Ishida Food weigher handles sticky products

Ishida has launched its Fresh Food Weigher, a machine specifically designed to handle sticky fresh products such as marinated fish and vegetables, meat, poultry or fresh pasta. The machine features stainless steel or plastic hoppers with anti-stick scraper gates to help move the food through the weigher.

Ishida has launched its Fresh Food Weigher, a machine specifically designed to handle sticky fresh products such as marinated fish and vegetables, meat, poultry or fresh pasta. The machine features stainless steel or plastic hoppers with anti-stick scraper gates to help move the food through the weigher. The machine is waterproof to allow for the easy cleaning of all contact surfaces. Using Ishida’s proven multihead weighing technology, the computer selects the combination of hoppers that most closely matches the target weight. A set of booster hoppers under the weigh hoppers holds product not initially selected by the computer. This frees up the weigh hoppers to accept more product and thus generate additional weight combinations, which further increases speed and accuracy. The machine combines multihead weighing with a design that allows food to be fed manually onto the belt feeders of the weigher. Instead of product being distributed to the weigh hoppers via vibratory feeders, an operator directs the mix along a set of linear belt feeders.