Ishida Europe’s recently-launched leak detector is helping food manufacturers to minimise spoilage in pre-packed retail packs, including bags, pouches and trays.
Designed for use with a wide variety of foods such as fresh, cooked and cured meat and poultry, seafood, ready meals and salads, the Ishida AirScan uses advanced laser technology to identify leaks of CO2 from holes as small as 0.25mm in sealed modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) packs at speeds of up to 180 packs per minute.
The Ishida AirScan offers fast, 100% reliable and completely non-destructive identification of leaks. It has been designed to be easily integrated into existing production lines, ensuring maximum quality control and brand protection without compromising on high throughput and minimum packing time.
In addition, by maintaining the optimum gas fill for each pack, the leak detector provides consistent product quality, and allows production problems to be identified and rectified quickly. It also reduces the amount of packaging that has to be scrapped, while the non-destructive testing process ensures that product can be re-packed.
The Ishida AirScan is part of Ishida Europe’s quality control range, which also includes X-ray inspection systems, checkweighers, weigh-price-labellers, seal testers and vision systems.
