Ishida Europe - Multihead Weighers, Tray Sealers and Check Weighers

Ishida Europe provides food manufacturers and packers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa with state-of-the-art weighing, portioning, mixing, check weighing, tray sealing, labelling and case-packing solutions.

We are recognised worldwide as experts in the packing of ready meals, dairy products, fresh produce, poultry, meat, fish, seafood, salads, pasta, baked foods, biscuits, confectionery, snack foods, health food, cereals and non-food items into bags or trays.

Ishida also supplies the conveyors, elevators, gantry work and software for complete installations, integrating our own and other manufacturers' equipment. We have demonstrated food-packing project-management expertise and international reach to deliver turnkey projects and unrivalled service and support.

MULTIHEAD WEIGHERS (COMPUTER WEIGHING SYSTEMS, COMPUTER SCALES AND COMBINATION WEIGHERS)

Ishida multihead weighers improve packing yield by reducing overfill (giveaway), while maintaining full compliance with minimum or average-weight legislation. Ishida invented the multihead weigher and has consistently led the field in speed and accuracy.

Ishida has continually improved performance, most recently by introducing field-programmable gate-array technology which has taken speed and accuracy to new heights in the Ishida R-Series (top of range) and RS-Series (mid-range) weighers.

FRESH FOOD WEIGHERS

Ishida multiheads lead the field in fast-flowing confectionery and snack packing. The new Ishida fresh food weigher has greatly improved the handling of sticky products such as cut fruit and fresh meat; we also offer specialist weighers for long, fragile products, leaf salads, and bulky products.

Mixtures of up to eight components can be weighed with unrivalled accuracy on a single Ishida multihead.

MULTIHEAD WEIGHER AND BAGMAKER

Ishida has also developed the snacks industry's first single-source, fully integrated multihead weigher and bagmaker combination.

TRAY SEALERS

Ishida's range of tray sealers, developed jointly with well-known brands and retailers, is designed to produce safe, attractive, easy-to-select products for the retail cabinet or shelf.

Speeds of up to 200 trays per minute were once only possible with platen-type sealers, each handling a limited range of pack sizes and types, but Ishida's QX-1100, a rapid tool-change machine, is able to handle many different tray designs at these high speeds. Our QX-775 is a more conventional but highly robust sealer, also able to support a practically limitless range of packs.

Both can produce a neat, economical and attractive 'inside-cut' seal, and deliver excellent results with a wide range of tray materials (board, plastic and aluminium). They offer options for integrated check weighing, vacuum gassing and gas flushing. On-line gas analysis helps ensure precise control of modified atmospheres.

A common factor is the outstanding return on floor space from these sealers; a combination of compact design, economical consumable usage and high output.

Ishida also manufactures all necessary ancillary equipment, including filling systems and tray denesters.

X-RAY CONTAMINANT DETECTION SYSTEMS

Bone fragments, metal pieces, glass, stone, hard rubber and many plastics are just some of the materials reliably detected by Ishida IX-GA x-ray detection systems. They also offer a high level of quality control of factors such as product shape, product thickness and the number of pieces per pack.

Objects or packs to be inspected can be up to 220mm high and 400mm across. Compatible with most packaging materials, they can penetrate aluminium foil and metal cans, detecting foreign bodies as small as 0.5mm in diameter. Specified objects (e.g. metal clips or other components of the packaging) can be 'masked out' to concentrate on genuine contaminants.

Using Ishida's unique Genetic Algorithm™ technology, an operator with no special training can programme in extra sensitivity to objects of a given size and shape which are known to be potential contaminants.

CHECK WEIGHERS

Ishida DACS check weighers are crucial in ensuring that packs comply with average or minimum-weight legislation.

At the heart of our check weighers is the load cell. Unlike many competitors, Ishida has always manufactured its own cells, and continues to develop the technology to ensure a competitive edge combined with accuracy and reliability.

A check weigher can always be found from Ishida's DACS W range to exactly match the speed, accuracy and functionality requirements of a packing line. In fresh-food applications, such as fish, meat or dairy processing, a weigher from the DACS H range is ideal.

Most Ishida check weighers have a range of reject devices and an optional integrated metal detector; all offer an integrated remote-control unit and printer.