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Cheese packer automates weigh-price-labeling ops

Kickapoo Valley improves bottom line by lowering labor costs and increasing throughput.

AUTOMATIC & PRECISE. The printed, pressure-sensitive paper labels are precisely positioned and automatically applied.
AUTOMATIC & PRECISE. The printed, pressure-sensitive paper labels are precisely positioned and automatically applied.

Kickapoo Valley Cheese Co., Sherry, WI, is a custom- and private-label packer specializing in Wisconsin cheeses. The contract packer also handles other domestic and imported cheese varieties, all in a broad range of forms, including blocks, wheels, rounds, deli horns, chunks/wedges, cubes, and slices.

On Kickapoo’s chunk/wedge packaging line, exact-weight and random-weight cheeses are hand-filled, vacuum-packed or gas-flushed, heat-sealed, and labeled. The packaging is formed from PET barrier roll-stock film supplied by Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. (www.clearlam.com) and Flair Flexible Packaging Corp. (www.flairpackaging.com). The packages are produced on a form/seal machine from Multivac, Inc. (www.multivac.com).

The company had been using three to four employees to hand-weigh cheese packages (using a deli scale) and to manually apply the weight/price labels. Separate nutrition labels also were manually applied.

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