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Organic cookies in resealable pillow packs

New horizontal wrapper enhances production speeds, package appearance, and product shelf life.

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U.S. Medical (www.smartforlife.com), headquartered in Boca Raton, FL, formulates a variety of products (including cookies, soups, puddings, shakes, coffee creamers) marketed exclusively through its 40 Smart for Life™ Weight Management Centers located throughout the United States and Canada.

Among the company’s primary products is a line of natural organic diet cookies, available in six flavors (and counting), produced and packaged at U.S. Medical’s plant in Wellington, FL. Dr. Sasson Moulavi, chief medical director for U.S. Medical, notes, “These specially formulated cookies are a natural form of hunger suppression and help detoxify the body during our weight-management program.”

Upgrading cookie packaging

According to Dr. Moulavi, “To package our cookies, we used to use a heat-seal/heat-shrink machine that had lots of defects, delivered an ugly package, and had no ability to inject nitrogen gas into the package. We wanted the nitrogen gas injection capability to help extend product shelf life because we don’t want to use any preservatives in our cookies.”

After evaluating various packaging machinery options, U.S. Medical selected a Fuji-Formost Series FW 3200 horizontal flow-wrap machine from Formost Packaging Machines, Inc. (www.formostpkg.com). This easy-to-clean, stainless-steel machine incorporates a built-in modified-atmosphere gas injection system and a built-in resealable label application unit. It also features rotary end sealing, touchscreen user interface, servo motor and timing belt mechanism, and controller storage of product data to assure exact machine settings for easily repeatable product/package set-up.

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