Finland: GKS provides a line of vacuum packaging for cut vegetables
The mark forming machines, vertical form fill seal and complete weighing and packing lines GKS Packaging is a provider of complete weighing and packing line for a Finnish producer of cut vegetables and peeled potatoes.
GKS Packaging is the provider of complete weighing and packing line for a Finnish producer of cut vegetables and peeled potatoes. “Our client fills its large containers with shredded cabbage, chopped iceberg lettuce, sliced peeled potatoes and carrots, for a large international fast food chain,” says Roland Witvoet.
The line consists of a sealed UP350 upright vacuum packaging machine, filling and easy cleaning tape lift, an overpass, a linear scale dual-head, a conveyor belt and a regulatory board; all developed and built by GKS Packaging. The vacuum packaging system is the newest addition to the UP350, part machine platform introduced in 2014.
According to Roland Witvoet it had already tried the vacuum in the previous generation of machines GKS. The size of the vacuum packaging machine can be set depending on the product and the desired vacuum level. The module can also easily disconnected when switching to standard packaging or packaging with gas only.
The new platform GKS machine is made of stainless steel and is characterized by its great build quality and robustness. “The machine has a film transport servo and completely built with components from well-known suppliers such as Allen Bradley electrical components and pneumatic components from SMC. The whole machine is built in a modular way, so that the change of each individual group can be done in no time.
