Banding system increases packaging efficiencies

Sauce manufacturer boosts line speeds, cuts material costs, and economizes on plant floor space by installing three new tamper-band application units.

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TW Garner Food Co., Winston-Salem, NC, is famous in the southeastern U.S. for its line of Texas Pete® sauce products. Texas Pete sauces are marketed primarily east of the Mississippi River, but plans for expanded distribution are underway.

The company runs three packaging lines, producing sauces in a variety of bottle sizes and shapes. Glass bottles for Hot Sauce in 3-, 6-, and 12-oz sizes are supplied by Vitro (www.vitro.com). Bottles for the 12-oz Seafood Sauce and Honey Mustard condiments, 32-oz Hot Sauce, and 17.5-oz Wing Sauce are supplied by Leone Industries (www.leoneindustries.com). The paper labels for these bottles are printed by Smyth (www.smythco.com) and are glue-applied using Mustang machines from New Jersey Machine Inc. (www.njmcli.com). The injection-molded caps are supplied by Acadiana Plastics Manufacturing, Inc. (www.acadianaplastics.com). Capping equipment is from U.S. Bottlers Machinery Co. (www.usbottlers.com), which also provides the filling equipment.

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