Rocket Salad Packaging Machine Case | Smartweighpack

Salad packaging machine, the same as the fruit and vegetable packing machine, is mainly for fruit salad packaging or mixed vegetables packaging. Smartweigh packing machine manufacturer provides who needs lettuce packaging and salad mix packaging with professional and high quality vegetable packing machine & salad packing machine.

Germany's ABC Company(name of ABC is to protect our customer' information) has made a name for itself in the agricultural sector as a medium-scale distributor of high-quality vegetables. With a rich legacy that has made ripples across the country, ABC Company has built its reputation on the delivery of fresh, top-tier produce.

A cornerstone of ABC Company's operations is the supply of rocket salad to supermarkets, a task it handles masterfully. The company has forged solid partnerships with numerous supermarkets, big and small, all across Germany. These alliances have been instrumental in widening the company's influence and establishing its credibility in the consumer market.

While it operates at a medium scale, ABC Company oversees the handling of a vast assortment of vegetables on a daily basis. Its unwavering dedication to maintaining the freshness and quality of its products means it must continually navigate tight schedules and the intricate logistics of distributing vegetables to different supermarkets.

The traditional manual labor model characterizes the company's operations. This includes the sorting and filling of trays with a variety of vegetables, a process that has been reliable over time but is now revealing considerable challenges.

Vegetable Salad Packaging Machine Request and Needs

ABC Company's operations currently involve a team of twelve committed workers who manage the weighing and filling process of rocket salad into trays. The process is labor-intensive, and despite the team's efficiency, it allows for a production capacity of about 20 trays per minute. This process not only demands a lot of time and effort but also leans heavily on the precision and speed of the workers. The physical strain and repetitive nature of the tasks can lead to worker fatigue, potentially affecting the consistency and quality of the filled trays.

This has highlighted the company's need for a vegetable packing line solution that could automate or semi-automate these tasks, thereby reducing the dependence on manual labor. The introduction of a vegetable packaging machine that could automate this process would not only enhance the speed and efficiency of the tray-filling process but also bring about a significant reduction in the associated labor costs.

The plan is to invest in a vegetable cutting and packaging machine that could bring about a revolution in the existing process. This machine should have the ability to automatically weigh and fill the trays, thereby reducing the number of employees required for this task and, as a result, cutting down on labor costs. This strategic move is expected to not only boost operational efficiency but also pave the way for a more sustainable and scalable future for the company.

Vegetable Salad Packaging Machine Solutions

The team at SmartWeigh offered us a revolutionary solution - a salad packaging machine equipped with a tray denesting machine. This advanced filling line incorporates an automatic process that includes:

1. Auto-feeding the rocket salad to the multihead weigher

2. Auto picks & places empty trays

3. Salad packaging equipment with auto weighs and fills trays

4. Conveyor that delivers the ready trays to the next process

Following a period of 40 days for production and testing, and another 40 days for shipping, ABC Company received and installed the tray filling machine at their factory.

Impressive Outcomes

With the introduction of the vegetable packaging equipment, the team size was drastically reduced from 12 to 3, while maintaining a steady weighing and filling capacity of 22 trays per minute.

Given that the wage for workers is 20 euros per hour, this means a saving of 180 euros an hour, equating to 1440 euros a day, and a substantial saving of 7200 euros per week. Within just a few months, the company had recouped the cost of the machine, leading the CEO of ABC Company to proclaim, "It is really a huge ROI!"

Furthermore, this automatic salad packing machine can be utilized for a wide range of salads, offering the potential to scale up operations to accommodate a more diverse range of salads in trays, thereby enriching the company's product assortment.

Tray and pillow bags are commonly used packaging formats in the vegetable industry. At SmartWeigh, we don't stop at offering salad tray weighing and filling machines. We also provide a variety of fruits and vegetables packaging machines for bagging (multihead weigher integrated with vertical form fill seal packaging machine), suitable for fresh cut, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and even fruit.

Customers have been generous in their praise for the design and quality of our devices. The SmartWeigh engineering team also extends overseas service to assist customers with machine commissioning and operational training, easing all your worries. So, don't hesitate, to share your requirements with us and get ready to benefit from the solutions offered by the SmartWeigh team!