Multi-Fill chosen as part of US$5million upgrade at Sandridge Food Corporation

Multi-Fill Inc. of Utah USA , who specialise in the manufacture of semi-automatic and automatic volumetric fillers for the Home Meal Replacement, Convenience Foods and Food Service industries, have successfully installed a MPFSC-120 filler for Sandridge Food Corporation in Ohio.

Sandridge Food Corporation is a leading North American Food Service Company, who have been in the industry for over 50 years. They produce close to 500 different fresh food products ranging from salads, soups, pastas to meatloaves. The company recently invested US$5million in a high pressure processing (HPP) line, which included a Multi-Fill food filler.

The MPFSC-120 volumetric filler dispenses clean, accurate portions of many difficult to fill products such as pastas and rices. Sandridge Foods will use the machine to fill penne and spaghetti pasta products into 1 – 4.5kg containers at speeds of up to 40 cpm.

The MPFSC-120 is a mobile unit which can be positioned over container conveying systems, as well as a wide range of horizontal and vertical bagging systems. It can be quickly cleaned for a product changeover or moved to a different production line in minutes, ready to fill a different product into a different container with minimum parts.

Features of the unit include:

• adjustable volumetric pocket system for precision dosing
• no container-no fill function activated by proximity sensor
• vacuum system which assists product flow, especially for traditionally difficult to handle products, e.g. cooked spaghetti, IQF rice and wet salads
• food grade Stainless Steel construction, in compliance with international standard