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Product Overview
The Multi-Head Combination Weigher is the core of high-speed, high-precision packaging lines. Utilizing advanced computing to select the optimal weight combination from multiple weigh hoppers, it delivers unparalleled speed and accuracy for free-flowing products. This technology is essential for snack foods, frozen vegetables, confectionery, pet food, and hardware items, where minimizing giveaway and maximizing throughput are critical for profitability. By drastically reducing product overfill, it ensures compliance and significant cost savings.
Key Futures
Ultra-High Speed & Accuracy: Achieves remarkable weighing speeds (e.g., 100+ weighments per minute) with exceptional precision, making it ideal for fast-paced production lines where every gram counts.
Reduced Product Giveaway: Its intelligent combinatorial algorithm consistently selects the weight combination closest to the target, minimizing overfill. This direct reduction in product waste translates into substantial annual material savings.
Gentle Product Handling: Configurations with soft-release hoppers or bucket-style designs ensure fragile products like chips, crackers, or delicate frozen fruits are handled with care, maintaining product integrity.
Exceptional Flexibility: Easily adapts to different product types, densities, and bag weights through user-friendly recipe memory on the HMI. Changeovers are quick and simple, supporting diverse production runs.
Seamless Integration: Designed to work flawlessly with downstream vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) baggers, horizontal pouch machines, or tray sealing systems, creating a synchronized and efficient packaging cell.
Hygienic & Robust Design: Constructed with stainless steel contact parts and easy-clean surfaces, it meets stringent food safety standards (e.g., FDA, GMP) and is built for reliable 24/7 operation.
In summary, this weigher is engineered to be the reliable, intelligent heart of your packaging operation, driving efficiency and protecting your profits through unmatched speed, precision, and smart savings.
Technical Parameters
Model | MS-10 | MS-14 |
Weighing range | 10-1000g/100-5000g | 10-1500g/100-5000g |
Weighing accuracy range | ±1-3g/3-10g | ±1-3g/3-10g |
Max weighing speed | 65 P/M | 120 P/M |
Hopper capacity | 1.6L/2.5L/5L | |
Operating interface | Operating interface | |
Optional device | 60 angled waterproof frame, dimple plate, rotary top cone, stopper ring | |
Drive mode | Step Motor | |
Power Requirements | 220V/1000W/50/60Hz/10A 220V/2000W/50/60Hz/10A | |
Packaging size(mm) | 1620(L)x1080(W)x1120(H) 2080(L)×1190(W)×1805(H) | 1700(L)x1080(W)x1210(H) 2179(L)×1382(W)×1805(H) |
Packaging weight | 400kg/600kg | 500kg/800kg |
Pet Food Manufacturing
In pet food production, the multi-head combination weigher is critical for high-speed packaging of dry kibble, semi-moist treats, and freeze-dried ingredients. It handles varied pellet sizes and densities with consistent accuracy, ensuring every bag meets labelled weight claims and compliance standards. The weigher's gentle weighing buckets preserve pellet integrity to reduce fines, while its rapid speed and minimal giveaway directly lower material costs—a key factor in large-volume production. The hygienic, easy-clean design supports frequent recipe changeovers between different pet food formulas.
Frozen Seafood & Vegetable Processing
For frozen products like shrimp, scallops, mixed vegetables, and IQF (Individually Quick Frozen) fruits, the combination weigher offers specialized solutions. It operates reliably in cold environments and is configured with anti-condensation features. The system’s quick, precise weighing minimizes product exposure to ambient temperature. Its gentle handling preserves the quality of delicate frozen items, while high accuracy ensures fair trading weight and reduces giveaway of high-value products. The stainless-steel construction and washdown protection meet stringent hygiene requirements for frozen food processing.
Confectionery & Snack Manufacturing
For confectionery and snack producers, the combination weigher solves the dual challenge of preserving product integrity while achieving top speeds. It gently handles delicate items like cheese puffs, breakfast cereals, chocolate-covered nuts, and candy pieces, using soft-release mechanisms to minimize breakage. Its precision is crucial for premium pre-packaged gift boxes or multi-component mixes (e.g., trail mix), ensuring exact weight portions for each ingredient. Fast, tool-less changeover and sealed design prevent flavor cross-contamination when switching between product batches, enabling agile production of diverse snack varieties.
Health, Pharmaceutical & Cosmetics Sectors
In these precision-critical industries, the weigher meets stringent GMP and cGMP requirements for accuracy and hygiene. It is ideal for dosing sensitive materials such as pharmaceutical granules, vitamin capsules, powdered supplements, and cosmetic beads into bottles, pouches, or blister packs. The system’s high-accuracy, closed design, and dust containment are vital for protecting product purity, ensuring exact dosages, and minimizing exposure. With validation-ready features and polished stainless steel construction, it provides the reliability and traceability required for handling high-value, regulated ingredients and finished goods.
Food & Beverage – Bulk & Ready-to-Eat
Beyond snacks, the weigher is central to packaging granular rice, beans, pasta, instant noodles, and salad toppings. It delivers portion control accuracy for ready-to-eat meals and bulk goods. The robust design handles a wide range of densities and flow characteristics, ensuring reliability in high-volume, continuous operations. Its contribution to minimizing overfill is a direct source of substantial cost savings across millions of packages, while its compliance-ready construction supports food safety protocols.
What makes a multi-head weigher more accurate and faster than a single scale?
Its speed and accuracy come from intelligent computing. Instead of weighing one portion at a time, it uses multiple weigh hoppers (e.g., 10-24 heads). A high-speed processor instantly calculates the optimal combination of hoppers to meet the exact target weight. This happens in milliseconds, enabling high-speed weighing (e.g., 100+ weighments/minute) with minimal giveaway, far surpassing any single-head system.
Can it handle a wide range of different products on the same line?
Absolutely. It is designed for maximum flexibility. Through the user-friendly HMI, operators can store digital recipes for different products—varying in size, shape, and density (e.g., from light chips to heavy nuts). Changeover often involves just selecting a new recipe and may require simple hopper/bucket changes, allowing quick switches between products with minimal downtime.
How does it help reduce our product giveaway and save costs?
This is its core economic benefit. The intelligent combination algorithm continuously selects the weight closest to (but not below) your target weight. This precision drastically reduces overfilling. Over millions of packages, the savings in raw material costs are substantial, typically providing a very fast return on investment (ROI) by minimizing waste.
Is it suitable for fragile or sticky products?
Yes, with the right configuration. For fragile products like chips or crackers, soft-release hoppers or bucket-style weighers gently cradle and deposit the product. For sticky or oily products, specialized hoppers with non-stick coatings, liners, or air-purge systems are available to ensure consistent release and prevent buildup, maintaining accuracy and hygiene.
How easy is it to clean and maintain?
Designed for hygiene. Key components feature quick-release mechanisms for hoppers and buckets. The structure uses smooth, stainless steel surfaces with minimal ledges. Many models offer CIP (Clean-in-Place) capabilities for internal channels. This design enables fast cleaning, reduces labor, and ensures compliance with food safety standards like FDA and GMP.
Can it be integrated seamlessly with our existing packaging machine?
Yes, integration is a standard strength. It is engineered to work as the perfect upstream partner for Vertical Form-Fill-Seal (VFFS) machines, horizontal pouch machines, or tray sealers. It communicates directly with the downstream machine via standard interfaces (e.g., PLC, digital I/O), ensuring synchronized, high-speed, start-stop operation for maximum line efficiency.
