Scale Reduces Fixed Price-Fixed Weigh Give Away

More pre-packed fruit and vegetables appear on the supermarket shelves fixed weight and fixed price.

More pre-packed fruit and vegetables appear on the supermarket shelves fixed weight and fixed price.

Because of that, packers and producers are having to find ways of weighing and packing with minimum give away and weight loss.

That is according to Aja, which added that historically, five per cent to 10 per cent and over of give away has been the norm and for many packers that has been tolerable.

However, now with increasing overheads and constant pressure on margins, huge savings that go straight to the bottom line can be made by weighing fixed weight pre-packs more accurately with minimum possible give away.

There are a number of systems on the market if users have a robust product that needs to be packed in high volume.

However, if there is a specialist or seasonal line, a product that is delicate or awkward to handle, Aja said that its TDW Selector manual multiweigh scale could be the answer.

Already used by many produce packers, for grapes (one black bunch, one white bunch - fixed price), half-vine tomatoes (two half-vines to a fixed weight) leeks (fixed number, fixed weight), sweet potatoes and kumars and courgettes, for instance.

The company claimed that with its systems users can achieve give away as low as one per cent or less.

The Selector scale is portable and said to beb user friendly.

The operator does not have to think and can follow the lights telling he or she which pieces to pick up to make the best combination, said Aja.

Speeds of 12 packs per minute and are over are said to be achievable with two operators.

Aja said it can supply the Selector Scale in a range of configurations to suit virtually any application, including bulk.

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