The little girl and her rice porridge
A winter day in 2013, Dag H. Gundersen was eating rice porridge with his granddaughter. The little girl loved cinnamon, but was afraid to add it to her porridge because of a badly working pouring mechanism. She always ended up getting too much cinnamon, and only on the wrong places. «Can you invent something that doesn’t spill?», she asked her grandfather.
The answer was «yes».
From idea to a real product
Dag presented his granddaughters request to his colleagues at Fimtech, a Norwegian engineering company based in Tønsberg, that manufactured high-speed production machines from 2001 to 2025.
The company was established by a few former SABA-Mölnlycke colleagues, each with more than four decades of experience in design, manufacturing and installation of custom web converting machines for disposable consumer care products, pharmaceutical products and products for the food industry.
Fimtech had for a long time thought about making a product of their own, but was holding out for the right idea. And here it was. All served up on a silver platter (so to speak).
But the work was far from done. The following years were filled with pondering, product development and prototype testing. All in the quest for the illusive perfect sprinkle.
The quest for the perfect sprinkle
The hard work payed off
Finally, the hard work payed off. The result was Push&Dose. Dag and his colleagues took the finished Push&Dose with them to product fairs, and everyone who tested it had the same response: «WOW!».
In 2019, Push & Dose was awarded a ScanStar-award. The jury called it «A functional and innovative solution», and highlighted how the product replaces glass jars and lowers transportation and production costs.
Push&Dose is now a patented product and a company on its own.
HDG in Germany became our first partner and is now offering Push&Dose integrated into their filling machines. Their very first RB200 was placed here at Fimtech in 2021, enabling us to further develop our product and to help customers with innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.
Pakona Engineers also came onboard in 2023 integrating Push&Dose to their family of HFFS machines.
And yes, Dags´ granddaughter is enjoying her rice porridge - with sugar and cinnamon from a Push&Dose pouch.