Ishida Europe is upgrading its Atlas range of snack food bagmakers in order to increase the machine’s speeds on Potato Chips by a further 35% to 150 bags per minute.
The new Ishida Charge Transfer Control (CTC) system is easily retrofitted to existing Atlas systems, enables boosting of packing capacity and requires for additional floor space.
CTC provides control of the product charge as well as improves the weighing and bagmaking operation. Due to reduction in product charge length, speeds can be closely controlled to deliver the increased throughput while contributing to lower product and film waste.
Featuring a rotary poker and shutter system, the CTC's operation is a high speed chute design combined with gentle product handling. Monitoring and control is done through the Ishida Snacks system control screen.
According to Ishida, the CTC enhances the performance of the Atlas bagmaker whose double rotary jaw motion delivers better packing speeds along with accurate film registration and tight bag seals.
Ishida Europe snacks packaging systems business manager Business Manager Simon Ruffley said that this is a further improvement to what was already the best-in-class weighing and bagging solution for the snacks market.
"Through further control of the product charge, we have once again extended the boundaries of what can be achieved, delivering the sort of high packing speeds for snack products that up until now were simply unattainable," Ruffley added.
Image: Ishida iTPS system with enhanced CTC delivers 150 bags per minute. Photo courtesy of Ishida Europe Ltd.