#WEIGH PRICE LABELLER FULL#

In the past, people were putting bags over machines or settling for wiping machines down because they couldn’t wash them. This means you can take a jet wash to it.

#WEIGH PRICE LABELLER FULL#

So, we designed it in such a way that you can close the garage to the printer, which makes it a full IP69K machine. What often happens is someone uses a pressure jet wash and the machines that are not IP-rated can suffer damage. You can’t have a water-resistant printer, so we approached it from the point of view of what happens during a clean-down. Q) WHAT DESIGN FEATURES ARE INTEGRAL FOR PRODUCTS OPERATING IN FRESH FOOD ENVIRONMENTS?Ī) One of the biggest conundrums is with printing. Q) HOW CLOSELY DO CONVERSATIONS WITH CUSTOMERS HELP TO SHAPE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT?Ī) They absolutely help shape the development, as does the experience of the engineers who have been working in the field for years some of whom have worked for our competitors and witnessed the frustrations of customers first hand.Įverything we did within the design of the machine was driven from that feedback over many years and the issues with these types of machines already out there. We saw some of the problems on other machines and engineered all those issues out of our machine from inception stage.

There’s not one cable tie on the WPL-S there are clear open runs, no traps, no areas where anything can build up to form a hygiene hazard. Some other machines are cluttered with cables, cable ties and various hygiene traps. Q) WHAT ARE SOME OF THE STANDOUT FEATURES AND HOW DO THEY DIFFER FROM OTHER MACHINES CURRENTLY ON THE MARKET?Ī) It can be totally washed-down. Going through various designs we paid particular attention to hygiene, which is very important in the food industry. Our Service Engineers were involved in the design process, so from a customer point of view, it is built with ease of maintenance in mind. We made the decision we were going to build and assemble this in the UK. We had a blank canvas to manufacture something new and we could see all the things wrong with the previous ways of doing things. It came about following a customer request, they wanted to switch to us from their current supplier because they knew our levels of service support are superior. Q) WHEN WAS THE WPL-S INTRODUCED AND WHAT WERE THE FACTRORS DRIVING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS MACHINE?Ī) We introduced the machine after the first quarter of 2020. The WPL-S produces labels for purposes including the calculation of price based on weight, the calculation of best by date based on product, packaging, fresh or frozen, and the calculation of cooking time based on product, size and weight.Ĭolin Maher, Minebea Intec country manager, told Packaging Scotland why the manufacturer developed the labeller in response to customer demand and about the benefits it is already delivering to production lines across the country. It boasts a configurable hygienic design and is earning huge plaudits for its versatility and reliability. The new machine is ideally suited for products such as meat, fish, dairy, fruit and vegetables.

Weigh price labeller