Salad tray line

A high speed tray packing line that gives all round branding and requires minimum change parts to handle cut salad and bulky produce in a wide range of different pack sizes has been developed by Italian manufacturer PFM.

Fed with fresh produce such as lettuce leaves immediately from the washing plant, the weigher has been developed for leaves and similar bulky produce, with double opening bucket flaps and a more powerful design of vibratory feeding system.

It sits above a carousel, which indexes to carry the trays below the discharge point and top pressing stations where the leaves are lightly tamped down into the trays before wrapping. An internal dehumidifier within the weigher counters condensation.

The wrapper is a PFM Mistral, equipped with a long dwell sealing system to provide high integrity gas-tight seals at elevated speeds.