No more noodle giveaway

The speed and accuracy of the Ishida Fresh Food Weigher has enabled German noodle manufacturer Geflügelhof Martin Zapf to double its production of fresh pasta and reduce giveaway.

Spätzle, the irregular-length noodles extruded from a durum wheat dough, are a German delicacy commonly made at home or in restaurants. Zapf has for many years made its own version for retail, with a home-made taste.

Zapf wanted to automate the packing process. The existing system of manually weighing noodles into 500g plastic bags was tedious and time-consuming, involving five workers using bench scales. Zapf called in Ishida. It recommended its Fresh Food Weigher, a recently-developed multi-head weigher that provides the speed and accuracy of combination weighing, but which enables an operator to oversee the entry of very sticky products.

The weigher has doubled weekly output at Zapf to 2t operating two days a week.

Contact: Ishida Europe; Tel: 0121 607 7700