Chilled and frozen pizza supplier Kiren Foods has installed new cartoning machinery from Kliklok International at its production site in Greater Manchester.
Following the installation of its first Kliklok machine at the plant in Rochdale, Kiren Foods chose the equipment supplier’s SFR end load cartoner with Smartbelt in-feed system to pack chilled round multi-vac pizzas. The SFR, with its short footprint, was perfect for the factory layout, Kliklok claimed, and was designed with a 15in flight pitch to accommodate the 11in pizza.
The Smartbelt system allows the product to arrive at random with no need for precision placement by operators, thus improving line efficiency and providing a fully automatic solution. Also boasting a rotary carton feeder, interactive touchscreen technology and robust stainless steel construction, the medium-speed end load cartoner has previously been the choice of food groups such as Cadbury, Heinz and McCain.
The versatile SFR cartoner also has the benefit of easy and repeatable size change plus the modification option to run five-crease sleeves and conventional end load cartons on the same machine, Kliklok said.
“The good relationship with Kiren Foods and Kliklok’s reputation for well-designed reliable machinery has notched up another success story for the popular SFR end loader,” the Bristol-based company added in a statement.
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