Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 22 2019 | Page 48

Quality And Accuracy For Petfood Convenience An Ishida multihead weigher and X-ray At Morando’s factory in Molfetta southern pouch machine below. Special embossed inspection system are ensuring weight Italy, 7,000 kgs of meat is produced each surfaces help to ensure a smooth flow accuracy and quality control for a new day for the doypacks. The meat is first of product throughout the weigher. To range of single-serve cat and dog food in extruded into long strips which then pass maximise speed and accuracy the six doypacks, produced by Italy’s leading pet through an oven, are cooled and diced, pool hoppers on either side each feed food manufacturer Morando S.p.A. and then cooled again before being fed two weigh hoppers. This is generating a via an elevator and vibratory cross feeder throughput of up to 90 packs per minute to the top of the weigher. Jelly or gravy but the weigher has the capability to go are added to the meat after weighing. even faster. Ishida’s Italian agent ITECH, In addition, The Ishida CCW-RV-212 is weighing the Weighing accuracy is precise and ITECH installed the vibratory feeder that diced cooked meat at target weights of consistent, according to quality manager brings product to the weigher and has 85g, 100g, 150g and 300g, the largest Sabino Tattoli. also provided an Ishida IX-EA-2161 X-ray two sizes specifically for dog food and inspection system, specially designed the smaller sizes for cat food as well. for smaller sized packs, for the quality The 12 head machine is divided into monitoring of the finished pouches. two halves, each one feeding a separate The Ishida weigher is a CCW-RV-212 from its latest and most advanced multihead weigher series, supplied by 48 FDPP - www.fdpp.co.uk “We have been very pleased with the performance of the Ishida weigher, and we have found that giveaway is minimal,” he explains.