New weighing system raises productivity of McCain Scarborough's oven chips production

McCain Foods UK Ltd’ has recently improved the process performance of the existing intake potato conveyor belt weigher at its oven-ready chips manufacturing operation in Scarborough, north Yorkshire.

The company had previously identified that the existing belt weigher was not performing well and was unreliable: with weight measurement, in particular, not having functioned properly since installation.

To resolve these issues, McCain Foods replaced the existing weigher with a new FX belt weigher and I400 controller, from Precia-Molen, which could be operated in conjunction with the plants own process control system.

“We now have the confidence to operate the potato intake conveyor weigh scale in conjunction with our own production automated process which is something we could never have before,” said Tony Rudeforth - McCains senior technical shift engineer.