In addition to molding its own delicious brand of chocolate products, the company also provides contract packaging services for a variety of customers.  Recently, a valued customer experienced a surge in demand for one of its sugar-free chocolate lines, and Gertrude Hawk needed to increase production speeds.  The chocolate maker needed to produce 240 pieces of chocolate per minute, a task that proved to be difficult for Gertrude Hawk's previous packaging capabilities.  As a result, the company turned to Bosch Packaging Technology to update its factory infrastructure with one new machine integrated with existing equipment.

Loading by Hand
Prior to automating with Bosch's equipment in-house, Gertrude Hawk originally had a long conveyor belt with assemblers loading product into a flow wrapper by hand.  However because of the low speed , the company found it challenging to meet scheduled delivery dates for its customers.  In the fall of 2008, Gertrude Hawk worked with Bosch to retrofit a two-arm Delfi feed placer to the company's existing Linium 301 horizontal flow wrapper from Bosch.  When consumer demand for the sugar-free chocolate rose, Bosch answered the call and got the machines connected to one another within two months.

The combination of the new feed placer with the existing horizontal flow wrapper allowed Gertrude Hawk's shift manager to...

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 Sweet Upgrade for Premium Chocolate Maker: Gertrude Hawk Automates Production for Sugar Free Demand

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Rich Young
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rich.young@bosch.com