New Equipment Helps Melitta Brew a Solution for Bottlenecks

Coffee producer solves line issues a decade apart through an ongoing partnership with Precision Automation.

Melitta coffee pour over beans
Melitta is a global producer of household and foodservice coffee products, and also has a robust business in co-packing for other high-profile brands.
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Melitta is a brand known for its widely available household and foodservice coffee products, including paper filters, brewing systems, ground and whole-bean java in a variety of pack sizes, serving vessels, and more. Melitta also has a robust business in coffee co-packing for other high-profile brands. The Germany-based company was founded in 1908, and has operations around the world, including roasteries in Brazil, Germany, and Cherry Hill, N.J. In addition, Melitta produces their industry-leading coffee filters at their world-class facility located in Clearwater, Florida.

The Cherry Hill plant has been in operation since 1964, and currently employs around 100 people. While the facility has efficiently served the needs of Melitta’s customers over the years, coffee production there has more than doubled over the past decade, so improvements and upgrades during that time were necessary to handle the increased capacity. 

Melitta started working with Precision Automation in 2008 to assess those capacity issues and manage the ensuing solutions, right down to identifying available equipment in the marketplace within budget and overseeing installation. Precision Automation was also tasked with keeping downtime to a minimum while new equipment was put in place, and to find machines that would fit Melitta’s existing footprint. 

The partnership between Melitta and Precision Automation resulted in a new canning line at the Cherry Hill plant, which was a turnkey solution for the coffee producer. The new line included a depalletizer for empty coffee cans, a pressureless combiner to keep those cans from being crushed during production surges, and more. “With Precision’s help, we were able to come up with a really good design that met our needs,” says Vincent Tagliaferro, director of coffee operations at Melitta North America. “Really effective and an amazing project in terms of efficiency and productivity along the way, setting us up for where we are today.”

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