Greek veg and rice packer raiswww.ishidaeurope.comes output and cuts giveaway with new weighers

Barba Stathis has installed no fewer than six multihead and four checkweighers on lines for fresh and frozen produce, helping to lift production by 10% and boost consistency.

The weighing systems, sourced from Ishida, have been installed to handle frozen vegetables, vegetable-and-rice mixes and pastas. On top of the increase in output, the multihead weighers have helped to ensure a further reduction in giveaway of 1.5%.

The six 14-head multihead weighers and a 20-head model for mix applications, from Ishida’s CCW-RV and CCW-RVE ranges, are handling a wide range of product combinations in pack sizes from 300g to 2.5kg for retail markets and a 10kg pack for the foodservice sector.

“Our main criteria in the selection of the weighers were to achieve superior efficiency, higher capacity and excellent weighing accuracy from a supplier who could provide comprehensive service support,” said Antigonos Maltezos, plant manager for frozen foods.

A major benefit of the RV and RVE models, says Ishida, is their ability to achieve excellent accuracy while maintaining high speeds. Features such as programmable digital filtering and advanced automatic feeder adjustment help to move product more quickly along the vibratory feeders. Also, the speeding up of weigh-head stabilisation provides more available weight combinations even at high speeds. Speeds have been further enhanced by optimisation of the opening and closing profiles of the weigh hoppers.

The automation project at the company’s Sindos facility near Thessaloniki was conceived and implemented in different steps, commencing in 2017.

According to Barba Stathis, the rationale behind selecting Ishida equipment and the re-design of the production processes was partly to meet immediate production requirements. But additionally, the aim was to collect valuable data for further investigation in order to continuously enhance the production process and to optimise process efficiencies.

Alongside the multihead weighers, four Ishida DACS-GN-SE-050 checkweighers carry out a final check to meet various internal, retailer and legislative requirements. Like their multihead counterparts, the checkweighers are said to combine a rugged and waterproof construction.

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