{"id":83920,"date":"2023-08-09T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=83920"},"modified":"2023-08-14T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T06:39:18","slug":"one-packs-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/eine-verpackt-sie-alle\/","title":{"rendered":"One packs them all"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most important success factors is recognising changes in the market and keeping pace with them. In this respect, Orkla Confectionery & Snacks has set the right course. The confectionery manufacturer has optimised its secondary packaging processes for liquorice bags in order to expand its export activities.<\/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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Whether sweet or savoury, liquorice is one of the most popular sweets in Scandinavia. Swedish, Finnish and Danish manufacturers are therefore not only among the leading liquorice producers. With more and more new variants, they also develop the original recipe further in many ways<\/strong>. This also applies to the Panda brand, which is an integral part of Orkla Confectionary & Snacks Finland AB's portfolio. Customers have valued the market leader for Finnish liquorice for its numerous varieties since 1927. The Finnish company is part of the Oslo-based Orkla Group, which comprises consumer goods companies with a total of 70 brands.<\/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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Orkla Confectionery & Snacks produces confectionery such as chocolate and liquorice at its Vaajakoski site in Finland - and exports the latter mainly to Scandinavia, the UK, Central Europe and overseas to the USA and Canada. The forward-looking company recently decided to expand its Adapt packaging processes to changing demand<\/strong>. A central role is played by the Flexible and modular Elematic 3001 WA Compact case packer<\/strong> from Syntegon<\/a>.<\/p>

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\u201eAbout two years ago, export countries such as the USA and Canada imposed new requirements on the secondary packaging of our liquorice varieties. Instead of so-called double-row packs, they demanded single-row packs. This meant that we no longer had to pack our products in two rows next to each other, but only in one row. However, our two case packers did not cope well with this configuration at the time.\u201c<\/p>

Arto Liimatainen<\/strong>, Technical Director of Orkla Confectionery & Snacks<\/p><\/blockquote>

Due to the high demand, Orkla Confectionery & Snacks also wanted to expand its Increase production volume and realise even more packaging formats at the same time<\/strong>. After all, multiple export countries mean differentiated packaging. All of this should take place on a limited footprint and with as little downtime and maintenance work as possible.<\/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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\u201eWe were therefore looking for a space-saving alternative to our two case packers. The aim was to achieve a high infeed speed with the new machine and reduce format changeover times as much as possible.\u201c<\/p>

Jari Leinonen<\/strong>, Project Manager at Orkla Confectionery & Snacks<\/p><\/blockquote>

The company's decision-makers therefore looked for suitable suppliers - and set high standards: in addition to a higher throughput, the solution should of course achieve reliable results, be flexible to use, and<\/strong> and be easy to operate. \u201eAt our plant in Vaajakoski, a system fills the liquorice into different bag sizes, after which two parallel conveyor belts transport the bags flat, bottom first, to our case packers. Therefore the new solution combines the lanes, sorts the bags, erects the blanks and seals them in accordance with the retailers' packaging and export requirements<\/strong> can,\u201c explains Arto Liimatainen.<\/p>