Ilapak Bags Multiple Line Project
Deal With Fox’s
Fox’s Biscuits, part of the 2 Sisters Last year, the company identified a like the way they operate as a packaging
Food Group, has made a seven figure need to replace some of this equipment equipment supplier,” says Matt Soden,
investment in new flow wrapping, with new technology that would deliver Category Manager, Equipment and
bagging and weighing equipment for its greater flexibility and higher speeds. Machinery, at 2 Sisters.
ILAPAK was already one of 2 Sisters “We’d also been pleased with the
Food Group’s strategic partners, and performance of the Eagle flow wrapper -
had recently helped Fox’s Biscuits out there are very few flow wrappers on the
of a potentially crippling downtime market that can be relied upon to deliver
situation by airfreighting a DSA Eagle the speeds we require.”
Rocky and Party Rings biscuits, as part of
a strategy to drive efficiency by replacing
legacy equipment. The project, which
includes six Vegatronic 6000 baggers,
six Weightronic multi-head weighers,
two Eagle flow wrappers and a Delta
over-wrapper, consolidates ILAPAK and 2
Sisters’ strategic partnership.
Fox’s Rocky chocolate biscuit bar brand
is a household name in the UK, listed
with all the major multiples and enjoying
a loyal following of consumers. To keep
supermarket shelves fully stocked, the
biscuit manufacturer has four lines
operating 24/7 at speeds of 600 bars
per minute at its factory in Kirkham,
Lancashire.
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flow wrapper from the US when one of
the biscuit manufacturer’s flow wrappers
succumbed.
Therefore, when it came to making
further planned investments, ILAPAK’s
name was high on the list of potential
suppliers.
Smooth flow wrapping solution for
Rocky biscuit bars
This time, Fox’s was looking for a
complete line solution for flow wrapping
individual 21g Rocky biscuit bars and then
over-wrapping them in packs of eight.
ILAPAK proposed a complete line solution
“We try to work with partners who comprising its US-built DSA Eagle flow
understand the challenges we face with wrapper, feeding into a sweep system
our customers. We have worked with for collating the bars and a Delta over-
ILAPAK elsewhere within the Group and wrapping system.