Packaging of Fresh Fish Fillets in Germany: An innovative approach toward greater flexibility

Starting situation:

In fish processing, packaging is an essential building block of success. Our customer, an experienced player in this industry, demonstrates impressively how specific know-how and cutting-edge technologies merge to meet the most stringent quality standards.

Challenges:

One of the greatest challenges for our customer is to pack large fillets without using the main packaging lines. These lines are designed for standard sizes and optimized for processing large quantities. So the packaging of large fillets would entail lengthy retooling times and restrict flexibility significantly. The customer is therefore looking for a solution that enables fast, flexible and attractive packaging without compromising the efficiency of the main line.

Our solution:

To meet these challenges, the customer opted to use SUPERVAC’s versatile packaging machine, the GK 402. This machine impresses everybody with its outstanding ratio between contact surface, bar length and bar spacing, making it ideal for packaging products of different sizes without the need for pre-sorting. A special highlight of this machine is its capacity to load the conveyor belt during vacuuming, which enables fast processing even for medium batch sizes.