The Rannoch Food Group has chosen METTLER TOLEDO SAFELINE metal detectors for its new Cucina Sano factory which produces high quality, hand crafted ready meals for leading food retailers.

“We opened the new factory in March 2006 producing products for a leading Retailer,” said Cucina Sano’s Engineering Manager Paul Groves. “The products vary in their complexities but primarily consist of Mediterranean vegetable and salad products. Each is hand crafted on one of our four production lines.”

“Retailers can be extremely demanding in their quality requirements and insist that suppliers rigorously check all food products for possible metal contamination prior to shipment. We therefore cannot take any chances that metal contaminants, no matter how small, will go undetected, so we had to choose the best detectors available,” added Paul.

“The METTLER TOLEDO SAFELINE range is already renowned for its quality, but we decided to choose them on the recommendation of another company, who had complete confidence in the machines. We purchased four units and are very satisfied with their performance, reliability, robust construction, user friendly user interfaces and their ability to conform to strict codes of practice. The machines are fantastic in comparison to their competitors and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to anyone,” he concluded.

The R Series Profile sets the industry benchmark for sensitivity and reliability. Its sophisticated new digital signal processing techniques measure the electronic profile of the product to be inspected, ensuring the most accurate detection currently available. Positioned so that conveyors pass right through the detector, the R Series has a multi-frequency coil system allowing sensitivity to be optimised for a wide range of products. This ensures detection of non-magnetic stainless steel contaminants, which are notoriously difficult to detect under normal circumstances.

A Change Free mode also means settings do not have to be adjusted every time different products are passed through the detector. Most detectors only have a single phase filter that either needs to be reset for each product or set to an arbitrary value to accommodate all products. The R Series’ Change Free mode, however, uses multiple phase filtering, which measures and memorises the electronic profile of each individual product, allocating each its own unique phase filter.

The detectors use the latest colour touch-screen interfaces with a Windows icon-style screen layout, making them very easy and intuitive to operate. The interface also allows new features to be easily added, making setting up simple yet secure.

An important feature of the entire METTLER TOLEDO SAFELINE range is in-built conditioning monitoring. This means the detectors constantly monitor the condition of their coil systems and electronics and give advance warning if maintenance is required. This ensures fail-safe operation and provides an alternative to supplementary automated external checking systems. The result is maximum up-time and peace of mind for the operator.

Traceability, performance validation and proof of regulatory compliance are now essential requirements for all metal detection equipment. The R Series Profile offers all these features, but goes even further, providing enhanced data collection facilities that record detector usage and product through-put, which can be recorded, monitored and saved via cache storage, histogram displays and Ethernet communications.

METTLER TOLEDO is the world’s leading supplier of in-line metal detection, checkweighing and X-ray inspection systems. The company’s metal detector range, which includes the R Series Profile and R Series Signature, is the world leader in product contaminant detection and quality assurance for the food and pharmaceutical industries.

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