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Milo’s Tea Company Relies on ProMach Product Brands to Help with Continued Growth

What started as a small, family-owned operation, Milo’s Tea Company has since grown into a major tea empire. Milo’s Tea Company has experienced significant growth year over year, expanding into a major tea empire. With this continued growth, Milo’s production facilities rely on processing and packaging partnerships to help keep up with production goals and be flexible to change when increased production is required.

“With our growth doubling every year, we need partners and relationships that can deal with our everyday needs,” says Craig Edwards, Director of Quality Assurance at Milo’s Tea Company. Milo’s relies on three ProMach product brands to do just that, Statco-DSI, Fogg, and ID Technology.

Statco-DSI, a leader in processing line engineering & integration services, has been working with Milo’s for 20+ years, providing expert engineering services and efficient and reliable processing systems. Whether it’s the brewing, pasteurization, or process systems, Statco-DSI delivers solutions that enable Milo’s Tea Company business to grow significantly.

Fogg, a leader in bottle rinsing, filling, and capping equipment for free-flowing liquids, provides clean and reliable filling machinery at 110-120 bottles per minute for the four-gallon lines and for 20 oz and 12 oz at 260 bottles per minute. The fillers boast quick changeovers, reliability, and are easy to operate, giving operators ownership of the equipment and boosting productivity.

ID Technology, an industry leader in labeling automation, coding, and marking, provides Milo’s Tea Company systems that provide necessary label information for Milo and its customers. The labeling systems, as well as the labels, have provided a significant opportunity to support changing requirements from customers and the flexibility has proven to be a “game changer.”

These partnerships have enabled Milo’s Tea Company to grow significantly and make running the business, along with the production line, as painless as possible. “As we work with different brands within ProMach, it’s about the relationships. If we can continue to grow together and you have the understanding of what everybody needs, that’s really key for everybody involved,” adds Gary Francis, Operations Superintendent at Milos.

Watch the full video below to see how ProMach has provided those solutions and how Statco-DSI, Fogg, and ID Technology have each significantly contributed to production success at Milos Tea Company.

By the Numbers: Bottled Water and Ready-To-Drink (RTD) Beverages

Bottled water and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages like soda and flavored coffee are some of the most in-demand consumer product goods. ProMach and its product brands work with customers in the water and RTD beverage industry around the globe providing packaging solutions such as filling, capping, labeling, and much more. But not until we start adding the numbers up do we really see the magnitude of how ProMach provides the means for consumers to receive everyday necessities like water. Adding the numbers up on an annual and even daily basis can reveal some staggering statistics! So to show ProMach’s breadth of influence, we created this infographic to show how ProMach has a hand in packaging everyday consumer product goods.

A few ProMach solutions are shown here. ProMach product brands Stock and Allpax are leaders in retort and sterilizing equipment for products like coffee with dairy and together their machinery retorts 3.6 million Frappuccino bottles per day. Additionally, ProMach product brand Axon, a leader in shrink sleeve and tamper evident band labeling, has sleevers in the field that sleeve 1.8 million coffee bottles per day. That’s a lot of coffee bottles!

ProMach product brand P.E. Labellers touts machinery worldwide labeling a whopping 5.4 million soda bottles labeled per day. And Code Tech equipment codes 850,000 soda bottles per day at customer sites.

Popular sports drinks are favorites at games and outdoor activities and 4 million of those bottles are filled per day from Fogg fillers, a ProMach product brand and leader in rinsing, filling, and capping equipment.

And of course, the ProMach influence extends to the bottled water industry, where one million cases of water are packaged per day by product brand Bartelt‘s machinery, a leader in cartoning, shrink wrapping, case packing, and tray packing systems. Additionally, a staggering 383 million water bottles are capped per day by customers using Zalkin cappers, and 1.1 million single bottle handles are applied per day by Roberts PolyPro handle applications.

When you look at the statistics, it’s remarkable the volume our customers are operating at each day to provide consumers with the essentials. And it doesn’t stop at just bottled water and beverages. Down every aisle and across every shelf, ProMach is proud to be a part of the critical industries of consumer packaged goods.

We will be featuring this monthly blog post, By the Numbers, as a series here on The Packaging Observer. Every month we will feature a different industry where ProMach product brands have a substantial influence on packaging operations.

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Can Handles for Convenient and Sturdy Carrying, at ProMach, #WeDoThat

When determining the right packaging for your craft beer, ensuring the can handles for your 4- and 6-packs are sturdy enough for customers to carry safely and securely is of utmost importance. ProMach product brand Roberts PolyPro provides Craft-Pak™ can handles that feature 30% less plastic than competitors’ handles and t-clips on each ring that holds cans securely. Craft-Pak™ can handles also feature custom color availability so your branding isn’t compromised. Read more about the features of these can handles below and head to the Roberts PolyPro website here to below to learn more about can handle applicators for easy and efficient application. Can handles for convenient and sturdy carrying, at ProMach, #WeDoThat

  • Open can ring design: Uses up to 30% less plastic than other can carriers
  • Patented T-tabs: easy can removal from carrier rings without tugging or struggling
  • Available in 32 standard colors: Provides flexibility to use a single color for all SKUs or choose different colors for each SKU to enhance differentiation
  • Over 10,000,000 custom PMS colors available: precisely match your brand colors to enhance brand building and differentiate your 4-packs and 6-packs from the crowd
  • Manufactured from HDPE # 2 plastic: 100% recyclable
  • Pre-cut 4-packs and 6-packs supplied in nested stacks: Simplifies application process, saves storage space, reduces freight costs, and offers simple can carrier handling and loading for operators
  • Multiple applicator options: Manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic models designed, manufactured, and supported by Roberts PolyPro assure a perfect match for each customer’s unique needs and budget
  • Multiple sizes available:
    • Slim (Lid x Body): 200 x 202
    • 4-Pack & 6-Pack Standard (Lid x Body): 202 x 211
    • 4-Pack & 6-Pack Sleek (Lid x Body): 202 x 204
    • 6 Pack Standard (Lid x Body): 202 x 211