MULTIVAC Summit 2021 in April

Mid April sees the start of the sec­ond round of events, focus­ing on all aspects of food pro­cess­ing and pack­ag­ing, as part of the MULTIVAC Sum­mit 2021. On the agen­da are once again two groups of top­ics: “Exper­tise in lines and automa­tion in the pro­tein sec­tor” and “Pack­ag­ing solu­tions for fresh pro­duce and con­ve­nience prod­ucts”. All inter­est­ed cus­tomers and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the food indus­try will ini­tial­ly be able to  learn “vir­tu­al­ly” (from 12 April), and lat­er (from 26  April) in coro­na-com­pli­ant face-to-face events, about all aspects of cur­rent devel­op­ments and future trends.
As with the first sequence of events in March, the tech­ni­cal pre­sen­ta­tions and indi­vid­ual dis­cus­sions with experts, as well as the prac­ti­cal live demon­stra­tions, will take place in either the morn­ing or after­noon, ini­tial­ly as “vir­tu­al” live ses­sions. Both groups of top­ics can be com­bined with each oth­er. The loca­tion for the face-to-face events (from 26  April) is once again the new Appli­ca­tion Cen­ter or the Train­ing & Inno­va­tion Cen­ter at the Group’s head­quar­ters in Wolfertschwen­den. From May onwards, the con­tents of these ses­sions will also be avail­able on the MULTIVAC City platform.

1. Expertise in lines and automation: Proteins

The focus of this event is pri­mar­i­ly on the effi­cient pro­cess­ing and pack­ag­ing of pro­teins. The com­pa­ny will be using the exam­ple of a ful­ly auto­mat­ic line for the slic­ing and pack­ag­ing of processed cheese to demon­strate its com­pre­hen­sive exper­tise in automa­tion, and this com­plete line will be shown in live oper­a­tion. The high-out­put S 1600 slicer, which sets the bench­mark in the mar­ket with its inno­v­a­tive slic­ing tech­nol­o­gy and high lev­el of pre­ci­sion, is just one of the very effi­cient com­po­nents of the line.
The Cen­trifuge Feed­er for the auto­mat­ic load­ing of sausages will also be pre­sent­ed. It ensures that straight or even slight­ly curved sausages are aligned to the opti­mum degree, so that they can be eas­i­ly picked up by a robot and placed in the pack cavities.
The pack­ag­ing expert will also be pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion about inno­v­a­tive solu­tions for reli­able labelling and mark­ing, as well as label and print inspec­tion of the packs. The focus will be on cross web labelling and direct web printing.
MULTIVAC Line Con­trol will also demon­strate the ben­e­fits, which a cen­tral, over­ar­ch­ing line con­trol can offer in the increas­ing­ly com­plex pro­duc­tion and pack­ag­ing process. Thanks to this cen­tralised con­trol of the line, all the line mod­ules can be man­aged sim­ply and reli­ably, ensur­ing that an effi­cient prod­uct flow is achieved.

2. Solutions for fresh produce and convenience products

The focus in this sec­ond top­ic is on the pack­ag­ing of fruit, veg­eta­bles and con­ve­nience prod­ucts. How can the shelf life of del­i­cate prod­ucts be extend­ed? How can the con­sump­tion of pack­ag­ing mate­r­i­al be reduced? Which sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing con­cepts does the com­pa­ny offer specif­i­cal­ly for these prod­ucts? And how can pots and cylin­dri­cal or shaped bot­tles be labelled flex­i­bly and effi­cient­ly? These and oth­er ques­tions will be answered in pre­sen­ta­tions and live demon­stra­tions in the Train­ing & Inno­va­tion Center.

3. Additional topics for both groups

One top­ic with spe­cial rel­e­vance for vir­tu­al­ly all com­pa­nies is dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion. The expert con­trib­u­tors will use their pre­sen­ta­tions to explain, why dig­i­tal solu­tions are of such val­ue — par­tic­u­lar­ly at the cur­rent time. The focus will be direct­ed not only on cur­rent devel­op­ments in the mar­ket, but also on the range of dig­i­tal prod­ucts. In addi­tion to the cus­tomer por­tal, there is also a range of Smart Ser­vices avail­able to cus­tomers, and these make a major con­tri­bu­tion to a high lev­el of effi­cien­cy, machine avail­abil­i­ty and process reli­a­bil­i­ty. The pro­gram will be round­ed off with infor­ma­tion about after-sales sup­port, as well as with “Meet the experts” dis­cus­sions, which offer cus­tomers the oppor­tu­ni­ty of dis­cussing their indi­vid­ual ques­tions with the spe­cial­ists from the Inno­va­tion Center.

Outlook

The series of events will be con­tin­ued in the com­ing months with “Solu­tions for the meat pro­cess­ing indus­try” (TVI), “Solu­tions for small and medi­um-sized com­pa­nies or busi­ness­es pro­duc­ing hand-craft­ed prod­ucts”, as well as “Solu­tions for bak­ery com­pa­nies” (FRITSCH).