MercaSID Launches "Plum Cake" with a Packaging Line from Schib
Jun 25, 2015
MercaSID is a Dominican company, dedicated to offering the best products for family, home and industry. Founded in Santo Domingo in 1937 as SID – Sociedad Industrial Dominicana – a company committed to producing vegetable cooking oils, through the years it expanded its array of offerings by introducing new varieties of oils, margarine and detergents. MercaSID S.A. started in 1999 when SID merged with large Dominican food producing company, Mercalia, S.A.
Currently, the company is in partnership with leading global market brands and its portfolio includes a variety of goods across several industries such as agri-industrial products, citrus fruits, cattle & meat product processing, water processing, and floriculture.
As the business continues to grow, MercaSID has decided to launch “Plum Cake” as a new product to complement its existing range. The company has just recently bought and started up a brand new Plum Cake processing line, at the end of which it has installed a state-of-the-art automatic “Plum Cake” packaging line from Schib, a Hayssen Flexible System company.
Ms Ligia Bonetti Du-Breil, CEO of MercaSID, and Mr Osvaldo González, Purchasing Manager, have found BW Flexible Systems' Schib HFFS equipment brand to be the most reliable partner for them in light of the brand's proven expertise in the bakery industry.
BW Flexible Systems Schib brand team members said, “We have been proud to support MercaSID with this new project in the bakery field and we are excited about the growth in their market share”.
The Schib automatic packaging line at MercaSID is capable of running up to 300 packs per minute.
It features a tilting system for the distribution of the incoming rows of products. This module, which comes complete with a product aligning system, deals with separating, aligning and distributing the Plum Cake rows that arrive from the processing line. After this station, a suitable conveying system that includes a 90° curve moves the Plum Cakes towards an electronic in-line feeder which regulates the product flow and feeds a servo-driven flow wrapper. A Rockwell Allen-Bradley platform controls the entire packaging cycle.