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Dairy
Crest has invested in two complete packaging lines for Tesco own-label
flavoured milk at its Dagenham site. Both lines were installed by
Hampshire-based Allied Pharma Machinery (APM), which will complete
on-the-job training for the second line this week.
The flavoured milk was launched in June with a manual packaging line,
but strong sales demanded a more efficient packaging technique. “The
brief from Dairy Crest was ‘high flexibility to change bottles
frequently’,” said APM director Andrew Bannister. The lines can turn
out 100 bottles a minute, which are packed into collations of sixes and
tens. The machinery caters for six different sizes of plastic bottle,
ranging from 250ml to one litre.
Bottle unscrambling machines, bottle orientation units and bottle air
rinse systems were supplied by US firm Pace Packaging, while Italian
firm Sotemapack provided automatic collation and tray loading systems.
Each line was installed over a weekend to avoid disrupting production.
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