published on 01/03/10
Redpack Packaging machinery has won another order for two of their new HTS Top seal Flow Wrapping machines.
The two machines, one left hand and one right hand, will be installed by a group of highly skilled mechanical engineers to pack Little Gem lettuce at speeds of around 60ppm/machine. A harvesting gang working in front of the rig cuts the Little Gem which is then conveyed into the rig and placed onto the flow wrapper infeed. After wrapping they are packed into outer cases, taken directly from the field to a chiller and then straight to the supermarket shelves.
What was growing in the field one day could be on consumer’s plates the next. As Redpack point out, it can’t get much fresher than that.

Read the full article at Food and Drink International