Lower cost cheese packaging machine

Employees at Cabot Creamery save costs through a fully automated packaging and vacuum packaging system for large cheeses.

Cabot, located in a sparsely populated village in Montpellier, often finds it difficult to find experienced and qualified employees and to carry this time-consuming and laborious task of carrying 40-pound cheddar cheese into bags. It often causes a shortage of labor.

In the fall of 2002, Cabot began using two adjacent CL20 cheese block packaging systems from Cryovac Air Seals. Marcel Gravel, Cabot plant manager, said: “The CL20 works very well. Since installing the CL20, we have a stable, high-quality bagged cheese block and have reduced downtime and labor costs. Compared to the previous bag, the CL20 bag The reduction in wrinkles has also reduced product recycling. Since installing the CL20, we have saved nearly $63,000 in labor costs.” In addition, the number of accidental injuries to employees has decreased and productivity has increased.

The CL20's job is to combine Cryovac RG20, a wedge-forming machine that can fully fold and prepare vacuum-packed bags, and Cryovac BT20, a vacuum-packed machine that packages pre-packaged cheese. For Cabot and its customers, block packaging machines are excellent. Gravel said: "Our employees are very satisfied with this latest system, which can easily operate and troubleshoot."

The CL20 embedded system is a direct wedge into a wedge-shaped bag. The wedge bag is a bag of preformed 90 micron thick co-extruded barrier structure from Cryovac.

Source: Packaging Machinery