| AAA Growers, Packaging Line | ||
The P182 can package at a rate of 5,400 packs per hour. |
AAA Growers packs products for Tesco and M&S. |
AAA Growers harvests, packs and delivers products within 24–48 hours. |
| Abergavenny Fine Foods Tray Sealer Installation, | ||
Increased demand for oven-baked cheeses resulted in increased pressure on Abergavenny Fine Foods' existing production capacities. |
The QX 775 tray sealer can accommodate a variety of trays, providing a wide range of packaging formats. |
The QX 775 has the capacity to pack 100 packs per minute on a single lane configuration. |
The 'inside cut' technology helps Abergavenny to improve product appeal and reduces film consumption by 5%. |
Abergavenny Fine Foods, a UK based cheese maker that provides a variety of traditional and modern cheeses, installed an Ishida QX775 tray sealer. |
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| Abil Snack Food, Processing Line | ||
ABIL has four manufacturing plants. |
The Sigpack TTLi top loader. |
Some of the ABIL chocolate snack products. |
Trinidad is a modern industrial nation and ABIL is one of its major industries. |
Trinidad is an island in the Caribbean. |
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| AJ and RG Barber Cheese Packaging Upgrade, Somerset | ||
Barbers mainly specialises in the production of block cheeses from 2.5g to 5kg and 20kg. |
AJ and RG Barber produces a whole range of cheese, including continental and local varieties. |
The Scirocco system can pack cut portioned cheese at a speed of up to 200 packs per minute. |
The Barber family keep a herd of 1,700 cows to produce milk for cheese production. |
The Barber family have been producing cheese since the 1800s. |
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| Al Ain Dairy Filling Line Expansion | ||
Al Ain Dairy is now introducing flavoured camel milk, camel milk chocolate and yoghurts made from camel milk. |
Al Ain Dairy has also become involved in the fruit juice market with the production of six flavoured juices from fresh juice concentrate. |
In September 2009 Al Ain Dairy purchased two systems to increase their filling capacity for juices and dairy products. |
Al Ain Dairy was the first established dairy farm in the United Arab Emirates. |
The dairy's filling systems have been supplied with UV equipment to kill bacteria. |
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| Amcor Fibre Packing Flexographic Preprint | ||
Print unit of the 94 DF. |
94 DF print stand with operator platforms. |
User interface of the CNC. |
OCS-Menu "CNC Parameter". |
Cylinder Handling System on a 94 DF/8-CNC. |
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| Aunt Bessie's Production Facility Upgrade | ||
The puddings in the hopper ready for packaging. |
Puddings leaving the ovens ready for packaging. |
The cooked puddings in the Ishida hopper. |
Aunt Bessie's produces 20 million Yorkshire puddings every week. |
Aunt Bessie’s produces a range of convenience products, one of the latest additions is frozen mashed potatoes. |
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| Bison Bag Plastic Bag Production Plant Expansion, | ||
Bielloni Axsa 6-colour central impression press. |
Bielloni Julia Seconda Solventless Laminator. |
The packaging for Reeses Pieces is produced at the Bison Bag facility. |
The packaging for M&Ms is produced at the Bison Bag facility. |
Example of printed bag produced at Bison Bag's facility. |
An increase in popularity for re-sealable zipper closure bags has led Bison Bag to expand to meet customer demand. |
| Bonduelle Vegetable Canning Plant, Krasnodar | ||
Bonduelle will initially package sweetcorn and garden peas at its new vegetable processing and canning plant in Krasnador, Russia. |
The facility will consist of a vegetable processing and canning plant and an adjacent state-of-the-art can production facility. |
A body maker and cupper as will be installed at the Crown Food Europe can production facility. |
A roll unwinder and lubricator as will be installed at the Crown Food Europe can production facility. |
A can conveyor belt taking cans to be packed and palletised prior to transfer to the canning facility. |
Crown Food Europe will build and outfit the can production plant to produce 400g sweetcorn and garden pea cans of 83mm diameter with fully decorated can ends. |
| Cadbury Schweppes Confectionery Plant | ||
Part of the box-loading system. |
Equipment that integrates the flow-wrapping system to the wrapped product boxing unit. |
Selection of Cadbury chocolate being produced as the Tasmania facility. |
"Cadbury's by Mountain and Sea, Claremont, Tasmania" painting from the 1950s now located in the State Library of Tasmania. |
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| Catering Houtop Packaging Upgrade, | ||
The upgrade at the Catering Houtop facility is Proseal's first installation in mainland Europe. |
Catering Houtop has a reputation for quality and also bakes its own fresh bread for sandwiches. |
The Proseal SP30 machine can handle 30 packs per minute at its full speed. |
The SP30 has a relatively small footprint making it more convenient for smaller operators. |
Catering Houtop makes sandwiches with at least 12 different fillings. |
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| Centrally Packed Meats, Meat Packing Facility | ||
CPM is provides a range of fresh and frozen ready-to-cook cuts of meat. |
Traditional British cuts of lamb: 1. Scrag End (of neck) 2. Middle Neck 3. Best End (of neck) 4. Loin 5. Chump (and chump chops) 6. Leg 7. Shoulder 8. Breast. |
Traditional cuts of pork. |
| Charnwood Foods Pizza Base Packaging Line, | ||
Charnwood Foods responded to demand by introducing a new production line in 2006. |
The Motoman SP100 is used for palletising at the Charnwood pizza base production facility. |
The SP100 can handle 320 cases an hour. |
Charnwood Foods supplies pizza bases to restaurants across the UK. |
A prepared pizza base. |
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| Chicken of the Sea Plant | ||
The new facility in Lyons, Georgia, has been established in an existing building saving time and money. |
Chicken of the Sea has closed its existing facility in American Samoa. |
The plant will take frozen tuna loins exported through the port of Savannah and produce canned tuna. |
Chicken of the Sea tuna is one of the premium tuna brands in the US. |
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| Chocolat Frey Production Plant Upgrade, Buchs | ||
Chocolat Frey completed an installation of new high-speed robotic packaging equipment at its Buchs facility in December 2004. |
The new line consists of eight Delta robots to reduce manual handling at the factory by placing chocolates into blister packs and blister packs into cartons. |
Specific optical vision technology has the ability to recognise unique product packaging formats and specifically select them to be filled with the correct product. |
A selection of Chocolat Frey boxed chocolates that will be packed using the new system. |
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| David's Fruit - Packaging Facility | ||
The Kibutz Eilon is in the north of Israel. |
The sweet potatoes are mostly destined for the European markets. |
Sweet potatoes straight from the ground need a great deal of cleaning. |
The new facility has boosted packing capacity by 400%. |
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| Del Monte Fruit Processing and Packaging Facility, | ||
The Fruit Express range is one which benefits from Del Monte's new processing and packaging system. |
Videojet provided the coding printers. |
Del Monte is well known for producing quality fruit and vegetables. |
The number of cases produced each day has increased by 60% at the Del Monte facility. |
The retorting packaging system is becoming more popular. |
Del Monte also produce canned and glass-packed fruit at their facility. |
| Delicato Automated Packaging Plant, Huddinge | ||
Delicato pastries are presented in a new pack. |
The HFSS platform is used in a compact packaging system that is flexible, and offers customised packaging solutions. |
The new generation of distribution systems support the functioning of HFSS application. |
| Driscoll's Strawberry Stretch-Tape Wrapping | ||
The strawberry cartons are wrapped in stretch tape on the machine. |
The multiple-x patterns ensure pallet stability |
Cartons get stacked and taped on the Easy Wrapper pallet |
| EDV Barrier Cup Production Technology | ||
EDV produces a wide range of plastic cup packaging. |
The transparent PP/EVOH/PP barrier cup for fruit. |
A new cup for a range of corn from General Mills (Gigante Verde or Green Giant), with an integrated spork. |
| Etitalia Industria Grafica New Facility and Equipment Upgrade, | ||
The port of Naples is the third-biggest city in Italian after Rome and Milan. |
Etitalia has paved the way for future expansion with an €8m investment in a new production plant on an industrial estate in Buccino. |
Beniamino Moriniello (r) with KBA-Italia's regional sales manager Antonio Golisciani and marketing manager Dario Braschi at Etitalia's new Rapida 106 – its third medium-format KBA press in just a few years. |
The Rapida 106 at Etitalia is the first seven-colour hybrid coater version of this press type in Italy. |
Etitalia purchased a ten-colour Flexotechnica N 10 G at the same time as the KBA Rapida 106. |
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| EWOS Fish Feed Packaging Line, Westfield | ||
Norway's major fish feed producer, EWOS, installed an extension to its pellet conveying, packing and palletising lines at its plant in Westfield, UK. |
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| Faribault Foods, | ||
Faribault Foods has extended its product base with a range of stand-up pouch fruit juice drinks. |
Three pouch-filling lines at the Elk River facility produce 10% or 100% fruit juice drinks for Faribault Foods. |
Sensors on the Elk River filling line check if the pouch has been successfully filled. |
The three high-speed lines at the Elk River facility can fill 250 pouches per minute. |
Faribault Foods converts its own pouches for control of quality and inventory. |
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| Floella Benjamin's Caribbean Kitchen, | ||
Floella Benjamin has produced a range of chilled ready meals that are being marketed through Morrison's. |
Calypso chicken is just one of the traditional recipes being produced in the Floella's Caribbean Kitchen range. |
The packaging system at the facility in Worthing, Sussex, required different sized trays so uses the Packaging Automation Ltd PA217 manual tray sealer. |
Mutton curry with rice is one of the meals from the Caribbean Kitchen range that retails at £2.99. |
Each tray is sealed with a film lid, allowing the product from the Caribbean Kitchen range to be viewed before eating. |
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| Frankfurter Brauhaus | ||
ET bottles for beer were first introduced to Germany in 2004. |
The MB-Lok mini closure is a lightweight, two-piece design that contributes significantly to reducing the overall cost of bottling. |
The MB-Lok mini closure helps to keep the product inside fresher. |
The system used at the Frankfurter Brauhaus facility can be easily retrofitted to older bottling lines. |
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| Fresh Olive Company Filling Line, London | ||
The component parts of the FastFill 60 are easy-to-access for maintenance and hygiene. The Fresh Olive Company uses the machine to fill tubs with olives. |
The FastFill 60 is a volumetric pot-filling and heat-sealing machine. |
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| Friesland Foods Cheese, Packaging Line | ||
Christiaan Hallers de Jong, project manager for the robotic lines at the facility. |
The Edam cheese being transferred from the maturing racks to the coating process. |
Edam cheese being packed in boxes. |
Cheeses being transferred in sevens. |
The Fanuc R-2000iB at work. |
A range of the cheese produced by Friesland. |
| Gabriel Fresh Food Weigher, Malmedy | ||
Ishida's Fresh Food Weigher technology is ideal for sorting and weighing food before it is packaged. |
The FFW works for many food types, including marinated shellfish. |
The FFW has a linear arrangement of hoppers but operates like a conventional multi-head weigher. |
| Gateway Packaging Pinch Bottomer Bag Machine | ||
The combined cold glue / hot melt adhesive bottom pasting of the PB 2555 pinch bottomer machine used by Gateway Packaging Company in the making of MBOM bags. |
The bottom closing of the PB 2555 pinch bottomer. |
The flat tube former in AM 8115, a high-output multi-purpose tuber. |
The panless cross pasting unit of AM 8115. |
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| George Weston Masterbatch Coding Installation, | ||
Data on cost, freshness and other information is printed on the bread bag closures that are used to seal the products using DataLase masterbatch technology. |
Datalase - a non-toxic inorganic additive is applied directly to Kwiklok bag closures. Lasers then activate the Datalase additive that undergoes chemical changes after absorbing the light energy. |
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| Goa-Linda Confectionary Cartoning Line, | ||
Goa-Linda installed an automatic end-load cartoning line from Kliklok-Woodman in August 2005 for packing bags of chocolate covered raisins and wafers. |
Kliklok's short footprint SFR end-load cartoner can handle cartons in a range of lengths, widths and depths. It can also be operated from both sides thereby giving optimum utilisation of the limited space. |
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| Gower View Foods Packaging Line, West Wales | ||
Gower View Foods produces liquid stick packs, sachets and stand-up pouches. |
The IWKA carton machine and metal detector. |
The complete stick pack line including CIP set. |
The stick pack line and potting machines can produce 100,000 liquid sticks per day. |
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| Headland Foods | ||
The Vision 400 machine installed at the Flint site. |
The machine can pack 72 meals per minute. |
Lines are easy to maintain and changeovers only take two minutes. |
The machine can seal a variety of materials to different tray types. |
The Vision 400 can even heat seal under MAP conditions. |
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| Hershey Foods, Palletising System | ||
The largest chocolate factory in the world is the Hershey facility in Pennsylvannia. |
SKUs are affected by the seasons and number of orders, making the packing of products made by Hershey unpredictable. |
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are a famous Hershey product. |
The new space for palletisation operations at the Hershey plant in Pennsylvania was only 7,000ft² and needed to accommodate a range of new automatic equipment. |
The system at the Hershey facility uses a combination robotic and conventional to handle the volume and variation of SKUs. |
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| Hitchen Foods Flexible Packaging System, Wigan | ||
Hitchen Foods has automated the line packing process at its Wigan facility with a pick-and-place case packer. |
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| Hormel Foods Chilli Packaging Line, Stockton, CA | ||
Tetra Pak's Tetra Recart packaging system is a square, paperboard, laminated, easy-to-open carton. |
Hormel Foods' heat and serve chilli brands are now be packaged in Tetra Recart cartons instead of cans. |
Contherm scraped surface heat exchangers are used to pasteurise the product before carton filling. |
Tetra Recart is a combined processing and carton-based packaging system for in-container food sterilisation. |
The packaging system wet products containing particles of varying sizes to be packaged for shelf lives in excess of 24 months. |
Hormel has retained the same batch cooking process and recipes for its chillis despite the new processing and packaging system. |
| Huhtamaki | ||
Huhtamaki's existing packaging plant in Ivanteevka in the Moscow region has now been accompanied by a moulded fibre egg packaging unit. |
Packaging products manufactured by the Leotech® equipment housed in the new facility include Huhtamaki's recent ECOM® egg traypack. |
Full ECOM® egg traypacks can be securely stacked in transport packs and on shelves, nested if required. |
Leotech® equipment, employed in the new packaging unit, is used to produce environmentally friendly packaging made from recycled paper. |
The Leotech® machines supplied by Huhtamaki Molded Fiber Technology BV produce millions of packaging items daily, in more than 30 different countries. |
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| Ilchester Cheese Company, | ||
RTS Flexible Systems introduced a PixCell robotic picking unit to the Ilchester facility. |
The Applewood Chuckle is one of Ilchester's best-selling products. These are packed in a multipack. |
Ilchester individually packaged Chuckle cheese products come in a vast range of flavours. |
The Ilchester Cheese Company was one of the pioneers of blended and flavoured cheeses. |
Ilchester makes over 50 different varieties of cheese, including traditional and new recipes. |
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| Inline Plastics Plant, | ||
The new Inline Plastics plant at McDonough. |
Inline Plastics Corporation has opened a new plant in McDonough, Georgia, US, in response to growth in the company's innovative, environmentally friendly, sustainable food packaging products. |
The new Inline Plastics plant will be engaged in manufacturing and distribution of thermoformed plastic food packaging. |
| John Baarda Tomato Packaging | ||
The checkweigher at John Baarda Ltd can save as much as 100g of giveaway on a 500g punnet. |
The tomatoes are produced all year around by using waste heat and CO2 from a neighbouring chemical plant. |
Ten thousand vines a year can produce around 7,500t of tomatoes. |
Tomatoes are grown in the largest greenhouse complex in the UK. |
Checkpoint M is a high precision dynamic checkweigher that can even provide stats for line performance. |
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| Josephine la Gourmet Tub Filling and Sealing | ||
Before the final product is ejected, the PXG machine provides heat-sealing, code printing and pick and place tasks for plastic overcaps. |
The PXG tub filling and sealing machine consists of 12 stations, cup feeding and ejecting devices, lid feeding and sealing, provision for two filling stations and a PLC control system. |
Hygiene requirements are met through stainless steel construction and the use of food-grade materials for the parts of the machine that come into contact with the product. |
The PXG filling machine packs Josephine's range of dips at a rate of 25 to 100 cups per minute and provides flexibility in cup sizes up to a maximum diameter of 117mm. |
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| Kwik Trip Ice Confectionary | ||
The ice is bagged and moves to the accumulation area |
The ice bags are stacked very efficiently |
The ramp to the accumulation area at the top of the machine |
The palletising system with the buckling floor plates |
Each layer of ice is flattened to make a base for the next |
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| Lake Country Foods, | ||
Smiths Detection provided the X-ray detection systems for the new line. |
The Lake Country Foods facility is situated in Oconomowoc near Milwaukee. |
A range of equipment has gone to make up the new powder packaging line which has all been integrated perfectly. |
Sonoco provides the canisters for the packing of Lake Country Foods' dry powder products. |
Spiral wound cardboard canisters are becoming more popular for this type of powder packaging. |
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| LH Hayward, Bean Packaging Line, | ||
The machines from UVA Packaging at the Hayward's facility can pack a wide range of different dried products. |
Hayward's is the largest packer of red kidney beans in the US. |
The form-fill-seal machines have increased the efficiency of the packing operation. |
The LIMA 250 from UVA Packaging uses Siemens automation technology. |
Hayward's packs 19 different varieties of beans, lentils and peas for the US domestic market. |
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| Luxlait Super Dairy, Roost, Bissen | ||
Tetra Pak is providing the majority of the equipment for the Luxlait 'super dairy'. |
Tetra PlantMaster will control the Luxlait plant, providing full traceability. |
A rendering of the new Luxlait facility, based in Roost, Bissen in Luxembourg. |
The Luxlait super dairy will produce a range of products, including milk, cream and yoghurt health drinks. |
The plant will intake around 120 million litres of raw milk per year. |
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| Manner Wafers | ||
The Cognex system allows 12 separate characteristics to be examined. |
Reject rates have fallen and Manner AG has a better quality record. |
The system operates at high speed to increase production. |
The factory in Linz. |
The computer system screen to examine the packs. |
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| Milchhoff Sterzin | ||
The company is a cooperative that has 500 members. |
The major yoghurt production is for the domestic market but there is also a big outlet to Canada. |
Lacto bacillus is the essential component of yoghurt production. |
There are over 100 varieties of Sterzing brand yoghurt produced. |
The company produces a range of dairy products but majors in yoghurt production. |
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| Mullins Cheese, | ||
Wisconsin makes the most Cheddar in the US, with Mullins a key producer since 1970. |
The Mullins plant in Knowlton uses milk from 900 Wisconsin dairy farms. |
Colby-Jack, which is produced at the Mullins plant, is a blend of Colby (Wisconsin Cheddar) and Monterey Jack cheese. |
In August 2007 Mullins added six new cheese block handling, orientation and packaging systems from Cryovac Food Packaging to its plant. |
The Mullins plant packs around 5,500 blocks of cheese per day. |
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| Mumias Sugar Company Packaging Plant | ||
Sugar Cane became increasingly expensive during 2008 due to low availability arising from heavy rains between August and October. |
Mumias has decided to change production and is producing more smaller-size bags of sugar. |
Cut sugar cane ready for production. |
| Nestlé RFID Pallet Labelling System, | ||
The SATO labelling machine, installed in the Nestlé facility, delivers high-quality throughput and handles complex labels in time-critical situations. |
The automatic pallet labelling solution incorporates "Flag Tag" - a feature that allows Nestlé to tag all pallets with one type of tag. |
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| New Zealand Fresh Cuts Salad Packaging System, | ||
New Zealand Fresh Cuts has installed a new salad packaging facility at its Auckland plant. |
The ROBAG 3 rotary triple jaw machine packs at a speed of over 220bpm. |
TNA stainless steel scale in operation at NZFC. |
New Zealand Fresh Cuts is one of the main packers of salad vegetables in New Zealand. |
The Rangiri farm run by NZFC produces all of the company's baby carrots year-round. |
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| PBM Nutritionals, | ||
At the PBM Nutritionals plant in Georgia, Vermont, the new packaging line offers enhanced efficiency. |
Packaging at the PMB facility is undertaken under cleanroom-style conditions. |
PBM's new production line also offers new packaging options and faster speeds. |
The GC 5000 coder from Graphic Controls is an integral part of the packaging process. |
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| Peak Puddings, Tray Sealing Process, Buxton | ||
Peak Puddings (Taste of the Moorlands) makes its products with the finest ingredients. |
Peak Puddings (Taste of the Moorlands) was started on a sheep farm as a farm enterprise. |
The Peak District provides an excellent area for business development. |
The Peak Puddings range includes a number of well-known luxury puddings packaged in trays. |
Production at the Peak Puddings facility is now being scaled up and so rapid packaging is more important than ever. |
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| Penny Lane Foods Weighing and Packaging Line, | ||
The Apex checkweigher, an integral part of the new packaging line installed by Prins UK at Penny Lane Foods Ltd, has a throughput of up to 300 packs per minute. |
The modular construction of the multi-head weigher allows a single machine to use a variety of hopper sizes. The double door weigh-pans ensure fast and smooth operation. |
The Innotech form fill seal machine has been tailored to Penny Lane's specific requirements. |
| Peterson Beck Seafood | ||
Peterson Beck is investing more than €6.5 million in its cardboard fish packaging plant in Rønne, Denmark. |
Carepack® liners are use to package fishblocks for storage and transportation. |
Fish processing (gutting and cleaning). |
A packaged fish block in a horizontal plate freezer. |
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| Soleco Tray-Sealing Machine for Steamer Pots, | ||
Soleco UK Ltd, a producer of pre-prepared salads and vegetables, purchased a new tray-sealing machine, the Vision 182, from Packaging Automation in May 2005. |
Vision 182 is designed to cope with much deeper pots than normal, whilst at the same time, sealing both the top and bottom of the pot. |
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| The Cheese Company Packaging Facility Expansion, | ||
Multivac UK's R530 multi-format packaging machine, as used at the The Cheese Company packaging facility. |
Sliced cheese in reclosable packaging. |
Cheese at the factory is manufactured in three formats: a standard square punnet, a shingled slices pack, and a punnet-type pack with a clip-in reclosable lid. |
Individually sliced packaged cheese. |
The new packaging line started production in August 2003. |
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| Tip Top Ice Cream | ||
Tip Top is one of the best-known brands of ice cream in New Zealand. |
Fonterra's main production plant is now at Auckland where the Cognex In-Vision system is installed. |
Fonterra produces a range of ice cream products using the finest ingredients, including chocolate. |
The ice cream is produced in 2l tubs for retail sale and also larger containers for parlours. |
Tip Top produces some unique flavours, such as vanilla and toffee-flavour, or 'hokey pokey'. |
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| Ugo Foods, Pasta Packaging Upgrade, Hertfordshire | ||
Pasta production at the Ugo foods facility uses UK free-range eggs. |
PFM Packaging Machinery Ltd installed a multi-head weigher at the Ugo plant in June 2008. |
Ugo has produced fresh pasta in the UK since 1929. |
Ugo Foods needed a new weigher to handle the production volume of its filled pasta and to perform at high speeds with extreme precision. |
PFM's custom packaging solution was designed to help Ugo meet its demand for filled pasta shapes. |
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| Unipet Bird Feed Labelling System, Sittingbourne | ||
Unipet has installed a PALS Labelling PA10E semi-automatic labelling system for its range of bird feed. |
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| Village Nurseries Soft Fruit Packaging Facility | ||
Village Nurseries has invested £500,000 in an eight-workstation Marco Packhouse system. |
Most of the Marco Packhouse packaging system is automated but check weighing of produce must be done manually. |
The LineMaster system incorporates workstations, labelling and packaging. |
Raspberries are grown under glass in Village Nurseries' ten acres of greenhouses. |
Village Nurseries won the Yorkshire Post growers' award for its Tulameen raspberries in 2007. |
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| Wagner Frozen Foods Robotic Packaging System, | ||
Piccolinis, as manufactured by Wagner. |
Piccolinis packaging line and Delta robot in action. |
SIG Delta robotic system. |
Wagner packaging line control area. |
Piccolinis secondary packaging (carton). |
SIG Delta robot vision system. |
Workings of the Delta robot. |
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| Walkers Crisps Production Line | ||
The picking robot using the vacuum cup attachment. |
The flow wrapper packaging a multi-pack. |
The Schubert line is relatively small, saving space in the facility. |
A Walkers multi-pack of cheese and onion crisps. |
The ready salted variety is still the UK's favourite crisp. |
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| Wensleydale Creamery Cheese Packaging, | ||
The Wensleydale Creamery is based in Hawes in North Yorkshire and uses locally sourced ingredients for its produce. |
Wensleydale with cranberries is a popular product made by the Wensleydale Creamery. |
The Wensleydale produced at the Hawes plant is matured for four to six months. |
The composite tubes used for packaging Wensleydale Creamery's cheeses are part biodegradable and fully recyclable. |
Smurfit Kappa's composite tube holds a 500g cheese truckle and incorporates two small holes in the body of the tube to allow the cheese to breathe and continue maturation during transport. |
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| Whitelink Seafoods Shrink Packaging Machine | ||
Atlanta shrink wrapping machinery was installed at Whitelink Seafoods' fish processing facility in Fraserburgh, Scotland. |
Fresh seafood processing needs a packaging solution that will retain the quality. |
Whitelink has also installed Ulma's HRX shrink tunnel, in which the film is shrunk by a stream of hot air. |
| Wisconsin Cheese Group, Packaging System | ||
The pick and place M430iA/2F is used at the Monroe facility to increase the production rate. |
The robot pick and place system uses a vacuum suction gripper as its tool which can be configured to pick up a variety of products. |
The Hispanic cheese has shown enormous growth over the last five years and it now makes up around 50% of Wisconsin Cheese Groups’ sales. |
The M430iA/2F is precisely directed in its operations by an accurate camera vision system that determines the position of each item on the line coming into the pick and place area. |
A range of Hispanic cheeses are produced including frying cheese. |
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| Wrigley, RFID Pallet Tracking System | ||
Active RFID tags provide a consistent signal that can allow an accurate inventory both in warehouse and outside. |
AeroScout has provided its active Wi-Fi RFID technology for use at the Wrigley facility. |
Wrigley has implemented a pallet-level RFID system for asset and product tracking at its Poland facility. |
Wrigley is currently implementing new pack graphics on its products. |
The Wrigley facility in Poznan, Poland is the company's largest factory in Europe. |
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| Wyke Farms, Weigher Upgrade, | ||
The Wyke Farms facility in Brunton, Somerset has seen an increase in production of cheese. |
Wyke Farms is one of the UK's largest independent cheese producers. |
The company's best-selling extra mature brand of cheddar is packed using a flow wrap machine. |
Wyke also produces reduced-fat healthy cheese varieties, such as the cheddar for Rosemary Conley's food range. |
The Wyke Farms facility is now capable of achieving production of over 20,000t of cheese a year. |
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