Confectionery & Snack Foods industry
The Confectionery and Snack Food segment includes food products such as chocolates, candy bars, sweets, jellies, gums, hard and chew candies, through to snack foods such as potato chips, crisps, ready to eat nuts, trail mix, savory snacks, energy and granola bars.
Challenges in this field
Some challenges found within this sector include:
Large amount of processing and production of the food product, which increase the chance of stainless steel contamination caused by processing and packaging machine failure.
Warm, sticky and dusty environments and the need for regular cleaning of machines, conveyors and belts.
Increasing use of metalized film and foil in packaging of many snack and confectionery products, making conventional metal detection difficult to use.
Integrity of products during the production process (i.e. cracking or missing coating on a chocolate bar) or missing items.
Product temperature varies throughout processing lines which can affect product signals in metal detection equipment.
Some snacks are made up many ingredients, which give big product effect challenges to metal detection.
Why choose ZEGOO?
ZEGOO has recognized solutions for metal detection, weight sorting, dynamic in-line Checkweighing, and can provide combined Check and Detect solutions, where detection and weighing occur on the same system.
With ZEGOO’s Quality first priority philosophy, equipment is designed to withstand the demanding environments found within many factories.
Gravity feed inspection systems such as Vertical Falls for dried snacks and the compact Waferthin for installation above bagging machines.
