Cabinplant reduces give-away with new multi batcher

With its new design and improved weighing software, the company says that the machine significantly reduces the give-away by four-times compared to any other conventional weighing machines on the market.

Accurate weighing technology ensures that the portions are packed in an optimal combination, enabling fish manufacturers to deliver portions that meet legal requirements and reduces the give-away to an absolute minimum.

“The weighing machines that are on the market at the moment typically offer a tolerance of plus/minus 200 grams and the extra amount above the portion size is a pure give-away of profits for the fish manufacturers. Depending on the price of the fish per kilo, this can add up to a considerable amount,” explains Henning Ingemann Hansen, R&D director at Cabinplant.

The multi batcher is designed to make a portion out of four weighed partial portions instead of merely having one weighing hopper. The machine automatically combines the partial portions to provide the best possible batch weight. The principle of combinatorial weighing - known from Cabinplant’s successful multihead weighing machines - results in higher accuracy.

The machine is also designed to make the cleaning process easy and less time-consuming and is constructed from non-corrosive stainless steel. Cabinplant has developed the multi batcher in two sizes so that is has the capacity to handle even the largest mackerels and portion sizes from 10 to 30 kilos.