Sustainable packaging specialist Holfeld Plastics aims to speed up soft-fruit packing lines with its innovative one-size-fits-all range of auto de-nest punnets. The G81 fits in standard crates and offers enhanced profitability to berry packers.
Frank Coleman, operations director at Holfeld Plastics, said: “In this difficult climate for everyone we are determined to continue to meet our customer’s expectations through the development of innovation resulting in significant packhouse overhead savings.”
In conventional de-nesting, punnet distortion can be a major problem with irrecoverable shape changes retaining a deformed memory. However, auto de-nest gives rise to a more reliable sealing jig fit and a more assured finished product.
With Holfeld’s product, there is a standard de-nest gap across the full G81 range of punnets (40mm to 85mm depths) and as a consequence, with no adjustment to the de-nesters, line changeovers are speeded up.
Coleman added: “It’s a major breakthrough for Holfeld Plastics and the industry. Soft fruit packhouses, marketing desks, growers and distributors now have a firm and trusted partner in automation.”
Holfeld Plastics, founded in 1978, is a privately owned manufacturer of thin-walled thermoformed packaging.
