Ralph Cator
Joining Meat Hall's Class of 2010 - Canadian Meat Business
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| Assembly Line |<br />
Assembly Line is an opportunity for companies to feature new products for the meat<br />
producing, processing, packaging and distribution industry. To include information about your<br />
new product e-mail alan@meatbusiness.ca.<br />
EasyPeelPoint a revolutionary opening aid<br />
for sealed trays<br />
Around 60 per cent of today’s<br />
fresh meat is sold pre-packed<br />
at retail. The case-ready tray,<br />
often 190 x 144 mm in size, has<br />
become an established standard,<br />
to which many logistical processes<br />
have been tuned. However, these<br />
hermetically closed packs often<br />
feature a disadvantage: the top<br />
film cannot be removed easily.<br />
Only too often, consumers need to use auxiliary tools,<br />
such as scissors or a knife, to attain the contents of the<br />
pack.<br />
By introducing an exceptionally consumer-friendly<br />
opening aid, SEALPAC makes the use of additional tools<br />
redundant. With its revolutionary EasyPeelPoint system,<br />
sealed trays can now be opened without effort.<br />
With EasyPeelPoint, the peel corner within the contours<br />
of the tray. This is how it works: the top film of the pack<br />
is pressed into a round cavity in one of the tray’s corners<br />
and is thus released from the sealing edge. The system<br />
convinces due to its natural feel: the peel corner can easily<br />
be gripped, after which the top film is removed from the<br />
tray with minimum effort.<br />
To guarantee an efficient production process, the trays<br />
are equipped with two opening points that are positioned<br />
diagonally opposite each other. This makes it irrelevant<br />
in which way the trays are placed on the in-feed conveyor,<br />
thus preventing costly errors due to rotation of the trays.<br />
Also in transport and storage, the system proves its<br />
added value. EasyPeelPoint can be applied on every<br />
standard packaging format and does not intervene<br />
with the existing logistical chain. It is feasible on all<br />
common SEALPAC traysealers and toolings, without<br />
demanding costly changes to existing formats. As a result,<br />
EasyPeelPoint complies with every demand towards a userfriendly<br />
and modern opening aid.<br />
(Please note: in the last issue of CMB a photo of the<br />
EasyPeelPoint system was mistakenly included with an entry on<br />
SEALPAC’s TenderPac meat packaging solution – our apologies<br />
for any confusion this may have caused.)<br />
sealpacinternational.com<br />
Metal detection system for<br />
food industry protects both<br />
equipment and reputation<br />
The new<br />
SANICON<br />
high<br />
performance<br />
metal<br />
detection<br />
system<br />
manufactured<br />
by Niagara,<br />
New Yorkbased<br />
S+S Inspection Inc. in Niagara<br />
N.Y. is designed to meet the needs<br />
of the domestic food industry for<br />
goods-in, in-process and end of line<br />
applications. Units with standard<br />
size aperture are available for quick<br />
delivery.<br />
The risk of foreign body<br />
contamination is ever present in<br />
all manufacturing activities but<br />
it is in the food industry that the<br />
risk must be minimized, if not<br />
eliminated entirely, if productivity<br />
and profitability are to be optimized.<br />
Inspection of the packaged, finished<br />
product is almost universal to avoid<br />
any contaminated product reaching<br />
18 Canadian Meat Business September/October 2010 meatbusiness.ca
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