High precision multihead weigher for dry pasta
Enhance your production line’s efficiency with precise weighment and swift packaging, designed to handle a diverse range of products from fragile snacks to robust pastas, ensuring consistent output and reducing product waste.
Weighs and Packages Diverse Solid Products
The GEA M-Weigher Series, developed by GEA, is a precision-engineered solution tailored for the accurate weighing and packaging of various solid products, including pasta, snacks, and pet food. Utilizing individual step motors, the series ensures precise control and minimizes waste in dosing operations. Hoppers are arranged in a circular configuration fed by a continuous distribution system, with stepper motor-driven openings to enhance accuracy and efficiency.
Applications span from short-cut pasta and linguine nests to cheese-flavored snacks and pet food pellets. The series seamlessly integrates with vertical packaging, cartoning, and thermoforming systems, delivering up to 130 weighings per minute, depending on product type and configuration. Crafted from food-grade stainless steel, the equipment offers robust construction with easy disassembly and cleaning, bolstered by features to prevent dust intrusion and safeguard product integrity.
Equipped with a back-lit LCD touchscreen terminal and an industrial PC for local control, it includes functionalities like antispillage hoppers, self-diagnostics, and storage for up to 100 production programs, ensuring streamlined and efficient operations. Custom configurations are available to adapt to specific production needs, supported by comprehensive engineering and technical support.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with up to 130 weighings per minute.
- Minimizes product waste through precision dosing and controlled mechanisms.
- Simplifies maintenance with easy-to-clean, disassemblable components.
- Maintains product integrity with features to prevent dust intrusion and damage.
- Adapts to various product types with customizable configurations and control systems.
- Applications
- Snacks,Pet food,Short-cut pasta,Nest shape pasta,Dry pasta
- End products
- Shell pasta,Spirali pasta,Gluten-free snacks,Fish-shaped pet treats,Fusilli pasta,Fettuccine nests,Rigatoni pasta,Multi-grain chips,Cheese-flavored snacks,Alfalfa-based pet food pellets,Linguine nests,Macaroni pasta,Tubetti pasta
- Steps before
- Ingredient Sorting,Initial Conveying,Mixing,Pasta Production
- Steps after
- Packaging,Cartoning,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- short-cut pasta,snacks,pet food,dry pasta
- Output ingredients
- weighed pasta packages,weighed snack packages,weighed pet food packages
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Speed
- Up to 130 weights per minute
- Capacity
- 500g up to 5kg
- Hopper Count
- 10,14,20,24
- Accuracy
- High precision
- Automation
- Stepper motors
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Cleaning method
- Easy disassemble for cleaning
- Product Detection
- Weight detection cell/photocell
- Control Interface
- Back-lit LCD touch-screen
- Data Storage
- Stores up to 100 production programs
- Self-diagnostics
- Yes
- Working mechanism
- Stepper motor-driven hopper opening
- Integrated steps
- Central distribution system with continuous flux
- Automation level
- Industrial PC with local intelligence
- Changeover time
- Reduced with easy disassembly
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- CIP/SIP
- Not specified
- Cleaning method
- Easy accessibility for manual cleaning
- Energy efficiency
- Not specified
- Density/particle size
- 400 g/l
- Food-grade Materials
- Stainless steel
- Dust Intrusion Protection
- Specific Devices Implemented
- Machine design
- Single weighing heads arranged in a circle
- Material
- Food-grade stainless steel
- Feed method
- Continuous flux from central distribution system
- Hopper design
- Powered shutter to prevent breakage
- Control panel type
- Back-lit LCD touch-screen with industrial PC
- Accessibility
- Easy disassembly for cleaning and maintenance
- Feeding system
- Controlled by weight detection cell and/or photocell
- Vibrating plate
- Central cone feeds vibrators
- Control panel type
- Back-lit LCD touchscreen,Industrial PC with USB
- Integration possibilities
- Vertical packaging machines,Cartoning machines,Horizontal thermoforming systems
- Hopper size
- Single weighing heads,Larger hoppers for big volumes (H10-K)
- Shutter control
- Motor-driven powered shutter,Optional double hopper timing shutter
- Feeding mechanism
- Feeding belt or Vibrating plate controlled by weight detection cell