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Meant for each other
Sylvain Laliberte, technical director at the Boucherville/Montreal plant notes, “This bagger and scale installation was really important for us. I was closely involved with the installation from the initial layout to the production start-up. The installation was easy to do. All the wiring was ready to be plugged in without the need to add any other components. The start-up and training were easy as well. It’s obvious to us that these two machines are meant to work together.” Citing some of the performance benefits of the new bagger/scale system, Laliberte says, “We’re getting the speed and accuracy we wanted—more than 100 bags per minute with accuracy within one gram of target weight on many products. The bag lengths and film alignments are stable and consistently reliable. The high-quality, easy-to-operate programmable logic controller (PLC) features simple start/stop push buttons and intuitive touch-screen menu design. The system also features auto-lubrication, overall ease of maintenance, and tool-less changeovers, minimizing downtime.”Package size changeovers take about five minutes. The operator selects a recipe from the bagger menu and another in the scale menu. The only physical change required is changing the forming shoulder to match the bag size.
All noncandy products packaged on the new bagging system are gas-flushed with nitrogen to extend shelf life. The typical bagging speed for the 400-g out-of-shell peanuts is 60+ bags/min (8” wide x 10” long pillow packs). Johnvince is not disclosing bag material structures or suppliers. Copping only says that some of the bag material is supplied fully printed, and some bags are printed/coded in-plant, using a printer from Videojet Technologies, Inc.
Summing up, Copping notes, “The new system has yielded multiple benefits for our operations. We’re getting good speed, accuracy, reliability, and ease of changeover, along with minimal machine maintenance needs. And we also got a good, competitive deal on both the bagger and scale.”
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