Cut Above The Rest
By Andrew Joseph, Features Editor
Automation Aesus Delft Blue Greydon Mettler-Toledo Safeline Praxair Reiser Sealed Air ShawpakFor its case-ready overwrap packages, Delft Blue utilizes three tray stretchwrappers—including an OMORI STC Series model from Omori Machinery Co. Ltd., an ULMA Super Chick machine, and one from Exact Equipment—along with an IQ2 metal detection system from Loma International Inc. to administer the final quality assurance test.
Other noteworthy packaging equipment employed at the Cambridge plant includes:
• A Fresh Vac A-200 and two Fresh Vac A-600 snorkelstyle machines manufactured by CVP Systems Inc. of Downers Grove, Ill., to produce MAP pillow-packs;
• A comprehensive range of Reiser meat-processing equipment, including a Holac dicer; two Vemag continuous stuffers; a GB 200 ground-meat portioner; a TM 203 Vemag cutting machine; and a TC700M Ross needle tenderizer.
According to Nuys-Hall, having the best processing and packaging equipment available is essential to a customer focused company like Delft Blue.
“We are always looking for new ways to provide our customers with exactly what they want, when they want it, and to always remain flexible to their demands,” Nuys-Hall asserts.
Photo by Cole Garside
SOMETHING NEW
“As a testament to that, we constantly seek out new ways to innovate—whether it’s through constantly upgrading the equipment on our production line, how our operators perform on the production line, or adding more value to the products we offer.
“We simply cannot afford to remain static,” says Nuys-Hall, adding that this uncompromising mindset has a full buy-in from the plant’s highly dedicated and loyal workforce, with an estimated 90 per cent of the staff having been with the company for 14 years or more.
“We trust our employees, which is why have asked them to aid us in our quality control process,” she states.
“Along with our quality control department and a lab right here on the premises, our employees have full authority to reject any product and packaging they feel is not up to par—and they do.
“Thanks to our keen workers and our shared desire to constantly improve both our products and our operations, I am confident that Delft Blue will continue to improve its market share here in Canada and the U.S. in coming years,” she concludes. “So looking at it from all these angles, I’m happy to say that the future does looks pretty br
ight for us.”
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