Palermo’s new high-speed shrink wrapping line can side-seal 150 frozen pizzas per minute compared to the old sealing machine’s rate of 90 pizzas per minute.
Based in Milwaukee, WI, Palermo’s Pizza was started by Sicilian immigrants Gaspare and Zina Fallucca who opened an Italian bakery on Milwaukee’s east side in 1964. Over the years, the bakery expanded into a full-service restaurant known for its pizza and, by 1979, began to manufacture and sell frozen pizzas based on the family’s traditional Sicilian recipes. It manufactures frozen pizzas under the Palermo’s brand including products such as Primo Thin, Naturally Rising, Stone Baked and Classics by Palermo’s.
To meet the demand for its products, the company opened its new 250,000-sq.-ft., state-of-the-art, USDA-inspected manufacturing plant that operates four packaging lines for its frozen pizzas. But, central to Palermo’s packaging operation is its main packaging line that handles its top-selling 12-in. frozen pizzas.