{"id":75400,"date":"2023-02-21T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=75400"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:10:09","slug":"brewery-snackbusiness-scale-ishida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/brauerei-snackbusiness-waage-ishida\/","title":{"rendered":"A brewery in the snack business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Locher brewery is known in Switzerland for its beer specialities. However, the environmentally conscious company also utilises by-products from the brewing process and processes them into high-quality food products. The company has now invested in packaging technology for its own \"Tschipps\". A multihead weigher from Ishida has been integrated into the new fully automatic system.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Locher brewery from Appenzell does not want to put up with waste in food production and is constantly working on solutions to reduce waste. Their approach is to use nutrient-rich Transforming by-products from the brewing process, from brewer's yeast to wort and spent grains, into flavoursome foods<\/strong>. These particularly sustainable products such as snacks, pizza, muesli and meat alternatives are then sold under the food upcycling brand \"Brewbee\" in Swiss supermarkets and in the company's own web shop.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Flavoursome snacks are not only popular with beer drinkers. Thus the \"Tschipps\" has been a bestseller since its launch in 2017<\/strong> of the brewery. The snack product contains a lot of vegetable fibre and significantly less fat than conventional potato crisps, for example. The basic ingredients are nutritious barley malt spent grain from the brewhouse as well as vitamin-rich yeast and starter wort from the brewery's fermentation cellar. Potatoes, corn, sunflower oil and spices are also added. Today, the company produces \"Tschipps\" in five flavours at its B\u00fchler site, which are packaged in three different pouch formats.<\/p>

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In the early days, the Locher brewery outsourced the packaging of the \"Tschipps\" to a service provider. However, in view of the 30 to 40 per cent annual growth, the decision was soon made to no longer outsource the process to the copacker, but to carry it out in-house, and the value creation within the company. The elimination of transport routes has also improved the carbon footprint<\/strong>.<\/p>

The brewery commissioned Itech AG from Rotkreuz with the installation of a fully automated packaging system. Ishida<\/a> in Switzerland, and thus received a contact partner for the entire line. The packaging experts designed a system consisting of product feeders, multi-head weigher, flow-wrapping machine and racks.<\/strong> consists of. The seasoning system has also been integrated into the line.<\/p>