Metal Detectors
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A&D Inspection
A&D Inspection manufactures checkweighing, X-ray inspection, and metal detection equipment for packaging applications in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical and other industries. In-motion checkweighers include the 600g, a model that can process up to 400 pieces per minute with an overall system length under 3 ft. The ProteX Series of x-ray inspectors uses advanced algorithms in a compact design to provide inspection for contaminants such as metals and bone fragments, but also consumer quality issues, such as clumps, missing or damaged product, and broken seals. A&D Inspection's metal detector line includes several models, among them the DeteX series, with high sensitivity and washdown rating as well as heavy-duty metal detectors with carrying load capacity of up to 150 lb. for applications requiring direct food contact (i.e., cheese, dairy, meat, poultry and fish).
Accutek Packaging Equipment Co.
The Accutek Inspection-Rejection Station system is designed to perform comprehensive inspections on various aspects of product packaging. It utilizes advanced technology to detect and reject containers that do not meet specific criteria. The system checks the orientation of containers to ensure they are positioned correctly, identifying and rejecting containers that are upside down or not aligned properly. The system also verifies the fill levels in containers, ensuring they meet the required standards, detecting overfilled or underfilled containers and reject them accordingly. Other applications include metal or contaminants in the product, whereby Accutek's system employs sensors or imaging technology to identify the presence of metallic objects, contaminants or foreign substances in the product. The system also examines the placement and alignment of caps on containers for skewed caps, missing caps, missing foil liners, crooked or missing labels.
Advanced Detection Systems
Advanced Detection Systems’ ProScan Conveyor System for washdown applications in food processing and packaging industries features blasted stainless steel construction and is ideal for use in wet packaging areas, handling metal detection in both process and packaging lines. Features a reject device that will prevent contamination while protecting customers and brand reputation, using sweep arm reject, divert arm reject or air blast reject options.
Advantage Conveyor, Inc.
Advantage Conveyor supplies metal detector conveyors used in packaging, food and other industrial applications. Systems combine metal detection with custom reject mechanism to ensure the highest quality control of packaged products is met. Systems will integrate seamlessly into existing conveyor lines or can be included in the design for a custom system in the plant. These metal detector conveyors can be designed for inclined, side transfer or straight conveyor systems.
ANRITSU - Product Inspection & Detection
Anritsu’s line of packaging inspection equipment includes X-ray equipment, checkweighers, and metal detectors. X-ray inspection Systems are designed to give food and pharmaceutical producers the best combination of contaminant detection, reliability, and low total cost of ownership. Beyond detection, systems provide missing product, shape detection, virtual weight, count, and package check. Ensure product quality and determine weight with Anritsu’s precision inline checkweighers, engineered for product safety, productivity, and excellent return on investment while ensuring compliance with HACCP programs, all in a compact footprint. Detect ferrous and stainless metals simultaneously with Anritsu’s advanced Dual Wave metal detector solutions. Company also offers the SSV checkweigher and metal detector combination systems to provide outstanding weighing accuracy with simultaneous multi-frequency inspection to help find the smallest contaminant.
BESSEN Corp.
Bessen’s metal detectors include the QX Sirius Horizontal Metal Detector, used in food, pharmaceutical, textile and other types of applications. QX Series metal detectors can be equipped with different types of rejection systems and integrated with a checkweighing system. The GX Sirius is a vertical drop metal detector, designed for powder and flour products in food, pharmaceutical, chemical and other industries. GX Series metal detectors are equipped with active rejection systems that will reject a portion of the dropped load that contains contaminants, which can be stored in a locked container until an operating manager reviews the rejected product.
Bizerba USA, Inc.
Bizerba USA is an original equipment manufacturer of a broad range of packaging inspection equipment, including checkweighers, metal detectors, X-ray systems and vision inspection systems. Featured inspection systems include the CWFmaxx line of checkweighers, mainly used in food processing companies who have to meticulously clean their systems. The stainless steel housing is suitable for use in hygienic environments. All components are easy to access, so that they can be thoroughly cleaned. The shape is designed to prevent the accumulation of dirt.
BUNTING
The combination of Bunting’s metal detector conveyor and MeTron™ C metal detection unit is designed to provide customers peace of mind for effective metal detection within manufacturing processes. Units can be custom built to exact specifications and are ready for installation. Bunting’s high precision metal separators for pharmaceutical applications detect all types of metals including ferrous, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and brass through examination of pills and capsules. Reliable detection of free or encapsulated contaminants in product flow.
Eriez
Made for industry applications including chemical, food processing, packaging, textiles, pharmaceuticals, plastics and rubber, the Xtreme® Metal Detector surpasses previous units and competitive models alike with enhanced features, improved sensitivity, intuitive operation and exceptional reliability. The Eriez 1200 Series of metal detectors will detect both ferrous and non-ferrous tramp metal in magnetic ores, highly mineralized products and food products even when conveyed on steel cable belts.
Fortress Technology Inc.
Fortress Packaging is an original equipment manufacturer specializing in metal detectors for processing and packaging lines. Package inspection systems include the Interceptor and Interceptor DF Metal Detectors for packaged meats and products, the Stealth Metal Detector for packaged products and prepared meals, as well as metal detectors in vector conveyor, pipeline, vent tube, in-foil and other configurations. Interceptor Metal Detectors improve stainless steel detection capabilities up to 100%, reducing waste and costly false rejects in challenging applications. Stealth machines also come in a Large Bag model, inspecting 50-100 lb bags of dry product.
Grupo Empac SA de CV
Grupo Empac distributes a wide range of metal detectors and checkweigers from Tecni Pac, including TECNI PAC® model TSR 600300, designed to detect the presence of ferrous, non-ferrous and stainless steel metallic contaminants in packaged products.
Heat and Control, Inc.
Package testing and contaminant detection technology from Heat and Control helps protect the consumer and equipment. Featured models include metal detectors from CEIA, inline seal checkers and X-ray inspection systems from Ishida, and checkweighers from CEIA and Ishida. Heat and Control also distributes CEIA’s specialty metal detection systems for pharmaceutical applications. Not only is efficient detection of foreign objects critical to consumer safety and brand survival, but it also protects machinery and prevents downtime.
Loma Systems, an ITW Company
Loma Systems designs and manufactures a wide range of metal detection, X-ray inspection, checkweigher and combination inspection systems for the food, pharmaceutical and packaging industries. LOMA's inspection systems identify product defects and eliminate contaminants, delivering consistent quality and are compliant with international safety standards and Retailers’ Codes of Practice. The IQ3+E Metal Detector range is designed for conveyorized, pumped and gravity fed applications for meat, poultry and fish, bakery, convenience foods, snacks and more. X-ray systems include the X5C, LOMA's smallest X-ray system available, with a machine length of 1000 mm and excellent Critical Control Point (CCP), designed for inspecting food, ready meals and small packaged goods. Loma’s CW3 RUN-WET® checkweigher is engineered to withstand harsh, high-pressure, high-temperature cleaning regimes in high-care food environments. Loma’s integrated combination systems offer inspection and weighing all in one machine, with the option of a system combining either metal detection or X-ray inspection capabilities along with dynamic checkweighing.
METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection
Mettler Toledo’s broad range of product inspection systems includes checkweighers, metal detectors, x-ray inspection systems, track and trace systems, vision inspection, and more. Systems are made for all types of bulk and packaged products for environments ranging from dry to harsh wash-down and can detect solid contaminants, verify product weights, mark and verify packages, ensure accuracy and integrity of packaging and labels, confirm component content, inspect closures, and measure fill levels.
Peco InspX
Peco InspX manufactures innovative and reliable inspection systems leveraging the latest in technology and software algorithms. Products are solution driven for all industries, package types and contaminants. Across a range of product and package considerations, X-ray inspection is the most effective, efficient and reliable means of ensuring that product and packages have not been compromised. Peco InspX’s 60 years in package inspection has built on strength after strength. Peco InspX’s ScanTrac X-ray Inspection Equipment confirms contents, detects foreign material, calculates volumetric fill levels and identifies container defects -- for packaged and unpackaged products.
PPi Technologies Group
PROFILE Packaging and PakSource Global offer a full range of checkweighers including metal detectors and combination metal detectors/check weighing systems as well as a full range of X-ray machines for both flexible and ridged packaging.
Rice Lake Weighing Systems
Rice Lake Weighing systems offers a full range of in-motion checkweighers, conveyor scales and metal detection systems. Heavy-duty checkweighers include the MotoWeigh® IMW In-Motion Checkweighers and Conveyor Scales, which provides real-time statistical information and reports on product, statistics, users and parameters while storing up to 1,000 different products in its system. Rice Lake also produces numerous metal detector systems, among them the MotoWeigh® Metal Detection System, offering four levels of security and easy setup and product learning.
Sesotec Inc
Sesotec offers X-ray inspection systems and metal detection systems for food processing and plastics manufacturing operations. Wide range of products includes inspection systems for contaminants in processing and packaging lines on conveyor lines, liquid and paste contaminant detectors, magnet systems for free-falling applications, liquid and paste contaminant detectors and many more. Tunnel metal detectors enclose a conveyor belt, while flat metal detectors are attached underneath conveyor belts or chutes. They detect metallic contaminants, regardless of the metal type and whether the contaminant is exposed or embedded in the product.
Spee-Dee Packaging Machinery Inc.
Spee-Dee’s PLC-based checkweighers help the food, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries check and verify product weight at high speeds, helping to reduce costly product loss and ensure accurate product weights within limits. Checkweighers utilize electromagnetic force restoration (EMFR) weighing technology that guarantees precise and reliable measurement that can be up to 10 times more accurate than traditional strain gauge load cells, in addition to being more durable with plant operations.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Assuring food safety and quality are essential to consumer safety and brand reputation. Thermo Fisher Scientific supplies product detection technologies including X-ray inspection systems and metal detectors for the food industry to support its customers food safety and quality goals and meet regulatory requirements and retailer codes of practice. Drive out variability and drive up ROI with precision Versa checkweighers. Value-packed combination systems feature integrated metal detectors on Thermo Fisher Scientific checkweighers.
TNA North America Inc.
Protect brand reputation with the tna hyper-detect® 5. This high-performance food metal detector system is uniquely designed to sit as close as possible to the multi-head weigher, significantly increasing bagging speed without compromising food safety. The tna hyper-detect® 5 is ultra-sensitive, detecting ferrous contaminants from 0.8mm to 0.9mm, non-ferrous pieces down to 1.0mm, and non-magnetic stainless steel from 1.0mm to 1.2mm.
Wipotec
WIPOTEC-OCS provides high performance, process and customer-orientated weighing and inspection solutions. Stand-alone weighing and OEM integration solutions are tailored exactly to machine and line requirements, with primary target industries in the consumer packaged goods/food, healthcare, and mail and logistics sectors. Company’s E-M-A checkweigher portfolio is designed to run accurately at top speeds, for high throughputs and increased packaging line efficiency. WIPOTEC-OCS metal detectors, which can be used standalone or in combination with check weighing systems, reliably detect any contamination of products by the finest metal particles. X-ray inspection systems include the SC-E, designed to meet the most stringent requirements of foreign body detection. With an optional comprehensive software package, the scanner becomes versatile for numerous applications, and reliably performs count, completeness, fill-level checks, and mass determination.
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