A UK salad grower, specialising in ready-to-eat leafy salad, and with a growing customer base of retailers, high street food chains and wholesalers, needed a packaging machine that increased output with high levels of hygiene.

Their existing equipment had become unreliable after many years of use and in an industry where high throughput is critical, this was a problem.

PurPak’s Edge vertical bagger was a great fit in more ways than one. Low ceilings on site made previous installations time consuming and disrupted production, so the Edge bagger was customised to fit in a lower space making installation straightforward and fast.

The new packaging machine immediately demonstrated performance gains. Industry 4.0 features enabled the salad grower to optimise their packaging line, minimise downtime, and reduce change over times with features like tool-less changeovers.

Its hygienic design also provided many benefits. Standard hygienic design features such as the open frame design, zero welds, sloped surfaces to avoid water pooling and IP66 rating offer great advantages for operating in wet environments with frequent washdowns.

The new packaging equipment has been a huge success for this salad grower. Production has increased, downtime decreased, and it has become their best performing line.