Weighing and packaging

March 21, 2023 | Articles

Manter responds to global demand for automation

As a response to the global demand for automation in the weighing and packaging of potatoes, Manter International introduced the Manter Smart Line (MSL) during the recently held client-relations days. ‘We develop all our new software, both electronic and mechanical control, in-house’, says Michiel Eilander, commercial director at the company.

September 27, 2022 | Articles

Sustainability and openness are important keywords at LC Packaging

LC Packaging’s parent company is located in a super modern and spanking new building on the A12 near the town of Waddinxveen. In 1923, the Lammers family in Amsterdam started trading in used jute bags. After almost a hundred years, the company presents itself now as an international producer and distributor of flexible packaging solutions,…

September 27, 2022 | Articles

Entrepreneurship combined with daring and vision leads to increased potato turnover

Investing more than 6 million euros to sell baby table potatoes in a shrinking consumer market requires, apart from daring, a great deal of vision. The Norwegian family business Bjertnæs & Hoel is looking to the future and, as a result, is seeing its potato sales increasing every year. At their farm, the four entrepreneurs,…

June 16, 2022 | News

LC Packaging aims to contribute to a world without waste

With its newly launched 2030 Ambition, global packaging manufacturer and distributor LC Packaging commits to embracing the elimination of waste into its core business.

February 26, 2021 | Articles

Manter introduces AutoMesh+ packaging machine

Companies in the fruit and vegetable sector are constantly looking for solutions that increase their packaging speed and meet the need for different packaging weights. The recently introduced AutoMesh+ is Manter’s answer to this increasing demand for versatile automation.

November 26, 2020 | Articles

‘We’ll start as soon as potato packagers go from tons per hour to bags per minute’

On 1 April, it was 25 years ago that Herman Wehkamp (60) and Peter Lenferink (56) jointly founded Manter in the town of Emmen. The company, which started with the production of one type of weighing and packaging machine, has now developed into an international group of enterprises. Emmen alone employs 100 people and customers…