Hydraulic baling press for beach mats: the last step of the line

A hydraulic baling press is the last machine in a plastic beach mat line: finished, edge-sewn mats go into the press and are compressed into solid bundles ready for shipping. Wenzhou Xiangyi Machinery supplies the press with a complete beach mat line rather than building it, and our catalogue prints no technical parameters for it, so its specification is something to ask us for when you plan the finishing area. This guide sets out what baling does, where the press sits in relation to the heat cutter and the edge sewing machine, which figures we can give you for the finishing section and which we deliberately do not, and what to send us so that the press can be specified for your line.

Key definitions

• Baling. Compressing finished mats into solid bundles in a hydraulic press. It is the last step before the mats leave the factory, and the only step that acts on the finished goods rather than on the mat itself.
• Hydraulic press. A press in which fluid under pressure drives a cylinder, and the cylinder pushes a platen against the material held in a chamber. The force comes from the fluid rather than from a mechanical linkage, which is why a press of this kind is described as hydraulic.
• Bale. The compressed bundle that comes out of the press, held in that shape so it can be handled and loaded as one unit.
• Finishing section. Steps 4, 5 and 6 of the six-step line: heat cutting, edge sewing and baling. Together they turn a continuous woven roll into packed goods.
• Supplied machine. A machine Xiangyi Machinery provides with a complete line but does not build. We have exactly two, and both are in the finishing section: the GC3720 edge sewing machine and the baling press.
• Specification on request. Our standing answer for the press. The catalogue carries no parameter table for it, so we ask you for your mat sizes and output and come back with the press to match, instead of printing figures we cannot source.

Why woven beach mats are baled

A woven PP beach mat is light and springy, and it does not stay flat on its own. Cut and edge-sewn mats stacked loosely take up far more room than the same mats pressed, and a loose stack has to be handled mat by mat. Pressing the stack into a bale solves both problems at once: the goods become a single dense unit with a regular shape, which is what makes them straightforward to move around the factory, to store and to load.

That is the whole purpose of the step. Baling does not change the mat — not its width, not its pattern, not its weave. By the time mats reach the press they are finished product, cut to the length the order calls for on the mat cutting machine and sewn along the edges on the double-needle sewing machine. Everything the customer buys has already been decided upstream, at the loom.

Where the press sits in the line

The six steps of a plastic beach mat production line run in a fixed order, and the last three cannot be reordered. The woven roll comes off the jacquard beach mat weaving machine at the loom's weaving width. It is cut into mats of the ordered length. Each mat is then edge-sewn, because the cut edges have to be secured before the mat is finished goods. Only then is there anything to bale.

This matters for planning, because the press is sized by what reaches it rather than by anything of its own. Two things upstream decide that: the loom width, and the output. The XY-KTC range has eight models with maximum weaving widths from 900 to 3000 mm, so the mat width is set the moment the loom model is chosen — and the complete-line guide walks through how that choice propagates down the line. The number of mats per shift then decides how often the press cycles and how much floor space the finished bales need.

The finishing section: what the catalogue gives

Every figure below is as printed in our catalogue. Note the last row, and note what is not in it.

Step	Machine	What it does	Catalogue figures
4	XY-QDJ heat cutting machine	Cuts the woven roll to the ordered length with an electrically heated cutter	Cutting width 2000–3000 mm; heating power 6 kW; weight 500 kg; installed size 4000 × (2200–3200) × 1000 mm
5	GC3720 edge sewing machine	Sews the cut edges so the selvage does not come loose	220 V; 50–60 Hz; motor speed 200–650 rpm; motor torque up to 2.2 N·m
6	Hydraulic baling press	Presses finished mats into solid bundles	Specification on request

The empty cell is deliberate and it is the honest answer. The press is one of the two machines we supply rather than build, and our catalogue gives it a description but no parameter table — no pressing force, no chamber size, no bale dimensions, no cycle time. We are not going to put numbers on this page that we cannot source from the catalogue. For the five machines we build ourselves the full tables are published on each machine page; the manufacturer guide sets out which machine falls on which side of that line and why it changes what we can tell you.

How to plan the baling and packing area

1. Start from the loom widths. Mats arrive at the finishing section at the width the loom wove them, so list the loom models before anything else. That width, and the lengths your orders call for, describe everything the press will ever be asked to compress.
2. Put the press after the sewing stations, not beside the cutter. The sequence is cut, sew, then bale. Floor space saved by shortcutting that order is lost again in handling, because unsewn mats are not finished goods and cannot be baled.
3. Plan for the bales, not just the press. The press occupies a fixed footprint; the output of finished bales accumulates. Leave somewhere for them to stand between pressing and loading, near the loading area.
4. Size the step by output rather than by machine. Edge sewing is done mat by mat, so the sewing stations set the rate at which finished mats arrive at the press. Work out mats per shift first, and the packing step follows from it.
5. Ask us for the press specification before you fix the layout. It is the one machine in the line whose figures are not on the site. Send the mat sizes and the output you are planning and we will confirm the press, along with the cutting and sewing set-up around it.

What to send us

The details that let us specify the finishing section, in the order they get used:

1. The width, or widths, of mat you want to sell.
2. The mat lengths your orders call for.
3. How many mats per day or month you plan to make.
4. The voltage and power available at your factory.
5. Which machines you already have, if you are adding to a line rather than building one.
6. Where the machines will be used — the country or region.

Send those with an enquiry and we will come back with the press and the rest of the finishing section for your line. Every machine is listed on the machines page, the press has its own page at hydraulic baling press, and the three finishing steps are covered together in the cutting and finishing guide. To get the current specification for the press, send us an enquiry.