Food Manufacturing - January/February 2017

Dual Piston Filler/Depositors

Company’s standard Dual Piston 2P-64 Filler/Depositors are the classic workhorses of the baking and food processing industry. They are easy to clean and operate, and are versatile and gentle on all products. Large port openings permit filling of chunky ingredients without crushing. These labor-saving filler/depositors improve quality when depositing large, delicate particulates damage-free. They reduce costs with accurate filling and depositing into trays, bottles, cans and pouches, or when targeted onto products. Standard features of the 2P-64 include: Air powered; 14 inches of height adjustment; locking swivel casters; stainless steel construction with all contact parts of food-approved materials; fills from fractions of an ounce to 64 ounces per piston with change cylinders; pneumatic dump system with interlocked safety cover.

Hinds-Bock Corporation www.hinds-bock.com

V2630 Flex Vision Inspection System

The V2630 Flex Vision Inspection System is an easy-to-install, easy-to-move and easy-to-use vision inspection system for label, print and package inspection applications on flat, oriented products. The V2630 offers users the ability to configure the system to meet their specific product inspection needs.

This adaptability also supports expanding production lines without the need to add new inspection equipment. The V2630 is designed to be expandable, allowing manufacturers to add cameras to the system as their inspection needs change. The system can support up to five cameras and ten lights, as needed, making it flexible enough to meet a wide variety of product inspections. The V2630 can perform multiple inspections of a target package simultaneously, for ID/OD, ovality, gross formation defects, label positioning, label quality, closure application, fill level, 1D and 2D bar codes, graphical presence and quality, and the presence and readability of alphanumeric codes. It adapts to increases in production line speeds, ensuring that no product leaves the facility without being inspected.

METTLER TOLEDO www.mt.com/pi

FC-200 Sanitary Design Shrink Bander

The FC-200 Sanitary Design Shrink Bander is a robust, flexible system engineered specifically for containers used for ice cream, spreads, oatmeal, yogurt and dried fruit. Fully mechanical, these systems perform without vacuum or pneumatic devices, or spinning knives — the three major causes of difficulty and downtime. Equally important, it meets all sanitary environment criteria, including requirements related to construction, access, ease of cleaning and hygiene. FC-200 Series Shrink Banders operate at 30 to 300 cpm and use dual servos for greatest reliability in product handling and sleeve feeding. It is ideally suited for the application of tamper evident shrink bands to tapered and straight-walled tubs, including both traditional round containers and the “sqround” containers (oval “square rounds”) now popular in the ice cream industry. F Series Shrink Banders apply tamper evident bands 1 to 2. 3 inches ( 25 to

60 mm) high and 2. 5 to 6.75 inches (63 to 172 mm) in diameter.

They are compatible with major commercial shrink sleeve films, including PVC, PET, PETG, OPS and PLA films in gauges as thin as 30 microns, (1.25 mil) depending on throughput and cap configuration.