BBC Technologies is set to unveil its CURO-16 Filling System, which the New Zealand-based company claims to be the fastest fresh produce filling solution on the market.
“Clients have been consistently asking for a faster filling system that retains all the advantages of our existing equipment whilst taking speed to the next level – and we’ve responded with the development of the CURO-16,” said Jason Walker, BBC Technologies’ international sales and marketing manager.
Walker said the CURO-16 was capable of consistently packing up to 240 clamshells per minute, while not compromising on quality.
BBC Technologies’ sales engineer Troy Cleaver said the machine has been designed to have the same flexibility of the company’s existing 10-head fill-by-weight technology, while offering more efficiency when it comes to switching between different sized packing options.
“We looked at all aspects of our equipment and have incorporated every recent technology advance in the CURO-16, thereby ensuring precision control at each stage of the filling process,” Cleaver explained.
BBC Technologies has chosen this week’s Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in the US to launch the new machinery. Walker expects keen interest in the solution at the conference’s trade show.
“Anyone who has an expanding packing business will be interested in our new offering,” he said. “For larger operators, the beauty of this innovation is that they can buy one machine, rather than having to purchase two smaller ones, and pack just as much, if not more.”
Other examples ofBBC’s technology include the MIRA-360 machine, which sorts for colour and removes defects including cracks and splits, soft rot, wrinkles, bruises and insect damage, alongside its 2014 Soft Sorter Dura Touch Compact, which ensures all produce is handled gently through the filling process, while also removing over 80 per cent of soft or damaged fruit.
