Why A Compact Unscrambler Part II

Below is the second half of an article I wrote several years ago.

Surprisingly, a little research shows that the purchasers of compact style unscramblers have their own different reasons for choosing this model.

Paul Calabretta is the Sales Engineer for Dairy Conveyor Corporation located in Huntington Beach, California. Dairy Conveyor specializes in assisting dairies in finding the right packaging solutions for their exclusive production applications. Most of their customer’s plants are located in Mexico. Paul believes that the dairy industry has unique production problems due to the evolution of the industry itself. According to Paul, “Most dairies have less space due to the way the industry evolved. These facilities started out in a small room, with one filler, filling 10 gallons per minute. When they wanted to increase their production, they had to make do with what space was available. Also, due to the limited shelf life of their products and to make distribution faster and easier, many of these dairies began in urban areas. As their business grew, so did their neighborhood. Suddenly they found themselves “land locked” with no possible room to expand.”

Paul also speculated on his theory as to the disparity in economics for the dairy industry, “A company will purchase a compact unscrambler due to its small footprint. Real estate is expensive. The economics of the dairy industry are so different than other beverages. In dairy, the cost of the raw product is much more expensive. Other beverages produce a higher gross profit compared to dairy.”

The distillery industry found other reasons to add a compact unscrambler to their production line. Buffalo Trace Distillery is located in Frankfort, KY. Their Production Manager, Richard Kerr shared his thoughts on the benefits of a compact. “The future of the distillery industry is moving more to PET containers. Bottling plants need to be prepared to meet these changes with the best machinery for these new containers. We used to have two separate machines to unscramble and clean our glass bottles. We now have a compact unscrambler that is capable of handling an abundance of bottles. It has an ionized air cleaner integrated into the machine. This accomplishes two tasks at once, and saves us the space of a second machine.”

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.