UK seafood company doubles pack speed with tna VFFS

A new vertical, class, make full and seal (VFFS) packaging and distribution line from processing and packaging equipment provider, tna has helped United kingdom-based Whitby Seafoods to double its packaging speed. The investment has enabled Whitby Seafoods to see rising consumer need by providing boosted capacity and integration between systems.

Based in Whitby, a traditional fishing port in Due north Yorkshire, Whitby Seafoods is a leading producer of frozen seafood products. A growing family visitor, it specializes in locally sourced langoustines – or scampi – that are breaded and sold in bite-size portions. A recent rebrand meant that the company updated its packaging design to appeal to an even wider audience. New pack sizes range from between 200 and 300 grams in a standard pillow pocketbook format. Whitby therefore required a flexible packaging and distribution system that would allow information technology to aggrandize its product portfolio and allow efficient product changes and integration with existing elements of the production line.

Conveyor at Whitby

Faster packaging speeds
As a growing manufacturer, Whitby Seafoods was looking to increase capacity with a third packaging line. Information technology chose to install the tna robag 3ci – a vertical, form, fill and seal (VFFS) packaging solution that would permit fast speed for a range of bag sizes.

Simon Hill, regional sales director at tna, comments, "Packaging line speed is crucial to maintaining nutrient rubber with frozen foods like seafood. While the two existing production lines operate at 70 bags per minute (bpm), the new line works comfortably at 140 bpm, effectively doubling production throughput. This now helps Whitby Seafoods to ensure products are processed as quickly as possible.

Whitby Seafoods

Rotary jaw design with advanced sealing tech
With a rotary jaw pattern that uses advanced sealing applied science for improved seal integrity at high speeds, the new system helps to deliver a consistently appealing end product. The compact design, including a shorter bagging system height and small footprint, was ideal for the low ceiling in the Whitby Seafoods factory. With the ability to walk around upstairs, operators have better visibility of the line and therefore stricter quality assurance standards. The new equipment too has a user-friendly interface, making it simple and like shooting fish in a barrel to operate. This will assistance Whitby Seafoods to relieve significant time regarding ongoing performance and grooming in the long-term.

Helping to realise farther performance benefits, the packing organization was fitted with the tna intelli-weigh omega 314 multi-head weigher. With capabilities for a two,200 kg per hour in-feed to the packaging organization, information technology was imperative any upstream equipment could proceed upwards with the fast speed of the bagger. The integration of the tna intelli-weigh omega 314 immune for high speed weighing with superior precision.

The tna robag 3ci and its moving-picture show arrangement for easy motion-picture show threading and high accuracy control has improved efficiencies at Whitby Foods by reducing film waste and cutting changeover procedures from ii minutes to thirty seconds.

Total projection management from a single source
tna implemented the additional packaging line within a short timeframe of five months, providing Whitby Seafoods with solutions they were looking for, while also delivering full integration with existing equipment.

A primal consideration for the installation was that operations between the new and existing lines would be seamless. To achieve full integration,tna trialled how the new installation would piece of work in the mill as function of the wider production process. As function of this process, the squad carried out extensive 3D modelling, to ensure the system was tailored to verbal requirements. This also helped to ensure the organization was upward and running as quickly and efficiently as possible.

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