Cebro Frozen Foods, Newman, Calif., a bulk producer and supplier of organic, kosher and conventional individually quick frozen (IQF) vegetables to the industrial and food service industry, was founded in 1993 and is operated by third-generation grower and owner Patrick Cerutti.
To support its double-digit growth over the past few years, Arevalo installed three METTLER TOLEDO Safeline Profile Advantage metal detectors to help protect its final product quality.
I asked Steve Gidman, founder and president of Fortress Technology, about some of the challenges and successes in designing the company's Interceptor DF system.
Tyson Foods greatly increased the amount of frozen chicken strips it recalled to about 12 million pounds, after four more people complained about finding metal pieces.
Doughnut Peddler had always wanted to invest in metal detection but needed a business justification for the investment. The company's rapid expansion provided the opportunity and the commercial case that it needed.
Requiring no metal-free area above or below its sensing head, the Eriez Xtreme vertical form/fill/seal (FFS) metal detector is built for installations in space-restricted areas below FFS packaging machines.