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Production Technology Continued from page 41 To minimize labor, Heat and Control offers the Ishida Flexible Strip-Pack system, which automatically puts bags of snacks on ready-to-display hanging strips. “They’re putting six bags on a strip and their sales people are putting them in places where they couldn’t sell product before as an impulse by a channel like Home Depot or Lowe’s where you normally don’t sell a bag of potato chips,” Almond says. “You can hang a strip on an aisle or in a convenience store by the check-out stand where consumers can make a last-minute impulse purchase. It’s a good opportunity for customers to get new product trials in places where people look for new products.” In the end, innovation doesn’t always have to involve something revolutionarily new. “Nine times out of 10, our processes are not new,” Stanford says. “It is just how those processes are integrated into the machinery. As you look at the machines Editor’s Note: For more information on these companies and the latest developments in automation and technology, visit www.snackandbakery.com and check out our new online Buyer’s Guide. While you’re at it, see the new online digital edition of our magazine as well. Advertorial Side Entry Presents Extra Plant Options Kansas City, Mo.-based MAC Equipment introduced SEntry, a side-entry horizontal cartridge ﬁlter specially designed for nonconﬁned space entry and low headroom applications. Side entry provides easy and fast maintenance, eliminate the need for a ladder and/or safety cage and can be explosion vented through the roof without increasing the cross sectional area of the ﬁlter can. The ﬁlter elements can be changed in as little as 15 minutes and extra access doors provide quick entry for speedy cleaning and ﬁnal inspection. Additionally, the rectangular envelope-style cartridge design minimizes product retention, allowing for higher air-tocloth ratios than typical round cartridges. The ﬁlter elements approach HEPA standards, ﬁltering extremely ﬁne materials d such as powdered sugars and starches. The ﬁlter cartridge elements are available in both .05 and one meter lengths. The SEntry can be manufactured in 304 SS, 316 SS and carbon steel with food grade epoxy thus meeting all foodgrade and nutriceutical-grade requirements. Plus suppression systems and ﬂameless venting are also NFPA compliant options. For more information, contact MAC Equipment at www.macequipment.com or 1-800-821-2476. Editor’s Note: MAC Equipment supplied the information for this article. 42 Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - DECEMBER 2008 www.snackandbakery.com Photo courtesy of Heat and Control today, it is not a new process, but new, more reliable technologies and the integration of those technologies that allow bakers to accomplish their goals more efﬁciently and effectively. Our goal is to provide practical technologies, which can give them better returns on their investment.” In other words, snack food and wholesale bakery companies need to rely on innovation and integration to develop systems that are designed to run a variety of packaging formats, but still ﬁt the process to a T. SF&WB http://www.snackandbakery.com http://www.macequipment.com http://www.snackandbakery.com

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