New weighers increase production capacity at Wagg Food
GAME have recently designed, installed and commissioned new ‘Double Deck Weighers’ to increase the production capacity for the leading petfood producer, Wagg Foods.
The increased production capacity required by the installation of a third extruder at the Dalton Mill, could not be met by their existing blending plant, and the time taken to fill and empty the two existing weighers limits the number of batches which can be made at any given time.
In order to increase the number of batches per hour the filling and emptying times needed to be reduced. This was successfully achieved by replacing the existing weighers with new ‘Double Deck Weigher’ units.
The upper chamber of the weigher was suspended from load cells and levelling screws were employed to spread the contents evenly into the space. Next a system of specially designed grid slides quickly discharged the entire batch into the lower chamber, which was then discharged slowly into the existing take away conveying system. In the meantime the next batch was being created in the empty chamber above.
In addition to this, weigher filling times were reduced by the installation of secondary filling routes from the existing and new raw material bins and silos.
George Page stated “These new weighers will allow an increase in production, without the need to construct more blending bins. We believe that this has saved Wagg Foods over a million pounds of additional investment. The new weighers were successfully installed in a short shutdown window and without any significant loss of production”.
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