorting machine from Hanlee Automation Technology Co., Ltd. to solve the packaging pain points of coffee sticks and achieve automated upgrading of the packaging process.

In the past, when Yunnan coffee enterprises produced coffee sticks, after filling and sealing were completed, large numbers of coffee sticks were piled up in disorder. The traditional model relied on manual labor to complete material sorting, counting, placement, and cartoning. Workers had to manually separate stuck-together coffee sticks, adjust pouch orientation, count quantities, and then place them into packaging boxes. Manual material sorting was not only labor-intensive, but production efficiency was also greatly affected by worker conditions. During peak order seasons, multiple operators had to be assigned, keeping labor costs high. At the same time, manual rubbing and placement easily caused aluminum foil pouches of coffee sticks to be squeezed and damaged, leading to powder leakage, and could also result in overpacking or underpacking, increasing material loss and hindering standardized product control.

The unordered material sorting machine from Hanlee Automation Technology Co., Ltd. is specially optimized for long stick-shaped soft pouch materials such as coffee sticks. It can directly receive coffee sticks piled up in disorder without the need for manual pre-alignment. Through multiple sets of rollers, the equipment flexibly breaks up stacked coffee sticks, automatically corrects pouch orientation, arranges disordered coffee sticks into a material flow with uniform spacing and consistent direction, and smoothly conveys them to the downstream cartoning machine, achieving integrated assembly line operations of material sorting, counting, and cartoning.

The equipment is made of food-grade stainless steel, making it easy to clean and disinfect and ensuring compliance with food production hygiene standards. The flexible material sorting structure reduces squeezing and friction, protects the aluminum foil packaging pouches of coffee sticks to the greatest extent, and effectively lowers the defect rate caused by bag breakage and powder leakage. Equipped with a precise counting module, it strictly controls the number of coffee sticks per box, eliminates cartoning specification errors, and ensures consistent product quality before shipment.

In actual production, when the unordered material sorting machine from Hanlee Automation Technology Co., Ltd. operates together with a cartoning machine, it can replace multiple material sorting workers, requiring only a small number of personnel to monitor the equipment. The equipment supports long-term, continuous, and stable production and adapts to the large-volume production needs of Yunnan coffee enterprises. It is simple to adjust. When switching to different specifications of coffee sticks, parameters can be adjusted for rapid production, adapting to enterprises' flexible needs for multi-category production.

A delicious cup of coffee depends not only on high-quality raw materials but also on stable and efficient production and packaging equipment. Today, more and more Yunnan coffee enterprises are introducing the unordered material sorting machine from Hanlee Automation Technology Co., Ltd. to solve the industry challenge of coffee stick packaging, reduce costs and improve efficiency, support the large-scale and standardized production of local coffee products, and bring high-quality Yunnan coffee to the market with better quality.