A&Z Pharmaceutical has been a leading developer and manufacturer of premium nutritional supplements for more than 20 years. Their success is reflected in their renowned flagship brand, a vitamin D and calcium supplement called D-Cal®.
To protect the brand’s integrity using a more automated process, they replaced offline checkweighing with a new inline IM3100 checkweigher from METTLER TOLEDO in 2016. This unusual dual-lane, chute-fed checkweigher helped the company increase throughput and reduce labour while ensuring the quality of their product.
High Speed Inline Weighing
“We selected the IM3100 for our pouch filling line because of its impressive accuracy at high speeds despite vibrations on the line,” said Jose Rios, R&D Technician at A&Z Pharmaceutical. “We’re actually maintaining an accuracy of +/- 25 to 30 mg, which is better than what METTLER TOLEDO quoted, since we’re running a little bit slower than the rated max capacity of 120 packages per minute.”
