VitaLand is a trading company supplying fruit and vegetables year-round. Its customers are buyers from more than a dozen countries across Europe and Africa. The portfolio of fresh fruit that VitaLand exports and imports to Poland includes blueberries and various soft fruits. The organisation has its own packing and storage infrastructure as well as a fleet of vehicles for food product transport.
To handle the growing volume of blueberry orders, the owner of VitaLand needed a reliable line for sorting and packing this fruit. Initially, the process was carried out manually. Over time, the company invested in an autonomous fruit packing machine capable of packing approximately 20 pallets in punnets within 10 hours. The desire to open up new markets and meet the ever-increasing demand from existing customers required further stages of automation.
To improve packing efficiency, the client decided to invest in a 12-head G3 Evolution weigher with a denester and a labeller with bottom and top head. These machines were integrated by our technicians with other equipment supplied by third-party providers. Between the individual machines, fruit and boxes are conveyed by our conveyors.
The Evolution series weighers are the fastest and most precise linear packing machines for blueberries available on the market. Packing with the 12-head weigher allowed the client to reduce the packing time for 20 pallets of product to 4 hours. However, packing speed is not the only argument in favour of the G3 weigher. This machine packs with accuracy to a single blueberry per punnet, meaning that overweights can be reduced to a level of 2–3 g per package – which translates into significantly lower financial losses due to overweighting. When speaking of savings, the denester cannot be overlooked. This is a machine that places empty containers onto the belt ahead of the weigher. Automating this stage is a measurable way to cut labour costs.
What I value most about Milbor PMC is their competent people – from the sales team, through the project department, to the service engineers and those responsible for after-sales care. A flexible approach to the challenges of my business, fast service response times, strong expertise and creativity. A good example is the way the line was configured so that tall, unstable 500 g / 300 g buckets move along it smoothly and without tipping over. I like to keep things concrete, so I won’t go on singing their praises – I’ll just say this: we are already in talks with Milbor PMC about further potential improvements to our line – adds Kamil Besztak, owner of VitaLand.
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