Design Notes
Upgrading a dairy company’s production safety
Fortress Technology installed this twin aperture Stealth metal detector and dual-lane Raptor 200 checkweigher to integrate with a dual-head VFFS bagging system for a leading dairy producer.
Edited by Mike Santora • Managing Editor
When a leading North American dairy plant needed significant space and cost savings for packaging its shredded cheese, they worked with Fortress Technology to find a solution. The Fortress Technology team custom-engineered the twin aperture Stealth metal detector and dual lane Raptor 200 checkweigher. The twin lane conveyor configuration consolidates a single metal detector divided into two apertures and two independent, weightverification Raptor checkweighers for optimized quality control. Each technology and lane have their own air-blast reject mechanism to isolate metal contaminants and weight rejects, helping to reduce product waste by over 50%. Measuring 10- in length, Fortress also integrated a radius conveyor into the metal detector infeed. 32
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For the producer of some of the world’s most iconic cheese brands, compromising on metal detection sensitivity was not an option. Explaining the benefits of the multi-aperture metal detector concept, Fortress Technology spokesperson Eric Garr explained, “Compared to the alternative multi-lane contaminant detection and combination systems on the market, the high-spec Fortress multi-aperture system was engineered specifically to ensure that that there was no trade-off in performance and metal detection sensitivity. One of the key benefits of a twin aperture system is the halving of waste caused by rejects.”
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