Ishida leaves no stone unturned
in coffee bean quality
Ishida’s advanced x-ray technology has used Ishida weighing equipment for a
enabled one of Slovakia’s leading tea number of years, Baliarne turned to the
and coffee suppliers to further enhance company to help solve this problem.
its quality and safety standards for the
introduction of retail packs of roasted “We knew that Ishida was easy to
coffee beans. Since the installation work with, that the company takes a
of the Ishida IX-EN-2493 at Baliarne detailed approach to every project and
obchodu, a.s. Poprad, the company that if we have an almost impossible
says that consumer complaints task, Ishida is the most likely to find
resulting from stones in the beans
have been eliminated.
Residual stones in coffee beans
is a common problem. Despite
Baliarne’s already rigorous quality
control procedures, including using
magnetic separators and passing the
beans through a de-stoner machine,
also damage the blades in domestic
grinders and professional grinders
for espresso machines if they go
undetected.
Prior to the installation of the Ishida
x-ray inspection system, quality checks
for stones were carried out by hand
stones can still be present. As well but operators were not able to detect
as impacting on the perceived overall all the stones, leading to frequent
quality of the coffee, the stones can consumer complaints. Having already
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a solution,” explains Peter Paciga,
Baliarne’s production director.
Initially the IX-EN-2493 was tested
on packed product, but the number
of bags still containing stones proved
to be too great, so the decision was
taken to inspect bulk product prior
to the bagging of the coffee beans.
“From that moment, we have not had
any further instances of stones in the
beans,” confirms Peter.