The installation is helping the Real Yorkshire Pudding Company to increase its production line efficiencies.
Based in Thorne, the Real Yorkshire Pudding Company supplies chilled and frozen Yorkshire puddings to leading retailers, including Waitrose, Tesco and Morrisons.
With around 1.5 million Yorkshire puddings coming off the line each week the company needed a printer applicator machine to improve productivity at the final packing stage.
Replacing manual labelling on its secondary packaging line, the Vulcan prints and applies onto the company’s outer cases.
This has resulted in savings of around 4 to 5 hours in production time and is also enabling The Real Yorkshire Pudding Company to achieve significant waste reductions as it now prints only the labels it needs in real time.
In addition, the new system allows the use-by date to be incorporated into the product barcode, enabling more information to be added to the outer box.
Paul Holmes, managing director of Real Yorkshire Pudding Company, said other coding systems didn’t live up to the high levels of output needed.
“These machines all offered a supposedly low cost solution but the reliability just wasn’t there.”
This resulted in a much higher output of 100 packs per minute, on a long pack approximately 450mm long. The company now has additional Zodiac HS machines fitted to flow wrap machines, as well as one fitted to a Sandiacre VFFS Bag Maker.
