Device having a guillotine device for cutting to length for manufacturing a packaging material product from a fibre starting material and method for manufacturning a packaging material product

An apparatus for producing a packaging material product from a fiber starting material, the apparatus comprising:

• a separator including a blade and configured to separate the packaging material product from a packaging material strand, wherein the separator is free of a counter blade;
• a pair of feed wheels arranged in a conveying direction upstream of the separator and configured to convey the packaging material strand, wherein the blade is configured to be guided such that the blade passes translationally and transversely to the conveying direction, through a conveyor channel which extends at least at a conveying direction level of the separator in the conveying direction, the conveyor channel being bordered by an upper boundary wall and a lower boundary wall;
• and
• a pair of discharge wheels arranged in the conveying direction downstream of the separator and configured to discharge the packaging material strand, wherein a blade of the separator is guided such that, in cutting engagement, the blade translationally cuts through the packaging material strand transversely with respect to the conveying direction, the cutting engagement being exclusively with the packaging material strand.