Loma Systems launches IQ4 metal detector series

Loma Systems has launched its new IQ4 of next generation metal detection systems, which is said to offer improved sensitivity compared to previous models and an array of features designed to deliver optimum production efficiencies.

Loma has developed the new series to meet customers’ common inspection challenges and provide design, performance, usability, quality and flexibility benefits, while ensuring low lifetime cost of ownership and meeting ‘designed to survive’ criteria.

With the combination of enhanced auto learn functionality, improved product screening and more sophisticated signal processing, the IQ4 is said to provide significant improvements in detection performance. Compared to previous generation Loma IQ3+ST Metal Detectors, the IQ4 can provide up to a 35% improvement in detection sensitivity with tough to handle metallised film products and achieves this without having to result to complex or expensive simultaneous frequency technologies.

The technology has enabled Loma to introduce variable frequency to its pipeline, wafer thin and vertical fall metal detectors for the first time. Operating between 31-882 kHz, all metal detectors in the range are capable of automatically selecting correct operating frequency so changes in products or packaging that necessitate an alteration in frequency no longer require costly and inconvenient operator intervention. In addition, variable frequency allows processors to easily run different pack sizes and shapes whilst benefiting from improved stability and sensitivity.

In an industry first, all models in the IQ4 metal detectors boast a newly designed seven inch colour touchscreen with a modernised and more intuitive interface that has been developed to simplify operation, deliver instant clarity to inspection status and provide straight forward access to a host of advanced functionality.

A newly expanded auto learn functionality significantly reduces set up time and provides a more optimum sensitivity set up. This means the IQ4 Metal Detectors are ready to use and reduces the need for time consuming product set up by highly trained engineers and ensures more uptime.

Toby Kemp, Loma’s global marketing manager, explains, “The IQ4 series is the culmination of 50 years of working closely with our global customers, major retailers and organisations like the BRC to truly understand current and future inspection challenges. As a result, we truly believe that the IQ4 is the last generation metal detector the industry is likely to need. It is probably the most future proof system we have ever built and we are confident that the IQ4 is the best all round metal detector range currently available on the market.”