News Flash
Confectionery Application for SK-WP
reported by kiyoshi Kouno International Marketing Division
HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) is getting popular in the food industries as a means of hygienic quality control for safe food. (If you have not heard of HACCP before, please visit http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/haccp.html for further information.)
The trend is to use digital scales to replace mechanical dial scales for accurate and faster weighing not only for food industries but also for all other industries all over the world.
We have therefore been supplying our weighing products to many confectionery manufacturers and retail outlets in Japan. Recently one of the biggest confectionery companies started to use the TITAN HV/W-WP series and SK-WP series for their R&D, Production and QC applications, because the IP-65 rating for dust and waterproof application of these models is very important for the customer in keeping within HACCP limits for their safe food manufacturing purposes, since they work well even in environments with high powder and particle conditions.
The customer has introduced more than 100 units of A&D weighing scales at one factory now, to add to the couple of other factories where they are also using them for the same application.
The workers clean the scales every day after use by alcohol to disinfect and protect the scales from contamination, as per HACCP rules. For this reason, the stainless steel case body of the scales is ideal for their needs
They use the TITAN for weighing raw materials such as flour, cacao, milk, sugar, butter, oil and so on, and the SK-WP for weighing contents and toppings to control the weight of the confectionery.
These factories are also planning to introduce our new TITAN Mini HL-WP series in the near future to weigh confectionery for HACCP applications.
We hope that all of you are interested in the TITAN, SK-WP and HL-WP for their outstanding dust and waterproof features which make them ideally suited for compliance with HACCP guidelines.