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| | Findus Sverige AB is one of Sweden’s leading suppliers of food products. The company offers a very large range of products - especially deep-frozen goods such as ready meals, vegetables, fish products, etc. For the Swedish market, FINDUS also produces groceries such as mayonnaise, soups, pasta sauce and jam.
For many years, FINDUS and BILWINCO have worked closely together to optimise their weighing and packing processes. At the beginning of the nineties, BILWINCO delivered the first weighing solution, and since then, we have sold many other weighing and packing systems to FINDUS, including several solutions handling ready meals.
Ingemar Nilsson at FINDUS explains: “We have a close working relationship with BILWINCO and their Swedish sales manager, Björn Carlsson. They provide professional consultancy and good service. Therefore, last year we chose BILWINCO as our supplier of another weighing and packing solution to increase the efficiency of a vegetable line.”
Deep-frozen multihead weigher
The weighing/packing solution at FINDUS weighs and doses a variety of deep-frozen vegetables and vegetable mixes in portions from 300 to 2500g. Every product must be handled below freezing temperature. Therefore, the weigher is located separately in a freeze store. This location keeps the temperature as low as possible to avoid white frost and formation of ice in the product zone.
The frozen products are weighed and packed into bags by a bagging machine located below the weigher outside the freeze store. The weigher is operated from a terminal next to the bagging machine, which means that the weigher is not supervised directly.
Cleaning with high-pressure water
Cleaning takes place by warming up the freeze store to temperatures above zero degrees. Then, the weigher is washed down with high-pressure water and dried. The buckets are hanged on a washing trolley outside the freeze store for high-pressure hosing and drying to avoid any water in the product zone when restarting production.
Trust is the key word
“We have chosen BILWINCO as our supplier because we trust BILWINCO. In our working relationship, we experience their vast expertise and ability to constantly develop, which guarantees us the latest technology. We have every confidence in BILWINCO as they live up to all agreements and back us up with the best possible after-sales service. Many variables are important when choosing a supplier – and just as important, the weighers must meet our requirements: they must weigh high-precision portions within a very wide weighing range; they must tolerate temperatures below freezing, just as easy cleaning is a must,” concludes Mr Nilsson.
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