Increased yield previously considered unattainable for salad products is one of the major benefits that German salad supplier Gartenfrisch Jung is getting from an Ishida R-Series 14-head weigher.
The company produces 50,000 bags and 36,000 trays of salad products a day for the retail market, as well as 25t for the catering industry.
Because of the importance of maximising yield, Gartenfrisch organised a trial of the R-Series weigher against a 10-year-old 14-head Ishida RZ machine, which in its day was one of the fastest salad machines on the market.
All packs were checkweighed after multihead weighing, to ascertain their actual weight.
The average weight variation on the new machine was much smaller and had not been considered achievable with salad before.
Giveaway per pack was also significantly reduced by over 2.5% on average. This means that for every 40 packs of salad produced, the new machine delivers one extra pack of salad from the same amount of washed and prepared ingredients.
The R-Series' new electronics and software have increased the number of weight combinations available during each weighing cycle to 16,000 and increased the weigher's calculating power 80 times.
Contact: Ishida Europe; Tel: 0121 607 7700