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SNACK PROCESSING & PACKAGING
Snacks expertise goes live
HCI Snack Solutions, a new alliance formed by Ishida and Heat and Control, displayed its new end-to-end capability in snack processing and packaging at an open house in Birmingham in June. PKN reports.
OPENING DOORS
At a special Open House event held at Ishida’s European headquarters in June in Birmingham, UK, the compa- nies highlighted the benefits of this new integrated offering through equipment and product demonstra- tions in a live snacks factory envi- ronment. One example was the in- corporation of Heat and Control’s FastBack Revolution On Machine Seasoning (OMS) system as part of the Ishida weighing operation.
“This provides more uniform sea- soning coverage of products using less seasoning and reducing product breakage; the solution also utilises less floor space,” Marguccio says.
The OMS system combines ad- vanced seasoning technology into one compact, low-cost, standalone unit designed to overcome every chal- lenge of seasoning at the weigher.
According to HCI Snack Solutions, it features the superior seasoning performance of the patented dynam- ic AccuFlavor Tumble Drum, the ef- ficiency of the Modular Dust Collec- tion System, and the advanced FastBack Model 260E into one com- pact, cost-efficient, standalone unit designed to overcome seasoning challenges at the weigher.
“With integrated seasoning con- trol, the FastBack Revolution OMS System’s patented integrated con- veying and tumbling reduces vari- ability of coverage, reduces space, and simplifies operation,” Marguc- cio explains.
CCORDING to Statista.com, the snack food market in Australia is expected to grow annually by 4.7% (CAGR 2018-2021). Euro- monitor reports that savoury snacks was the best perform- ing snacks category in 2017, experiencing the highest value growth of 5%, while Mintel has high- lighted increasing demand for both
healthy and more indulgent snacks. Whatever the latest trend, the market remains competitive and manufacturers need to reflect changing consumer tastes with pro- active new product development. Equipment suppliers have respond- ed to these needs by widening their offerings in order to be able to deliv- er fully integrated solutions. These offer snacks manufacturers signifi- cant benefits in terms of increased speeds, efficiencies and throughput, and a fast-response service that mi-
nimises any unplanned downtime. This type of service has taken an- other step forward with two of the leading names in the industry – Heat and Control and Ishida – com- ing together to form a strategic alli- ance that provides snacks customers with full ‘end-to-end’ processing and packaging solutions. The alli- ance, known as HCI Snack Solu-
tions, specifically targets the EMEA region, and builds upon a long- standing partnership the two com- panies have elsewhere in the world. In Australia, New Zealand and the USA, Heat and Control is the exclu- sive distributor of Ishida packaging and inspection technology.
“As food producers look to meet increased demand for more prod- ucts, and to save money on opera- tional expenses, a single source sup- plier will assist manufacturers in saving on capital costs,” says Heat and Control Packaging and Inspec- tion manager, Robert Marguccio.
“The Heat and Control and Ishida complete line solutions will bring all the benefits of a single source sup- plier to our customers through in- creased productivity levels in the processing and packaging lines and optimised output speeds, with the next generation of automation,” Mar- guccio says.
...[HCI will] bring all the benefits of a single source supplier ... increased productivity levels... optimised output speeds, with the next generation of automation.”
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