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Deli: Sandwiches
INSIDER
Bread closures' smart future
By Michelle Smith
THE COMPANIES MAKING CLOSURE
EQUIPMENT for bread bags are keeping
their eyes on serving bakeries into
the future with smart machinery
with more sustainable equipment.
Kwik Lok manufactures equipment
that can be managed through a
tablet or smartphone, helping
bakeries strapped for workers.
" I know that hiring and maintaining
workforce is a major challenge for
bakeries so automation really helps
them because there are so many roles
that need to be covered, and if we can
help with our automated machines,
then they can put their people on things
that only people can do, " said Karen
Reed, global director of marketing
and communications, Kwik Lok.
Burford Corp., a Middleby Bakery
company, is looking at improved data
collection for machinery, although
they've been doing it for years.
" We want to get to the next level where
we use data more effectively for our
customers, allowing them to easily
integrate the data into their own platform
or provide them a local plant-level
solution, " said Clay Miller, president,
Burford. " The goal is to allow our
customers to monitor wear parts and the
performance of the machine. This gives
them the ability to replace parts when
it's convenient for them instead of after
it breaks. There will be an opportunity
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to incorporate AI technology in the
very near future, and the data is the
foundation that must already be in place. "
Finding more sustainable solutions
is also an ongoing challenge.
" We don't produce the twist tie, but we
work alongside several companies that
do so we can try to test and validate
both sides of it: how it performs on
the product and how it performs
in the machine, " Miller said.
Kwik Lok offers a portfolio of products
made of paper or polypropylene.
" We want to build closures that keep
food fresh and safe so that we don't
have food waste, which is a huge
environmental and social issue, " Reed
said. " We are also working to make
our closures out of materials that can
be part of a circular economy. "
A key area of interest is
incorporating recycled
content in bread bags, said
Veronica Ataya, director,
marketing and innovation,
St. Johns Packaging.
The company partnered
with Bimbo Bakeries
USA to develop the first
polyethylene bread bag in
North America made with
post- consumer recycled
polyethylene content.
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" These bags offer an improved carbon
footprint without compromising
performance, " Ataya said.
Richard Hobson, chief executive
officer at We Seal, pointed out that
one spool of resealable tape contains
more than 27,000 closures.
" This represents a huge labor saving
in addition to reduced downtime as
changeover of the consumable is only
needed every seven to eight hours when
running at the highest speeds, " he said.
Many European bakeries have
switched to the clip band, which
is a double-wire band that folds
over itself to close bread bags.
" There is some cost savings with it, " said
Bob Bezanilla, North American sales
representative for Schutte Bagclosures.
Kwik Lok
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