Pet Food

Your Partner in Pet Food

Ishida can help you handle your pet food products, from wet, sticky applications, to dry, free-flowing applications. We offer dedicated solutions and relevant experience that adds value to your processes. Our machines are specially designed to deal with products which are often sticky and can have high moisture content, such as dog food.

Why Ishida for Pet Food?

Pet food production challenges go beyond weighing accuracy and speed. You can reduce noise and simplify intensive cleaning regimes with Ishida. Our machines are engineered for ease of cleaning, available with IP69k waterproof test ratings to deal with wet production environments. We also provide outstanding quality control equipment to monitor the weight of packaged products and detect foreign bodies in a variety of different pet food pack types, including bags and tins.

Challenges Addressed

• Wet pet food prone to sticking and slower product flow
• Dry pet food prone to breakage
• Stray bone fragments and other foreign bodies in fresh pet food
• Minimising product giveaway through accurate portion weighing and end of line control
• Ensuring product safety and adhering to all compliance requirements

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Wet pet food prone to sticking and slower product flow

Multihead Weigher
Powerful vibratory feeders incorporating pulse width modulation, steep angles and C4 embosssed contact parts promote the flow of sticky pet food.

Dry pet food prone to breakage

Multihead Weigher
Reduced drop heights, curved and shallow angle hopper designs, shallow angle discharge chutes, cushion pipes and optional ring shutters all contribute to eliminating product damage.

Stray bone fragments and other foreign bodies in fresh pet food

X-Ray Inspection
Sensitive detection through a combination of low voltage detection and the use of Ishida patented Genetic Algorithms (GA)

Minimising product giveaway through accurate portion weighing and end of line control

Multihead Weigher
Ishida's full range of multihead weighers are equipped with advanced electronics, high speed digitial filtering and specialist contact parts to ensure the best possible weighing performance.

Checkweigher
The use of Ishida's precission weigh cells delivers accurate product weighing to assist against product giveaway.

Ensuring product safety and adhering to all compliance requirements

X-ray Inspection
Detects and eliminates products with foreign bodies while meeting the most stringent X-ray emissions and retail compliance requirements

Checkweigher
Ishida Checkweighers are produced in accordance with regional weight directives. Systems can also be configured to comply to Supermarkets code of practice requirements.