Snowbird upgrades packaging system

 - Published:  03 February, 2012

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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