Ready to eat salads are extremely popular and changing trends mean recipes must continually evolve to capture consumer interest in this competitive segment. Heat and Control has the equipment to help.
Consumers want inspiring combinations with new and exciting ingredients, and packaging is becoming a key factor in their purchase decision.
Smart, sustainable packaging is trending, and the right packaging features ensure your customers receive the best version of your product and the best impression of yourbrand.
Fast, flexible systems are needed to process high quality, salad-based meals ‘on demand’ and the relatively short shelf life of fresh salad can be a major challenge.
Ishida has extensive experience in packing salad products and sets the standard for filling into preformed trays.
According to local distributor Heat and Control, Ishida’s salad packaging solutions for pre-prepared salads provide high quality processing speeds for even the most complex ingredient mixes.
Ishida Rotary Salad Filler
Packing salad into trays can be a challenge because the salad leaf has a free-flowing volume or ‘bulk density’, which can be up to three times the volume of the tray.
This means the leaf will not fit naturally into the confines of the tray, causing it to spill over when packed.
The Ishida Rotary Salad filler is an automatic, high-speed equipment solution that uses the latest technology to overcome this problem, making packing salad easier and more cost effective.
This innovative equipment automatically fills salad into preformed trays at high speeds with virtually no spillage at the fill point.
It can process up to 50 trays per minute, per lane (on all pack formats) and when combined with an Ishida combination weigher, it fills trays cleanly, efficiently and cost effectively.
Preformed trays can be fed by hand, or via an automatic denesting system.
The filler fills the tray via theIshida combination weigher and tamps (settles) the product twice to ensure it is fully in thetray.
Trays are then lowered at the exit of the machine to ensure all product remains in the tray.
This equipment has been designed for standard market tray sizes from 140gm – 450gm.
Trays can be narrow or wide edge leading, and it is suitable for tray sealing, ultrasonic sealing or shrink banding.
This story first appeared in the July issue of Food & Drink Business magazine.
