Ishida Europe - Multihead Weighers, Tray Sealers, Checkweighers and Snack Food Bagmakers

Ishida Europe provides food manufacturers and packers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa with state-of-the-art solutions for weighing, portioning, mixing, checkweighing, tray sealing, labelling and casepacking. The company is part of the global €500M Ishida group.

We are recognized 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 needed for complete installations, integrating our own and other manufacturers’ equipment. We have the demonstrated food packing project management expertise and the international reach to deliver turnkey projects across our territories, as well as to provide an unrivalled level of service and support.

Multihead weighers - computer scales, industrial scales computer weighing systems, combination weighers

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

Since inventing multihead weighing, many years back, Ishida continues to improve 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).

Ishida multiheads lead the field in packing fast-flowing confectionery and snacks. The company recently launched the Ishida Fresh Food Weigher, which has greatly improved the handling of sticky products such as cut fruit and fresh meat, and also offers specialist weighers for long, fragile products, such as salt sticks, for leaf salads and for bulky products.

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

In a first for the snacks industry, Ishida has also developed a single-source, fully integrated multihead weigher and bag-maker combination.

Traysealers (tray sealers)

Ishida’s range of traysealers was developed in joint work with well-known brands and retailers, 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. Now Ishida has produced the QX-1100, a rapid tool-change machine, able to handle many different tray designs and yet capable of these high speeds. Ishida’s QX-775 is a more conventional but highly robust sealer, also able to support a practically limitless range of packs.

Both the QX-1100 and the QX-775 can produce the neat, economical and attractive ‘inside-cut’ seal. Both deliver excellent results with a wide range of tray materials (board, plastic and aluminium), and offer options for integrated checkweighing, 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 detection systems (screening for contaminants, contaminant detection)

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.

These systems 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 range in height up to 220mm and up to 400mm across. Compatible with most packaging materials, they can penetrate aluminium foil, or even metal cans, detecting foreign bodies as small as 0.5mm diameter. Specified objects (e.g. metal clips or other components of the packaging) can be ‘masked out’, enabling the operator to concentrate on genuine contaminants.

A major European meat institute conducted a rigorous comparison of detection systems from five major manufacturers, and found the Ishida IX-GA to be easily the most reliable.

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.

Checkweighers

In most major world markets, Ishida DACS check-weighers have an important role in ensuring that packs comply with average weight or minimum weight legislation.

Ishida is one of the world’s most experienced checkweigher manufacturers. At the heart of these machines is the load cell. Unlike many competitors, Ishida has always manufactured its own cells, and continues to develop the technology to ensure that competitive edge is matched with the accuracy and reliability for which Ishida checkweighers have become a byword.

For most production environments, a checkweigher can readily be found from Ishida’s DACS W range to match the exact needs of speed, accuracy and functionality on a given packing line. In fresh food applications, such as fish, meat or dairy processing, a weigher from the DACS H range, waterproofed to IP66 standards, will be particularly suitable.

With most Ishida checkweighers, a range of reject devices and the option of an integrated metal detector are available. All offer an integrated remote control unit and printer.