Checkweighers, Vibratory Weighers and Vibratory Conveyors for the food packaging and processing industry by Driver Southall

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Unitech is the leading supplier of high quality stainless steel and aluminium equipment for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and other hygiene conscious industries.

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Unitech design and manufacture an extensive range of conveyor systems for the food processing, beverage, pharmaceutical, confectionary, bakery, meat, poultry and fish industries etc.

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Our own teams of specialist and highly trained technicians are equipped to install all aspects of catering equipment on site with full connection to all services throughout the UK and Ireland.

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Pre-packed Products - From field to shelf with the aid of Driver Southall

When DGM Growers of Spalding, Lincolnshire needed equipment to check the weight of their pre-packed potatoes, who did they turn to? Driver Southall.

Faced with the requirement to check the weight of packed potatoes, and to ensure that non of the packs were contaminated with metal, Driver Southall teamed up with metal detector manufacturers Safeline to produce a checkweigher / metal detector combination unit.

A checkweigher with metal detection

The Driver Southall P1000 checkweigher dynamically weighs the packs of potatoes coming off a packing machine. Correct weight packs are passed onto the packing table whilst under and over weight packs are rejected into a lockable bin.

The metal detector checks the packs for metal contamination at the same time and any non conforming packs are rejected into a separate lockable bin.

Weighing packs of potatoes from 200g to 5kg is no problem for the P1000 as up to 20 different product settings can be pre-programmed into the unit to speed up changeover times.

Steve Smith of DGM said:

"We had heard of Driver Southall before and knew they had a good reputation, so they were the first people we called. They certainly came up trumps with this solution. I would have no hesitation in recommending them to any company."

A checkweigher wiegher pre-packed prodcuts

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In December 2010 Driver Southall became part of the Unitech Group and are continuing to supply Checkweighers, Metal Detectors, Vibratory Conveyors,Vibratory Fillers and Vibratory Conveyors to new and existing customers.

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