Multivac has announced that it will build a new Centre of Excellence at its headquarters in Wolfertschwenden, Germany, after investing €35 million.
The company held a ground-breaking ceremony for the new site today, and says that the new facility is intended for its Slicer Business Unit.
The new site will feature a 7,500 square-metre packaging production floor and a ‘Slicer Application Centre’. The Application Centre will offer services such as sample production and machine demonstrations, as well as a wide range of training programs for Multivac slicers and slicer lines.
Additionally, the site will include 180 office workstations, conference and function rooms and a company restaurant.
Mulitvac estimates that the expansion should be completed by 2020.
Multivac CEO Hans-Joachim Boekstegers said: “The new building complex is designed as an Application Center for our Slicing Solutions Business Unit, which is now seeing very encouraging development in our new business sector. In future automated packaging lines will be commissioned here as well.
“We have successively expanded our product range in recent years to include process equipment upstream and downstream of the packaging procedure.
“By founding the Slicer Business Unit, we have taken an important strategic step in the direction of ‘Better Processing’.”
“We have designed the Application Center in such a way, that our customers will find themselves in an environment, which reflects the real conditions in their own production sites.
“There our customers will be able to experience the complete process chain live: this will extend from the demonstration of the various slicers handling a wide range of products, through to the presentation of different loading solutions downstream of the slicer, and right up to the actual packaging procedure itself.
“It will be possible to carry out individual trials with customers’ own products as well as testing the slicing solutions for feasibility, output, return on investment, give-away and other critical factors.”
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