Automatic solution for unpacking foil-ripened cheese
Streamline your cheese processing with this fully automated solution, designed to efficiently unpack foil-ripened and foil-packaged cheese, replacing labor-intensive manual methods while ensuring hygiene and ergonomics in your production line.

Unpacks and Processes Foil-Packed Cheese
The ALPHA 520 from Groba is a fully automatic cheese unpacking machine designed to enhance efficiency and hygiene in cheese processing lines. This machine is specialized for unpacking foil-ripened and foil-packaged cheese, including Euro size and Cheddar blocks, seamlessly integrating into pre-processing and processing departments. It operates with a single cutting movement using one knife, efficiently removing a wide variety of films and foils, such as PE and PP, suitable for thermoforming and shrink-wrap applications. Featuring flexible grippers, the ALPHA 520 adapts easily to handle diverse cheese types, ensuring consistent performance. With its robust construction, this equipment supports continuous operation with minimal maintenance. The ALPHA 520 is designed for cheese producers, dairy processors, and food packaging companies seeking to improve unpacking operations with a hygienic and ergonomic solution, ultimately reducing manual labor and optimizing production throughput.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency by automating cheese unpacking processes, reducing manual labor.
- Ensures high hygiene standards with a single cutting movement, minimizing contamination risks.
- Adapts to diverse cheese types, maximizing equipment versatility in processing lines.
- Lowers operational costs with flexible grippers, reducing the need for multiple machines.
- Integrates seamlessly with existing slicing and packaging equipment, streamlining production flow.
- Applications
- Dairy products,Cheese
- End products
- Foil-ripened cheese,Euro size cheese blocks,Foil-packaged cheese,Cheddar cheese blocks
- Steps before
- Cheese processing,Film application,Foil application,Ripening
- Steps after
- Slicer feeding,Portion cutting,Shredding,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- foil-ripened cheese,foil-packed cheese,Euro size cheese,Cheddar 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
- Compatible Cheese Types
- Euro size,Cheddar
- Film Compatibility
- PE,PP,Thermoforming,Shrinkwrap,Flow-wrap
- Conversion Flexibility
- High,easily converted
- Hygiene
- Ensures hygienic process
- Cutting Movement
- One cutting movement with one knife
- Working mechanism
- Single knife cutting movement
- Adaptability
- Handles Euro size and Cheddar
- Film compatibility
- PE and PP
- Foil compatibility
- Thermoforming,shrinkwrap,and flow-wrap
- Automation level
- Fully automatic
- Ergonomics
- Hygienic and ergonomic process
- Conversion flexibility
- Easily converted to process various cheese types
- Integration capability
- Connects to slicer feeder
- Film Type
- PE,PP
- Foil Type
- Thermoforming,Shrinkwrap,Flow-wrap
- Discharge method
- Automatic
- Flexible grippers
- Yes
- Conversion capability
- Handles various cheese types
- Knife movement
- Single cutting movement
- Control panel type
- Flexible control interface,compatible with various automation systems
- Film and foil compatibility
- PE,PP,thermoforming,shrink-wrap,flow-wrap
- Gripper configuration
- Flexible grippers for various cheese sizes
- Machine adaptability
- Can process Euro size and Cheddar cheese
- Integration possibilities
- Can be connected to a slicer feeder