Riggs Autopack Depositor helps Drunken

Sailor out of a jam

Drunken Sailor Canning Co. is a small food business located in Western Sydney.

For the past 8 years, Drunken Sailor has been experimenting with various unique flavour combinations to create delicious jams, relishes, dukkah and mustards.

Originally established as a side hustle operating from the home of business owner Justin Arnoux, Drunken Sailor is now a HACCP accredited manufacturer, with a small dedicated team of staff creating a quality range of small batch products which are available to retail and food service customers.

During a site visit to discuss Drunken Sailor’s automation requirements, Kaye Cooper from HBM (who represent Riggs Autopack in Australia) established that a Model 1000 depositor with direct feed system would solve many of her client’s challenges with regards to safety, product wastage and overall output.

Mr. Arnoux promptly ordered a Series 3 semi-automatic filler which connects directly to Drunken Sailor’s 300L cooking kettle, meaning that manual loading of a product hopper is not required.

Thanks to the high quality Stainless Steel which Riggs uses on all contact parts, their range of Model 1000 depositors and Transfer Pumps can handle liquid and semi-liquid products up to 120°C making them ideal for hot-fill applications where maintaining high temperature during the filling process is critical.

Currently operating manually with a foot pedal, the Drunken Sailor piston filler draws product straight from the kettle and doses product cleanly and accurately into a variety of containers.  Future automation at Drunken Sailor will see the depositor operating over a conveyor to further streamline production and provide labour savings.

Due to the depositor’s clever design and user-friendly operation, it was able to be self-commissioned, however help was never far away in the form of HBM’s service team.

Since the installation, Arnoux has been singing the praises of his new depositor, reporting immediate benefits:

• Better temperature control from cooking to filling
• Elimination of burn risks to the operator
• Reduced product wastage
• Improved cleaning times
• Decreased labour hours

Drunken Sailor are enjoying the flexibility offered by their Model 1000 depositor, using the interchangeable piston barrels and cut-off valves supplied with the depositor, which cater for all their container formats and fill weights, including 40g breakfast jars, 260g jars and 2.4kg food service buckets.

For more information regarding Riggs Autopack filling machines and food grade Transfer Pumps, please contact HBM:

Sydney                Kaye Cooper                 Ph +61 2 8814 3100     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Melbourne           Darren Shapter              Ph +61 3 9646 3153     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

www.hbm.com.au

Riggs Auotpack is represented in Oceania by HBM Plastics & Packaging Technologies Pty Ltd