Bechtel is equipped with SIG-solutions

Signs point to change at Ger­man pri­vate dairy Bech­tel in Schwarzen­feld (Bavaria). Although the milk mar­ket in Europe is high­ly com­pet­i­tive, the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to grow and has set its goals for the future, increas­ing pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty at its new pro­duc­tion facil­i­ty to offer its prod­ucts in var­i­ous pack­ag­ing for­mats. With solu­tions from SIG, Bech­tel con­sid­ers itself well equipped in terms of qual­i­ty, effi­cien­cy and for­mat flex­i­bil­i­ty and pro­duc­tion has already start­ed using new SIG fill­ing machines. The first prod­ucts have been on the mar­ket since the begin­ning of the year.
Effi­cien­cy, flex­i­bil­i­ty and dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion are key issues in the dairy indus­try and this not only applies to prod­uct prepa­ra­tion, but also to the type of pack­ag­ing and fill­ing tech­nol­o­gy used.
Alfred Gürster, Head of Pro­duc­tion and Tech­nol­o­gy at Bech­tel com­ment­ed: “If you want to be suc­cess­ful in the dairy mar­ket today, you have to deliv­er high qual­i­ty, pro­duce prof­itably yet and be equal­ly flex­i­ble. We there­fore chose SIG to equip our new pro­duc­tion plant, as the com­pa­ny has the right solu­tions to bring our prod­ucts quick­ly and pre­cise­ly to retail shelves, in a way that meets the demands of the mar­ket. Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion and con­ve­nience both play deci­sive and impor­tant roles.” With each of the new SIG fill­ing machines, Bech­tel can fill both com­biblocMi­di and comb­i­fit­Mi­di in three dif­fer­ent volumes.
Alfred Gürster con­tin­ued: “We need a part­ner who under­stands the spe­cial fea­tures of our indus­try and who is able to tai­lor its prod­ucts and ser­vices to our require­ments. In this respect, we feel we are in the best hands at SIG. The cus­tomized line con­fig­u­ra­tion includes, among oth­er things, a han­dle appli­ca­tor that com­bines filled packs in tray for­ma­tions of 2x3. This solu­tion offers fur­ther growth poten­tial for our business.”

Thomas Nygren, Key Account Man­ag­er at SIG: “SIG is on an excit­ing jour­ney: Our aim is to devel­op inno­v­a­tive solu­tions for a rapid­ly chang­ing soci­ety. We can only achieve this goal in trust­ing part­ner­ships. That’s why we are pleased to wel­come anoth­er well-known dairy as a cus­tomer. Togeth­er with Bech­tel we look for­ward to a suc­cess­ful future.”

1,600 milk pro­duc­ers deliv­er their prod­ucts to the pri­vate dairy Bech­tel, who process­es over 1 mil­lion kilo­grams of milk every day. Bech­tel prod­ucts are avail­able in 27 countries.