CASE STUDY: FOOD PROCESSING

CHALLENGE Our customer, who is a major food product manufacturer, contacted Bernal due to life issues they have been experiencing on their production food processing equipment. With high volumes required daily and uptime being extremely important, losing production and having to replace and buy new rotary tooling every 4 – 6 weeks was an issue for the customer. That is when they asked Bernal to design and build them a die that will accurately cut their product and extend die life to eliminate as much downtime as possible.

SOLUTION RESULTS Bernal’s experienced engineering and manufacturing After meeting the customers requested completion teams visited the customers location to inspect date, Bernal manufactured and successfully installed and analyze the issue and equipment. After reverse a high precision rotary die at the client’s location. After engineering the food processing equipment and 4- 6 weeks of production, the customer was now working alongside the customers engineers, we were getting 4x times the die life with improved cut quality. able to incorporate our dies into their existing process This eliminated their downtime and die life issue, with added rigidity and precision. Bernal stood behind which resulted in producing more product, saving the the tooling and guaranteed the customer 16 weeks customer time and money. of die life before the tool would need to be repaired or replaced.

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Bernal performance is the benchmark for high-speed rotary die-cutting and has established a new standard for inline - and converting. Bernal’s full line of rotary dies (RP© Dies, Fusion, Flexible Plate and Crush Cut Dies) and Rotary Die Cutting Modules combined with it’s advanced product and packaging automation equipment, offer a unique system solution for a wide variety of applications. The web-fed converting equipment we design and manufacture is for you, your needs, your facility- -not someone else’s. When you call Bernal, we talk about your goals and what you need to reach them. Then, we design, manufacture and ship your customized converting equipment quickly and cost effectively. Whether your company makes medical products, packaging, automotive parts, aseptic & liquid packaging, lead acid batteries, snack foods or general consumer products and goods, ask Bernal how we can help you.

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