Lutosa invests in Burgmetaal lifting tools to facilitate handling of VFFS bag forming shoulders

Belgian metalworking specialist Burgmetaal has installed 20 lifting systems at Potato Processing company Lutosa to facilitate the handling and exchange of the (bag) forming shoulders for the VFFS packaging machines.

Potato Processing company Lutosa - a McCain Foods subsidiary - installed the lifting systems last year in both Lutosa production locations (Leuze-en-Hainaut and Saint-Eloois-Vijve).

Lorenzo Debels, Lutosa:

“The first systems were installed just over a year ago. The employees needed a bit of a transitional period to get used to it. Our people were under the impression that it would take them a bit longer to use the machines, compared to doing it manually, as they did before.”

“Everything is running smoothly now, and they have got used to it.”

Satisfied

According to Lorenzo, the decision to go with Burgmetaal was easily made.

Lorenzo Debels:

“We know they also have other potato and vegetable processing companies as customers, and that they supply good machines to them. They are specialists in their field, after all.”

“A system to lift bags can be bought from various organisations, but the challenge lies in supplying it in such a manner that it has the correct safety degrees (manoeuvrability opportunities), and a special fork to remove the forming shoulder from the machine. Yet it does not matter which brand of packing machine it is: they can all be operated by the manipulator from Burgmetaal.”

“The beautiful thing is that these are constructed in such a way that they can handle small and large forming shoulders. The people of Burgmetaal have measured everything on the spot, we validated the drawings together, and installed the lifting systems. Practically nothing has been changed afterwards either, so we are very satisfied.”