Apparatus and a method for producing dish-shaped product packages

An apparatus for producing dish-shaped product packages, the apparatus comprising:

• a forming station (10) for product packages (1), in connection with the forming station (10) is a secondary tool (20) with secondary moulds (21) side by side with each other, a heating station (23) and a primary tool (18) with primary moulds (19) for feeding sheet-like, fiber-based, individual blanks (9a) of product packages (1) into to the secondary tool (20) forming of product packages (1), and the apparatus further comprises a control system for controlling the functions of the apparatus, and in connection with the apparatus is a film track (12) for providing a formed product package (1) with a film (1a) functioning as an inner lining, characterized in that the primary tool (18) comprises two or more primary moulds (19) side by side, and in that the apparatus comprises means for moving secondary moulds (21) towards each other and away from each other after the forming of the product packages (1), in which case the means for moving the secondary moulds (21) towards each other and away from each comprise one or more actuators (27) connected to the control system of the apparatus.