While silver traditionally shines brightly during anniversaries
marking 25 years of accomplilshment, true-blue is the steadfast
color of consistent consonance that got BluePRint Automation (BPA)
to where it is today. There are many reasons for its success, which
has been built on a rock-solid raison d'etre of customer service
that is shared by every engineer, designer, fabricator, assembler,
salesman and office worker in the 200-person organization.
"We are driven by the belief that the customer is always right,"
said Bob Prakken, the entrepreneurial industrial engineer who founded
Holland-headquartered BPA. "Our first job is to appreciate
and understand what our client wants. Then we make sure that every
step taken or application made is part of a total process that delivers
desired results. Everything starts with an order, and satisfied
customrs lead to more orders."
The company has long been in the forefront of designing and manufacturing
flexible bag handling systems that are built to last and deliver
lasting cost savings to food processors. Once their product is "in
the bag"BPA's modular machines pick up the pace to move it
safely and securely into the box.
Since 1980 BluePrint Automation has delivered more than 2,000 end-of-line
solutions to food manufacturers, makers of pharmaceuticals, powders
and other products distributed in pillow, block-bottom, wrap-around,
doypack and four-sided seal bags. BPA's installations span the globe,
from high-volume frozen french fry factories in North America and
Europe to vegetable processing plants in the Benelux, from snack
food factories in Mexico to cookie and cracker bakeries in Argentina,
and from potato chip manufacturing plants in Japan to cheese production
facilities in Australia.
BluePrint Automation's client list reasds like a "Who's Who"
in the international food industry, and alook at the BPA product
line illustrates why this is so. The catalog runs the gamut from
automatic gravity feed and vertical packers, to horizontal packers,
Smart-Trak high-speed pocketed collation systems for integration
with robotic pick and place case packers, robotic FlexPickers, semi-automatic
bag collators, automatic case erectors, crate loaders, industrial
PC control systems, PFI automatic seal testers, the Swing Machine
robotic case packing system for horizontal and vertical loading
of cases, and more.
"We start where the film is cut. As soon as a bag drops from
the vertical form-fill-seal machine, we take over. Everything that
goes on from there to the pallet is our responsibility, " state
Chairman Prakken as he explained the functionality of BluePrint
Automation's modular gravity case-packer (MGC) for horizontally
placed products. The system, designed especially as a workhorse
for handling heavy items such as broccoli florets, french fries
and candy, integrates a number o fcomponents to assure highly efficient
loading of bagged product into master cartons and other secondary
containers that protect contents during warehousing and shiment
to retail stores and foodservice outlets. Throughput in excess of
150 bags per minute is possible. (To
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For more information contact:
Robbie Quinlin
Phone: 804-520-5400
E-Mail: robbie.quinlin@blueprintautomation.com
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