Snack Food

Yamato offers various weighing solutions for snack-food processing applications including potato chips, pretzels, tortilla chips, popcorn, and many other snack-type products. Gentle product-handling features are available for delicate snacks, minimizing breakage. High-speed models are also available. Combination scales integrate with pre-made bag, tray, cup, tub, jar, and bowl lines as well as VFFS or HFFS for various package styles and sizes. Washdown combination scales help you maintain your production sanitation standards necessary in the food industry.

Yamato can weigh:

  • Potato chips
  • Corn chips
  • Tortilla chips
  • Kettle chips
  • Pretzels
  • Popcorn
  • Cheese puffs
  • Cheese balls
  • Pork rinds
  • Other extruded snacks
  • And more

Advantages of Yamato’s Multihead Weighers for Snack Food

  • Gentle Product Handling: Snack foods, by their very nature, are often fragile and susceptible to damage during the packaging process. Yamato understands this critical challenge. Our multihead weighers for snack food incorporate innovative design features, such as optimized vibratory feeders, and short drop distances, to ensure gentle handling of delicate items like potato chips, puffed snacks, and extruded products.
  • Integration & Flexibility: Yamato’s snack food packaging equipment is designed for seamless integration into your existing or new packaging lines. Our combination scales for snack food are compatible with a wide range of packaging machinery, including vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machines, horizontal form-fill-seal (HFFS) machines, pre-made bag-filling systems, and even tray and cup-filling lines.
  • High Accuracy and Speed: Our advanced multihead weighers for snack food utilize sophisticated algorithms to create the perfect target weight with minimal giveaways, saving you valuable products and maximizing profitability. These systems are engineered for high-speed operation, ensuring your packaging lines can keep pace with production demands without sacrificing precision.
  • Hygiene & Maintenance: Yamato’s washdown combination scales for snack food are specifically designed to meet these rigorous requirements. Constructed with stainless steel and featuring smooth, accessible surfaces, these scales can be easily and thoroughly cleaned, minimizing the risk of contamination and ensuring food safety.

If you have any questions or are looking to find the right scale to complete your snack food packaging equipment, contact us so we can help you find the perfect solution today.

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