Further underlining its commitment to ensuring ultimate quality assurance and brand protection for global food manufacturers, processors and packers, Loma Systems is highlighting the benefits of integrating its newly launched X5c (Compact) x-ray machine with its CW3 checkweigher.

This combination inspection detection system can be easily integrated where production space is limited, it says, and helps ensure food manufactures continue to adhere to the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) standards and retailers’ codes of practice. The Loma X5c compact x-ray machine can be bolted on to an existing CW3 as one unit for truly effective critical control point (CCP) detection.

Built to Loma’s ‘Designed to Survive’ specifications, the combined x-ray and checkweigher system, including reject facility, measures just 2.5 metres in length when fully integrated. Produced from 304 grade stainless steel, the complete ‘combo’ unit is lead free and offers an unrivalled IP55 wash down design. Capable of running at speeds up to 150 packs per minute, it is operated using two independent control panels and has separate reject bins for out of weight and contaminated products.

Loma’s X5c also reduces the cost of ownership of x-ray technology by 30 per cent when compared to the company’s other X5 models, making it ideal for food companies keen to make the switch to x-ray for the first time or to replace lower performance ferrous in foil twin head metal detectors.