Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 24 2019 | Page 38

Linx Builds North American Distribution For Its Range Of Coding And Marking Printers 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. 38 FDPP - www.fdpp.co.uk 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.