If there’s one type of food that is expected to be completely safe, it’s baby food. And that’s what compelled the Italian brand Plasmon, which makes baby food and is part of the global Heinz Group, to install an aseptic filling machine from Bosch.
And while Plasmon saw its food safety improve with the new machine, offering just one fault per 30,000 products,there were additional benefits, says Rich Mueller, vice president of sales at Osgood Industries, part of Robert Bosch Packaging Technology GmbH since 2015. For example, it allowed Plasmon to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent. And the newly introduced plastic pots the processor uses are 89 percent lighter than the glass jars that Plasmon previously used, which decreases shipping costs. The pots are also reusable and 100 percent recyclable, which fall in step with the brand’s sustainable growth strategy.