Premium cakes benefit
from Ishida weighing and
inspection technology
Leading German manufacturer of cakes for sticky fresh products and smaller Pfalzgraf Konditorei handles a wide
for the foodservice industry Pfalzgraf production batches. Product is delivered range of products on the FFW in a two-
Konditorei is using advanced Ishida via a conveyor belt to the top of the shift operation. The baked goods are
technology for both precision dosing weigher. An operator evenly distributes topped with raspberries, strawberries,
of fruit toppings onto its cakes and the fruit via six belt feeders to the weigh forest fruits, mandarins and a variety
tortes, and to meet its stringent quality hoppers, and can visually inspect the of fruit mixtures. The fill weights range
standards. fruit at the same time to ensure an even from 240 g to 2500 g with a maximum
distribution. This increases both the speed of 16 cycles per minute. In view
In one of the most state-of-the-art speed and efficiency of the weighing of the high price of fruit, however,
factories in Europe, Pfalzgraf Konditorei process, while special scrapers on the precision is a decisive factor. According
has installed an Ishida 6-head linear plastic hoppers reduce product sticking to production manager Stephan Koller,
multihead weigher, which has reduced to the contact parts. the weigher has increased productivity
overfilling to practically zero; a DACS-G
significantly. “The old volumetric dosing
checkweigher for regional weight Once they have been weighed, the fruit method placed 20 to 30 g too much fruit
compliance; and an IX-GA-4075 x-ray portions are filled directly onto the on each product,” he explains. “Now,
inspection system that is capable tortes and cakes through a small filling overfilling is practically zero.”
of detecting foreign bodies with a system which was specially adapted to diameters of less than 1mm. suit the product requirements and the For the baked goods manufacturer, the
shapes and sizes of the different cakes Ishida machine has proved to be a highly
(round or square) cost-effective solution that paid off in
The 6-head Fresh Food Weigher (FFW)
was specifically developed by Ishida
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just a short time.