Gaining more from less at a faster rate while maintaining quality standards will make businesses much more manageable. There has been a shift in global food and beverage brands’ approach where they are looking to decentralize their production to produce a higher number of different products in lower volumes. This calls for higher flexibility from the available machinery and equipment. On the other hand, the packaging volume is increasing because the packaging size is getting smaller. Hence the demand for machines with ultimate precision for high volumes is gaining traction. In this race to gain an advantage over the competition by achieving more from less, businesses are looking for help from experienced companies like Berhalter that have a proven record of delivering high levels of business impact through their innovative die-cutting offerings.

For more than 60 years, Widnau (Switzerland)-based Berhalter has stayed true to its core value of innovation and inspiration. “We are a globally active company and one of the leading suppliers of intelligent die cutting solutions primarily for the food packaging industry,” says Dalibor Schuman, Managing Director die cutting and Member of the Board, Berhalter. The company offers a range of die-cutting tools for a sustainable packaging solution in the food, beverage, pet care and pharma market. These products are developed according to their customer demand of increasing productivity and decreasing production cost, which is essential to every development/upgrade in Berhalter’s machines or infrastructure.

Berhalter has developed die-cutting tools that have catered to complex packaging required in today’s market. The company has a wide range of technologies that can be customized for the production needs of each customer.

We are a globally active company and one of the leading suppliers of intelligent diecutting solutions primarily for the food packaging industry

Since the company has been in the die-cutting space for more than six decades, the experience helps identify how to increase the efficiency and productivity of the product that the customer wishes to produce. As a result, Berhalter can help its customers with the right set of tools and machinery and monitor the whole production process to enable and support the customer at each stage.

In this regard, Berhalter has developed an IIOT platform called CUTcontrol. This platform monitors the productivity and efficiency of die-cutting machines and helps in performing predictive and preventive maintenance. It provides an infrastructure to collect and manage data streams from machines and their key performance indicators. In addition, the company also offers a range of Swiss Die Cutters like B350/ B500 and B6 and Swiss Die Cutting Tools like Swiss Die Pro and Swiss Die Ultimate.

“We have die cutting machines with the highest speed, performance and output to the market,” says Schuman. “Combined with a perfect supply chain, we give more possibilities to the customer to be successful in future with all the challenges from the market than any other company in the die cutting industry.” The company has also developed BEAMstack, intelligent packaging robotics that can separate the die-cut stacks into the desired number of pieces and package them into blisters.

Berhalter has been able to cater to the changing packaging needs of the customers from Europe and the U.S. The automation tools and robotics offered can connect up to three machines to be operated just by only one person. This means that the customers can save up to six operators in the case of three-shift operations. In this way, Berhalter has been able to help its customers reduce their operating costs while improving the efficiency and productivity of the production environment and providing innovative automation and packaging solutions.