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News Release from: Ilapak | Subject: Delta 3000 HSR Flow Wrapper, Vegetronic VFFS
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2004
Flow Wrapper And From Fill Seal Systems
For Cheese
Leading cheese packer Kerrygold has boosted production capacity and enhanced pack quality with the introduction of an Ilapak high speed Delta 3000 HSR inverted electronic flow-wrapper.
Leading cheese packer Kerrygold has boosted production capacity and enhanced pack quality with the introduction of an Ilapak high speed Delta 3000 HSR inverted electronic flow-wrapper Kerrygold has also dramatically increased throughput on its re-sealable zipper pack lines using Ilapak's Vegatronic 2000 vertical, form, fill and seal series to pack a range of grated cheese products
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Delta flow-wrapper achieves speeds of 150 packs per minute, around double the speed of Kerrygold's previous flow-wrapper and is currently wrapping blocks of cheese in sizes from 200g packs to 1kg packs, which are supplied to major retailers and cash and carries.
These are sold under the Kerrygold brand.
The Delta 3000 HSR features a long dwell-sealing system to ensure high integrity, hermetic sealing to produce consistently high quality packs with a longer shelf life.
Carl Ravenhall, Kerrygold production director, said: "To meet the growing demand for our products we needed a machine capable of high speeds, top quality packs, low leakage rates, quick product changeovers and machine flexibility.
A problem with many packaging machines is that as you increase speed, seal dwell time is reduced, compromising pack quality and increasing leakage rates.
The Delta's long dwell sealing system overcomes this problem, so while having doubled throughput to 150 packs per minute, we maintained integrity and sealing with half the previous leakage rate." Having also installed the Vegatronic 2000, Kerrygold has also increased throughput on its zipper pack line by approximately 33 per cent.
The versatility of the Vegatronic also means the company can produce up to 20 different pack formats to meet market requirements.
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