A FULLY INTEGRATED SOLUTION
At Belsia, the line comprises a 10-head Ishida
CCW-SE series multihead weigher with
polished stainless-steel hoppers and an Astro
bagmaker equipped with special stripping
plates which clear the seal area before sealing
to ensure excellent pack quality and close
to zero film waste. In addition, Ishida has
supplied a bucket elevator that feeds the
potato chips to the weigher and a throat
metal detector, positioned between the
weigher and the bagmaker, to identify and
reject any metal contamination before the
potato chips are bagged. Belsia is packing
both 150g and 40g bags on its Astro
bagmaker.
The new Ishida installation, which is operating
at 30 packs per minute for the 150g bag
format, has enabled Belsia to increase
production to 800kg per day of processed
potatoes, combining excellent equipment
reliability and minimum downtime for
product changeovers with accuracy to within
one gram of the target weight, thus avoiding
overfills. All these benefits combine to
provide substantial savings for the company
and a short investment payback
Equally important, the line is scalable and
therefore will be able to support Belsia’s
ongoing development of its potato chip
range to deliver “a new flavour each year”,
according to Clémence Maisons.
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Matthieu Maisons concludes: “In addition
to the reliability and speed of the line, we
also appreciate its ease of use thanks to
the intuitive touchscreens. Changing the
bagmaker film reel takes only a few minutes
and daily cleaning is easy. In our business
where a production stoppage can very
quickly cause problems, we are able to work
with confidence because we know we can
rely not only the Ishida equipment but also
on Ishida’s fast-response after-sales service.”
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