Article: Wrapping up packaging benefits: five new shrink-wrapping machines at Alimentos Polar have dramatically increased packaging line efficiency and productivity.(shrink wrapping)

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Alimentos Polar (AP), a major food manufacturer and marketer in Venezuela, recently installed five shrink-wrapping machines at two of its plants. One machine is used for tomato sauce in glass bottles or metal cans at the plant in Valencia and the other four machines are used for tuna packed in four sizes of metal cans at a plant in Mariguitar. "We wanted to increase the capacity and efficiency of our packaging operations," says Nestor Uzcategui, packaging engineering manager. That included guaranteeing the quality of the product, labor optimization, more economic use of packaging material and increasing the quantity of containers on a ...

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