Packaging installation (1) for packaging flat, flexible products, in particular hygiene products, into packaging bags (28), having a tubular sheet material (16) which runs continuously around a forming shoe (18) and is intended for wrapping the products in the sheet-material tube (4) formed, having a conveying device for feeding, and introducing, the product stacks (8) into the sheet-material tube (4), and having downstream welding devices (20, 38) for welding the sheet-material tube (4) transversely and longitudinally, characterized in that the conveying device is configured as a belt conveyor with transporting belts (60) which act laterally on the products, wherein the transporting belts (60) consist of at least two individual belts (48), and wherein the individual belts are mounted in an overlapping state at at least one position within the packaging installation.
