Marc, production director of Leroux Dairy in Switzerland, pinched the edge of the broken packaging film, and his brows wrinkled into the folds of the Alps-this old production line that has been in service for ten years is exposing organic fresh cheese worth millions of euros to microbial threats. What's more difficult is that the board of directors requires that the new equipment must be put into production before Christmas, leaving only 45 days for technical transformation.
After comparing the plans of six countries, Marc's team finally turned their attention to Hefei, China. Ply-pack engineers retrieved the European material database overnight and found that the company's cheese packaging had three major pain points: curved products are prone to air gaps, the damage rate of cold chain transportation is high, and the EU aseptic standard has been upgraded. The technical team proposed a combination of "modular transformation + cross-border delivery", using the existing production line skeleton to replace the core unit to avoid the time loss of disassembly and assembly of the whole machine.
"This is the 17th time you have overturned the airtightness plan!" Marc pointed to the real-time test screen in the video conference. The ply-pack engineer switched the three-dimensional model silently, and suddenly rotated the packaging module 180 degrees: "What if the nitrogen is filled from the bottom in reverse flow?" The Swiss side was silent for a moment, and ten minutes later, the laboratory data came: the residual air gap dropped from 3.2% to 0.7%. This cross-time zone collaboration that lasted 23 days eventually gave birth to an intelligent scheduling system with gyroscope correction function.
When the first batch of equipment was shipped from the Hefei Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Marc's anxiety shifted to the transportation link: How can precision instruments withstand the bumps of China-Europe land transportation? The ply-pack logistics team offered a "zero loss transportation" plan. Special containers loaded with sensors transmit temperature and humidity data every two hours, and automatically trigger liquid nitrogen buffer devices when encountering extreme road conditions. When the equipment arrived in Geneva, the transportation loss rate was shown as 0.05%, 20 times lower than the contractual value.
During the most intense transformation phase, Chinese and Swiss engineers set up camp beds next to the production line. The modular transformation plan of ply-pack was very effective: the original conveyor belt was transformed into the "nerve endings" of the intelligent scheduling system, and the newly installed aseptic packaging module was accurately inserted into the track like a Lego block. When the first box of cheese was nitrogen-sealed at -4°C, Marc stared at the microbial indicators on the real-time monitoring screen and suddenly said in Chinese: "Wochao!" - This Swiss man didn't know that his pronunciation happened to coincide with the birthplace of the technological breakthrough.
Today, two sets of data are scrolling on the homepage of Leroux Dairy's official website: the average daily production capacity has increased by 40%, and the customer complaint rate has returned to zero. Marc's team is jointly developing an adaptation plan for degradable packaging film with ply-pack. The laser microporous technology under test has been able to reduce the thickness of the film material by 28%. From the foothills of the Alps to the shore of Chaohu Lake, this intelligent production line is rewriting the industry snow line of global dairy packaging.
