Factory Walk Through – The Machine Shop

An interesting article from Packaging News on the move away from industry-standard polythene, derived from finite fossil fuels, for ones made from a sugarcane biopolymer known as GreenPE. As well as being renewable, sugarcane captures and stores CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, making it carbon-negative.Avoiding the use of fossil fuel plastic material in favour of GreenPE…

All our VFFS bagging machines are built from the floor up in our factory, by our own fabricators, mechanical and electrical engineers, from parts machined by us. UK Designed, UK Built, Working Worldwide™

Our latest commissioned LE360 has been designed and optimised for the bagging of a leafy salad product. Part of the customer’s specification required the protection against food-industry standard manual wash down processes. It has been built in Type 316 stainless steel for strength at elevated wash down temperatures and for better corrosion resistance, as it…