ILAPAK has supported Devonvale Bakery throughout its journey from start-up to a multi-million pound business, specifying reliable and future-proof flow wrapping solutions that have enabled the cake & cereal barproducer to match capacity with demand. The latest investment has seen Devonvale more than double its line speed by making the step up from manual cutting and feeding to a seamless automated workflow with ILAPAK’s modular Carrera 1000 at its core.
Keith Upham, managing director of Devonvale Bakery, says: “Flow wrappers can be rather temperamental. They like consistency, which is what this automated solution has provided. Thanks to the new flow wrapper and automated infeed and cutting systems, our packaging operation is far more efficient, the quality and appearance of the packaged product is much improved and our staff are benefitting from a more pleasant and less stressful working environment.”
Devonvale Bakery purchased its first ILAPAK flow wrapper, which was the entry level Carrera 500, in 2004, to wrap its hand baked flapjacks, cakes, shortbreads and other traybakes into individual portions.
