The first machine was installed in September 2009 and is already proving to be a resounding success.

 CWM’s Operations Director, Phil Markham said he was delighted to receive repeat business from TSC Foods.

CWM Automation worked closely with the customer to fully understand its requirements to design a machine which is both flexible and easy to use.

The new filling line will be installed in Autumn 2010 and will incorporate the automatic filling of olives, with liquid filling, film sealing and overlidding. The machines bespoke design facilitates quick and easy changeovers to different pack sizes and filling volumes using an automatic weighing & filling system.

CWM offer depositors for both wet and dry products, with or without particulates. All its depositors are meticulously designed to meet customers’ requirements. CWM depositors can be supplied as stand-alone units or integrated into existing filling lines.

A major desserts manufacturer has ordered an FD2C twin head crumb depositor, which will accurately deposit crumb at 70 fills/minute and also an FD3 – triple head fruit cocktail depositor.

A major dairy producer has recently taken delivery of a FD2C twin head crumb depositor to fit onto its existing yogurt filling line for filling crumb type products into twin-compartment containers.

 The first of the turnover units was recently installed and the customer has already placed orders for a further two units.

 CWM Technical Director, Mark Cooper commented “ This is our first exhibition and we are delighted with the amount of interest our equipment has generated. We received a large number of very positive comments and also very interesting enquiries from some of the UK’s major food and dairy producers to follow up”.

 Justification for the adoption of an Allen-Bradley based servo motor approach has been vindicated with truly astounding performance figures CWM Automation is now able to achieve.

Del Monte, York has just awarded CWM Automation a contract to supply its latest Bulk Filling Lines for a range of salads products. The new lines will be specifically designed and built to Del Monte’s exact requirements, enabling them to automate the process and improve production. The new lines will be installed in Autumn 2009.

TSC Foods invests to expand its Retail Facility

Task:  to develop a fast & efficient packaging machine for measuring and filling plastic pots with a premium soup product endorsed by one of the world’s most famous chefs.

Solution:  CWM200R – 4 impression 12 station rotary filling and lidding machine with an anticipated production speed of between 100 and 120 pots/minute (dependant on product type)

Benefits:  Ease of integration – reliable product with low maintenance cost – low energy cost – increased productivity

TSC Foods has made a significant investment to increase filling capacity in its retail facility.  The new filling machine from CWM Automation can fill and seal soup and sauce at up to 120 packs per minute.  This will support the drive to increase sales into the grocery channel.

The new filling machine has been tailored to TSC’s exacting requirements.  The machine includes many innovations to achieve efficiency gains and improve quality.

Carl Baxter, TSC Foods Factory Manager said “We looked at how we could meet demand for our range of retail products, including the growth that we are seeing from increased distribution of the GLORIOUS! range of soup and sauce into the major multiple grocers.  We selected CWM Automation because of its service and quality, and its innovative can-do attitude.  This fits with the TSC Foods ethos.”

Customer success story:  Rockwell Automation

CWM Automation’s cleverly designed CWM200R uses advanced automation to package GLORIOUS! soup at a prodigious rate.  The CWM200R is set to rewrite the rule books when it comes to volumetric filling and dispensing rates – thanks in part to Rockwell Automation’s advanced automation equipment.  A number of different approaches have been tried in the past, including servo pneumatics and simple mechanical systems.  In the case of pneumatics the inertia and smoothness of movement was too erratic and the mechanical approach did not offer the flexibility to modify the process as required by the customer.

Justification for the adoption of an Allen-Bradley based servo motor approach has been vindicated with truly astounding performance figures CWM Automation is now able to achieve.

Sinclair Animal & Household Care Automates its Fish Food Line

Task: To design & build a fully automated weighing, filling and closing machine capable of packaging fish food into various sizes of pot.

Solution: The RFS 10-2 – a fully automated 10 station twin-pocket rotary star wheel type machine capable of filling 5 different pot sizes at a maximum of 60 pots/min dependant upon pot size/type.

Benefits:  Fully automated process – increased productivity – less product waste -  savings in labour costs – interchangeable pot sizes & weights

Sinclair Animal & Household Care (SAHC) chose CWM Automation Ltd to design and build a bespoke weighing, filling & packaging fish flake machine for its Gainsborough site.  The new 10 station twin-pocket rotary machine is designed and built to SAHC’s specific requirements and is based on integrated “stations”.  The product infeed station consists of a vibratory hopper with a bucket elevator on a gantry with steps which feeds into the weigh station.  A variable speed rotary table feeds onto a conveyor to transport the pots down to the filling and sealing machine.

The machine includes technological innovations to control the weight of this extremely light & variable product incorporating the latest hi-tech multi-head weigher.  To take account of the varying pot heights a servo adjustable loading platform was used to assist the transfer of pots into and out of the filling & closing stations.