Small seed is a beautiful weighing challenge

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A South African seed company has installed an Ishida 'Lilliput' multihead weigher to increase capacity and provide greater control over pack fill accuracy.

Packing seeds by hand is labour-intensive so Starke Ayres invested in an Ishida multiweigher CCW-M-214W-S/005-SS. Known as the 'Lilliput' because of its small size, it is designed to handle small target weights with accuracy and speed.

Ishida says the machine has reduced the seed producer's giveaway by 60%. Automatic weighing also eliminates the chance of any underweight packs reaching the grower.

Seed is delivered to the top of the Ishida using a vacuum system. It is driven through the weigher by gravity with the aid of a powerful vibratory system.

At the outlet of the discharge chute, weighed product falls into a bagmaker. The filled and sealed bags are bundled and palleted.

With manual weighing, the packing process ran at between 15 and 20 packs a minute. The Ishida has increased this by well over 250%, with a typical speed of 52 packs a minute.

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