A complete packaging solution that Australian supplier „tna“ has installed at „Riverside Natural Foods“ in Vaughan, Canada, processes up to 150 24-gram bags per minute. This is used to fill, pack, seal, weigh and print date codes on so-called muesli minis. With the tna solution, Riverside has more than doubled its output of snack bags compared to the previous system.
Riverside Natural Foods specialises in healthy snacks such as organic bars and muesli minis. The products are marketed under the brand name „MakeGood“. Consumer behaviour has changed. Due to increasing health awareness, there is a growing demand for small bags of healthy snacks for in-between meals.
In order to meet the increased demand, Riverside Natural Foods wanted a significantly larger More efficient packaging system. Hygienic design and easy cleaning were also required.
Integrated, flexible, space-saving solution
As an integrated, flexible and space-saving solution, tna offered a system in which two tubular bags/VFFS packaging systems „tna robag FX 3ci“ were installed. With their rotating, double Welding bar reaches the new Bag machine quickly reaches the required target speed of 150 bags per minute.
Furthermore, a high-precision Multihead weigher „intelli-weigh 0314 omega“. It manages up to 200 weighing processes per minute. It helps to reduce product waste and further improve the overall performance of the system.
Film run is coordinated with date printers
The freshness of the products is emphasised on the MakeGood packaging by clearly visible Date codes visualised. In this segment of the system, precautions had to be taken to ensure that the printing did not slip at the high processing speed.
For this reason, an effective Slide tuning system, which coordinates the speed of the film run with the date printers.
Fine-grained ingredients are removed
To prevent very fine, granular ingredients in the muesli products from getting into the area of the bags to be sealed, tna Cross inlay with built-in sieve installed to remove small particles from the line.
In addition, the „PISD“ technology is used. It recognises products in the seal and triggers a rejection mechanism as soon as products or particles are detected in the area of the seal. This prevents the bags from reaching the secondary packaging process.
