Meat

Companies of all sizes within the meat industry agree that one of the key advantages of Rhino products is their exceptional durability in cool process rooms and coolstores, even at temperatures as low as -40°C.

The impact strength of Low Density Polyethyele (LDPE) reduces the damage to the Rhino products during processing and transportation in cool stores.   Furthermorem all Rhino products are able to be manufactured in material that conforms to the standards set by regulatory bodies worldwide.

Case Study - The custom-design and manufacture of food-grade pallets for Greenlea Meats

Greenlea Meats is a New Zealand-owned meat processor, based in the Waikato, who has developed an international reputation for the quality of  their products. 

Greenlea Meats’ customers include McDonald’s New Zealand and large supermarkets in Asia, Europe and North America.

Greenlea Meats had invested in a new state-of-the-art meat processing and packaging plant that automates much of the packing and picking processes. It wanted to replace all of its timber pallets with plastic pallets - however there was not a suitable product available in the market that satisfied all the Greenlea’s requirements.

Rotaform was chosen to work with Greenlea managers to design and manufacture a custom-made pallet that fitted the physical specifications, budget and timeframe.

One of the particularly challenging requirements was that the pallet needed to be strong enough to hold 1000kg on edge racking with only the outside 50mm of the pallet was supported on only two sides.

Rotaform designed a pallet that consisted of 7 beams which were fixed together after the moulding process to create an extremely stiff structure. In the event of an accident, this design allowed the Greenlea management only change one beam rather than replace an entire pallet.

Both Rotaform and Greenlea performed stringent internal testing to ensure the product design would perform at the desired level. Once the model testing was approved, unique tools were produced, samples manufactured and the production run was completed in time for the opening of the new high tech plant.

Key Benefits for Greenlea 

• Greenlea received a custom-made product which met all of its needs without the need to change expensive machinery.
• The LDPE ensures that even at -40^oC the product does not become brittle, therefore maintenance costs are kept to very low levels.
• Food grade material and smooth surfaces mean that Greenlea can confidently ensure all equipment complies to MAF and international regulatory body standards.