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Automated Weigh Batching Increases Output, Saves Labor at Goya Florida

Goya’s Sazón brand reduced workforce fatigue through automated weigh batching, resulting in a 12.5% production increase.

Goya Sazon Seasoning Miami Flexicon
In this photo, an operator at Sazón ensures a clamp ring makes a dust-tight connection while a telescoping tube applies downward tension on a bulk bag of seasoning, promoting flow and release of powder.
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What You Will Learn in This Story:

  • How weigh batching systems can significantly reduce worker fatigue.
  • Why automating powder processing increases productivity per shift.
  • How many packets of seasoning and bouillon Sazón Goya produces each year.

Sazón produces bouillon powders and varieties of Sazón Goya seasonings for Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S. The original product line was launched in Puerto Rico in 1973 and moved to Goya’s Miami-area facility in 1983.

Workers at that Miami plant previously loaded herbs, spices, salt and seasonings manually into three ribbon blenders, each with a working capacity of nearly 3,000 lb. The job required lifting, cutting, and dumping several dozen bags per batch, for 21 batches over an eight-hour shift. “Dumping 50 lb bags of seasoning for every batch is not easy work,” says Hiram Carlo, plant manager at the Sazón facility.

Goya Sazon Seasoning VarietyGoya’s Miami-area Sazón plant produces more than a billion seasoning and bouillon packets per year.Flexicon

Due to ongoing sales growth, Sazón added two more packaging lines and two blenders to the operation in 2019. The company also installed five identical bulk weighing and batching systems from Flexicon Corporation—one for each blender—to add high-volume ingredients in many of the 19 seasoning and bouillon recipes.


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