“The involvement of FRITSCH has strengthened MULTIVAC's position in the bakery products sector, and the order entry figures of FRITSCH have increased with the strength of MULTIVAC's global sales and service network. Thanks to MULTIVAC's local service strength in more than 80 countries, orders for FRISTCH solutions have increased nearly 40 percent compared to the previous financial year. Large project orders were received in Asia and North America, as well as European countries such as Germany, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands.”
Ali Suat Öz
Managing Director
Multivac Turkey
FRITSCH, a member of the MULTIVAC Group, is waiting for all its customers at the IBAKTECH Fair, which will be held in Istanbul between March 10 and 13, 2022. MULTIVAC Turkey General Manager Ali Suat ÖZ explained recent developments in the World of MULTIVAC and the new period at FRITSCH side before IBAKTECH 2022 Fair.
With the acquisition of FRITSCH, we see that MULTIVAC GROUP continues its strategic investments. Could you tell us about the recent developments at MULTIVAC?
With 6,400 employees in more than 140 countries, MULTIVAC is one of the leading packaging and process solutions manufacturers worldwide and continues its strategic investments without slowing down. We continue to expand our thermoform, traysealer and vacuum machines to before and after packaging process solutions strategically as labeling, quality control, processing, slicing, portioning and automation solutions. The acquisition of FRITSCH is a crucial step in expanding our range of integrated solutions for food processing and packaging.
The involvement of FRITSCH has strengthened MULTIVAC's position in the bakery products sector, and the order entry figures of FRITSCH have increased with the strength of MULTIVAC's global sales and service network. Thanks to MULTIVAC's local service strength in more than 80 countries, orders for FRISTCH solutions have increased nearly 40 percent compared to the previous year. Large project orders were received in Asia and North America, as well as European countries such as Germany, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. As MUTLIVAC Turkey team, we take part in major ongoing projects in our country and contribute to the growth of FRITSCH. We see that the difficulties caused by the global economy and the pandemic are beginning to be overcome. We are confident that the recovery will continue in the coming period and FRITSCH will continue its growth path under the umbrella of the MULTIVAC Group in 2022 as well.
FRITSCH is a well-known and leading company in its field with its industrial bread and lamination lines. What are FRITSCH's new solutions for middle segment and artisanal bread production?
As a future-oriented company with 90 years of experience, dedicated employees and passion for dough; Fritsch offers professional solutions from artisan to industrial production.
We offer solutions to our customers with the ROLLFIX series in the artisan production of laminated dough products which are known as danish and puff pastry. Even our smallest capacity equipment has Fritsch's durable, reliable, high-quality and long-lasting features.
We are a preferred industrial bread production technology in Turkey due to stress-free dough processing and high weight sensitivity. In addition to our solutions in our portfolio for medium-sized bread production, we have technology development studies for bread production in compact and required optimum standards. We aim to bring this technology to our customers in the near future. Thanks to this new technology, FRITSCH will always be the right address for the most suitable solutions for our customers' capacity needs.
Could you briefly talk about the solution portfolio of FRITSCH and MULTIVAC for the processing and packaging of bakery products and the innovations in your portfolio for packaging machines?
In the bakery sector, we have integrated processing and packaging solutions for many different products. From entry-level dough rolling and cutting machines such as ROLLFIX, VARICUT to mid-level VARIOFLEX, MULTIFLEX, DOUGHLINER 700 and LAMINATOR 700 solutions we are able to offer our customers solutions to their needs for many different traditional products such breads, pizza dough and Ramadan pita, filled and unfilled croissants, danish type buns and bagels.
In line with our customers’ expectations, with our strong experience at packaging side, we offer our Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) solutions to limit oxygen content at minimum level in the packages to keep shelf life of bakery products longer. In this direction, we continue to work on new packaging technologies in addition to our Thermoform and Traysealer packaging machines in our portfolio. We will start to offer these new solutions to our customers for different packaging types in the coming period.
In addition to these solutions, we are able to establish integrated lines from a single source with our automation solutions applicable to the labeling, weighing, inspection and the whole process for before and after packaging. We have realized many reference projects in this field together with our customers. You can get detailed information from us about our references in Turkey, which are the leading manufacturers of their respective sectors.
You are participating as FRITSCH in IBAKTECH which will be held at Istanbul CNR EXPO Center on 10-13 March 2022. Could you tell about your comments about the fair in brief?
We are excited to meet our customers again after a long time due to the Covid-19 pandemic. IBAKTECH International Bread, Pastry Machines, Ice Cream, Chocolate and Technologies Fair, which will be held at Istanbul CNR EXPO Fair Center, is the most important event of the sector in the growing Turkish market and the entire Eurasia region because of the business volume it creates. As MULTIVAC and FRITSCH, we will be pleased to welcome our customers at our booth 128e -128f to discuss our solutions in the bakery and dough processing industry and other packaging and process solutions for the industry and to share our new solutions that we will offer in near future.
With the FRITSCH World of Bakery (WoB) center, you provide your customers with one-to-one production experience and knowledge. How did the pandemic affect this process you offer to your customers?
FRITSCH World of Bakery (WoB) center offers our customers the opportunity for many product applications with its extensive equipment park. Our customers benefit from this center in the development processes of bakery products and can experience FRITSCH systems live in the center with our experienced dough experts. Thanks to these facilities in our center, our customers can test their favourite products and have detailed information about their production processes.
At our FRITSCH World of Bakery (WoB) center, our customers can see and run the machines used in businesses of all sizes, from our ROLLFIX dough sheeter for artisanal bakery production applications to the industrial MEGUSTA series. Demo applications could be planned specific for their own products, so that they can experience all the machines and lines offered by FRITSCH and other professional process equipments to make the right decision for their own products.
We have also developed different alternative solutions for our customers who cannot access and visit our center due to pandemic restrictions. We have created the opportunity for our customers to watch implementation of their projects by establishing live connections to our center. Additionally, to enable our customers to have a comprehensive idea of FRITSCH machinery and lines, we established a virtual tour opportunity in our WoB center. You can discover our virtual FRITSCH World of Bakery from below link: