Dosing Filling Packing - grunwald
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Dosing Filling Packing - grunwald
HIGH LIGHT Dosing Filling Packing GRUNWALD’s customer magazine no 31 / March 2015 Editorial2 GRUNWALD at the Anuga FoodTec 2015 3 Procal Dairies in Australia - everything good in milk 4-5 Kühlmann counts on GRUNWALD filling technology 6-7 Cheese dairy of monastery Schlierbach is the double winner 8 - 9 FLEXLINER XL with sensational dosing accuracy 10 - 11 Obituary 12 2 HIGHLIGHT - GRUNWALD‘s customer magazine no 31 / March 2015 A Feast for the Eyes. GRUNWALD alpine pasture hall 7.1 stand B020 in Cologne from 24 – 27 March 2015 GRUNWALD - your specialist for cup and bucket filling machines. EDI TORI A L This year Wangen is celebrating the city’s 1200-year existence. This extraordinary city anniversary will be celebrated the whole year through with numerous events and festivities. The first highlight - the New Year Reception on the market place - was the kick-off into this jubilee year. We as well are very excited about this highly interesting year to come. Thanks to a solid amount of orders at hand of about 14 million Euros half of the annual turnover of 2014 has already been achieved at the beginning of the year. The figures forecast even more growth. GRUNWALD is well-equipped for executing its orders quickly and on schedule. C OV ER The market place of the City of Wangen with its historical city hall. This year’s New Year Reception on the occasion of the jubilee year in Wangen - the 1200-year existence of the City - was crowned with 1200 multi-coloured balloons flying into the brilliant blue winter sky. Photo: Marlies Hodrius Publisher’s imprint HIGHLIGHT is topical information for customers, potential customers and partners of GRUNWALD GMBH and is published three times a year. Editorial Department and Layout: Marlies Hodrius GRUNWALD GMBH Pettermandstr. 9 88239 Wangen im Allgäu/Germany Phone +49 7522 9705-0 Fax +49 7522 9705-999 info@grunwald-wangen.de www.grunwald-wangen.de The fact that the dairy industry in particular has been growing steadily in the past years is a highly welcome development for us. On the one hand our extreme popularity is supposed to be due to our distinct customer orientation. On the other hand our technical solutions which enable unique and format flexible applications with the shortest possible changeover times and offer high flexibility in the field of dosing are the main reason for the high demand. With the slogan “A feast for your eyes” we would like to invite you to visit the GRUNWALD Alpine pasture in Hall 7.1, Stand B020. Please join us at the Anuga FoodTec Fair when we ask you once again to “meet in Cologne” on 24 to 27 March 2015. We will show you the latest technical new developments. These are fascinating filling solutions allowing you to react to the constantly changing market requirements in a very flexible way at any time. We look forward to your visit and to seeing you again in Cologne in hall 7.1, stand B020. Yours Ralf Müller and the GRUNWALD team At this year’s stand at ANUGA FoodTec you can ...get to know the latest technology for filling various products … ...get informed about the manifold options GRUNWALD cup filling machines and GRUNWALD bucket filling machines offer .... ... have informative discussions in a pleasant atmosphere ... Our team will be pleased to show you our highly topical new developments and their technical sophistication. Get to know and see how we produce “real genuine works of art” in cups with our to state-of-the-art technology and our know how. We will present two powerful, high-performance cup fillers at this exhibition. Come and see what manifold technical options highly flexible GRUNWALD filling machines can offer you. To be shown for the first time and the focus of our stand: The extremely flexible rotary-type filling machine GRUNWALD-ROTARY for filling • liquid to pasty yoghurts with fruit layer • various types of stirred fruit yoghurts produced with one or several integrated inline fruit mixers • multi-flavour premium dairy products • filled by means of the fascinating “side-by-side” and “swirl” technique We show completely new fascinating filling options with the “swirl” and “side-by-side” technique. This will give your products impact as genuine works of art in the cups! You will also be impressed by the compact 8-lane inline machine GRUNWALD-FOODLINER 20.000 with integrated packer and packing material sterilisation for filling dairy products with fruit layer. This universal high-performance cup filler can handle 2 cup sizes (Ø 75 mm and Ø 95 mm). Whether dairy products or delicatessen, desserts or spreads, meat products or ready-meals, cosmetics or petfood, 20 grs portion cups or large 20 kg buckets – we can also offer the ideal solution for your filling task. This is what we are experienced in, this is our strength. Come and visit our GRUNWALD Alpine pasture in hall 7.1, Stand Nr. B020. We have the appropriate technology for you – to fill your “creation” in cups. We look forward to your visit and to seeing you in Cologne. 4 HIGHLIGHT - GRUNWALD‘s customer magazine no 31 / March 2015 Everything good in Milk Milk science with Procal - technical science with GRUNWALD DE TAIL S ON THE MACHINE INFO Procal Dairies is a young and very successful dairy with enormous experiences with regard to the production and distribution of food products. Even though they just started with the sale of high-quality dairy products a few years ago – or more precisely in the year 2003 – they already rank among the biggest, independent producers of dairy products in Australia. In 2008 Procal Dairies established one of the state-of-the-art dairies in the world in Campbellfield in the state of Victoria for producing fresh milk. Since then Procal Dairies is capable of producing over 120 million litres of milk annually and uses some of the most efficient filling equipment available. The milk arrives daily, direct from farms located in Victoria and Southern NSW and is then quickly and efficiently processed into various products, including their quality milk, cream and yoghurts. The slogan of Procal Dairies “Everything good in Milk” stands for the commitment to first-class product quality which was emphasised by being awarded several gold medals through the DIAA Australian Dairy product competition in 2013. For the extension of their product range Procal Dairies was looking for a reliable supplier of machines who could meet the high demand for filling newly developed yoghurt products with format flexible cup filling machines and sophisticated solutions for dosing applications. Upon the recommendation of an Australian customer the first contact was established in 2008. Supported by the GRUNWALD sales office, GRUNWALD Australia developed several projects which were implemented and realized quickly. The fact that these projects had to be handled trans continentally did not hinder the development and realization of these projects. After all technical details had been clarified, Procal Dairies placed the first machine order. At the beginning of 2013, a format flexible bucket line for set yoghurt and stirred yoghurt was delivered. The rapid further development of the product portfolio and the demand for premium yoghurt products resulted in a further order just a few months later. : •a format flexible rotary-type machine for yoghurt products in round 1 kg cups and •a format flexible linear machine type GRUNWALD-FOODLINER 6.000 in full-servo version. The investment in this flexible linear machine allows for an incredible variety of various product presentations such as • stirred fruit yoghurt • yoghurt with fruit layer • yoghurt with fruit topping • “side-by-side” and • “swirl” It was a great pleasure for us to accept this challenge from ”down under“ and to implement it successfully. We are proud of the fact that our customers appreciate the high build quality and reliability of our cup and bucket filling machines and are pleased to have accompanied the road to success of Procal Dairies on a partnership basis by supplying these filling machines. The delivery of these technically challenging filling machines created another excellent reference in the Australian dairy industry. GRUNWALD-FOODLINER 6.000 Width of the machine: 1,380 mm 2- to 6-lane version Approximately 7,200 – 21,600 cups/h Dosing range: 20 – 1,700 ml C ON TAC T If you are interested in this linear cup filling machine and in receiving further information on this particular machine or if you are looking for a solution for your filling application please do not hesitate to contact us. Photo on the left: Retail packaging in the chiller cabinet Procal Dairies started their successful product campaign with the product designation “2wirl fruit infused yoghurt” Satisfied faces after a successful pre-acceptance test (from left to right): Anton Alt (Grunwald), Marky Makalanda (Procal), Dominik Schmitt, Roland Branovics, Trent Mc Parland (Procal), Florian Kolb, Michael Sohler, Daniel Krummeich, Stefan Natterer (Grunwald) Photos at the top: Two-flavour “side-by-side“ filling For further information please contact: Anton Alt Phone +49 (0) 7522 9705-210 anton.alt@grunwald-wangen.de Photo below: 4-lane linear cup filler GRUNWALD-FOODLINER 6.000 production speed: 6,200 cups/hour with 500 ml set-yoghurt 10,800 cups /hour with 140 ml stirred yoghurt 6 HIGHLIGHT - GRUNWALD‘s customer magazine no 31 / March 2015 Precise filling technology for products from the experts Kühlmann once again puts their faith in the cup filler GRUNWALD-ROTARY 12.000 INF O The origin of this company goes back to the beginning of the 20th century when Heinrich Kühlmann founded an agricultural trade in Rietberg-Westerwiehe. The family business Heinrich Kühlmann GmbH & Co. KG originated from this agricultural trade today has more than 800 employees and is directed by a 4-person management team. Kühlmann attaches great value to processing exclusively high-quality food products – without using preservatives, flavours, colourants or flavour enhancers. More than 10 years ago the responsible persons of Kühlmann made a decision in favour of GRUNWALD cup filling machines for the first time. Since that time we have had many common projects which resulted in further machine orders so that Kühlmann already has 13 GRUNWALD machines in total in their plants in Westerwiehe and Westenholz. abundance of new ideas and who quickly implement these ideas in technical solutions. Both companies benefitted from this intense cooperation and we certainly do not exaggerate if we say that this cooperation was also instrumental in the successful and rapid growth of both companies. Successful combination Some of these “special machines“ which Kühlmann uses successfully in their production were developed by both companies in cooperation and optimised continuously during their building phases so that ultimately both parties benefit from it. This is a typical win-win situation: Kühlmann has a tailor-made machine giving maximum profit potential. GRUNWALD benefits from the insights gained in practice with the development and conception of further machines. Always full of ideas GRUNWALD is looking for and likes new challenges. We prefer developing and optimising our ideas and solutions on the basis of precise customer requirements. In turn the responsible persons of Kühlmann need partners who support them with their rapid growth and the A further typical example is the 2-lane GRUNWALD-ROTARY 12.000 supplied for filling delicatessen salads in rectangular plastic cups. These cups had to be sealed with plastic sealing film from the reel and their headspace had to be injected with gas at the maximum possible cycle speed. In order to achieve a low remaining oxygen value in the final packing when using this sealing technology, the evacuation and injection of inert gas had been necessary in the past. This complex technology is not only expensive but also reduces the speed of the machine to max. 15 cycles/min. Newly designed cutting/sealing station According to the motto “there is no way for “no way““ our experts set to work and the result was a completely newly designed cutting/ sealing station which does not only allow for a high cycle speed of up to 45 cycles/min. due to the use of 3 servo motors but also operates extremely quietly and thus without stressing the packing material. In addition, the specially developed gas injection technology allows for a constant remaining oxygen value in the tray of less than 3 % and this without using the complex evacuation technology. We thank all employees of Kühlmann for their constant faith in GRUNWALD and the positive and always pleasant cooperation. Today we already look forward to the next challenge and the next joint project. Photo on the left: Everything went well: Martin Rädler (GRUNWALD), Martin Rachner and Christian Kessler (Kühlmann) are pleased about a perfect pre-acceptance test and look forward to the commissioning of the GRUNWALD-ROTARY 12.000. Photo below: GRUNWALD-ROTARY 12.000/2-lane for filling delicatessen salads in rectangular plastic cups; with sealing film from the reel and headspace gas injection, Speed: up to 45 cycles/min. DE TAIL S ON THE MACHINE GRUNWALD-ROTARY 12.000 Dimensions: 2,000 x 2,000 mm 2- to 6-lane design approx. 6,000 – 18,000 cups/h depending on the product and packing materials Dosing range: 10 – 2,000 ml C ON TAC T If you are interested in this rotary-type machine and in receiving further information on this particular machine or if you are looking for a solution for your filling application please do not hesitate to contact us. For further information please contact: Martin Rädler Phone +49 7522 9705-220 martin.raedler@grunwald-wangen.de 8 HIGHLIGHT - GRUNWALD‘s customer magazine no 31 / March 2015 The 10th Commandment „Have visions“ GRUNWALD rotary-type machine produces award-winning cheeses On the so-called „Jakobi Day” on, 25 July 1924 the monastery cheese dairy Schlierbach was founded in Upper Austria by the monk Leonhard. Today’s largest abbey cheese dairy in Europe is specialised in the production of soft and cut cheese and meanwhile has become the market leader in the field of soft cheese with red cheese cultures. The producer claims that comparable to the 10 commandments the contents of the Schlierbach cheese are essential! Monk Josef who is very fastidious as far as cheese is concerned recommends to adhere to the following 10 commandments of pure taste: 1st commandment: ENJOY TO THE FULL! 2nd commandment: CHOOSE ORGANIC QUALITY! 3rd commandment: ONLY USE NATURAL FINISH RAW MATERIALS! 4th commandment: ALLOW RIPENING! 5th commandment: ENSURE THE BEST TASTE! 6th commandment: STICK TO THE TRADITION 7th commandment: HONOR THE RECIPES! 8th commandment: FULFILL DESIRES! 9th commandment: LOVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT! 10th commandment: HAVE VISIONS! The up-to-date and flexible cup-filling machine GRUNWALD-HITTPAC AKH-059 produced in the year 2014 AD was now installed and successfully put into operation in the historic walls of the cistercian monastery Schlierbach dating back to the year 1000 AD. The challenges were tremendous. At the installation of the cup-filling unit both the provisions of the protection of historical monuments and the extreme building conditions of an abbey had to be taken into account. At the same time the requirements for an optimal operation of the machine had to be fulfilled. If the modern world meets the past ... this can be quite exciting. The concept for bringing in and installing was thus developed in mutual cooperation. First all ceiling heights were measured in detail. The measures of the historic building and the non-changeable specifications for the connections of the rotary-type machine formed the basis for the machine design of a highly modern fully-automatic cup-filling machine type GRUNWALD-HITTPAC AKH-059. Visions in a row In our brochures the reader can find our motto “Make your vision a reality – step ahead with GRUNWALD”. Therefore it was especially exciting for us to support the “heavenly visions” of the monastery cheese dairy Schlierbach and help to realize them. The cistercian monastery Schlierbach is ruled by the „Regula Benedicti“, i.e. “taking care of the presence in order to enable a future worth living”. Thus it is not astonishing that in the year 2012 the enterprise was completely reorganized into an organic farm in order to enable and to guarantee access to regional foodstuff. In several steps the cheese dairy located in historic masonry was updated to the latest technology. When GRUNWALD received the order for a new cup filling machine in May 2014 they became part of these visions. We are especially pleased to have actively supported the monastery cheese dairy Schlierbach and to have realized visions once again. They were looking for a cup filling machine with a production output of approx. 5,000 cups/h for filling goat cream cheese and sheep’s cream cheese in hexagonal 150 gram plastic cups. The short delivery time was also a decisive factor for placing the order. It was also of importance that this cup filling machine could be manufactured within the shortest possible delivery time and brought in and positioned in the historic building taking into account the existing circumstances. Winning medals by visions When the order was placed nobody was aware that visions could rapidly bring astonishing results. The abbey cheese dairy took part in several competitions at the end of last year and simultaneously received several top awards : • AMA „Käse-Kaiser (cheese emperor) for the best cream cheese in Austria. Thus it was awarded the popular trophy “Käse-Kaiser”! • The gold medal of the World Cheese Award in Great Britain, one of the most renowned international cheese competitions. A 250-member jury assessed the winners out of 2600 different cheeses from 33 nations. • At the 12th cheese Olympic, the “Käseiade”, the Bio-Käserei Stift Schlierbach (organic cheese dairy) experienced a real blessing of medals with five gold medals. In the category “goat cream cheese” they achieved a double victory – gold and silver! In total more than 300 cheeses from 132 national and international companies were submitted. Bio-Käserei Stift Schlierbach was especially pleased about these awards as they also celebrated their 90th anniversary in 2014. We are happy that the new “Käsekaiser” is now produced on the GRUNWALD cup filling machine supplied for this purpose and congratulate Bio-Käserei Stift Schlierbach on winning this enormous medal and on the realization of their visions. We thank them very much for the confidence placed in GRUNWALD and look forward to continuing our cooperation! Photo below left: Cistercian Abbey with the Abbey cheese dairy Schlierbach in Austria Photo below: 3-lane GRUNWALD-HITTPAC AKH-059 with laminar cabin for filling goat cream cheese and sheep’s cream cheese in hexagonal plastic cups approx. 78 x 87 mm, height approx. 64 mm (150 grs) with aluminium foil seal lid and plastic snap-on lid; discharging onto collecting table. Photo on the right: „Käsekaiser“ award for the best cream cheese in Austria, Silver and gold medals for the goat cream cheese. KON C ON TA TAC KT If you are interested in this rotary-type machine and in receiving further information on this particular machine or if you are looking for a solution for your filling application please contact us. For further information please contact: Stefan Sacher Stefan Sacher Phone +49 (0) 7522 9705-260 stefan.sacher@grunwald-wangen.de 10 HIGHLIGHT - GRUNWALD‘s customer magazine no 31 / March 2015 The high-performance machine of GRUNWALD Bucket filling machine with sensational dosing accuracy has been delivered Photo: Fully-automatic bucket filling and closing machine GRUNWALD-FLEXLINER XL/1 for filling cream cheese in round plastic buckets with handle Filling temperature approx. 70 ° C Bucket sizes: 3 kg, Ø 227 mm, height: 124 mm 5 kg, Ø 227 mm, height: 195 mm 10 kg, Ø 266 mm, height: 262 mm 20 kg, Ø 326 mm, height: 338 mm Production speed: Approx. 12 – 14 buckets/min. for 3 kg bucket Approx. 10 – 12 buckets/min. for 5 kg bucket Approx. 7 – 10 buckets/min. for 10 kg bucket Approx. 3 – 5 buckets/min. for 20 kg bucket The continuous growth of the past few years and the constantly positive number of incoming orders from the dairy industry, are evidence that GRUNWALD is recognised as a reliable and highly competent supplier of cup and bucket filling machines. We were therefore especially pleased to supply a machine to a well-known and one of the leading producers of dairy products. This internationally operating company recently purchased a high-performance, 1-lane bucket filling machine type GRUNWALDFLEXLINER XL for filling and packing cream cheese specialities. In the past this company already put their faith in GRUNWALD cup filling machines when filling cream cheese and mozzarella balls and a rotary-type machine for filling cream cheese in 1.5 kg and 3.5 kg packs for large-scale consumers. Last year they also planned to replace their old bucket line. Their aim was not only to purchase a modern machine with high hygiene standards but also to increase the production speed and efficiency of their line due to this new machine and above all to benefit from possible savings due to the improved weight accuracy during filling. Sensational dosing accuracy Due to their positive experiences with the machines supplied, they decided to purchase another machine with GRUNWALD. The quoted GRUNWALD-FLEXLINER XL/1 met all their production requirements. They were especially convinced of the weighing technology used because it guarantees sensational dosing accuracy at a high cycle speed. GRUNWALD guarantees for these products – e. g. for filling cream cheese – a standard deviation of less than 0.15 %. The values achieved in practice are usually considerably better. Maximum operating convenience A further factor for making a decision in favour of GRUNWALD, was the high flexibility and quick format changeover to other formats. This machine handles buckets of 4 different sizes, from 3 kg to 20 kg. The changeover can be carried out within only a few minutes by Photo below: Cutting/sealing station Precise cutting due to rotating blade the operator himself. Due to the use of special quick locks, the format parts can be exchanged without tools. The operator can also do this himself and this does not have to be carried out by a service engineer. In addition, a checklist on the touch panel supports the operator during the format changeover step by step. This facilitates this work and helps avoid mistakes. The adjustment to different bucket heights is made in fully-automatic operation by using the values stored in the product menu. First class technology The trouble-free denesting of the buckets and lids as well as efficient and reliable sealing of the bucket with plastic sealing film from the reel is considered to be a matter of course anyway on GRUNWALD machines. Should a bucket nevertheless not be tightly sealed this will be recognised in the downstream leak test control and this bucket will be discharged. The laminar cabin mounted as well as the filler in CIP design guarantee constant hygiene conditions and thus consistent high quality of the final product. The servodriven lowering movement of the filling valve guarantees the careful filling of the product at a high speed. The successful implementation of the customer’s task and the quick and trouble-free commissioning of the GRUNWALD-FLEXLINER XL obviously convinced the persons responsible. In view of this successful order handling, the customer placed a further order for a linear machine with GRUNWALD in the meantime. DE TAIL S ON THE MACHINE GRUNWALD-FLEXLINER XL Dimensions: 1,200 x 6,400 mm 1- to 2-lane design Approx. 200 – 1,800 buckets/h depending on product, packing materials and filling weight Dosing range: 1 – 20 kg C ON TAC T If you are interested in this bucket filler and in receiving further information on this particular machine or if you are looking for a solution for your filling application please do not hesitate to contact us. For further information please contact: Martin Rädler Phone +49 7522 9705-220 martin.raedler@grunwald-wangen.de Dosing Filling Packing OBI T UA RY With great dismay and sadness, we have received the news of the sudden death of our employee and colleague Klaus Bobinger in January. He passed away on 29/01/2015 at the age of 53 years. Klaus Bobinger joined the company on 9 September 1985 as an industrial mechanic. He worked for almost 30 years as an industrial mechanic and assembly foreman in the company. For many years he also worked in the responsible position of client advisor and as a development engineer. Klaus Bobinger * 24.02.1961 †29.01.2015 He was a respected and esteemed interlocutor for us and our customers. Klaus was our doyen, who has helped build the company. He was a very reliable, committed and popular employee, colleague and friend respected by all. He was always there for us, with his patience, his profound knowledge, his extensive experience and his competence. We have lost a very committed and popular colleague and friend. He leaves a big gap. This parting is much too soon for all of us. We are speechless. We grieve for you. We miss you. And we thank you for the time we could spend with you. We will keep you in good memory, as you were. Our deepest sympathy and our thoughts are with his family. Board of Management Armin Müller, Ralf Müller, Edwin Müller Employees of GRUNWALD GMBH