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News Release from: Packaging Automation | Subject: V8 volumetric filler
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Team on 11 May 2005
'Wet' Volumetric Filler Now Fills Dry
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Packaging Automation converted a machine designed and built to handle liquids so it could cope with a dry product.
Packaging Automation converted a machine designed and built to handle liquids so it could cope with a dry product The company said that it was a challenge its technical team and a specially adapted V8 volumetric filler is now providing excellent service for Cereal Innovations, filling 'top hat' pots for one of the best-known names in dessert production
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cereal Innovations was looking for a machine that could fill 'top hats' with biscuit crumble and attach them to pots of dessert - and it was quick to turn to Packaging Automation after commercial Cereal Innovations' director Alan Hayes remembered the company's track record from a previous job.
Hayes said: "We won an order to supply to one of the top names in the dessert sector and needed something that would put a foil seal on the pots of biscuit crumble efficiently and quickly.
We had to set up a new production line to do the job and needed the best equipment for it.
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Packaging Automation's V8 is definitely the best.
It is an excellent machine which is doing a wonderful job." It was the first time Cereal Innovations had bought from Packaging Automation but such is the delight with the volumetric filler in the production area that it is unlikely to be the last, said the company.
"We are already looking at the possibility of having more of the same.
We are so pleased with what we have got that we will not hesitate to return to PA," added Hayes.
Packaging Automation's sales manager Neil Ashton, commented: "We like to think that all our machines are recognised for their versatility and adaptation capability, and the V8 is no exception.
In the case of Cereal Innovations, the machine had to be adapted for use on a dry product rather than the usual liquids.
The adaptations needed were significant as, for instance, the filling system pump had to be taken off and a Multipond multihead weigher had to be fitted but our technicians, who are used to customers' exacting requirements, took it all in their stride.
Now the machine de-nests trays, weighs and deposits dry cereal in to them, picks a foil lid and heat seals it on to the tray before it is then ejected.
The machine is working well and the contract really highlights our commitment to work with our customers to ensure that what we supply meets their needs in every way." The V8 is an eight station volumetric filling and sealing machine, which has overcapping and cleaning-in-place facilities.
All models have a quick release, self-levelling sealing head, which is suitable for a wide range of containers.
Capable of operating at up to 50 packs per minute it is already in use by a large cross-section of UK food manufacturers said Packaging Automation.
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