Pulmuone is one of the world’s leading providers of fresh, close-to-nature food products and is a large exporter to the US. Its product range includes noodles, tofu, dumplings and soups.
Benco Pack custom-designed a solution for the unique requirements of Pulmuone, which culminated in a fully aseptic packaging line that’s highly automated and offers increased efficiency and ease of operation and reduced packaging costs.
The horizontal aseptic machine uses a three-step packaging and filling process. Containers are thermoformed starting from a roll of multi-layer barrier film (PP/EVOH/PP) filled with the soup product, closed by a thermo-sealed ‘peelable’ lid and then cut to the desired configuration. The machine produces 6,000 polypropylene 250g/500g soup cups an hour.
The machine is pre-sterilised and maintained in sterile conditions by steam and hydrogen peroxide sprays. The packaging materials are sterilised and the process occurs inside a tunnel with an overpressure of sterile air.
Due to the aseptic packaging technology, the cups don’t need to be distributed via cold chain. The technology has now extended the shelf life of the soup products to 60 days, while stored and distributed at an ambient temperature.
Source: Sacmi
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