Conglomerate Packs Chocolate Chips with Pacepacker’s Bespoke Mobile System

The turnkey system incorporates Pacepacker’s C21 Sack Placer which is designed to reduce operator intervention with a multiple pile magazine conveyor system to pick up and place open mouth sacks onto a filling spout.

2/22/2011 --- A blue chip worldwide manufacturer of high quality cocoa and chocolate products recently installed a unique mobile bagging solution designed by Pacepacker, a UK manufacturer of bagging, pick and place and robot palletising systems, to pack chocolate chips into bags.

The Swiss chocolate manufacturer, who has served industrial food manufacturers, professional users and retailers for hundreds of years, uses four box packing lines to handle tonnes of chocolate chips each day. When a project arose to pack chocolate chips into sacks, the manufacturer looked to Pacepacker to design a mobile turnkey packing solution that would work in conjunction with their existing equipment.

To meet the manufacturer’s specific in-house electrical, PLC and mechanical standards, Pacepacker partnered with a number of manufacturers to create a food grade stainless steel line which consisted of a swan necked elevator, a vibratory tray style nett weighing machine with electronic controller and specialist confectionery cooling jets, a Pacepacker C21 sack placer and a Pacepacker Total Bag Control (TBC) sack closing system with crepe tape applicator. In order to easily pack different types of chocolate chips, the unique system was built on mobile base frames so that it can be positioned under any of the production lines in order that product is fed into the elevating conveyor instead of a box.

The turnkey system incorporates Pacepacker’s C21 Sack Placer which is designed to reduce operator intervention with a multiple pile magazine conveyor system to pick up and place open mouth sacks onto a filling spout. The C21 matches the speed of Pacepacker’s TBC, which packs the confectionery at a rate of up to 10 bags per minute, and accurately seals even the most difficult to handle sacks to create a consistent premium looking pack and eliminate sack waste. “The single most important principle of the TBC system is that it never lets go of the sack after it has been filled, which ensures that a good quality reliable seal is obtained time after time, even with difficult to handle irregular shaped and sized products,” explains Paul Wilkinson, Pacepacker’s Business Development Manager.