German grower Gartenfrisch Jung GmbH has found that Ishida’s new, advanced R-Series 14-head weigher has helped the firm increase its profit margin.
Based in Jagsthausen, the company produces 50,000 bags and 36,000 trays of salad daily for the retail market, as well as 25 tonnes for the catering industry.
Gartenfrisch organised a trial of the new model against a 10-year-old 14-head Ishida RZ machine, which, in its day, was one of the fastest salad machines on the market.
For each trial, the machines were run on the same day, under the identical conditions and using the same salad mix.
The average weight variation on the new machine was much smaller and had not been considered achievable with salad before. Giveaway per pack was also significantly reduced, by more than 2.5 per cent on average. Therefore, for every 40 packs of salad produced, the new machine delivers one extra pack from the same amount of washed and prepared material. As Jürgen Schwarz, production manager at Jagsthausen, put it: “For us, less giveaway means more profit.”
Gartenfrisch Jung undertakes to get its product to the retailers in perfect condition, with five clear days of shelf life remaining. The hardware and software advances of the R Series mean the weigher is inherently capable of very high speeds, with no loss of accuracy.
