Automatic foil unpacking system for cheese
Streamline your cheese production with cutting-edge technology designed to replace manual unpacking. This fully automatic system ensures a hygienic, efficient process for handling and preparing various types of foil-packed and foil-ripened cheeses.

Unpacks and Cuts Foil-Wrapped Cheese
The ALPHA 400-R from Groba is a fully automatic robotic machine designed to unpack and cut foil-wrapped cheeses. Its integrated robot system replaces manual unpacking, ensuring a hygienic and ergonomic production process. Capable of processing various cheese types, including Euro size and Cheddar, it serves cheese manufacturers, dairy processing plants, and food packaging facilities efficiently. This machine operates seamlessly in unpacking, cutting, and cleaning processes, catering to different film types such as PE and PP, and handles thermoforming, shrink-wrap, and flow-wrap films with ease. Equipped with adjustable cutting height, depth, and speed, the ALPHA 400-R ensures precise operation. Its flexible grippers and easy-to-clean design further augment its utility in demanding production environments, promoting seamless integration into existing lines while maximizing throughput and maintaining product integrity.
Benefits
- Enhances hygiene and reduces manual labor with robotic unpacking.
- Adapts to various cheese types, increasing operational flexibility.
- Optimizes efficiency with single cutting movement and adjustable settings.
- Minimizes contamination risk with easy-to-clean design.
- Integrates smoothly into existing lines with compatibility for multiple film types.
- Applications
- Cheese snacks,Dairy products,Cheese
- End products
- Foil-packed cheese,Foil-ripened cheese,Euro size cheese,Cheddar cheese
- Steps before
- Cheese Ripening,Foil Packaging
- Steps after
- Slicer Feeding,Shredding,Portioning,Cheese Snacks and Shapes Production
- Input ingredients
- foil-packed cheese,foil-ripened cheese,Euro size cheese,Cheddar cheese,various types of cheese
- Output ingredients
- unpacked cheese
- Market info
- Groba is known for manufacturing industrial engineered-to-order (ETO) equipment, particularly specializing in the production of machinery for the food processing industry, notably cheese processing machines. They have a reputation for quality and innovative engineering solutions.
- Automation
- Fully automatic
- Cutting height
- Adjustable
- Cutting depth
- Adjustable
- Cutting speed
- Adjustable
- Film and foil compatibility
- PE,PP
- Film processing type
- Thermoforming,shrinkwrap,flow-wrap
- Grippers
- Flexible
- Connection capability
- Slicer feeder compatible
- Automation Level
- Fully Automatic
- Working Mechanism
- Integrated Robot
- Batch vs. Continuous Operation
- Inline Operation
- Changeover Time
- Short conversion time between cheese types
- Cleaning Method
- Easy to Clean
- Cutting Flexibility
- Adjustable cutting height,depth,speed
- Film and Foil Compatibility
- PE and PP,Thermoforming,Shrinkwrap,Flow-wrap
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Film and foil types
- PE,PP,thermoforming,shrinkwrap,flow-wrap
- Cheese type compatibility
- Euro size,Cheddar
- Packaging type
- Foil-packed,foil-ripened
- Feed method
- Integrated robot
- Discharge method
- Automated
- Control panel type
- Adjustable
- Compact footprint
- Easy to clean
- Cutting height adjustment
- Adjustable
- Cutting depth adjustment
- Adjustable
- Cutting speed adjustment
- Adjustable
- Film and foil compatibility
- PE,PP,Thermoform,Shrinkwrap,Flow-wrap
- Integration potential
- Connectable to slicer feeder
- Gripper flexibility
- Flexible grippers