PACKAGING INDUSTRY FOCUS
Meeting the demand from the supermarkets
Endoline Machinery has assisted a supermarket supplier of fresh produce in meeting a demand increase for prepared fruit bowls with the installation of five stainless steel packing lines - increasing output to ten tonnes of fruit per day
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he company assisted by Endoline specialises in the supply of bagged
salads, prepared fruit and leafy salad bowls and trays to major retail and food service companies. As the company faced a surge in demand for prepared fruit bowls the need for greater production space grew, as the project manager explained, “As orders increased so too did the need for greater capacity and we couldn’t fit any more equipment into our existing factories so a purpose built facility was constructed to house the processing and packaging of our fruit and salad lines.” Endoline was appointed to create five packing lines within the new site consisting of case erectors and case sealers to boost the production lines. “Historically box sealers were used within our factories however, within the new purpose built site we were looking to enhance the automation to increase throughput,” continued the project manager. A key requirement in the design of the machinery was for it to be constructed in stainless steel for full wash down specification to meet stringent hygiene regulations.
THE FIRST STEP TO AUTOMATION As all of its equipment range can be built with stainless steel, Endoline recommended the installation of its 100
One of the five packing lines in fully washdown stainless steel - the boxes are manually filled with freshly sealed fruit bowls
array of different case sizes. Paul Ryder, Endoline’s regional account manager, commented, “This company packs over a dozen different case sizes, including very narrow and low SRP cases, dependent on the customer requirements, so it was essential that the equipment we installed was able to deal with the changes with no changeover time. Therefore, our machinery was modified to both meet their mechanical/electrical specification and to cope with all of the varying case sizes.” The ready packed bowls of fruit are
hand packed into the erected boxes via a conveyor belt which then feeds the filled boxes into the Endoline semi- automatic random case sealer - automatically sealing both the top and bottom of the box simultaneously. Ryder continued, “The sealers we installed automatically adjust its height and width settings to deal with the various box sizes running through.” Since semi-automating the packing
series of Semi Automatic case erectors. While providing the first step to automation, this range also offers an efficient alternative to manually erecting boxes and is capable of dealing with an
lines this fresh produce manufacturer has dramatically improved its output and production efficiency with the redeployment of manual workers.
Endoline Machinery
www.endoline.co.uk T: 01767 316 422
Enter 210 FLEXIBILITY FOR CONTRACT PACKAGING OPERATION UFP now has five Ishida mulithead weighers and
12 checkweighers. The company has also just launched a popcorn manufacturing operation and has ordered a Ishida multihead weigher to support the development of this new product range. A requirement for the checkweighers was that
Packaging supplier and contract packer Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) has installed a further three Ishida DACS-W checkweighers at its Leicester factory as part of the company’s ongoing investment programme.
the machines are able to meet the latest specifications of the UK supermarkets. At the same time, Ishida has also upgraded most of the existing models at UFP to include these capabilities. The majority of the installed checkweighers
now include separate reject bins for metal contaminants and incorrect weights, internal alarms for rejects and a coloured beacon to
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distinguish different problems. The DACS-W can also provide valuable production information for subsequent monitoring and traceability. All the Ishida checkweighers and multihead
weighers at UFP offer the facility for fast changeovers with easy set-up using the programmable memory and ease of cleaning. In addition, the bagmakers underneath each Ishida multihead all feature a full set of forming shoulders so machines can quickly be adapted to daily production requirements.
Ishida Europe
www.ishidaeurope.com T: 0121 607 7700
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