Post Freezer Product Orientation & Laning
Packaging for Heat & Eat | Heat & Serve | Convenience Meals
Introducing Garvey’s Product Solution for Frozen and Refrigerated Food Production
We understand the unique challenges faced by food production companies in ensuring that meals and food items are properly oriented and single-filed after coming out of a flash, blast, shock, tunnel, or spiral freezers. Our latest product solution is designed to streamline this process, making it easier for companies to transition to the next stage of packaging, whether it’s applying branded cardboard sleeves or loading items into multipack containers.
Key Features & Benefits
Precision Orientation: Ensures meals and food items are perfectly aligned for the next packaging stage.
- 3D Chute – Unique to Garvey’s process, enables passive orientation
- Passive or Non-Contact Orientation – In most cases, the orientation is handled passively without mechanical arm movement, reducing the risk of product damage. In some cases, air is used as a non-contact option to assist in product movement.
- Narrow-Edge Leading & Single-Filed – Ideal for sleeve cartoning and other packaging processes, Garvey’s equipment enables orientation with the narrow-edge leading in output.
Laning: Align products from a mass flow single source to single lanes feeding multiple upstream equipment.
Increased Efficiency: Reduces downtime and increases throughput, allowing for faster production cycles.
Versatility: Suitable for a wide range of products, from heat and eat mashed potatoes and mac and cheese to delicate bakery items like cupcakes, pastries and seasonal treats.
Durability: Built to withstand the rigors of industrial food production environments.
Industry Applications
Frozen Meals
Ideal for companies with frozen and refrigerated heat-and-eat offerings (including refrigerated sides like mashed potatoes) or frozen meals (like single serve meal options), ensuring their products are ready for the next packaging stage.
Delicate Bakery Items
Frozen Meal Orientation
This system was designed with the 3D infinity™ Series Accumulator to accumulate and orient individual frozen meal packages.
Frozen Meal Tray Accumulation
The customer required one system to accumulate both round bowls and rectangular trays for frozen meals.
Bagel Cooling & Accumulation
This accumulation system provides a buffering step between bagels exiting a cooler and being collected for packaging.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of food items can Garvey’s Cold Room solution handle?
Our solution is versatile and can handle a wide range of food items, including frozen meals, refrigerated trays, and delicate bakery items.
How does this solution improve efficiency?
By ensuring precise orientation and single-filing of food items, our solution reduces downtime and increases throughput, leading to faster production cycles.
Is Garvey’s solution compatible with existing packaging equipment?
Yes, our solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with most existing packaging equipment, making it easy to implement without significant modifications.
What are the maintenance requirements for Garvey’s Cold Room solution?
Our solution is built for durability and requires minimal maintenance, ensuring long-term reliability and performance.
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