Endoline boxes off spuds at Bennett Potatoes

摘要

A fully automated case erecting and sealing line installed by Endoline Automation, which can form and seal up to 850 twin walled boxes of potatoes per hour, has enabled Lincolnshire based Bennett Potatoes to not only fulfil their need for improved pack presentation but increased throughput by 35% per hour on a line which achieves an annual output of 35,000 tonnes of potatoes. Bennett Potatoes both export their potato crop and supply leading UK wholesalers and food services with a wide variety of potatoes, including Maris Piper and Saxon, which are packed into bags or sacks and delivered to customers throughout the UK. However their baker sized potatoes, which are predominantly supplied to various foodservices, wholesale and export customers are boxed into cartons. "The filled cartons each weigh 15 kilos so we required durable boxes to sustain this weight. However manually forming, filling and sealing these boxes was a laborious and time consuming task as we have an annual output of 600,000 cartons per year." Explains Ian Bennett, owner of Bennett's Potatoes.