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CHEESE ATTRACTIVELY PACKED
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ergeer Holland is one of the largest and most innovative
cheese processors in the world. The company has grown in
recent years into a fl ourishing business with 550 employees, and
today packs around 60 million kilos of cheese per year. When it
comes to the packing and labelling of its diverse cheese products,
Vergeer Holland relies on solutions from MULTIVAC: a total of 25
packaging machines and over 50 labellers from MULTIVAC are
used within the company.
LABELLING IS AN IMPORTANT
PART OF THE PACKS
Vergeer Holland is the largest cheese packer in the Netherlands.
“As far as I know, we were one of the fi rst suppliers of packaged
cheese,” says Claus van Straaten.“We did have some early proto-
types of packaging machines here, but the oldest machine I know
was installed in 1971. That was our fi rst MULTIVAC machine.”
Since then the machinery and equipment have been greatly extend-
ed. There are more than 40 lines in use at the packaging sites for
the slicing, packing, and labelling of cheese products; the greater
part of these are from MULTIVAC.
The cheese processor relies on the quality of MULTIVAC as the
packaging specialist. We are very satisfi ed with the comprehen-
sive expertise and level of service from MULTIVAC,” says Erwin
Rijswijk.
FULL-WRAP LABELLING
In order to ensure the thermoformed cheese slice packs equipped
with a reclosable lid remain closed at the point of sale, a labelling
solution had to be found, which encloses the pack completely. “In
conjunction with MULTIVAC, we decided to develop a new solu-
tion, which could be integrated into our thermoforming packaging
machine,” says Erwin Rijswijk. “At the beginning we had to coor-
dinate some aspects of the development, but together we managed
to master things very well.”
Both parties pursued the objective of developing a reliable solu-
tion, which labels quickly, accurately and effi ciently. The choice
was made in favour of a conveyor belt labeller with an output of up
to 100 packs per minute.
OTHER INLINE LABELLERS
IN OPERATION
Vergeer Holland has a total of over 45 inline labellers from MUL-
TIVAC which are integrated into the thermoforming packaging
lines: all the MULTIVAC thermoforming packaging machines
are equipped with MR625 and MR635 cross web labellers.They
are installed on the outfeed of the thermoforming packaging ma-
chines and apply labels to the top and bottom of the fi nished packs.
The virtually maintenance-free design and the use of high-quality
materials ensure maximum reliability and a high level of avail-
ability. Since they are integrated into the thermoforming packag-
ing machines and operated via the HMI 2.0 control terminal there
are many benefi ts as regards process optimization and avoidance
of errors. One example is the automatic loading of the labeller
settings when the recipe is selected for the packaging machine.
The same goes for the printer confi guration and the correct print
layouts. Product changes can be performed quickly and with the
minimum risk of manual input errors, which could cause costly
product recalls.
The company also uses MULTIVAC inline labellers of the IL 130
series for labeling fi lm pouches of grated cheese and cheese snacks.
The IL 130 inline labellers are specially designed for installation
on vertical or horizontal tubular bag machines.
THE MOST RECENT INVESTMENT:
AN MR295 DIRECT WEB PRINTER
At the end of 2016 the cheese processor retrofi tted a MR295 di-
rect web printer to one of its MULTIVAC R 530 thermoforming
packaging machines. This direct web printer is equipped with two
thermal transfer printers for printing variable production data such
as best-before date and batch number, directly onto the fi lm. Here
Vergeer Holland has to print a large pack format with seven tracks
and six rows without reducing the output of the packaging ma-
chine. In order to achieve this, the format was split over two print-
ers. Each printer prints three rows and seven tracks. This meant the
integration of the direct web printer did not reduce the output of the
thermoforming packaging machine.
Food Marketing & Technology
28
August 2019