Vf/f/s runs frozen pretzel products in resealaole bags

摘要

J&J Snack Foods, the world''s largest producer of soft pretzels, has seven production lines making the popular snacks at its plant in Pennsauken, NJ. Last October, the plant installed a vertical form/fill/seal machine from Rovema Packaging Machines (ww.rovema.com) to run its latest frozen SuperPretzel® bite-size products: Soft Pretzel Bites®, Pretzelfils™ and Softstix®. Soft Pretzel Bites are short pieces of soft pretzel, while Pretzelfils and Softstix are small pieces of pretzel with fillings and/or toppings. The products are filled into 9- oz bags at a speed of 55 bags/min by the Model VPK continuous-motion Rovema machine, after which they are hand-packed into cartons and are frozen. "We have other Rovema equipment at other J&J plants, and they have really worked well," says director of engineering Phil Heffelfinger.