Our experts have considerable experience in the dried fruit snack industry and in optimizing food processing efficiencies by helping our customers find the right equipment for their needs. Our fruit snacks processing equipment can quickly and efficiently process fruit snacks, including dried, blended, salted, and flavored fruit snacks, in a variety of ways, and our metal detection and X-ray machines lead the industry in package testing and contaminant detection technology. Our processing and packaging equipment handle product gently, weighs product accurately, and packages product securely, reducing waste and increasing our customers’ bottom line.
The growing market for nutraceuticals and functional foods leads to additional challenges for metal detection which can be solved through the use of multi-spectrum technology.
Read moreThe snack food market is one of the strongest markets in the food world and continues to increase due to several factors, including an increasing trend for global and non-traditional flavor options, an increasing demand for snacks among the millennial population, and the growth of mixed and blended products. However, operations teams are also faced with labor shortages, productivity needs, and accuracy requirements.
Read moreIn 1972, Ishida revolutionized the packaging industry by inventing computer combination weighing (CCW) technology. Ishida, the biggest name in weighing technology, offers the ultimate performance and delivers the top performing multihead weighing machines so their customers’ products are handled gently, cleanly, and efficiently.
Read moreThe FastBack® 4.0’s patented circular to linear motion design gently handles product so it is undamaged, and the coatings are undisturbed to provide the ultimate performance, flexibility, and highest travel rates and flow rate capacity in the industry.
Read moreThe Ishida Inspira Snack Bagmaker (Inspira) is a vertical form fill sealing (VFFS) machine, an automated packaging system that fills and seals products in formed bags from roll stock. Inspira incorporates next generation snack packaging technology and offers a new level of automation and efficiency to consistently produce quality bags, dramatically increasing production efficiency for snack food manufacturers.
Read moreFlexibility in an automated case packaging machine increases efficiency and gives more options for product and packaging variations.
Read moreMetal is one of the most commonly found contaminants in food and can be introduced at all stages of food manufacturing. By identifying metal contaminants during processing or packaging, a metal detector helps ensure the safety and the integrity of a wide range of unpackaged, packaged, or bulk goods and helps to eliminate metal contaminants from a food manufacturer’s finished product.
Read moreCheckweighers are designed to divert inferior product off the production line. Depending on a manufacturer’s product, Ishida provides several rejector arm options to optimize the checkweighing process.
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