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Pacepacker & the Food Processing Awards 2012!

Here at Pacepacker Services we are celebrating after being nominated for two top awards at the food and beverage industry equivalent of the Oscars – Food Processing Awards 2012! We have been nominated within both the ‘Company of The Year’ and ‘Robotics & Automation’ categories.

The Robotics & Automation award nomination recognises our automation achievement at premier potato packaging plant Preva Produce where we have automated a manually intensive operation, fitting a full packaging line and robotics palletising system to help Preva improve product presentation and eliminate waste.

The ‘Company of the Year’ nomination follows our growth achievement during tough economic times. In the last 12 months we have announced a 20% growth in company exports and a 10% year on year growth in UK sales, launched the economical pre-owned Blu-Robot and introduced our unique ‘Try Before You Buy’ service.

Voting for the Awards closed on 3rd May, the winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on 12th June - so thank you to every one who voted for us!

FlexaPac Patented Tray Loading Machine Set To Revolutionise Citrus Fruit Packing!

The packing of netted citrus fruits into trays, crates and cartons is set to be revolutionised and fully automated for the first time with the launch of a unique tray loading machine from Pacepacker Services, FlexaPac. The new innovative and patented technology is in response to a request made by a food process trouble shooting consultant, working for one of the UK’s leading importers and packers of fruits, who approached Pacepacker to design and manufacture a system which would almost entirely eliminate product waste and increase netted fruit packing throughput.

The FlexaPac, which can pack in excess of 60 nets of fruit per minute, replaces the current labour intensive approach of loading netted products into crates, trays and cartons by hand via a rotary table.  Not only is the rotary table process costly due to high staffing requirements, bags of fruit are often wasted when packers accidentally drop the products, or they are bruised when the handler loads them into a tray resulting in costly penalties charged by the retailer.

 

This challenge prompted independent Food Production Consultant Trefor Mason, who redesigns food manufacturing processes to achieve a leaner way of working, to approach Pacepacker to design an automated solutionwhich would eliminate waste and increase line throughput. “Having worked with many fruit packers and suppliers it was apparent that the packing of the netted fruits into trays was an area which required a complete overhaul,” comments Trefor. “My client is a fruit supplier to many leading supermarket chains and having assisted them in the redevelopment of their factory we began to look for an automated solution which would overcome the drawbacks of manual packing and ultimately eliminate product bruising, increase line throughput and re-deploy manual workers.”

 

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Typical Pacepacker Products:

Bulk Hoppers	Weighing Systems	Sealing Systems	Sack Placers
Sack Closing Systems	Stitchers	Heat Sealers	Label Applicators
Bag Top Formers	V-Track Conveyors	Flat Track Conveyors	Belt Conveyors
Bag Turners	Bag Flatteners	Roller Conveyors	Pallet Conveyors
Pallet Dispensers	New Robot Palletisers	Low Level Palletisers	Used Robot Palletisers
Pick & Place Systems	Print & Apply Systems	Stretch Wrappers	Volumetric Fillers

Featured Item:

The C21 sack placer from Pacepacker

Suitable for small to medium sized bags and sacks, this machine will operate up to 13 operations per minute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pacepacker Services Ltd are UK designers and manufacturers of automatic packing systems that work day in, day out, whatever the packing environment.

 

Products include pick & place solutions, sack placers, weighing machines, bagging systems, stitchers, heat sealers and robot palletising systems. We are a "Fanuc Strategic Partner", specialists in the supply of Fanuc robotic solutions.

 

Be it bulk packing, or delicate consumer foodstuffs – Pacepacker Services Ltd have the solution. For our international clients, we have an expanding network of dedicated agencies to facilitate a high level of customer support and swift delivery of replacement parts to support our automatic packaging and robot palletising systems. Feel free to browse at your leisure; we hope you will find our website useful. If you have any queries, please click here for our contact details.

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