Free-enterprise examination of use of packing machines in the meat trade

A contribution for the determination of optimal solutions for the packing of meat and sausages will be presented. For that purpose interviews regarding the consumer behaviour were conducted within the proximity of a meat factory. Furthermore an estimation of costs for packing depending on the packing method employed and the degree of automation will be given. For a quick visual assessment of costs for packing without the usual technical devices depending on wages, new technical solutions or of the number of packings produced per year, a nomogram is provided and recommended for the use in action. It is assumed that the functional working of deep-drawing machines which is employed in this case to generate a vacuum or inert gas atmosphere are known [see (1), (2)].