Conflex Wraps Potatoes – 2 Ways
Most people have seen shrink wrapped potatoes in stores only to scratch their heads and say “that’s not how Mom used to buy them”. It’s true that life has changed a lot since the onset of convenience packaging. The lowly potato has risen to new heights! You can still purchase a 5 lb. bag of random generic potatoes but the shrink wrapped version has put the potato on a pedestal. When wrapped these potatoes sell for 4X the price!
The Application:
Wrapping Produce.
The Challenge:
The Process: Produce are like people…there are no two alike. This causes significant problems with machines because automation prefers consistency. With the unique shapes and weights of each type of produce the handling of these can be quite challenging, especially when automatically loaded.
Speeds: The Rotary Seal Head design is key to maximizing speeds without sealing on product.
Placement: The cupped discharge is a Conflex innovation and is key to keeping the individual produce pieces in place throughout the process.
Flexibility: Conflex’ motto is “Flexible People Make Flexible Systems”. Our motto drives our work every day. As you can see in the videos, we design our equipment to handle a variety of different types of produce and This trickles down into how we design our machines. As you can see in the videos we build the machines to handle a variety of different types of produce and different types of loading methods. Our goal is that our machines become the perfect complement for your products and processes.
The Solution(s):
There are several! Conflex has specific solutions to handle the unique shapes of individual produce because we’ve been doing it longer and seen more applications. In addition the Rotary AdvantEdge Shrink Wrapper is like no other machine available. The level of control you have over the location of the produce is the secret sauce. Conflex has custom solutions to handle the unique produce characteristics because we’ve been doing it longer and we’ve perfected more applications. Based on your individual needs Conflex has a machine and option package to fit your application.
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