Snowbird upgrades packaging system
Processed meat company Snowbird Foods, part of the Vion Food Group, has a new Ishida multi-head weigher, allowing it to fill smaller packs.
With its associated form, fill and seal bagging machine, the weigher can fill packs of 0.5kg or 1kg in the time it previously took to fill 4kg and 6kg bags.
Snowbird Food’s multi-million-pound investment also included extending the office suite, adding a thermal boiler to power cookers, upgrading control systems and hygiene on the walls and ceilings, as well as installing a high-speed bag printer that helped to reduce the company’s use of cardboard.
Snowbird Foods sales director Roy Anderson said: “We can now pack in printed film, as well as freezer boxes, so we can offer an enhanced service to customers of frozen food wholesalers and cash and carries.” During a previous upgrade, the company installed a cooking line and added in-line cookers to selected production lines and in-line nitrogen freezers to replace blast freezers.
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