Ishida Europe Ltd. - Multihead Weighers, Checkweighers, Tray Sealers, Snack Food Bagmakers, X-Ray Detection Systems

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Ishida Europe, part of the global €500M Ishida group, manufactures advanced equipment for weighing, mixing, portioning and packing (using multihead weighers), checkweighing, tray sealing, labelling and casepacking. We serve food manufacturers and packers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Our expertise is internationally recognised in the packing into bags or trays of snack foods, cereals, healthfoods, confectionery, biscuits, baked foods, pasta, salads, seafood, fish, meat, poultry, fresh produce, dairy products and ready meals, and of non-food items such as hardware and electrical components.

Ishida also offers all the gantry work, conveyors, elevators, software and other elements needed to integrate our equipment and that of other manufacturers into complete packing lines, packing halls and plants, and the food packing project management expertise to deliver turnkey projects. We provide exceptional service and support across our territories.

Multihead Weighers (Computer Weighing Systems, Combination Weighers, Industrial Scales)

Ishida invented the multihead weigher and has consistently led the field in speed and accuracy. Ishida multiheads enable full compliance with average weight or minimum weight legislation, while improving yields by minimising giveaway (overfill).

Speed and accuracy took a further leap forward with the recent introduction of field programmable gate array technology in the Ishida R-Series (top of range) and RS-Series (mid-range).

Multihead weighing was first widely applied to fast-flowing snacks and confectionery. Now the Ishida Fresh Food Weigher has been developed to automate the handling of fresh meat, cut fruit and other difficult-to-move foods, while Ishida also offers specialist weighers for salad, for long, fragile products (e.g. saltsticks) and for bulky products. Mixtures of up to eight components can be prepared with great accuracy on a single weigher.

For the snacks industry, Ishida recently developed the first fully integrated multihead weigher and bagmaker from a single manufacturer.

Traysealers (Tray Sealers)

Ishida's traysealers originated in close collaboration with many famous retailers and brands, aimed at producing well-presented, clearly and impactfully labelled products for the retail shelf or cabinet.
The revolutionary QX-1100 attains speeds of up to 200 trays per minute, previously only achievable with less adaptable platen-type sealers, but is in fact a rapid tool-change machine, able to support a virtually endless variety of tray designs. The QX-775 is a more conventional but very robust design, also designed for rapid tool changes.

Both machines deliver the attractive and economical 'inside-cut' seal, and are compatible with board, plastic and aluminium trays. They offer integrated checkweighing as well as gas flushing and vacuum gassing options, with on-line gas analysis for precise control of in-pack atmosphere.

They deliver an excellent return on floorspace, stemming from a combination of impressive output, compact design and economical use of consumables.

A full range of ancillary equipment includes tray denesters and filling systems.

X-Ray Detection Systems (Contaminant Detection, Screening for Contaminants)

Ishida's IX-GA X-Ray Detection Systems accurately detect and locate a wide range of foreign bodies, ranging from bone fragments to hard rubber and from metal, stone and glass to many types of plastic.
They can also be used to quality control many other parameters, such as the number of pieces in a pack, product thickness and product shape.

Ishida IX-GA systems are available for the X-ray inspection of packs or objects up to 220mm in height and 400mm across. They work with all types of packaging and can even penetrate metal cans and aluminium foil, picking up foreign bodies or particles down to 0.5mm diameter. A special masking feature enables them to ignore specified objects such as metal clips and other packaging items.

In a trial conducted by a major European meat institute, the Ishida system proved more sensitive than those of five other major suppliers.

Ishida's unique Genetic Algorithm™ technology allows you to programme in, without expert help, extra sensitivity to those contaminants of greatest importance to you.

Checkweighers

Ishida DACS checkweighers play an important part, all over the world, in ensuring that packs are compliant with the demands of legislation, whether average weight or minimum weight.

The company has been manufacturing checkweighers for many decades, and continues to build all its own load cells to ensure that each weigher meets the stringent accuracy and reliability standards that have become associated with the brand.

All DACS weighers have an integrated remote control unit and printer. A variety of reject devices is available and integrated metal detection is an option.

The DACS W range offers a wide range of speeds and can be used in most production environments, while IP66 waterproofing makes the DACS H range particularly suitable for fresh food applications such as meat, fish and dairy processing.

Head Office
Ishida Europe Limited

11 Kettles Wood Drive
Woodgate Business Park
Birmingham
B32 3DB
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 121 607 7700
Fax: +44 121 607 7666

Website: www.ishidaeurope.com

Automated Meat Weighing

• Fast and Accurate Weighing For Cooked Meat »
  The installation of an Ishida Fresh Food Weigher at leading German meat specialists Puttkammer Fleischwaren Spezialitäten GmbH has significantly increased throughput and reduced product giveaway.
  
  

Comprehensive Packing System

• Frenzel Benefits From Ishida’s ‘Retail Ready’ Solution »
  Leading German frozen food manufacturer Frenzel has installed an Ishida Retail Ready Line at its factory in Thuringia to provide a comprehensive packing system for a new range of trays that enable frozen meals to be steamed cooked in the microwave.
  
  

Ishida Packing Systems and Equipment

• Ishida Helps To Ensure Gourmet Quality Standards »
  An Ishida Fresh Food Weigher at Tanfield Food Co. in County Durham has helped to increase accuracy of key ingredients.
  
  
• Ishida Packing Systems and Equipment (IPS) »
  Ishida makes automation easy with it new line of automated, xray and production line equipment.
  
  

Multihead Weigher Technology

• Multihead Weigher Technology Copied - Ishida Stops Patent Infringers At Interpack »
  Ishida has mounted a legal challenge against the exhibiting of multihead weighers that infringe its patents at the Interpack trade fair in Düsseldorf.
  
  

Multihead Weighers

• Accurate Multihead Weighers »
  New Weighers Bring Maximum Benefits For Small Size Packs
  
  
• High Speed Multihead Salad Weighers »
  Ishida Weigher Boosts Yield for Packed Salad
  
  
• Improved Salad Performance with New R Series Multihead Weigher »
  A special 14 head salad version of Ishida’s newest R Series multihead weigher has helped to increase production at Vega Mayor S.A. in Navarre, Spain, part of the Florette group, a leading supplier of fruit and vegetables with 15% of the European supermarket sector.
  
  
• Ishida Helps Gruninger Cut Costs And Increase Capacity by Introducing A Second Ishida Multihead Weigher »
  Wholesale butcher Eugen Gruninger Großmetzgerei GmbH & Co. KG, has introduced a second Ishida multihead weigher at its plant in Freiburg/Breisgau, enabling it to expand its production capacity substantially while dispensing with expensive night working.
  
  
• Multihead Fresh Food Weigher »
  Fresh Pasta Production Picks Up Speed Thanks To Ishida
  
  
• Packing Speeds Doubled with Ishida Multihead Weighers »
  The purchase of two new R-Series multihead weighers from Ishida Europe has doubled the packing speed at leading fresh and frozen shrimp supplier Goldfish B.V.
  
  

Technical Food Training

• Ishida Europe Provides Solution For Major Food Training Initiative »
  Ishida Europe is lending its support to a major training initiative for the UK food industry with the donation of a state-of-the-art packing machinery line for a new Technical Food Training Centre being established at the University of Lincoln’s Holbeach Campus.
  
  

Traysealers

• Checkweigher Software and Tray Sealers At PPMA »
  Ishida Europe demonstrate new checkweigher software, tray sealers and bagmakers at PPMA 2008.
  
  
• How To Avoid Spilling The Soup At 30ppm »
  Ishida Europe has developed a ‘walking beam’ system that operates in conjunction with its QX 775 Traysealer to fill and seal pots of soup at 30 packs per minute at German food manufacturer Mico GmbH’s plant in Oederan, Saxony.
  
  

Weighing and Packing Solutions

• Aunt Bessie in Safe Hands with Ishida »
  Ishida Europe has devised and installed a bespoke weighing and packing solution that has enabled leading food manufacturer Tryton Foods to automate the packing process of its famous Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire Puddings.
  
  
• Industrial Weighing and Weigh-Batcher's »
  The Long-Awaited Solution for Products Needing In-Tray Manipulation or Adjustment
  
  
• New Weighers Reduce Puff Pastry Rejects »
  The installation of two Ishida multihead weighers and two checkweighers at leading puff pastry manufacturer Cansimag France SA has halved the rate of product breakages as well as increasing weighing speed and accuracy.
  
  

X-ray Contaminant Detection

• Ishida Top in Independent X-Ray Evaluation »
  Ishida’s recently launched X-Ray system has been confirmed as the best product in an independent evaluation by a major European meat institute.
  
  

X-Ray Inspection Systems

• Ishida Expands X-Ray Inspection Systems »
  Ishida Europe has expanded its range of X-ray inspection systems for the food industry with the launch of the IX-GA-65100, which is particularly suitable for large products and cartons.