Do what makes sense when installing automation in your facility, considering your budget and business goals. Understanding your application can help you fine-tune your equipment purchase.
While the trend for large manufacturers is to automate a new plant in its entirety, small and medium-sized food and beverage processors rarely have the funds to automate their plants, turning them into lights-out facilities. Even some tier-one processors may find areas in certain operations where it may not make sense to over-automate.
Designed to fill 1/2- to 6- or up to 55-gal. sterile bags, the Alfa Laval Astepo aseptic filler is used with liquid to highly viscous food and beverage products.
IMA Dairy & Food Erca EF Series form/fill/seal machines are offered with Open Mold thermoforming technology that allows food manufacturers to create proprietary shapes for cups and bottles prior to filling and sealing them.
MULTI-FILL MPF multi-purpose fillers are available with a liquid displacement pump that allows them to handle products with higher levels of brines or vinaigrettes such as chunky salsas, pickled vegetables and deli salads.
Designed to fit into existing production lines, NuTEC C-frame portioning depositors deposit cookie dough and fillings for stuffed sandwiches, quesadillas, calzones, sandwich wraps, cordon bleu, burritos, egg rolls, hamburgers, pies, chicken Kiev and stuffed seafood shells; the feed system uses a rotating spiral that moves product to the rotary vane pump.
As consumers want a bigger variety of healthier choices that come in a plethora of sizes, manufacturers are offering fillers that are flexible while producing optimal output.
Blame social media, changing tastes and needs or just the “Have it your way” attitude inspired by Burger King’s decades-long slogan, but modern consumers are demanding
Federal Mfg. filling machines are used for shelf-stable juices and drinks in 6- to 32-oz. containers, as well as viscous foods including salad dressings, salsa and ketchup in containers from 4 oz. to 1 gal. in size.