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Sternmaid: Blending, filling, packaging –an all-round
service from a single source
The contract manufacturer SternMaid will be introducing itself as an expert in
blending, optimising and filling food ingredients and supplements in powder form.
Premixes, trial blends or sensitive applications – when it comes to compounding
powders, the company can rely on comprehensive know-how and the latest
technical equipment. In co-packing, the focus this year will be on retail packs and
the new option of filling products into stand-up pouches. Besides its technical
solutions, SternMaid will also present its wide spectrum of services.
In food production, blending is often one of the key stages of the process and
plays a crucial role in the quality of the end product. SternMaid is in an
excellent position to carry out customer orders of this kind and subsequently fill
the powders into many of the usual retail packs. Moreover, the contract
manufacturer offers the entire service chain, including purchase of the raw
waterials, packaging, warehousing and delivery – all from one source. Customers can either take
advantage of the whole package or choose individual modules, according to their needs.
Extended co-packing offer
In order to respond even more flexibly to customers’ wishes, SternMaid invested in a Doypack line at the
beginning of this year. That means the co-packing service provider can now fill products like dry beverage
bases, superfoods, dietetic drinks in powder form or products for athletes into ready-made stand-up pouches,
with or without a zipper, and three- or four-edge seal bags. Besides retail packs, industrial containers such as
sacks, fibreboard boxes, drums or FIBCs can be filled, too.
Contract blending
For contract blending, the company has three lines for small and medium-size orders between 100 and
10,000kg and four other lines for large quantities over ten tonnes. Allergen-free foods and other sensitive
products can be processed on a counter-current container blending line in a separate section of the plant.
Moreover, liquid components can be sprayed onto the powder homogenously on all the lines through special
nozzles. Microcomponents like flavourings, oils and emulsifiers and even highly viscous liquids can be dispersed
evenly in this way. ■
www.sternmaid.de/en
Arla Foods Ingredients: Whey protein’s role in ‘Nutrition For Life’
Arla Foods Ingredients will unveil a campaign called ‘Nutrition For Life’.
Arla Foods Ingredients will showcase how whey protein delivers
important health benefits to people at all stages of life, from
babies and toddlers, through to seniors. The new campaign places
a particular focus on applications in paediatrics, health foods and
medical nutrition.
Taking centre-stage will be innovative whey-based ingredient
solutions created for the complementary feeding and blood
sugar control categories. The new concepts will highlight the
potential for developing products that provide excellent taste,
convenience and nutrition at different life stages.
Stand
08.0C41
Manel Romeu Bellés, Marketing Manager at Arla Foods
Ingredients, said: “Whey’s unique selling point is that it can be
used to create ingredients that support consumer health from
infancy to adulthood and right through to retirement and
beyond. Food manufacturers are in the perfect position to harness this strength, and help
consumers manage their health with tasty products made with whey-based ingredients that deliver targeted
nutritional needs at each life stage. At FIE 2017, through Nutrition For Life, we will be telling the stories about
how this can be done using our portfolio of high quality whey protein ingredients.” ■
www.arlafoodingredients.com
www.foodmagazine.eu.com issue four | 2017