In the following article, we are going to tell you the story of the company named Baldi Carni and its experience with Tecno Pack
Umberto Baldi has been building his experience since 1965, when he opened his first butcher shop. His wise knowledge of meat, butchery and processing techniques together with the daily contact with his customers led him to the foundation of Baldi Carni S.r.l. in 1970.
Understanding the needs of such an expanding market allowed him to specialize in the industrial meat processing. In the 1980s, together with other important professionals of the sector, Umberto Baldi founded “Assocarni”, an Italian association representing the national meat industry and trade.
His trips abroad, his passion, his expertise and future-oriented vision have led Baldi Carni S.r.l. to expand its business over the years.
In addition to a pioneering activity in the selection and import of fine meat from international farms, the company launched a new company division, which focuses on the distribution of food products to catering and retail sectors: this is how Baldi Foodservices was born.
This long-time experience turned into a distinguishing feature that allowed the company to stand out as an important national player in the “Highquality Catering” sector. It is no coincidence that over the years some of the best companies such as Autogrill, MSC, Costa Crociere, Alitalia, Metro, have chosen Baldi for their major supplies and for “Tailor Made” and “Private Label” products.
Today Baldi, with its business divisions, offers quality, solutions and innovative opportunities for schools, universities, hospitals, holiday village chains, large retailers and restaurants. Thanks to its 4 company divisions, namely Baldi Carni, Baldi Mare, Baldi Foodservices and Baldi Bottega, the company has gradually developed a complete vision of the market.
The different information coming from several departments provides a broad final vision that enhances the company’s know-how. From the caterer to the big company and the final consumer, each profile provides the company with daily checks that demand a double result: the quality of the product and the uniqueness of the service.
Baldi’s production is part of a wider project that involves each customer in a process of effective growth, where the soul of the brand is expressed in the market through the following means:
• the product development goes through strict food-cost oriented protocols, a procedure that provides each customer with secure and real profits, rewarding the excellence of both the meat and the service;
• the consultancy that Baldi staff provide to each customer, a special and precious support helping the customers to make strategic choices and purchases, tailored to each specific case;
• the offer of training, promotion and informative activity starting from the company’s own communication system and guaranteed by Baldi’s staff: a competitive tool at the service of the customer’s business.
The three production lines offered by Baldi are based on different recipes, creations and ingredients to provide each customer with new forms of business and unique advantages.
Numbers can speak of the success of a brand more than anything else and they indeed show that the company is ready to grow, to face foreign markets and to serve its customers with solid roots and values.
- a total surface of 25,000 sqm (with 8,000 sqm indoor)
- 55 experienced partners
- 53 employees
- 3,000 customers
- 5,000 items in the catalogue
- €28 million revenue in 2017
At Baldi’s, quality is an evolving value: its presence on international markets and the challenge of an increasingly rigid and detailed legislative context as well as its activity on wide and specific distribution channels prompt the company to adopt more efficient and organized procedures at every level.
Baldi srl, with its CE marking number IT 624 S, has already introduced in its production activities the procedures based on the principles of the HACCP system (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point), the self-control system for the identification and evaluation of hazards and risks related to hygiene and health issues.
For this purpose, the company constantly monitors the critical control points (CCP) in the working process, and work with selected suppliers that able to certify the quality of their products. The company also has the following certifications: CERTIFICATE BIO CCBP \ CERTIFICATE ISO 9001:2015 \ CERTIFICATE IFS \ CERTIFICATE CRIBIS D&B.
Innovation is the cornerstone on which all Baldi’s activity depends: the IT sector plays an extremely significant role in the management and administrative automation as well as in the production process control.
In this context, Baldi has started an important collaboration with Tecno Pack S.p.A., the company based in Schio (VI), one of the most important players in the research and development of fully automatic “turnkey” packaging lines.
Baldi’s request was analyzed in several working sessions and had its focus on the frozen hamburger, a product coming from high productivity lines.
The requirements were the complete automation of the line, the product protection and the possibility to package it in different formats, either multipack cases or single units wrapped in shrink film. The strict conditions of the production facility have required the machinery to be made in stainless steel and with IP65 WASH DOWN technology.
All the design phases, from the initial study, to the realization, to the final testing, have been carefully followed by Baldi’s Industrial Director, Valerio Mincarelli, and by Tecno Pack’s area manager, Andrea Motta. Everything has been carefully evaluated, reviewed and finalized.
The plant
The plant includes the following: high-speed, automatic bulk product feeding system; electronic horizontal flow-pack machine FP 100 – shrink version; three-chamber heat-shrink tunnel TT, robotic feeding station for a cartoning machine with 2 high-performance delta robots; three loaders operating as tilted stores that enable creating cases for different products of different origin, including insertion of gadgets or identification little flags.
The fully automatic cartoning machine guarantees excellence performances and quality of final products. The cycle ends with the double reel bundling machine for heat-shrink film.
Speed, reliability, great versatility, easy change of formats, complete automation, total compliance with Industry 4.0 regulation, complete product traceability through advanced inkjet and laser print systems.
A journey has started along the road that Tecno Pack follows day after day with each one of its clients; a relationship made of daily collaboration aimed at optimizing, implementing new functions and formats, and creating this new work tool put at Baldi Carni’s disposal.
