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Our industry leading end-to-end potato and kettle chips systems process, inspect, package, and produce the world’s most popular and highest quality batch and continuous kettle-style/hard-bite chips. Our potato and kettle chips processing equipment sets the standard in the potato industry for dependability and produces the world’s best tasting potato chips, regardless of the style. Our experts, together with our strategic partners, offer you full turnkey solutions, from spud to shipping.

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Ishida 50th anniversary blog article

Pioneering a better weigh for 50 years

In 1972, Ishida revolutionized the packaging industry by inventing computer combination weighing (CCW) technology. Ishida, the biggest name in weighing technology, offers the ultimate performance and delivers the top performing multihead weighing machines so their customers’ products are handled gently, cleanly, and efficiently.

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FastBack 4.0 Horizontal Motion Conveyor Blog Article

Beautifully simple

The FastBack® 4.0’s patented circular to linear motion design gently handles product so it is undamaged, and the coatings are undisturbed to provide the ultimate performance, flexibility, and highest travel rates and flow rate capacity in the industry.

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Ishida Inspira Bagger for Snack Foods

Inspira: World’s Best Performing Snack Bagmaker

The Ishida Inspira Snack Bagmaker (Inspira) is a vertical form fill sealing (VFFS) machine, an automated packaging system that fills and seals products in formed bags from roll stock. Inspira incorporates next generation snack packaging technology and offers a new level of automation and efficiency to consistently produce quality bags, dramatically increasing production efficiency for snack food manufacturers.

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Ishida Case Packaging Machine

The Importance of Packaging Configuration Options

Flexibility in an automated case packaging machine increases efficiency and gives more options for product and packaging variations.

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Metal detection for food manufacturers

Metal Detection—Single Frequency vs. Multi-Frequency

Metal is one of the most commonly found contaminants in food and can be introduced at all stages of food manufacturing. By identifying metal contaminants during processing or packaging, a metal detector helps ensure the safety and the integrity of a wide range of unpackaged, packaged, or bulk goods and helps to eliminate metal contaminants from a food manufacturer’s finished product.

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Packaged Product Being Rejected by Checkweigher

Checkweigher Rejector Options: Flip, Fall, or Fly

Checkweighers are designed to divert inferior product off the production line. Depending on a manufacturer’s product, Ishida provides several rejector arm options to optimize the checkweighing process.

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Potato product inspection and packaging

How a Spud Becomes a Snack - Part 3

The steps involved in inspecting and packaging a potato chip

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Potato product frying and seasoning machinery

How a Spud Becomes a Snack - Part 2

The steps involved in frying a sliced raw potato

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