From a consumer’s perspective, ice cream is about fun and good times. The ice cream division of Mars Chocolate North America shares that point of view. Evidence of the company’s sense of humor is a banner welcoming visitors to Mars’ little “corner ice cream shop.” In fact, the processing facility is larger than an airplane hangar. The building consists of four production lines, wet and dry ingredient storage areas, packaging supplies and a warehouse.
A cutting in an ice cream plant is rather like reading the reviews after the opening-night performance of a concert. The quality control team (the critics) looks at the finished product and packaging created by the production team (the orchestra). QC reviews whether the process went according to plan.
Commonwealth Dairy epitomizes state-of-the-art. This joint venture between Ehrmann USA, the US subsidiary of Ehrmann AG, and Commonwealth Yogurt, started up its new, ultra-modern facility in Brattleboro, Vermontin May 2011. The SQF-certified plant, which produces yogurts for private label customers, adheres to superior quality standards. Illustrating their commitment to food safety, their three production lines are anchored with Osgood UltraClean fillers followed by SmartChek x-ray inspection systems from Mettler-Toledo Safeline.
Thiele Technologies’ Dairy Case Unstacker features patent-pending powered tipping, offering customers both higher speeds – up to 85 cases per minute – and increased reliability.
A compact plastic case stack de-palletizing system from Westfalia Deam Systemsde-palletizes 3-4 dairy pallets (40 inches x 40 inches) per minute, each with nine stacks of empty plastic dairy cases, for a maximum throughput rate of 180 cases per minute.
Schneider’sstate-of-the-art aseptic brick tray packer offers a high-speed tray packing solution for aseptic brick boxes. The TP-35, designed for the dairy/juice/functional drink industry, is a horizontal tray packer that accumulates bundled bricks into proper pack patterns and loads the bricks from 125 to 250 milliliters in size into tray packs.
Harpak-ULMA’s Rama retail-ready secondary solutions deliver a dairy processor’s products to the shelves using less material than traditional RSC packaging and with unlimited graphic possibilities.
A-B-C’s Model 206 packeris said to reduce a processor’s corrugated use and ensure maximum product protection with display shippers. Model 206 packs cartons or bottles (single or multipacks) into full-height, half-height or end-panel display trays at speeds as great as 30 trays per minute.
DeltaTRAK partnered with food safety expert George Nakamura to present research on rapid bacterial enzyme detection technology at the Food Safety Summit in Washington, D.C.
Romer Labs introduced AgraStrip food allergen lateral flow test kits, a range of immunological rapid tests for the detection of allergens in food, rinse waters
and environmental swabs.
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