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Combating product separation, contamination

Seasoning blends and dry mix specialist installs easy-to-clean flexible screw conveyors for more efficient product delivery to filling lines.

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World Flavors, Ivyland, PA, blends and packages a variety of seasonings, powdered coffee, and other drink mixes, in package sizes from 9g to 54lb, for customers as diverse as food processors, contract packers, and foodservice operations. The packaging structures include high-barrier laminate pouches and polyester/polyethylene bags from rollstock, primarily supplied by packaging distributor Harmony Hill Packaging (732/495-2621).

These various products are filled using auger fillers from All-Fill, Inc. and vertical form/fill/seal machines from Mira-Pak and General Packaging Equipment Co.

Over time, World Flavors has augmented all these packaging machines with flexible screw conveyors from Flexicon to replace manual scooping of product into the machine hoppers. The flexible screw conveyors offer improved efficiencies in product movement and deterrence against product contamination and separation.

Operating procedures

 Using formulas developed by World Flavors’ R&D, workers combine ingredients and load the batches into blenders. Small batches weigh up to 300 lb, medium batches 1,400 lb, and large batches up to 8,000 lb. The uniformly blended products then are discharged into plastic totes and undergo a quality control inspection before being delivered to the filling stations.

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