Nuts & Trail Mix

Somewhere on a nut line, product is leaving the building for free. Not much per pack, a few grams over the declared weight, on bags that pass every check and never trip an alarm. Multiply it across a shift and then a year.

Nuts raise the stakes, because the product is expensive. Giveaway that barely registers on a bag of chips is a significant annual number on pecans, almonds or cashews, and precision weighing is how you keep it in the plant.

Mixed products are where precision pays

A trail mix is several products of different density, piece size and flow behavior sharing one bag. A system that meters by volume or by time has no way of knowing what it just dispensed, so it carries a margin wide enough to cover its worst moment, and you pay that margin on every pack.

A Hastamat multihead combination weigher works the other way around. It weighs first and selects second, searching live weights for the combination closest to target without going under. Nothing is estimated, so nothing needs a safety margin.

What decides the configuration

• Target weight and the tolerance your market requires.
• Piece size, because it sets how finely the weigher can resolve a target.
• How many components share a bag, and whether the ratio between them matters.
• Whether the product is oily or dusty, which shapes both the handling and the cleaning specification.

Where Piepenbrock Packaging starts

With your product and your current giveaway. How a multihead weigher reduces giveaway includes a calculator that works it out from your own numbers, and Piepenbrock Packaging takes it from there with Hastamat.