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“All linear feed pans, feed and weigh buckets, as well as discharge gates, were installed with extra leak-proofing due to the small size of the product. This also helped with noise absorption and provided extra protection for the pasta”.
Lee Smith, After Sales Commercial Manager at Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK
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Dave Jafrate, Projects Engineer Supervisor at Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK
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YAMATO TO SHOWCASE ITS WORLD CLASS WEIGHING SOLUTIONS AT FOODEX

YAMATO TO SHOWCASE ITS WORLD CLASS WEIGHING SOLUTIONS AT FOODEX  Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK is set to turn the spotlight onto some of its leading weighing machinery at a prestigious packaging technology show in April.  Yamato will be attending the bi-annual Foodex 2016 at the NEC in Birmingham to demonstrate the vital role that checkweighers, multihead weighers and table top weighers play throughout the food packaging process. The team will be located at stand P290, Hall 20.    The company will be exhibiting both its Table Top Semi-automatic Dataweigh (TDSW) range and its I-Series

YAMATO’S GENUINE SPARES AND SERVICE SUPPORT LEADS TO REAL COST SAVING RISK REDUCTION

Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK is helping manufacturers and processors to reduce risk, maintain their compliance and lower costs by delivering guaranteed genuine Yamato parts backed up with an official repair service. The production environment is particularly sensitive to risks relating to non-compliance, particularly with European machinery legislation such as PUWER, CE certification and the Health and Safety at Work Act. Yamato assists companies with compliance by ensuring that its machines are safe and risk-free from defective parts or dangerous modifications because its fully trained

YAMATO APPOINTS NEW PROJECT MANAGEMENT HEAD

John Mulligan has joined Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK (Yamato) as project manager, tasked with implementing processes aimed at managing Yamato’s growing customer base and delivering integrated solutions from across its range of specialist weighing machinery. With a background in overseeing projects within the automotive, medical technology and heavy industry sectors, John has worked in engineering for the past 15 years. He has gained Chartered Engineer status and Prince2 project management certification along the way. Commenting on the project manager role, Yamato’s commercial operations

Benefits of automating labour intensive packaging with Yamato weighing machinery

The majority of UK manufactures are not assessing automation’s possible benefits for their business on a regular basis, despite the vast majority planning on making capital investments in manufacturing technology before the close of 2015.Such were the findings Accenture’s Insights from the Global Manufacturing Study, with 61% of UK manufacturers are not applying automation technology to continually enhance performance at their existing plants and sites and 73% planning on investing in new technology. With 43% of investing businesses stating that Factory Flow Optimisation is their

Yamato builds on last year’s success for PPMA 2015

Following on from attending last year’s PPMA event, Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK plans on bringing a wide array of its market-leading checkweighers and multihead weighers to the PPMA 2015 to build on the awareness and overwhelming interest generated in 2014.The Yamato stand attracted lots of visitors during the show last year, as their packaging and weighing solutions continue to grow in name and reputation across the UK and European markets, as well as further afield in Israel, South Africa and the Middle East.“The PPMA event is a major fixture in our late year calendar,” said Andrea

Yamato’s Lee Smith plans Ride100 London for Action Medical Research

Lee Smith, Yamato’s Aftersales and Commercial Manager, is set to take part in the charity cycling race in August 2015, raising essential funds for the infant and children’s charity, Action Medical Research.The charity has been funding medical breakthroughs since they began in 1952 and almost everyone has been touched in some way by their ground breaking work, such as the first UK polio vaccines. Medical research to help children is poorly funded in the UK and Action Medical Research has a critical job to do in helping fill this gap to help save and change children’s lives. Cyclist

Yamato gains new Inspection Product Manager

With a background in checkweigher applications across the healthcare, pharmaceutical and food industry sectors, Mark James adds considerable expertise to Yamato Scale Dataweigh team.Joining the Yamato team in Leeds, Mark will oversee Yamato’s growth in Checkweigher operations, while also performing customer visits, developing the strategy and enhancing build processes. “It’s great to join a company that has so many long term employees, with many people being here over 20 years,” said Mark, “that’s nice to see – it’s run very well with a good management support structure.” “Yamato has

Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK Case Study - Big Bear

Big Bear Confectionery operates across numerous sites in the UK, producing more than 1,000 products for the branded and RPL confectionery markets both in the UK and abroad.Selling to large supermarket chains such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s and Aldi, Big Bear’s continued investment in technology at its Blackburn site means that it can continue to be at the forefront of its industry by being able to respond to consumer demand, and an increase in output to suit the wide-ranging needs of its clients. Customer’s motivation for investment Big Bear’s previous solution for

New Yamato Produce-Weigher is fastest in market

The F3 Frontier Produce Weigher, specially designed to reduce product damage while offering uncompromising speeds, is now available through Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK.Based on the hugely successful Sigma technology, the F3 Frontier Produce-Weigher has been re-tooled to offer optimum performance and handling of produce, ensuring superb accuracy and exceptional speed. With features based on the needs of the potato industry (both salad and main crop potatoes), the F3 Frontier Multihead Weigher is also suitable for the rapid weighing and counting of whole onions or citrus fruits.

Yamato to demonstrate their world class weighing machinery at Empack 2015

Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK is set to showcase some of their leading weighing machinery at a leading packaging technology show on February 25th & 26th, 2015.Yamato will be attending Empack 2015 to demonstrate the role checkweighers, multihead weighers and table top weighers play throughout the packaging process. They will be located at stand K1, Halls 9 & 10. The company will be exhibiting both their Table Top Semi-automatic Dataweigh (TDSW) range and their I-Series checkweighers at the Birmingham event. Yamato’s I-Series checkweigher is a high performance, resilient piece of

Paul Burton’s Yamato Year

Paul Burton, Yamato’s regional sales manager for the South of England, recently celebrated a productive year with the company. Operating from Swansea to Sussex, he has more than 19 years’ experience in the food packaging industry.Having started in the vacuum packing industry, working for Multivac and selling direct to chefs, his skillset and interests led him towards the parts of the packaging process closer to the end of line, such as checkweighers and product inspection appliances. With this knowledge of packaging and weighing machinery, Paul’s skills transferred well to his role as

Protecting your weighing machine from ingress

If you use automation in your packaging or weighing lines, then naturally you will benefit from a number of advantages, however some operations are risking damage and impaired performance through not applying best practice cleaning and maintenance processes.Investing in valuable machinery that expands your manufacturing and production ability boosts your business’s output, and as a result, your business’s profitability. This is a straightforward premise that many businesses happily subscribe to, and invest in.However, there are several activities that you need to carry out to maximise

Yamato announces PPMA launch for new Alpha Advance

Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK’s new Alpha series is to be unveiled at the event, running from 30th of September to the 2nd of October at the Birmingham NEC. The Alpha Advance Series entry-level multihead weigher offers several improvements over previous models, such as enhanced ruggedness, resilience, accuracy and speed. With new high frequency load cells that are designed for high speed weighing. Functionality is enhanced by the most recent version of the Alpha Advance series. It also boasts a modular actuator unit, incorporated with the high performance Yamato strain gauge load

20 Years with Yamato

Three of Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK’s employees have recently been awarded the ‘Long Service Award’, having each been with Yamato for 20 years.Ian Aitchison, Julie Marshall and Steve Spencer were each given the ward as a result of their long service, with each telling us a bit about their experiences at Yamato. Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK, a leading manufacturer of packaging and weighing machinery, has been operating within the UK June, 1994. Ian Aitchison, Yamato’s technical applications manager, is one of the long-time employees. Speaking of the highlights of his time at the company,

Yamato celebrates 18 years with BL Products AB

Weighing and packaging technology specialists, Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK, have enjoyed a long and successful partnership with BL Products AB in Sweden.BL Products AB was established in 1971, by inventor and businessman Bengt Lundin, and is a family owned business centred on providing customised packaging solutions throughout Scandinavia. BL Products AB operates primarily within the food industry, offering full equipment servicing, trouble-shooting and product automation solutions. “Yamato feel it is vital to have local representation, every country approaches projects and enquiries

Fast and accurate bagging of Twixit! bag clips wins the day

Lindén International AB has boosted its performance and production of Twixit! bag clips as a result of installing Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK weighers, in conjunction with Yamato’s Swedish agents BL products AB.Lindén purchased the multi-head weighers to improve production of one of its most popular products, the Twixit! range of bag clips, made popular through their relationship with IKEA. Lindén’s previous packaging solution was aging, and could not compete with the speed and functionality that newer solutions could offer, so Linden approached BL Products for a solution. Lindén

Yamato selects new agent for Norway

Weighing and packaging technology specialists Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK are now represented in Norway by Skala Foodtech, a division of Skala group.“Skala has an excellent reputation throughout the Scandinavian region, they are a large and stable company with interests in many areas,” said Andrea Spencer, commercial operations manager at Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK, “we’re incredibly pleased to have them representing us in Norway.” As Yamato’s newest agent, Skala Foodtech is responsible for the selling of Yamato’s Multihead and Checkweighers in Norway. A key part of Skala Foodtech’s role as

Athletes need fuel – can your production keep up?

Pasta is sure to be in demand as the Tour de France continues and other national sporting events take place this year, so Yamato is asking manufacturers to make sure that their production lines are ready to capitalise on the increased demand for this essential food product.Riders in the prestigious Tour de France, easily the World’s largest cycling event, exert a ridiculous amount of energy, burning up to 4,500 calories in each stage of the race alone. This massive energy burn is of course on top of the standard 1,500 to 2,500 calories that every human being needs to function on a daily

Yamato’s Dave Jafrate in Liverpool to Leeds Barge-Pull Fundraiser

Dave Jafrate, Projects Engineer Supervisor at Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK, and 9 friends will be pulling a barge by hand from Liverpool to Leeds to raise money for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.On 4th May 2014 at 10am, the canal barge will leave Liverpool on its way to Leeds. However, this Canal will not be powered by conventional means; it will be powered by the sheer determination and stamina of a small group of volunteers hoping to raise £20,000 for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. The 20 tonne barge will be travelling 127 miles to Leeds 

Yamato to unveil new innovation in multihead weighing at Interpack 2014

Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK will be joining their German colleagues in Düsseldorf for Interpack 2014 – the largest processes and packaging trade fair in the world, which runs from the 8th to the 14th of May.Yamato, which will be situated in Hall 15 booth B21, will be featuring its new innovation in multihead weighing, alongside new and recently launched machinery such as the checkweigher -I series and the new High Speed Jellies and Confectionary Machine, which has been specifically optimised for the high speed handling of sticky products. As well as operating a main stand featuring some

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