Equipment

Ishida Europe has launched a weigh batcher for meat, poultry, fish and seafood where styling or other manual re-working of filled trays is essential for optimum product presentation.

The weigh batcher conveys each accurately weighed product to any one of up to eight workstations. From there an operator transfers it to a tray, styles it and places the tray on the 'out' belt for sealing, labelling and checking.

The system is automatically informed when the filled tray leaves the workstation, triggering that the next weighed item is ready to be packed.

Typical speeds of 50ppm can be achieved, with product giveaway of less than 1g per pack.

The weigh batcher also features a control panel which allows the performance of each operator and shift to be monitored.

Optional features include special hoppers fitted with scrapers to prevent product from clinging to the gates, and adapters that allow the workstations to accept product from the weigher directly into bags.