AUSPACK 2015: next gen processing equipment to go on show

The next generation of processing machinery is shaping up to become a major focus at next year's AUSPACK in Melbourne, according to organisers.

tna Australia, Heat and Control, Walls Machinery, Krones and JL Lennard are returning in 2015, and international processing companies such as Daxner Pacific, Lothar A.Wolf Speizialmaschinen, as well as first time exhibitors Viking Food Solutions and Summit Machinery, will also be exhibiting next year.

Viking Food Solutions specialises in vacuum packaging equipment and materials, dip tanks, shrink packaging, tray sealers, trays, and film and food labels for fresh and processed meat, poultry, seafood, dairy and other chilled food products.

Stuart Mead, director of Viking Food Solutions, says that the “first impression is the last impression and that in a rapidly growing economy, no one understands this better than owners in the food industry".

Viking Food Solutions will be demonstrating a broad range of solutions on its stand including the A-MAPS Tray Sealer, the Viking XG 680 Automatic Tray Sealer, the Viking 1020, 250 and 423 Vacuum Packers, the Viking Dip Tank 66 and the Viking Planus Hamburger Machine.

“The Viking Automatic Hamburger machine is designed to be used in the manufacture of many different shaped burger patties; all to a uniform size and weight. The Viking XG 680 Automatic Tray Sealer is an inline tray sealer suitable for MAP packing of a large range of products such as cold cuts, meats, poultry, cheese, fresh pasta and ready meals. These are just two of the solutions that we will have on our stand at AUSPACK 2015,” Mead says.

Summit Machinery, also a first time exhibitor, is active in the vegetable, salad, cheese, meat and nut industries across Australia and New Zealand, with its own range of salad washers, spin dryers, trim tables, conveyors, elevators and ancillary equipment.

It also represents FAM (Belgium) size reduction machinery, (dicers, slicers, shredders), Stumabo (Belgium) industrial machine knife manufacturers, Dofra (Holland) processing machinery for the potato, onion and capsicum and Tenrit (Germany) processing machinery for carrots.

“Summit Machinery believes that AUSPACK will be a good fit for our offerings as any company looking for new packaging solutions has to, in the first-instance, produce the product to be packed. This is where Summit excels and can offer the AUSPACK visitor a ‘one stop’ solution for all their processing equipment needs. We are planning to showcase the FAM Centris, FAM Flexifam and Tenrit solo carrot peeler on our stand as well as other processing equipment,” Julie Taylor, general manager, says. “We hope to bring a different perspective to AUSPACK.”

APPMA's AUSPACK 2015 will be held on 24-27 March at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre.