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Case packers at Unilever handle multiple case styles

Flexible case packers at Unilever’s plant in Sanguinetto, Italy, allows it to package its Knorr bouillon products into trays, full wraparound cases, and retail-ready packaging.

Unilever operates three Elematic 2000 case packers in its Knorr plant to load products into trays, cases, or retail-ready packs.
Unilever operates three Elematic 2000 case packers in its Knorr plant to load products into trays, cases, or retail-ready packs.

It’s a well-known fact: Consumers want what they want, when they want it. In an era of rapidly changing consumer demands, food manufacturers need equipment and technologies that help them adjust to market shifts quickly and efficiently. For global consumer products giant Unilever, makers of such iconic brands as Lipton tea, Magnum ice cream, and Dove personal care, packaging flexibility is a top priority for maximizing productivity.

Take for example a recent equipment upgrade to ramp up production for one of its top- selling and best recognized food brands—Knorr. Knorr’s products are sold in 80 countries, earning it the distinction of Unilever’s “number one” brand for convenience food.

The Knorr factory in Sanguinetto, Italy, near Verona, produces most of the brand’s global jelly bouillon production volume. The plant has a reputation for high productivity, which has helped make it the production benchmark for all of Unilever’s plants. Over the past several years, the plant’s personnel realized they needed to implement more flexible case-packing operations to handle increasing demands for different pack styles.

“We found that we needed to change pack formats more and more frequently,” says Carlo Forchia, Unilever’s Project Delivery Engineer at the Sanguinetto plant. “Just a few years ago we only needed a case packer with one standard format, but now we need to make changes to package specific and different formats for our customers.”

To incorporate new case-packing technology with the flexibility required, Unilever reached out to Bosch Packaging Technology.

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