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Easy integration of new flow wrappers for cookies

Guatamalan plant adds two new flow wrappers required to integrate easily with existing cookie creamers and provide product configuration and packaging material flexibility.

COOKIE POUCH. The new flow wrappers can accommodate various sandwich cookie counts in either polypropylene or metallized film.
COOKIE POUCH. The new flow wrappers can accommodate various sandwich cookie counts in either polypropylene or metallized film.

Perched in the scenic mountains overlooking Guatemala City, the Molinos Modernos facility in San Jose Pinula is the largest cookie and cracker plant in Guatemala. Its bakery products supply the local market and are exported throughout Central America and the Caribbean. In operation for more than 30 years, the company has built strong brands such as Can Can cookies on a reputation of high quality and fine taste. 

Molinos Modernos is a division of Corporacion Multi Inversiones and is dedicated to the production of products derived from wheat and cereals. As one of the largest milling groups in Latin America, it also produces the flour used in its cookies and crackers. This vertical integration from flour production to cookie baking helps ensure that its high-quality standards are met. Equally important to top-quality ingredients is a consistent baking and packaging operation.

Both Plant Manager Mario Antonio Ivic and Maintenance Manager Alejandro Cordon attribute their plant’s long-term success to the high performance of their machinery and a commitment to preventive maintenance. Termed “Gesman” in Spanish, their philosophy is simple: Maintenance should be preventive and performed on a set schedule. This practice has allowed much of their machinery to consistently operate at a high level for more than 20 years. 

However, their diligent maintenance and long machine life recently created an unforeseen challenge with one of their cookie lines. The horizontal flow-wrapping machines that package their four- and six-count sandwich cookies, such as the popular Can Can brand, had outlived the manufacturer that originally built them. Because the wrapper manufacturer had gone out of business, Ivic and Cordon wanted to avoid a future situation where needed parts would not be available and thus decided to replace the wrappers.

Integration is key
During sandwich cookie production and packaging at the Molinos Modernos plant, a Peters Equipment creamer from Peerless Food Equipment places the cream filling between two cookie halves, then stacks and places the cookies into the flow-wrapper infeed chain. When the company began looking for new flow-wrapping machines, its creamers still functioned efficiently, in large part due to its strict maintenance program, but Ivic knew that integrating the machines into new state-of-the-art flow wrappers would pose a challenge. 

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