A walk down the line

摘要

Dairy Farmers of America's new La Vaquita beverage is produced on an existing packaging line at the company's Cabool, MO, facility. The line currently runs between seven and eight different can sizes, including this 9.5-oz slim-line can. Empty cans stacked on pallets are swept off one layer at a time onto a conveyor that single files them for feeding into the filler. DFA has the option to fill on an Elmar 28-head rotary piston filler or a newer high-speed JBT 51 -head rotary piston filler. Filled and sealed cans are automatically loaded into batch cages and, again automatically, enter one of six retort systems from JBT. Six cages fit into each retort, to accommodate a total of 36 cages.