A new Magic Seasoning Blends plant was recently opened in the USA with seven packaging lines for servicing retail, institutional, restaurant, food processing and co-packing clients.
The range of dry spices, rubs, bottled sauces and marinades, are manufactured and packaged by a company owned by American celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme.
They are distributed throughput Europe, in Norway, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, The Netherlands, Greece, Finland and Sweden.
To meet an order, the selected IBCs (intermediate bulk containers) are pulled from the warehouse and delivered to the automatic filler unloader that feeds the filling machine.
Glass or plastic bottles ranging from 2 to 8 ounces are supplied to supermarkets; 24-ounce plastic jars are for institutional use and restaurants. The system fills, caps and labels at a rate of 100 bottles/minute.
A canning line is used primarily for filling 8- to 16-ounce paperboard canisters for retail sales, at the rate of 125 packs/minute. It fills 24-ounce canisters for foodservice and restaurants at 55 packs/minute.
A bag-in-box line fills up to a 50-pound bag inserted into a box and is for institutional use and restaurants.
There are three lines for flexible packaging. Two horizontal form-fill-seal systems for handling bag content sizes from one-tenth ounce to 3.5 ounces. It also has a vertical form-fill-seal line for bags ranging from 4 ounces to 6 pounds.
The packaged and labelled products are sent through a cartoning line to be automatically filled into boxes, sealed and labelled. A pick-and-place robot picks up the boxes and palletises.
The pallets are stretched wrapped, then put into its climate-controlled warehouse for future picking, or loaded into trailers for domestic shipments to distributors, or containers for overseas destinations.
