Prepared salads

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Prepared salads: busy times drive demand

Todays busy lifestyle will drive growth in the prepared salads market. When it comes to food, consumers are increasingly looking for the combination of convenience and freshness. Prepared salads fit this picture perfectly in terms of time-saving, less effort of cooking and ease of handling and storage.

Topics such as flexbility and short change-over times are becoming more important for you as a producer. The same applies for the labour shortage problem partly due to the highly cooled (and therefore less attractive) production environment. Benefit from our innovative End-of-Line automation solutions.

Product variety = take advantage of our short change-over time when changing product, pattern or carrier
Thanks to the formation of products, we guarantee the highest possible capacity (and limited product contact!)
Using a specific box or crate? Our robot easily adjusts the product orientation for accurate placement.

Crate Erector

Do you use folding crates? This machine automatically unfolds your full or half crates at high speed.

(De-)Stacker

Automate heavy and expensive manual labour by stacking and destacking your crates at high speed.

Case packing

Extremely accurate product placement in boxes and crates possible by using a 6-axis robotic arm.

Palletising

Collect 20 crates, boxes or bags per minute in your desired pattern.

Highlighted: prepared salads project

Heemskerk fresh and easy supplies around 3.4 million fresh products every week to well-known supermarkets and fast-food restaurants in the Netherlands and abroad. In order to realise growth, continuity and cost savings in the long term, it was decided to use robotisation.

Old situation
Manual packing of salad bowls in crates and boxes.

New situation
Heemskerk is running this prepared salads packing line with only 1 operator, at a speed of 50 products/min.

How it works?
Lan Handling integrated a system for the destacking of crates and boxes, before the product carrier enters the robot cell. A highly flexible case packer takes care of the product placement. Switching between various programs is done at the touch of a button and takes only 2 minutes.