Déluap weighs peppers quickly, accurately and with less manual labour now

Déluap packages a wide range of fruit and vegetables daily for companies and
exporters trading in potatoes, vegetables and fruit. A great deal has changed since 1981, while the work was done almost completely manually that first year, today they have around 20 packaging lines doing most of the work.  ‘Machines like the Manter 16000 mix weigher also contribute to the automation processes’, says Paul den Ouden. ‘

‘The margins that we can make in our business are very small’, Den Ouden explains at the latest Déluap acquisition: the Manter 16000 mix weigher. ‘With this machine, we can almost automatically provide 55 packages per minute of the well-known traffic-light packaging with a flow pack.



As a result of automation, they can make considerable savings on labour costs’, is Den Ouden’s experience. ‘Moreover, we can achieve a high capacity, because the machine always packs the exact weight. When we were still packing peppers manually, their weight was not correct in at least two out of ten times. That gave us a great deal of extra work and cost us a lot in extra wages and material costs.’
In addition to its exact weighing, Den Ouden’s experience is that the Manter weigher hardly damages the peppers at all. ‘The main reason being that there are hardly any drop heights in the machine itself. Another reason is that the round vibrating lanes channel the peppers forward quickly and without damaging them, and the valves are padded. The careful process already starts with the measured emptying of the boxes of peppers. They are first dropped onto an even conveyor belt. This makes sure that they are not ground into a pulp under the feeding belt conveyor. Subsequently, the peppers are transported into the machine, after which they are neatly divided over the 16 vibrating lanes. These lanes transport the peppers carefully towards the 16 supply buckets, which are divided into 2 groups of 5 and 1 group of 6 trays.



Because of their stiff skins, peppers do not glide very easily over the galvanised
steel. That’s why it takes a little while to vibrate the peppers into the supply
bucket. The weigher can only determine the exact weight if the weighing bucket
is 100% vibration-free. In order to vibrate the peppers first into the supply bucket,
the vibrating capacity does not need to be very high, whilst there is enough time
to weigh the product accurately once it is in the weighing bucket. Directly below
the 16 supply buckets are the 16 weighing buckets allowing each pepper to be weighed with accuracy. The pepper is a vegetable that damages easily and, as the consumer buys very much with his or her eyes, bruising is not acceptable. The state-of-the art HACCP-proof housing and the series of certificates (ISO-BRC-IFS-Skal) that Déluap has had for years are silent witnesses of the philosophy and the care for quality with which Déluap surrounds the produce of their customers. The Manter weighing machine transports and weighs the peppers with the utmost care as a result of which customers such as Déluap are even better able to operate their market. With these advanced Hi-tech Manter 16000 weigher, Déluap underlines once more their meaningful slogan: Déluap West, Quality Packers

Contact:
Manter International BV
Phileas Foggstraat 66,
NL-7825 AL Emmen,
The Netherlands
Tel: (+31) (0)591 62 63 00
email
www.manter.com

Publication date: 3/26/2009

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