Packaging Automation Gives Ready Meals Producer a Head Start

Headland started by hiring the Vision 400 but, after buying conveying equipment and securing the order long term, decided the time was right to purchase the machine.

10/09/08 It was speed of response which helped Packaging Automation secure an order from prominent ready meal manufacturer Headland Foods.

Cheshire based Packaging Automation has supplied a Vision 400 tray sealer with tooling and conveying equipment to Headland's Flint site, where it is packing a line of ready meals for the airline sector.

Headland started by hiring the Vision 400 but, after buying conveying equipment and securing the order long term, decided the time was right to purchase the machine.

The Vision 400 is a fully automatic, high speed tray sealer, and has proved popular with customers because of its very quick tool changes, easy to use touch screen, and menu driven operation. It offers atmospheric, MAP-F, MAP-V and high oxygen flushing, making it suitable for a wide range of meat, poultry, vegetables, and convenience foods.

It can seal plain or printed film to CPET, APET, aluminium foil, polypropylene, PVC and board. With a maximum speed of 21 cycles per minute, the Vision 400 combines flexibility and simplicity, and is in use throughout the food industry - with customers impressed by its compact dimensions, two minute tooling changes and advanced control systems.