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New Equipment Emphasises Market Leadership

12/10/2005

A number of new machines on display from Ishida Europe at Foodtech Scandinavia will demonstrate the company’s pioneering technology and ability to offer complete packaging solutions. The new equipment includes the Scandinavian debuts of Ishida’s groundbreaking R Series multihead weigher and advanced QX Tray Sealer, and the pioneering Fresh Food Weigher (FFW), specifically developed for fresh products such as meat and fish.

Ishida says the R Series has taken multihead weighing technology to another level. The new weighing machines include more weigh heads per calculation, calculating 16 times as many weight combinations and selecting three suitable candidate combinations for each weighment instead of one - in one fifth of the time taken previously.

The extra combinations and selections mean that, despite being much faster, the new R-Series multihead weigher is significantly more accurate and efficient. Even in average weight mode, the accuracy increase delivers a 0.5% increase in yield compared with Ishida’s previous best machines. Against less accurate weighers, the yield increase could amount to several percentage points. This enables the weigher to deliver more finished packs from the same amount of product.

Offering high speeds (up to 100 packs per minute) and ease of product changeover, the QX775 tray sealer is ideal for busy and pressurised food manufacturing environments where retailer demands have led to reduced lead times and shorter production runs for an ever increasing number of products and pack formats. It also features Ishida’s unique inside cut technology, which enables each tray to be top sealed without any film overlapping the tray rim to enhance pack appearance and reduce film consumption by at least 5%.

The Fresh Food Weigher is the first machine to successfully apply the combination weighing principle to the handling of sticky products that could, until recently, be weighed and packed only manually. The Fresh Food Weigher dramatically reduces product giveaway compared with manual weighing processes, offers highly consistent weighing results and reduces manual operation to a minimum, to save labour costs and to comply with strict hygiene standards. Typical payback periods are well under one year.

The Ishida Europe equipment will be displayed on the stand of the company’s Scandinavian agent, TH Consult (stand F5320).