VIUBE FOODS - MANUFACTURE AND PACKAGING OF VEGETABLE CHIPS

Installation of different types of weighing equipment for the manufacture and packaging of chips

Giropes has upgraded the weighing systems at the Mikso factory in Girona to make its production processes even more efficient.

Mikso is Viube Foods’ vegetable chips brand, and it manufactures and sells hand-made vegetable chips using 100% natural, local ingredients and uses no artificial flavouring or colourings.

Viube Foods takes great care to choose vegetables varieties that can be grown in the Mediterranean climate to reduce imports of raw materials as far as possible and to ensure the quality of the product quality and reduce its environmental and economic impact in its local area.

The first piece of weighing equipment used in the vegetable chip production process is the TP410 pallet truck in painted steel that allows Mikso to monitor the raw material that its receives at its plant. The pallet truck scales avoid the need to dedicate space in the plant to a static platform and allows the weight of incoming product to be monitored as it is transferred to its handling point.

The next piece of weighing equipment incorporated in the production process is a system that consists of a GI400 LED indicator with IP68 protection and relay board that allows weight monitoring for purposes of packaging at the end of the production line.

Packaged product is sampled with the help of a Baxtran BAR precision scale that allows sampling to monitor the weight of individual packets of product.

Finally, to monitor the dispatch of its products Mikso has three single-cell scales manufactured and installed by Giropes to weigh the boxes that are sent to supermarkets and other outlets for sale to consumers.

All the weighing equipment installed by Giropes at Viube Foods is calibrated in ENAC-accredited processes to ensure food safety in the weighing of Mikso's products and to ensure compliance with European Union labelling law.