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Coffee Geeks Become Technology Geeks

Posted on: January 9th, 2018 by Andre Desomier No Comments

Pat Reynolds from Packaging World Reports New Technology at Barrie House.

Tin ties are the wire strips that adhere to the top of whole bean and ground coffee bags to enable the bag to be resealed. They are traditionally applied by hand but our Director of Sales and Marketing, Shay Zohar was in hot pursuit to automate the process.

The goal was to reduce labor cost and enable us to be more versatile in the type and size bags we use. Plus they stay on better!

    Learn all the scientific details in the full article: “Tin-ties Meet Automation”
    This New York coffee producer needed to automate the application of tin-tie reclosures to its bags of ground and whole-bean coffee. An ingenious and affordable machine was the result.
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